The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1868-12-17


sss-A reason .hy we have not, ere this. Z
merged from our present state of business back
wardncs=, is not so much owing TO a want OF
means community, as TO want of vim and
boldness Of enterprise. We are not rolling in
wealth. it is true. but We have enough the 9TH
er requisites being equal, TO raise us we'll up in
the scale with those who now far ahead oe
us in all that gives business character and repu-
tstion for thrift. Nor are wc as people, par
sinonious. The improvements erected for our
present business necessities and our personal
convenience all initiate against such an idea.
We may be slightly selfish in the employment
Of our means, but what we chiefly need to pro-
perly set the ball of business progress in motion
is a business boldness which will not hesitate
to cast the bread of prosperity upon the waters
snd be content to await its return with profit
even after many days. That this is true OF us
we have the evidence right here in Stroudsburg
evidence, too, the most conclusive and which
should incitc us TO shake of this most dams
ginG characteristic, and to go to work bravely,
as men determined to conquer must do.
! All know that we already have Woollen
Mil in our borough, with building well adap-
ted to the purpose for which it was erected and
filled with machinery of the most approved
kind and of the best working quality The en-
tcrprise of our capitalists erected and stocked
| it; but Il now stands idle, monument of the
! purility OF enterprise without vim, and, in a
measurc 4 scare-crow against other home steps
| looking towards the building up Of a manufac-
/ turing mart in cur midst. That it has not put
dollars INTO the pockets of lis stockholders, is
| not because !, il wooden mill, nor because the
wooden business could not be made TO pay. Ii
! is hccaCse the Stockholders were inexperienced
and tinid men, who looked for the enterprise
/ 20 run ss strong man ere il could be expect
ed to creep as an infant in swadlings. Want
! of experience III manage Elent FY,t, and timidi-
| ~ in the employment OF means second, urdouSt-
edly, therefore, formed The great drawback to
/ the prosperity looked for. Ere il had been in
existence = year and before It's fabrics had been
introduced 20 tire outer world, it stoppcd-net
because the means of ita stockholders were ex-
haustcd, but because those stockholders could
not divcst Themselves of their old twenty five
per cent. and speedy return notions, and de-
mapdcd IN immediate return in shape of divi-
! dends which could rot, under the surroundings,
/ be earned in so short tire.
! Wcolen Mills in other sections of the coun-
! try-son'e with more, and many with less cap
I iial invested-which kept on with nanufactur-
| ing have secured to their stockholders. from the
! large business growing out of their goahcada-
! tiyeness, ample remuneration for the money i'll
vested. And our Mills would have done the
same thing, If our capitalists interested had Sc
cured proper ovcrseers and agents-experienc-
Cd m.n-and divested themselves of the old TO-
gy notion, that dollar invested to-day i. lost,
or at least in danger, unlsss it return to-mor-
row accompanied with another dollar. gather
ed as profit by the way. 4 true enterprize and
L true business spirit would a. in Yankee land
have made the spindles hum and the looms
trernLie with incessent labor, and looked rath-
er 10 next week next month or next wear for
the return which was TO pay. And the pay
would nave come. This Is assured bv the TRUTH
Of experience-rot only portrayed abroad, but
also right here at home in other branches of
business. as ve will take occasion 10 show in
future articles.