The Superior Times

WORKERS AND DRONES.

Results of importance do not occur by accident, nor proceed from the indefinite and short lived plans of a great number of persons working without concert of action. They are only brought about by the well concerted plans of a few, diligently working for a specific object, and steadily pursuing that object by every legitimate means in their power until it is gained. It is by this means alone that Superior is to be developed and built up. The sanguine and just hopes of the future prosperity of this place that are entertained by the thinking men among our property owners and residents, are founded not so much upon our mere advantage in location and surroundings, however great that advantage is, as upon the fact that there are men in this place who with an intelligent and unalterable determination are working to the full extent of their ability, to protect our interests from all unlawful attacks; and not that only, in striving with herculean effort to advance our prospects positively and at once. It is true that this town like every new place in the West is burdened with the presence of some whose only work seems to be that of disorganization. Who will do nothing themselves, and strive to prevent their fellow citizens from undertaking any enterprise. To this class of useless croakers and all their admirers we say most emphatically in the name of our enterprising and public spirited workers "Go, and stand not on the order of your going; leave this place which some of you have been hindering for years by your presence. You do not like the place and the place does not need you. Go where you are more needed or where your senseless croaking can be of service. It is not wanted here." We are not publishing this paper in the interests of the enemies of Superior without or within. We have a word for any man, and every man in this town who really wishes its prosperity and is willing to stay and work for it like a man. We have our wishes and preferences, but as long as we conduct a public journal, those wishes and preferences will not be found in the way of any practical work that looks to immediate results. We shall from time to time say what we can to encourage and uphold the indefatigable workers among us, to whom we owe it at this hour that we are not hopelessly under the power of the schemes projected by our crafty antagonists. Whatever apparent advantage their plans occasionally seem at a hasty glance to possess, the far-sighted men working in the interests of this place know and feel can be by continued and united effort nullified and overthrown. There is a future before us. We shall yet, and that at no distant day, have a railroad in this place, and that not as a dependency of other places but as the main line of an important commerce. Our capitalists can build us a road. With proper encouragement they will build us a road. In the mean time let our live men work up to the line of their best intentions, letting our enemies do all their jeering, and our faithless friends all their croaking while time remains in which to do these things.