The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1894-08-04

Morning Leader.
If the Democrats expect to stand any
show in this falls campaign they must
at once call off the Mill waukee Journal.
That paper has begun to sandbag Major
Upham because he built up-actually
created-the handsome and prosperous
city of Marshfeld.
If it is wicked for man to go into
the woods and by his own genius, ener-
gy and effort, as did Peter the Great
and Maj. Upham create new city with
banks, mills. hotels, factories, news.
papers, shops. churches. railroads and
school houses, why should he not be
reviled, assaulted and punished before
! while he was thus at work, instead
waiting until after his nomination for
office.
Is it wrong to apprehend and cap
ture a criminal in the midst Of lis
crime? Must We wait till he is nomi-
mated for office?
! The Journal, we'll knowing what lie
was doing permitted Maj. Upham to
90 on for years unhindred and unas-
saulted in the nefariouS work of erect
| ing great mills, stores, factories and
railroads and what is worse, permitted
| him, without word of protest or eX-
pOsure, in order to carry out his pur-
poses, to resort to the low and dis
honored practice of employing hun
dreds and even thousands Of men for
wages-paltry cash.
If these practices were wrong and
wicked the journal should nave expos
/ ed Mr.. Upham' career years ago, caught
him in the very act and not only
| brought his operations to an end but
the perpetrator to punishment.
! But if it was not wrong for Mai.
| Upham, private citizen, to build rail
roads, mills and cities and TO furnish
employment to men why should the
Journal now, that he is a nominee for
office, all him Baron Pullman" Up
ham, labor tyrant" and all that sort
of slanderous rot?
| In these times tactics of this sort are
not simply insutterable. The world was
not made by nor for anarchists, agitat-
ors, bridge burners, train wreckers,
strikers and rioters, to whom the Jour
nal is appealing, nor even for nor by
sandbaggcrs like the journal itself
Cities and civilization like Marshficld
have been created by our Uphams, our
Sawyers, our Weyerhausers, our
Allises, our Cases, our Nc Douglas, our
Fosters, our Colmans, our Copelands,
our Sauntrys, our Fishes and our Prices
and those magnificent creations do not
turn into or become crimes the moment
the creator happens to be nominated
by either party for office. Indeed with
out them there would have been
little Of Wisconsin and the Journal
would have had no readers to be intlam-
ed by its incendiary talk.
Give Us a rest from this miserable
practice of sandbagging every man who
has has genius and enterprise enough
to build homes and create employment
with sufficient ability to do 50 for them
selves, even if by the operation he
shall accumulate a little property and
latter be nominated for office.
To infame labor against capital, gen
JUS and enterprise is as foolish and de-
structive as to incite citizens against
court and laws or to teach farmers to
fight instead Of court the soil, the sun
and the showers.
This thing has gone far enough and
during the current year has cost us all
enough in turmoil, wages, property,
blood and life
Give Us a rest, Mr.. Journal, or YOU
and your cause will get bilT in the neck
that will last you the balance Of your
days.