Year: 1870

OF the people OF thlS SouIiby mas oiio >"
their willingness to subscribe to the stock
of the railroad, and the Board of County
Supervisors are then enabled to sell those
bonds and make their subscription when
ever the interests of the County require 1t
Until that time they may hold the bonds
by simply demanding par for them, and re-
fusing to sell any less portion than the
whole of the bonds.


We defy the greatest enemy Of the bond
bill to imagine situation by which the
County of Douglas can lose in voting for
the bonds, as the entire control Of the
bonds, Of their proceeds, and OF the stock
is in the hands of the County authorities.


But we must apologize to our readers for
devoting so much space to the refuting of
positions which have been answered again
and again in the meetings of cur citizens
and in every discussion which has taken
place There is nothing original i'll the
communication which we publish to-day.
The author merely repeats in an imperfect
manner, what he has picked up from 9th
ers The only thing which he may clam
as can invention of his own pure BRAIN is
the discovery Of a ''little African in a
fence" We are however not astonished
at this very original observation. The
honest suspicious Of the poor man have
been aroused, his visual organs have been
suddenly extended, by an unexpected re-
moval from lucrative office by his bosom
friends. No wonder he discovers little AT
ricans where they do not exist. But we
plainly see on the other side of that same
fence Big Injun" with lis top feathers
cut.


In truth the communication has had the
effect of confirming us in the justice of our
views. When we find an individual who
owns 10 interest whatever i'll this place,
whose property is in Duluth and Bay
field, and who has been the steady op
ponent of the prosperity OF Superior, en-
dcavorng to defeat the only measure which
NOW olrors I,.oofeo0o ~ sr'o - 'z~----
Of the interests Of this town, we may be
sure that we are right in advocating that
measure.


We had supposed that the enemies of
this town might have found an agent Of
more intelligence than the author OF this
communication, to further their plans for
the retardipg of lhe growth of Superior.


Here is what he says:


To the Foters of Douglas Cosaty, Wisconsin:


On the 21th of the present month you will be called
uporrto decide by your votes whether Douglas County
shall impose tax upon the real and property
in the County to the amount Of three hundred thousand
dollars to aid in the building Of the State Line Railroad.
Technically the purpose sought is ascertain whether


majority of the voters Of the County will authorize
its representatives to subscribe the stock of that
Railroad Company that amount of money. IL fact, it
is a donation of the bonds of the County for three hun
dred thousand dollars to the Railroad. No one sup
poses that the stock of the road will be worth the
paper upon which it is written If the road is Quilt ii
will be by money raised upon its First Mortgage
Bonds The most friends of the State Line
Road and who assume to be its special advocates, will
not it is presumed attempt to deceive any one with
the idea that is merely to be loan the.road il
is only necessary therefore look at the matter
an endowment g subsidy; and to secure railroad
connection at this point for a moment will as
sert that the voters Of Douglas County unwiin:
to sanction an endowment of is bonds tie amoun
of three or five hundred thousand dollars. On tina
question it is believed that the world be unaEi
NOUS and wisely would it be so, for with all the
sources of the County developed by untramelle
railroad, connecting it with the emporiums of trad
and commerce, the tax would never be felt, scarcel
/ known to exist.


/ The only question therefore which the voters of th
County are required consider in the to be tax
en- on the twentieth of this month IS is the State Lin


Railroad to be built? Has the necessary amount
money been subscribed By responsible men, with wha


the County is called upon donate build that raj


road and equip it from Superior to the junction of tn
y P. f. r. with the Lake Superior & Mississippi


r. Let the question of a asetd q1d harmonious col


nection with the L. s. N. R. R be omitted


The lowest estimate of the cost of building the Stat


Line Railroad which has been made is seven huudre


and fifty thousand dollars (S7500ool The bonds


the County for three hundred thousand dollars take


at eighty cents for the dollar will be in money tw


hundred and forty thousand dollars (S24n O0o leavir


Eve hundred and thousand dollars S5l0,uo0) to
raised to complete the road Has that money bee
raised Who has furnished obligated himself


themselves TO furnish it? Is this not importa


question for the voters Of Douglas County to Dqui


into? VIII they impose this tax without knowi,


positively and Enthusiastically that it has been subscri


ed by such terms that it legal obligation upon
parties subscribiugs It will not be difficult OF


tedious work to show to the voters of Douglas Coun


that nrovision his been made Cor the Eve hundred