Year: 1869




The voters Of our village are asked TO
vote tax of $1,000 to be expended in lor-
warding the chances for an early compile
ton of rail road to;Menasha. Shall that
tax be voted This question has been de-
bated among cur citizens, and various
opinions, seem to prevail as to the policy
of voting the.tax. Which view is the cor
rect one for the citizens Of Manitovoc to
take of the subject, should be well under
stood prior to the day Of election. Our
people should be unied, either for, or
against the tax. IF for it, will the vote in
anyway be construed into an antagonistic
movement to the lake shore road IF so,
than we say, by all e2ns, defeat the tax.
If wc..rightly understood Judge Reeds re-
marks at the last rail road meeting, he
demands that we put his road down as
first, last, and all the time to be cared for,
regardless Of every. other rail road enter
prise, standing by him, like the 'rock of
ages" for ages This unreasonable request
must not be complied with. if we prefer to
counsel our own interests rather than his.
We do not say that Judge Reed is doing
nothing towards helping Us to road, on
the contrary, SO far as re know, he is SIN
cere, and untiring in bis labor, and we
award him all the merit be is entitled to
for his efforts; bat is he not on the wrong
track himself? Confessing our lack of
brains to comprehend his railroad plans, We
must say that we are unable to see: First
how $1,000 is going to be sufficient to do
even a hundrcth part Of what he asks it
for, that is to procure right-of way &c.
Second-we do not understand why it
would not be of vital importance to the
MaDitowoc & Menasha road, that lake
shore road should be built. We think it
Is, and as efforts are now being made by
the country west of US, to build a road
around US, we consider it the duty of our
citizens to DE- all they can to secure the
defeat Of that project, and also to secure
the building Of lake shore road-frst,
for our intercsts-8ccond, Tor the interest
of a western road, when wc get 1t. A
western road, we shall have, at some time;
we hope soon, and the two roads will aid
each other. in fact, one will not pay with
out the other.


A road from Manitowoc to Menasha,
would not be worth q cent to itself or US, if
a road is built from Appleton direct to
Milwaukee. Any one, by looking at a
map, will sec that We arc correct In this
position. Therefore we say, while we are
bending every effort 10 secure lake shore
road as a road Of the FIRST importance,
we need not overlook or rcpudiate the I'M
portance Of encouraging a western road.


The petty sum asked for by Judge Reed
TO aid him, does not amount to any thing
any way and we shall vote for it, and
hone that others will do the same; aud we
have no fears, that by voting aid to this
road, that the pittance voted will in any
way interfere with the more important
election, that we are to have in the future,
viz. to give 100000 for lake shore road.


Our position is this We are in favor OF
Man tow0c cxcrting oil her power to secure
a lake shore rail road. But while doing
go, there is no necessity Of fighting oay
other project, especially, when the aid ask
cd for by that "otkcr project does not
amount to enough worth quancling about,
and further, as this money is to be placed
in the hands of committee of our own
citizens to bc expended by them, as they
see fit for our interest, we fail to see any
danger Of our being svindlod, and can see
no reason why tho tax should not be voted,
even though Judge Reed is sloa0 aud in.
comprehensive, and wrong in his rail road
views. The amount when voted will be
q fund in the hands Of good men, 10 be
used for western rail road purposes, and
will be needed for that object, whether
Judge Reed is as the head Of the road or
not.


Railroad Excitement.