Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-01-29
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Themistocles on one occasion being de-
sired to touch Lutte answered by saying
he could not fiddle, but yet he could make
ssmall town great city. Bacon, in his
pointed, practical way, commenting upon
the remark, said these words (holpen a
little with metaphor) express two differ
ing abilities in those that deal in business
= ofState for if o true survey be taken OF
g counselors and statesmen, there may be
found Though rarely those which can
make small State great, and yet cannot
fiddle. AS, on the other side, there will be
found great many that can fiddle very
cunningly, but yet are 30 far from making
a small State great, that their gift lieth the
other way-to bring great and flourish
ing State to ruin and decay"
We do not know from personal knowl-
edge just how many of the solons of our
Assembly fiddle very cunningly," but,
Judging from the gift which lieth in the
way of bringing great and nourishing
State to ruin and decay-that Bacon init
mates usually accompanies the gift of fid-
ding cunningly-it could on short notice
be converted into the most successful
troupe of fiddling burlesque Ministries that
! ever kicked the boards before variety
crowd. Among so many fiddlers it is
probable that If we could find them when
sober, it would prove TO contain some of
tbs most skiIlfnl Jig dancers ever on the
rampage. We know of some counties that
are represented in that body by some of the
most experienced Tom and jerry COM
Founders that ever swung glass in the
= State. This combination of talent, we
submit, ought not TO disperse without an
opportunity TO repay the State in more
congenisl occupation than legislation for
The per diem it has go regularly drawn.
The justice Of such course must be re-
cognized by all who have regularly watch
ed its proceedings. With the State stand
ing on the verge of bankruptcy; its credit
so impaired that It's financial agent cannot
borrow, in the great money mart of the
continent, funds enough to meet its cur
entexpenditures with its good name and
fame, for all time to come, jeopardized by
observation-disclosures, frivolous, and un-
worthy of a country debating elub--it new
ertheless hangs on to the teats of the public
treasury, drawing out every dollar as it
comes, and filling our statute books with
J unnecessary and absolutely pernicious leg
= islation. The University of this city is
not only robbed, as by a highwayman, of
fund which, in equity, is as rightfully its
as the fee simple of the ground upon which
It's buildings stand, but when it asks of
the State loan of few dozen rusty and
almost worthless muskets for the use of a
company of students, as much opposition
from little-souled men is raised as might be
expected from an applicant for so many
thousand dollars. But the opposition to
such measures, which is only evidence of
malicious and illiberal spirit, is not the
most discouraging feature, as we had ocea-
sion to show the other day.
The spirit of the Assembly, in all its un-
friendly legislation upon the school subject,
is familiar. The want Of schools has been
recognized and expressed in every county
where the people have been induced to act,
and yet this body of men have, perhaps,
better illustrated their appreciation of the
of the legislation it needs in the following
= act, which we find in paper of this city,
edited by one of its shining lights, than in
anything else they have done:
= The bill recently passed by the Legislature,
allowing counties to tax dogs from fifty cents to
two dollars per canine the proceeds TO be APP
dition to. tne school fand--iust how much in
each county cannot be estimated, except by the
curious" s 4- tss
We think there is hardly a fair-minded
man in the State but that, judging them
by their acts-which clearly lie in the way
of bringing great State to ruin and decay
would readily admit that we might just
~ expect to find in our present immacu-
late Assembly very many statesmen who
fiddle very cunningly,Y but are very far
from making small town great city,
81
THE Louisville Co,rier-JourssaE, discuss
sing the bearing which the construction of
the Cincinnati and Southern road will
have on the interests of Louisville, and ex-
pressing the opinion that such an enter
prise will benefit that city, says:
The reasons we have assigned for this opin-
ion, and we have stoted them over and over, are
that the prospect Of a road from Cincinnati to
the South would compel the Louisville and
Nashville road to finish It's Knoxville branch
and force the people to put through the pro-
iected Chattanooga road, thus giving Louisville
n series Of Southern communications unsurpass-
ed, and If vigorously handled, not to be rivsled.
It would, in other words, stimulate our COM
nerce, by facing US With . competitor.
This is stalking TO the point, and telling
Tho naked truth Huntsville has NOTHING
TO fear, except, perhaps, apathy and want
of energy on the part of her own people,
and we don't anticipate even this. There
is nothing that will build up trade like
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