The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1856-06-23

Ter siAas eansSse.
~ 0s citaeas 81 DavsaVsrt.
In . few days We will have IN eppertsni.
" 10 decide, to = certain extent, upon the
tassrs prospects OF our city. We will have
L in oet power, 1t lead, to proao,e or re-
tard our prosperity. W. can prepare the
foundation for . metropolis, Or vi can cir
csmscrise our facilsies md defer the influx
Of capital to our midst; We can make our
beautiful city he point OF attraction for
capitalists and erection OF manufactures,
or We can unconeeraedly remain quiet, snd
see rival cities reap the benefits that are
now within oar grasp. WI must nov de.
eide whether We will make SON necessary
improvements in oar city BY the expenditure
Of a loan of $4,000, the expensss 10 be
shared among the aceessions that we viii
gain by such expenditure, or restr.ct our ia
%cilities and prosperity By following a mig
gardly economy which is = slur on the ns.
ture that has done 90 much for our loea-
ton.
No point on the Mississippi river from
Sauk Rapids 10 New Orleans has been 50
favored by nature ~ Davenport, and it Is an
apparent TACT that no point msniies's 50
| little public spirit in the needed improve
meats OF our progress rs the said Davenport.
II NAV be that we expect another sias
from nature 10 perfect what We want, ba,
whea Nc have already been SO boanteously
assisted. it Is but a matter of Justice and re.
specs that we should do something Tor our
selves. With but little OF the expenditures
necessary and appropriated by our rival
c%ities. we can far surpass them. With but
a snaall appropriation great aud a~ctusily ne.
cessary Improvements can be made. Look
at The increase Of our business within the
pas, three years! Ii IS a matter o. pride
and eengratulstion TO US all. unasssssted
BY any public appropriateness. eut a THE
contrary our facilities blocked tor wSaT ct
public spisii, and still our city Is second -
none in the State. We msds OK grams
spssm. Interested some eastern capitalists
in our welfare had s railroad graded and
then relspsed into our present .~ethsrgy.-
A few prominent citizens made personal
sseslhces, aud our railroad was completed,
and now We are all enjoying The prosperity
OF the enterprise. The very TACT that We
are enjoying the prosperity OF the nrst and
only railroad in lows ought 10 stimulate Us
TO make the corresponding Improvements,
extend our facilities that the various ayen-
ues Of business that are now closed may be
developed, Noas is the time to act, for aon
is the time ths, the destination Of the iR-
migrants is 10 our city; but in a little tine
their course will be divided among the sew
eral places in our State from hitch railroads
are now being completed.
Let us enter into the proposed improve
msn,s to our city as an unit and with spirit.
The improvements are for our mutual bene-
ht and no "fsmily jars" should in,rude; we
ali nav be doing well, every thing denotes
prosperity. and We may in our blindness Of
future events think we shall ever progress
as heretofore, and that sccessions 10 on
city will continue as within the past thret
years, with no more outlay to establish on
success than the dumping OF a load Of dir
here and there, making our Commercial
t~horoughfare as a slough Of d~esPond" i
wet seasons and 4 cloud OF dust ia DR.
weather. Vegetation letuncultivated vii
soon cease to be 4 source of profit
leave cur leyee, bluffs and streets as na,ur,
made them and our business facilities ar,
checked, and the commercial growth an
prosperity of our beautiful city is sadly im
peded. With the i~udieious expenditure {
the proposed loan our city willreeeive a ne,
impetus and the security thus guaranteed /
our property viii cause a gratifying de
crease in the present exorbitsnt rates of il
~suranee, and, as q matter OF ~pecuniary il
terest alone, il will be q direct benefit to I
Nil. inducements will thus be held Of
to persons seeking places to establish then
selves in business and there can be DC he.
~itation in assuming that the prosperity cor
segment IN the expenditure Of this loan wi
be ,eniold the expense. To accomplis
this We want unanimity OF acuon and ser
timent. Every one Of us must take an az
tive interest in the proposition or it will
defeated. The law expressly says that
matters Of this kind there mast Be a MAJOR
y Of tie pOters Of tie cily an favor of at
Not merely a ma ority Of the votes cast c
the occasion, Tut an actual majority of III
voters Of The city, hence it is apparent thu
We must all devote our feelings and aci c
the subject, or our ~ negligence will d.
feat Us, The al important time for us
grasp the metropolitan ~laureis Of Iowa wi
pass BY, and sur progressive fame disapper
"unhonorsd and unsung." Citizens alter
to H.. X.