Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1870-07-08
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Communicated
a Comparison.


Jack, you lazy dog, why do you not go
to work and earn Il living. and not be loung-
ing about street corners and store doors
spunging on others?
Oh says jack the world owes me a
living and | will get it any how something
will turn up some of those days and bring
me a fortune.
Citizens of Augusta, why willyou not vote
for the Valley Railroad appropriation and
bring prosperity to the county
Oh !! says the citizen of Augusta, the
Road will be made anyhow somebody else
will furnish the money and build the road.
We need not do it.
The close affinity between the above in
diyiduals and their answers must strike ev-
cry one at q glance. 1t has never been
very clear to the mind of a sensible, indus
trious, honest citizen, how the loungcr was
to get the living the world owed him, aciM-
our aoo'z;, and it is equally difficult to deter
mine how Augusta County i, to get the road,
1oithom the subscription. The one million
OF dollars subscribed by Baltimore is on the
xpressicondition. that the Counties and Towns
in the Valley shall subscribe one million two
hundred thousand dollars. aud the nine
hundred thousand subscribed by the other
Counties and Towns of the Valley is on the
express condition that Augusta County sub
scribes her quota Of three hundred thousand
dollars. Absolutely, S2,200,000 depends
upon the vote of Augusta County, and as
the 81, 100000 subscribed by the B. & Q.
r. r: will not justify commencing the work
until more capital is secureu, it will not be
furnished or applied, until they have an as
surancc of other capital to continue the
work; hence, practically, the whole 3d.
200, goo and all hopes of the road depend
upon the vote of the county of Augusta for
their quota.
But, says the quibler, if we don't get the
Valley r. IL. we will get the Shenandoah
r. r. without taking stock How and
when Where is their capital to come from?
We have the most positive information that
the Pa, Central r. r. Company will not
furnish it, Notwithstanding all the false
rep 'rts gotten up to the con rary by the OPP
ponents of subscription They have no
visible means for prosecuting the work If
they have, the writer now publicly calls
upon the President and Directors Of the
Shenandoah v R. R. to officially inform
the public what assurance they have Of
having capital and being able to build the
road to Salem within the next 20 years 3
At time like this, when they are sta aiding
in the way Of the Valley r. r., the public
have right to know, and the right to con-
strue their silence into tie inability to answer.
The writer wonld be as much pleased, indeed,
more so, to see the Shenandoah Valley r. &.
completed. and would do as much to aid it
as he would for the Valley R. r., if it stood
CD as solid basis, but he is not willing to
have an enterprise without capital mislcad
the public to abandon one almost absolutely
secured If they have the capital to COM
plete their road at an carly day, let US know
it, and we will heartily say amen And if
they have not, we have a right to know it,
and say gentlemen stand from under.
The himsy pretext for voting against the
subscription to the Valley r. r. because it
will be built anyhow, is unworthy of an
honest Fenterprising man unworthy of a
prosperous intelligent people. and, when
examined carefully, melts into interest
shadow of shade, without foundation.
People OF Augusta, if you would prosper,
you must help youselpes.
Rapbine Va. PROGRESS.
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protection against lightning. 4 Mrs. Banks
was killed few days since by stroke of
Lightning in Greenfield, Connecticut, while