The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1854-07-15
How TO build up a CITY.

How TO Build up "A CITY.
This subject has engrossed the attention
OF our citizens in no small degree for years
past, and having the best interest of Evans
vile and its citizens nearest our heart, we
have lost no opportunity to aid any and all
measures that would best secure success to
the enterprise in which we were all earnest
" concerned. We have labored to impress
the self.evident fact, that city located like
ours could best promote its true interests ihf
opening cheap and speedy communications
with the interior. In so doing we facilitate
the shipment of staple products abroad, and
induce the expenditure derived from these
products, in the payment for merchandise and
manufactures.
The greatest advantage to be derive ed to
our city from extended communication with
the interior, consists in the bounties which
such system confers upon manufactures,
and all will agree that cities can be built up
more rapidly and with more stability by man.
ufacturing pursuits than in any other manner.
The reason why Evansville, and other cities
similarly located, have not developed their
capacities, has been that there has never
heretofore existed the means of bringing to-
gether, the manifold advantages which sur
round them.
For manufactures. nature has given US a
protective system in the cheapness of every
description Of supplies, in the salubrity of our
climate, the economy of power and material,
and above all the unlimited home market
which surrounds US. Enterprise is now rem
dering all these advantages available. We
can now hold out inducements to the CAPT
talist, the artizan and the laborer, that every
effort properly directed in our midst. in the
department of manufacture even to the COM
monest handcraft will meet its correspond.
ing liberal reward.
1t lis not alone the extensive manufacturing
establishments of wool, cotton or iron, that
contribute to the wealth and growth of a
city-they undoubtedly produce great values,
and add enormously to national wealth. but
those results enure to the advantage of COM
paratively a small number. They enrich or
ruin propretors according as their fluetua-
tons may be profitable or otherwise, but they
employ and support relatively small num-
Der who depend upon daily employment for
a living. Those trades on the other hand
which require manual skill, in which the
material costs little, and the workmanship
constitutes the price offered, support larger
aggregation of people, and Of course build up
a city with more rapdty and stability.
1t is those trades which employ not alone
the strong and the skillful, but which afford
by their varied details of mechanical industry,
wages for the women, the children, the
feeble and the old. 1t is those trades which
enable the largest portion of society to do
something for living, which deserves more
the encouragement of the Statesman, and of
the economist, because they relieve larger
proportion of the members Of society from
the temptations of want, and diminish most
the charges upon those who labor. Let the
business interests of our city be sufficiently
diversified and encouraged, and the great
boon OF our ambition is secured.