The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-03-11
SWEEP your OWN DOOR STEP

few requests of that great organization
of honest, intelligent and progressiv
with the taxpayers money! citizen
of Manitowoc city known as the Mani
old adage admonishes everybody t.
sweep his own doorstep before he use
or tries to use his broom on his neigh
boris doorstep. However, the associa
ton has taken such a deep interest il
lowering the high cost of living fl
Manitowoc while also keeping an eagl
eve on the farmers income lest per
haps it should grow too great tina
poor though RUDE may be, broomS arr
easily within his reach. Thanks to tn,
good influence of the great association
and their noble leader, II. q. kress
His deep rooted love of all "Micks,
his yeneration of the "Ould Sod" and
his experience in Dublin-"the great
est city on the say"-coupled with his
ardent wishes and heroic efforts for
the advancement of the Irish race here
in the county, since November eSpe-
cially, enttle him in my opinion and,
in a whisper, ! am a mick" myself,
upon his death, to have his name
placed between that of Charles Stuart
Parnell and Paddy from Cork" and
hung in the Irish house of lords, as a
guiding star for the members. Though
| should like to recount more of Mr.
kresS' virtues | fear | cannot as my
time is money and we all must CON
serve our time now that we may not
be found wanting when the town
treasurer comes to weigh us in the
balance. However, | believe in the
rule of like master like man and per-
haps there are others as fair with
hearts as true among the great aSSo-
citation. Now for the broOmS and the
doOrstepS. As for the broom the city
of Manitowoc regards the association
as its broom to lend itself to the noble
purpose of sweeping not alone the door
step but the entire house something it
sadly needs along the lines being fol-
lowed at present by the association in
regard to its neighborS, namely, the
outlying towns of the county. The door
steps of Manitowoc as you enter from
the Calumet road is not alone muddy
but a mud hole the worst the farmer
encounters anywhere along the road.
| refer to the block of Twenty
street which connects Marshall with
Washington street, two streets upon
which the wonderful concrete surface,
that great investment for taxpayers,
that sure cure for all the ills car is
heir to, that business proposition, that
oil on troubled chairmen which was
the benign influence that recalled to
thirty-two warlike members the com
mand of the master Love one an0th-
er" and made them cease their strife
and vote unanimously to mortgage the
county for $3,000,000, is lacking. Then
take the west half of Washington
street. In spite of the tips which
MeSSrs, Hearst, Conway, ScanlOn and
others handed out it is still a mud
trail insofar as concrete is concerned.
Consider Marshall street, located in a
progressive CD city and surrounded by
a prosperous country, another mud
trail. These might claim your attcn-
ton, also any concrete you may have
to spare. Next the death traps, and |
think they have fairly earned the name
after all of the lives that have been
needlessly sacrificed on their account
during the past few years. ! refer to
Eighth and Tenth street bridges. Do
not view them calmly and then turn a
plying eye toward the northern part
of the county and inspired by the
words of "A representative of a great
cement company, let your heart go out
in compassion for some luckless chair
man who is trying with might and
main and a new spade to separate his
best shoes from their accumulation of
that sticky surface known as macadam.
You could make those bridges safe
for one tenth of what you are trying
to spend, not invest, for us. You know
the necessity of prompt action in re-
gard to those bridges. You have time,
Unlimited you seem to think your
city is prosperous, there ought not be
any lackof money judging from your
tax roll-you may take my word that
your influence is unbounded while you
keep your place as citizens-not as
| dictators, to all tax payers of the
county, and why do you allow those
conditions to exist in your city? AS
| regards your mud doorstep and those
two mud trails along which the tour
| lists from the south must travel to get
to the heart of your city, l lacking the
power to command do most humbly
beseech you to give this stretch of
| mud your attention. And neither rest
nor release your hold until you have
fulfilled what was written by the good
roads convention.
| A TAXPAYER.
Medical Attention.
| ~Tt has oftan been said. with trutn