Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1839-09-14
MAUMEE CITY EXPRESS.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER, ID, 1899.
LETTERS FROM THE EDITOR, NO. Ill.
Cleveland, .Aug. 81,

public works. They count the millions o.
the cost, and take a view of the present ant
prospective income, and from these ee
ments, gravely strike balance. and declare
the enterprise to be good or a bad one, &C
cording to the appearance of the balance
sheet. Now however good prima facit
case man may make by such calculation
nothing is more evident than that the real
the principal benefit of the work, is not ia.
ken into the account.
Look at the Erie Canal. 1t has made the
state Of New York the richest state in The
Union. 1t has made it great community
ofrlch men. Cast your eye over the grow.
ing cities that line its banks, from one end
TO the other. See Albany and Troy, and
Rochester and Syracuse, and many others
Of almost equal wealth and population, all
growing rich by the business of conduc-
ting the exchanges of commodities, be-
tween the farmers of the interior and the
consumers and manufacturers of the East,
and of other countries: look at the ad-
vance of real and personal estate within the
state, for ten years after the completion of
the Erie Canal-an advance, according to
the oflicia! valuation, of over two hundred
and sixty five millions of dollars: look at
the vastly increasing population and the in
creasing enterprise and intelligence that is
the certain re ult of the friction of man
against man in the great thoroughIare of
human existence, and then say whether
the cost and the income are the only ingredi-
ents in the true calculation. But this is
not all. Look at the fleets of Lake Erie,
and at the rich cities that look forth upon
its waters; calculate the wealth of the in
dustrious farmers of Pennsylvania and Ohio,
and Michigan and let these all tell in ma
king up the grand result, and then look for
ward with prophets eye to the future, and
you will catch faint idea of the harvest
Of wealth and glory that is to be reaped by
the state that carried through that grca,
work. Yet though dazzling, it is lmpro-
wing to the mental vision, and is well cal
culated to arouse an ardent love of that
country whose prospects are SO glorious,
and whose Course onward in the road to
greatness is so certain and so well defined.
Many pleasant hour have spent about
the whaives in Cleveland, in looking at the
wealth tIGt comes pouring in from the
great artery OF trade that her! finds Its ter
minaton.
What change in the amount of business
done, have few years wrought here! The
few solitary canal bouts, that few years
ago barely picked up support have chang
ed to multitude, and what was then al
most lifeless stagnation is now business
rushing on with continually acceerating
impetus, giving employment to host and
sweeping yearly treasures Of untold wealth
into the bosom of Il city.
Away with all fears of revusions and
crushes bringing destruction that cannot
be remedicd upon the commercial COMMUNE
ty. An hours observation of the port of
Cleveland will satisfy an observer that
here is wealth that no governmental
mismanagement can dissipate, and IN elas-
ticity that no pressure can crush. There
Is an enterprise that will rise superior to mis-
government, and mine of wealth that legis-
Iaton can neither destroy nor diminish. The
great natural energies Oft the country are leg
islating for themselves, and an attempt to stop
them in one place will only produce more
plentiful out-pourlng in another. There is
soil whose yearly returns will not be stay
ed by the voice of power, and there is a pco-
pie upon it whose energies are devoted,
early and late to the development of its re-
sources, and with these, what can check
for long time the flowing tide of prosperi-
ty?
There is some fun and an infinite deal
of bothera,ion, in getting to Cleveland, even
after you in the innocence of an unsophis-
tcated heart imagine yourself to be fairly
there, and this most especially and partlc-
ularly if you happen to be blessed with two
trunks, three 5and-boxes, wife, travelling
basket and two lttle responsibilities, as, to
my shame, | confess, | have not tina, is to
say--all of them. A poor fellow who
spreads his net for happiness as broad as
this, and presents so lengthy phalanx to
the attacks Of adversely has need OF fifteen
senses, and at least two pair of fists with
courage to use them, or he will see his de-
voted family hurried away to slavery in
hack with a PAIR of lean horses, before he
can raise his voice in their behalf Raise
his voice! He might as well whistle
against the edge of u nor'wester as hope to
be heard amid the din Of" Frankling
House-Mansion House--Carriage and
baggage wagon for the Franklin--Go to
the Oho lleuse-Take the Franklin 'us