Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-11-04

We are certainly laggards in enter
prise, and, without Improvement, W,
shall pay the penalty, and we shall
certainly have no right to complain
An expenditure Of a few hundred
thousands would build up the city
Where is it to come from? Shall it t
given to the Kansas City, Selma and
Ripley roads, or not? They are the
latest enterprises, and the most i'm.
pOrtant. VIII it not cost Memphis far
more to do without them than it will
10 furnish the additional aid required
from H. to build them? If so, shall
we leave it as everybOdy's business,
and nobOdy's business, and do moth.
ing2 Is there no combination posi-
BILE, and nobody to take hold of it?
None doubt the importance, and vet
nothing is done. The value Of Mem
phis' real estate would be augmented
a hundred fold if Memphis should do
what Memphis can do to further these
enterprises, and at the same time add
to the wealth Of its citizens, and put
the city on the highway 20 that great
ness, which, with the requisite arti-
fetal, added to its great natural ad-
vantages, is its ultimate destiny. 1t
seems now an unwelcome and thank
less task to urge such considerations
on our people. They are too happy in
enjoying what little sticks to their
fingers from handling the few cotton
bales they get, when they can and
should have twice a. many. But a
conviction Of the importance of this
subject will not allow us to neglect the
discharge Of what we Conceive to be
50 real a duty. And we hope that the
Of the press, combining with
those Of u enterprising men, will
not prove fruitless. We call attention
to the following suggestive article
from the Aberdeen Examiner of Mon
last:
The Memphis Avalanche. and the
APPEAL are constantly pitching into
the Mobile aud Ohio Railroad ror its
Determinations against thai CITY,
Memphis has no right TO complain;
she cM control this matter ifshe will /
and win The trade Ofthe finest regions
East Mississippi and West Ala
Dama, by doing her part, and doing it
promptly, IN the construction of the
Memphis and Selma Railroad.
nfha affx IF ATap,.as.
'Micawber' long enough in this mat
and the friends OF the road have
ceased to think Of her, in con-
lectiOn with it, and if she does not
iOOn act, she viii see the road make
connections, that will leave her
entirely out in the cold. !
Memphis should vote half a million
o this road, and Shelby county at
east a hundred thousand, and then :
he would control East Mississippi. /
Strange as il may seem, the name Z
Il Memphis is seldom spoken nov in !
,hickasaw, Monroe, ItaWamba and /
.Owndes counties, and the cause of
his silence is easily explained by any I
ne who will glance at the journals of U
he counties named; there cannot be O
1und in all of them together, a dozen C
lemphis advertisements, and all that
erves TO keep the name Of Memphis
efore our people at all, are the fire.
uent quotations made by Mississippi Ii
'urnals from her able press, or in con- G
with the great road above II
Of; and the people are becom- ii
e habituated TO calling this road cI
IMPLY the Selma Railroad and to II
to its eastern extension for "
sw markets and cheap freights. n
.ther than to the west. IN