The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1893-06-22
VACATING STREETS.

The NJ. l.. S. & w. Ry. Co. asks the
council to vacate the ends of all the
Streets east of Lake street from The river
up to the waterworks pumping station
Ii the'company does not intend to make
good use of that vast stretch OF beach
these stubs of streets ought not to,be va
Gated; but If use is to be made Of them.
as asserted by the company, then there
should not be any opposition to vacat-
ing them. We should grant the r. r.
Company all reasonable concessions If
there Is positive assurance given that
the city as well as the r. r. Co. will
bebenefited thereby. There is an easy
solution of this question, it seems
to me, which would appear without
any doubt to be satisfactory to all
/ concerned, and that is, to vacate said
parts OF streets on condition that the
Il. Il. Co. does certain things, for which
| purpose these streets are wanted, within
ten years, otherwise the ordinance to be
null and void. This will be test whether
or not the r. r. Co. means to do what it
promises, at the same time those streets
will not be vacated-giyen away-forever
if not made use of within the time specl-
fed.
This proposition is SO fair and reason
able that if the r. r. Company objects
to it, that would look mighty suspicious,
to say the least.
The object of advancing this idea is to
prevent possible and perhaps probable
rejection by the council of an ordinance
without any conditions, az well guard If
possible against giving away outright SO
much property without some compensa-
Jion in the shape of future benefits to be
derived therefrom. F. S.
Mrs. LEASE spoke to a reasonably
large house at the Turner Opera House
on Monday evening. She was adyertis-
ed to deliver a lecture but instead de-
h.ered a political speech She is a
natural orator with voice Of wonderful
compass and strength. She is not argu-
mentative or logical and not well inform !
ed on general topics. Her speech was
rambling, fraygmentary and wholly de-
mandatory.
With a few exceptions the distress of |
the individual is due to his own indo-
lenoe or improvidence and if az peals |
were made to HIM, by those who speak
for him, to cast off his slothtulness and |
mend his ways a betterment of his con-
ditIon would be more apt to follow than |
by deluding him into the belief that his |
woes are imposed upon him by. discrimi-
mating and unjust laws. If people would |
seek to correct faults in themselves IN |
stead OF advertising their own spotless- |
ness while industriously searching for |
faults IN others, the world would show |
rapid improvement. It is much easier |
to attempt to reform the other fellow and |
to assume that he is in need of moral re-
habilitation, than it is to subject our
selves TO rigid self-examination and |
careful pruning of faults. Mrs. Lease |
and Mr.. Schilling assume that all politi-
teal honesty and good purpose is with |
the party they act. They exhibit great |
er degree of illiberality than that they
condemn in denying sincerity of motive |
or honesty of purpose to those who do |
not believe as they do.
Mrs. Leases speech was rather a dis |
appointment She is lacking in mathe- |
NAUTICAL talent and her speeches for this
reason have neither continuity or conclu- |
sion. Her education is defective as
shown In the wrong use of words and adj |
diction to vulgarisms. She is evidently !
a sincere woman and she certainly is an |
able one. If she had been trained to rea-
son, not to rely upon the re-iteration of
wild assertion, she would be a power
among people who think.
At the close of her address Bob Schil- |
ling was called out. He is always ready |
and always has something to say. Though |
not SO fluent he is an ADLER speaker than
Mrs. Lease. He has faculty of present |
ing deduced facts from seemingly 1ndis- |
putable, though rather "shaky" premises,
in a manner to convince the superficial |
understanding. No one need feel sorry
that he has heard Bob Schilling speak.
ARNOLD c. RICKERT of Green Bay died |
IF ion on FRIDAY Loot Ha ,roc |