The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1900-03-29

Elng broad ana deep the reputation VI
q Manitowoc, raising that county and city
&from the most insignificant to the high
&est place in the state, and sending out
Hits sons to placessof honor and response /
4bility all over the land His educational
8work received recognition from the
: teachers association by making him.
l. presid 3nr of the association, and never
- was honor more worthily and cheerfullyI
Questioned
81 As editor of The Pilot, he made him
Eself a power among the newspapers or
Ethe state far beyond the rank of his city,
$placing himself among the leaders whose
Eopinions were always of account He Ill
illustrates to what influence weekly in
Ia small town can grow and how 1T cam
Ehuild up its town against adverse condi 1
3 tians by steady, faithful and intelligent
sswork. Neither an Office holder nor an
Eoffice seeker, he impressed himself on the
q public consciousness and became leader
Eof men. He was man of clear, logical
Hthought and had remarkable commando
N.of language which seemed to frame it,
!. self to express the closest distinctions
{and slightest shade of meaning without
xeffort The vigor, directness and intel
,Slectual honesty of his articles always
Impressed themselves on the reader
n These various aud eminent character
4istics carried themselves into his person
4al character. He was incorruptible, OUT
*spoken and on occasion vigorous. but al
Eways with kindness and consideration for
1.-THE weak or unfortunate. With lmpos1
Nture of any kind OF degree, he was intol-
&:erant. So personal regard goes with re-
8pect wherever he was known.
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81 Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin
81 The sudden death of John Maggie, edit
Mor of The ManitowOc Pilot ut the age OF
H52, cuts short career that promised
Hmuch future usefulness to Wisconsin.
WJohn Nagle was a man of a very high
Etype, combining in rare degree intel
8lectual and moral qualities of an unusu-
&al order His life had been divided be-
Etween two professionalism of school
Teacher and that of an editor-and in
leach he achieved a notable measure of
B success. His pupils when he was dis
&trict school teacher have grown to use
Hful manhood and womanhood, and are
5scattered far and wide. Among those
now residing in Milwaukee is A. G. Clas
1.-THE architect. Not one of them but looks
&back with gratitude to the formative In
&huence exerted by John Maggie. The ex-
&tent to which the editor of a rural week
- ly newspaper can mould public opinion
h has rarely been more conspicuously ex
Templifed than in the case Of Mr.. Maggie
g ominally The Manitowoc Pilot was 3
democratic paper, but its editors keer
r. intelligence and rugged independence
&caused its weekly utterances TO be reac
= with respect by people of all shades Of
Hpolitical faith. Democrat though he wa!
&John Maggie supported the Bennett law
Gin 1890 and the gold standard in 1896
lSHe was never bound by anything bu
This own convictions, and he arrived a
those convictions by the application o
&logic to the widest survey of all the fact!
n (which his position enabled hir1 10 com
Is mand. AT the assemblies of Wisconsin
,Htcachers and Wisconsin editors ther,
,sSwas no more popular figure that of JOIN
SNagle. His honest, hearty, cheerful
presence and his sturdy common. sens,
@counsel will be sadly missed.
III X
La Crosse Chronicle
1t is seldom that so difficult task il
&placed upon this page as to adequatel.
land appropriately express the loss AM
sorrow that, in common with all other
who knew him, we feel at the death o
John Maggie of Manitowoc. He was S,
Hrare a man that he stands out distinc
and striking personality in the recollec
tions of all who knew him. his virtue
were SO many, his faults so few, tina
d danger lies in saying all that the stricken
Ihearts of his friends would naturally an(
spontaneously utter. To them he wa
'&an open book, daily lesson in virtue
8unseltishness and self-abnegation, ant
Hat the same time he was so human. 5,
much man even in his faults and i'm
perfectiOns, that his very weaknesses, i
the word is permissible, all leaned t,
Virtues side
John Maggie was man of innate no
&bility. He could no more stoop to mean
Rness and pettiness and spite, than h
could commit a capital crime, and We
The could measure such shortcomings il
others with all the charity and gentle
mess of a tender and forgiving nature
n He never did battle for small things
He reused to his full powers, slowl
, land with care that measured his an
|tagonist and the consequences tina
: would follow. When he thus did battl
Il it was for principles, not for glory. II
: such a contest he had the courage of
3 knight of old; the wisdom and the fam
ling sword of truth and righteousness
q He little thought or cared what effect
Il course of action might have upon him
fself, upon his private fortunes or popu
\ larity. One reason for this was that hi
! estimate of his own part in contest wa
\ always so modest that it was almost be
\ Titled A leading man in this state 70
{ the past fifteen years whose opinion ant
] counsel We're always sought and neve
3 lightly reckoned, he seemed to be un
conscious of the fact, and deferential t.
3 Ethe opinions and dictum of men win
a were often not his equals because the,
! were his friends, and in authority. Hi
& Friendship was loyal 1t was the friend
G ship of strong man, full of trust AM
r. enduring through all vicissltudes. Ever
i when severely shaken and sorely trie'
3by a friends shortcomings he preferred
ito say nothing that would admit his dis
! appointment
! As an editor his strong characteristic
s 8were shown to greatest advantage. Hi
q pen was gentle and its touch was play
: full when he wrote to reflect his winsom