The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-07-16
CITY OF EVANSVILLE.
MONDAY MoRNING::::::::::::JULY /,
Cracking about EVansviIIe..The Lii.
quOr Law, &c.

quOr Law &c
A contemporary in this city devotes two or
three columns week to telling the people
atlarge how much the business of Evans
vile is being injured by the Prohibitory
Liquor Law. If the editor, instead Of eter-
nally croaking over bugbears of his magma
tion-at one time declaring the business OF the
city destroyed and property deprecated by
the acts of our city K1o1o Nolhings, aud at
another time predicting for the future of
Evansville deserted houses and a wharf
grown over with grass, on account o. the
liquor law, if instead of these croaking ar
tices, SO admirably calculated to injure our
city abroad, and to instA in foolish minded
citizens at home respondent feeling, he
were to devote his columns to noticing the
various evidences Of prosperity and progress
about him, and advocating those things CAL
'culated to balance any evils which may arise
from unwise legislation, he woull be better
doing his duty to this public and to his po-
sition. We say that man, and especially
that editor, who with the thousand evidences
ofprogress around him which are in every
part of Evansville. and which prove it's
growth atthls very day is faster and healthier
than that of any other city in the State or in
the Ohio valley-openly croaks about this
city as if it were retrograding, and predicts
deserted houses and grass-grown wharf, is
either a fool or knave, and whatever else he
may be, an enemy to the place and people
which give hi bread For months paper
in this city has been engaged in croaking
over our prospects. For months it has been
laboring to convince strangers, that what
ever other places might be prospecting, Evans
vile is in the far back ground, and fast
getting distanced in the race of progress. 1t
has lylngiy, and for a petty and contempt
ible political motive alone, declared to the
world that property in Evansville has de-
preciated wonderfully. While we have
been laboring with Jealous pen to conVinc
people abroad by facts and arguments that Ev-
ansville is rapidly growing and 6ourishing
young city, and therefore fine field for the
investment of capital, for the commencing of
a business life, &c, &C., another paper is
telling these same strangers that all we say
and other citizens say about Evansville pros
perity, is humbug-that it is a decaying city
aretrograding city, a city in which property
is depreciating, city whose whole pro 'per-
ity depends upon the selling of liquor, and
whose almost whole capital is confined in
four or FIVE grocery stores. Citzsns may
judge for themselves which paper is per-
forming its mission, aud whether or not a
newspaper may not be curse instead of
blessing to community.
We have no sympathy with croakers of
any description. They afe nuisance
wherever found. They tend to discourage
the sanguine, to weaken the energetic, to
dispirit those whose shoulders are to the
wheel of progress. We have an honest
contempt for that man who in business is on
every triaing occasion croaking at the pres.
ens aud croaking at the future. But we
have unmitigated contempt for him VIII o
undertakes to CT oak for whole community
who is always watching for food in the
gloom of darkness with the solemnly por-
tentious face of an owl, but can never detect
10ctS IN tue tgUE-WIlO Is ever Eeduy u
shed an ocean of tears. and vail in trou BILE,
over a single evil, but fails to recognize the
existence of thousand blessings by it's side.
One such croaker will neutralize the labors
for the public good of almost an hundred
better men. Every community is cursed
with more or less of just SD h public croak
ers, but very few are Sd mi serably cursed as
to have one of them at the head of a news
paper which is to 60 abroad as representa-
tive of city. He does all healthy interests
and enterprises around him more injury than
an hundred open enemies.
There il some little c-oaking here, as at a
few other places, over the Liquor Law
Some men, generally those who are slightly
affected pecuniarily, are seeing terrible times
ahead, and they are taking their neighbors
by the button, and telling them how terrible
indeed things are to be. Let them succeed
in convincing the community, by the aid Of
the public croaker, that all this is to be, and
we shall have a community of croloS, who
will stop labor and perch upon high places
to croak, croak, croak-whie other CON-
munities have their shoulders to the wheel
and their brains titilating with energetic
enterprise and bold purpose, to keep up
with the day aud with the age. Now sup
pose, as is the fact, certain kinds of business
haze been injured by this law-suppose We,