Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-02-09


over tressel work ON the mountains and
over ravines; they worked and combined
tAeir little hordes and let the sixpence
grow; they built railroads where YOU and
would hardly climb; they dug out the
mountains for room to build houses they
crossed their streets with shoots and made
dam to run breaking mill, with wooden
arms from the water-power to thc mill
one thousand feet long, and poured the coal
from The top Of the mountain down into
the mills and thence into the boats, bring
ing it from miles away out of the moun-
tains; and while Marshall county "saved
at the spigot and spilled at the bung hole,
Mauk Chunk grew rich and prosperous,
and to-day can buy and keep the whole
county and not miss the money, while we,
with our element of wealth all around us,
and accessible 10 every resident on step
ping from his door, have remained pinch
/ ing the sixpence, and it remains a sixpence
still compared with what il might have
been had we been enterprising, energetic
and liberal. The time was when turn
pixies we're the great desederatum. Then
came canals. But now railroads are ne
cessity, and the locality which secures the
most of these great avenues of inland COM
merce secures the most desirable market,
either for its own surplus, or, if it has none,
then as manufacturing center.
will show you soon what all this has to
do with the object of your meeting.
Accident, to which / alluded, has done
for us what design could not have bettered.
We are located geographically at the right
point to enable us to become business
center. ana all of our surroundings are in
our favor. Within thirty-five miles of US
on the north two great trunk ines-the
Michigan Central and Michigan Southern
run to the sea board. Within seventy-hve
miles of us on the south two morc-tee
Great Eastern and the Wabash Valley
roads go to the sea board. Passing through
us, the great trunk line Of the continent
runs. All these center at Chicago, des
tined to be the metropolis of the continent.
and we sit in the center of rich, level
country, only eighty-fve miles ffon her,
little over forty from the great lake, and
with numerous lines of road cutting these
great lines at right angles and running
north and south. But all pays tribute TO
Chicago, and our tribute amounts to
Princes rams ON every month. East. west,
north, south. all about US, are inexhaust-
ible beds of coal and quarries Of stone,
but for us il costs a fortune to build. In
and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS but the cost
to us for transportation for want of com
peting lines of road robs us of a material
portion of the value of our surplus, while
our insane policy of sending eff the raw
material instead of working it up deprives
us of ano Their large addition to our taxa
bles and population. With a railroad lead
ing direct west-new projected, and which
its friends are trying hard to build-and
anoth II direct north, and another direct
east, the former only sixty-six miles long,
and the two latter only twenty-tour and
thirty-two miles long EACH we would be-
come a railroad center, and bring all these
great trunk lines in competition for our
CARRYING trade, open the great western
prairies to our timber. wood, ties and lUin-
ber bring coal TO our doors at a nominal
price, make stone a desirable article for
importation, bring competition for the
prices of our grain and live stock, offer I'M
paralleled inducements by way Of cheap
land for factories, cheap homes for opera
tiyes. small cost of loading on cars, cheap
ness of fuel, and competition in cost OF
TRANSFORMATION, with choice of outlet and
market to every point of the compass for
men of means and combinations OF capital
lists 10 come here and locate and build up
manufactures, thereby increasing homie
demand for our SURPLUS agricultural pro-
dncfions creating demand for more stores,
groceries and every branch of mercantile
business as well as mechanics. More car
penters. smiths, shoemakers, tailors, cabl-
net makers, mill. ners, and other trades
men, would be wanted. More hay. grain,
vegetables, wood. houses, furniture, hard
ware aud all kinds of personal property,
would be demanded to supply the incoming
operatives and business men better
schools and churches follow; better classes
of LAWYERS doctors. clergymen. and scien-
sInc teachers and minds OF every ciass.
1t would extend TO the country better
carriages, houses, stock of all kinds; bet
ter styles of architecture. gardening. farm
ing, fruit growing. dress, Ornamentation,
everyt thing that makes material wealth and
comfort would follow to the extent of the
demand We create. New societies and orga-
mutations for the promotion of the social
status il all its various interests would re
suit, and among the most important in all
its bearings and the most rapid in its de-
velOpment and progress, would be this
Agricultural Society of ours,
When, by combination Of capital. our
land owners bring to our fairs specimens
of wood worked cut ready for the manufac-
turc of wagons, chairs, cabinet furniture,
cars. ships, buildings, joiners' work of
every description. gun stocks and carriages,
ready TO be shipped in the rough; when
our farmers. grown rich from the proceeds
of good market and competition If. the
prices of produce and trsnsI oriation, ex-
hibit their blooded stock Of every kind, orr
markets supplied with fine fish Matched and
IL -. of
which are made familiar 10 us all ut our
yearly meetings; when our grain and fruit
exhibitions and competitions are worthy the
name, and our people let 20 the sixpence
to see it come back dollar, we shall real
ize the result of enterprise, energy, liber-
atty and the benefits of a market, which
such course alone can give us.
Suppose for moment We tapped lake
Michigan at ST. Joseph, New Buffalo,
! Michigan City ami Chicago, open To US by
raIl. the grea, pine lumber districts, OF
Michigan, and the great fruit plains of the
eastern shore O: her lake by five lines of
railroad and three competing points by
water. Suppose Central Illinois open to
our lies and lumber, and her coal and stone
accessible by road direct to Kankakee
and thence west, cutting the Alton and
! St. Louis. Illinois Central, Great Eastern,
Chicago and DanviIle, Chicago and Louis
Vile and Fort Wayne, and the LaPorte
and Peru, the Goshen and Warsaw. and
letting us cut the Michie,ln Central, Mich
igan Southern and Wabash Valley the
otherway, and an outlet at Ligonier di-
rectly east. Suppose this: Can you i'm
agine the effect upon us, considering the
cutoff IS miles south of Chicago. a saving
of to 10 ho1rs on every line of TO ad
running into Chicago, and 8 10 III trains
day on each road?
i If we were 90 mules ne .rer Chicago, or
in any other line of connection with the
roads around us, our position would be
comparatively valuless. But suppose the
connection we have named. One hun
dred dollars each from the farmers and
business men OF Marshall county will give
il 10 us, a.d they Can be reimbursed by
stock preferred, al per cent, ifll,ey wish
It. Look for moment at the market il
woGld give Us. If capitalists can go 10
!, Is miles out Of Chicago-pay. $500, 10
. . 900 orro for Land h,,ilI thai ,.vv NJ,