The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1895-12-14

at this time. Are Andrew j. W ebSter, /
S. f.. Middleton, James II. Agen, j. 5. >
Wallace, Lars Lenroot, James ;. Richie
and dozens of others ofthat class, whom |
it might be safe to follow, pining for
court house removal, now? See if you
find the names of many men of their
standing on the petitions. Look for the
one time. loudmOuthed, would-be lead 4
ers-the genuine boomers, and you
will no doubt find all on the list who re-
main with us. Times are dull now,
there is nothing but hard work any
more. The hungry long with deep
and eager desire to get at the credit of
Douglas county-the only municipal
magnet left to draw sheckel5. The city
is a million in debt; the normal achool
cost about eighty thousand, and az
much more recently vanished in bursted
banks, never more to come to view.
view. The Land 4 River improvement
Company has repudiated its last three
years taxes, about 100000, The con-
solidated is doing the same, and the
South Superior Land Company has left
town. This years tax levy for all
around. general purposes is nearly $500
900, with untold amounts of special as
sessments to be heard from. Before
you sign, glance again over last springs
delinquent tax list. 1t was bigger than
aChiCago Sunday paper-an awful sche-
dule. Forty pages of sold descriptions,
forty thousand lots and tracts of land
there attest the insolvency of this com
munity. If you don't find your own
home described there, it will make your
eyes ache to read the monotonous
repetition Of:
Il & r. l. Co., owner"
''S. c. l.. Co., owner"
as. S. L. Co., owner" opposite the
long lists of lands and town lots going
for unpaid taxes. The numerous in
functions out of the United States courts
and every court in this county, lately
served on the county clerk, mean some
thing. They mean that the corporation
won't pay unless they have to; they are
not trifing suits-the movers are in
SNl MOI hSCt NOLh b'lillOoB anu an
others who have so sued, hope to gain
time, lit is the last ditch and that the
injunctions will ward off gaunt receivers
whose probable coming has chilled the
air these MANY moons. In this state of
things can any thinking person sign for
further taxation for himself and the
small owners-the only class that has
paid for the last three years? Let me
ask the residents of the Second, Third
and Fifth wards where you will be at"
in case the court house is started NOV
ing on these petitions? Is there any
binding obligation in them, or open I'M
Outstanding, rs it were, as to where it
shall land? Has the manageme Mt shown
any disposition yet to pull the cork
from the notuv Qua ivuuuinS you nc, III
been III it, since the town commenced
wandering toward the wilderness south
of TIVE ntv eight street. Hundreds i'll
the West End mourn with you because
| of that. Will the location of the county
seat south of Belknap help your chances
for an outlet to the sea? On the con-
trary it will tend to make the town a
permanent perversion entirely. The
East End is willing to lend a hand when
the proper time comes aud help pull
the ping choking the streets north of
Broadway. That will never be done if
| the crowd managing these petitions can
help it. 1t seems to me it is about time
for the people to take hand again in
the management of their own munich
pal affairs.
The county seat and federal building
should be put where they will tend to
unity the place and turn its growth,
when it starts again, towards the water
the thing that makes us one and gives
us existence here. Duluth in popular
estimation is the whole of the head of
the lake, principally because all passen-
ger boats land there. Mr.. Hills boats
cannot be induced to comfort them
selves through the bridges into Tower
Bay Slip. If they come here at all it
will be through Superior bay. There is
no doubt in the minds of those whose
fortunes are not staked, or lost, on
Tower avenue as to where the expan-
sion of this town should take place.
Fortunately Tower avenue fanatics
are but small minority of the people
of Douglas county. They and the cor
porations memerized the normal school
once so that it was dead for a year. At
last they were told in the opera house
Indignation meeting to keep their hands
off, and the people saved it by scratch
as those who had an inkling of the in
side, know full well. 1t is no answer
TO these remarks to cry East End OBJ
structlon again. They'll get nothing
any more-we'll fix them etc" Mr..
Stow tried that years ago. The facts are
the Superior bay can't be downed, and
the East End will always ''be in it."
1t was the Superior bay that made
city possible in spite of Duluth. and no
corporation or street can long prosper
in attempting to ignore it, That is the |
reason the people of this town don sue |
comb to the fictitious claims Of Tower
avenue TO every good thing within or
without the gift of the county board. .
The present movers say they are going
to force "a center" Where, gentlemen
This Is not centering time: and Tower
avenue can't be stretched any more.
It's not long enough and don't run in
the right direction. When the West
End is allowed to start towards the
water, as it ultimately will, well Cen
ter We all want to unity the place
and get together. Rut do You expect
Us to accept your endifnte proposition
and trust TO chances after the requisite
number have signed? Its too thin.
1t reminds me of little verse | read
once
There was Young lady Of Niger
Who smiled a. she rode on a tiger