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

w euneSuay, TO discuss the pro-
priety of allowing persons from out
s;'e the county to compete for pre-
nuns in the Agricultural Society,
and to take into consideration some
means by which the mechanical and
agricultural wants of the citizens Of
Marshall county may be secured to
greater extent The meeting was
called to order by electing w. G.
Edwards. Chairman, and w. NJ
Nichols, Secretary.
A resolution was offered by Mr..
G. w. Nash, in effect that it should
be the sense Of the meeting that the
Agricultural Society should employ
an agent or superintendent, able and
competent to canvass the county.
collect subscriptions, and superin-
tend the business of the Society
generally. The resolution was
literally discussed, and met with
general appreciation.
The question of opening premium
lists to general competition was dis
cussed at length, and a resolution
to this effect was ad0l ted. 1t was
thought by this means that greater
interest in the Fairs could be secu-
red; that with the present limited
manufacturing establishments, such
variety of articles could rot be
entered as would make it a success
and by an importation Of the pro-
ducts of industry, and different
varieties of stock, such fair might
be had as would be of marked
benefit to the county.
A very lengthy address, from the
pen of Dir. c, III. Reeve, was read,
which discussed in an able manner
the interests and wants of the
county, and pointed out the manner
in which it might become by proper
effort, great business center.
After the conclusion of the read
ing, it was moved and carried, that
the address be published in the
Marshall Co. Republican and the
PLYMOUTH DEMOCRAT.
On motion the convention adj
journed.
w. C. EDWARDS, Pres't.
w. NJ. NICHOLS, Sec'y.
To the Marshall County agricultural So
siety:
GESTLENES-At request of your COM
mittee, l had consented to address your
meeting to-day briefly, but unavoidable bus
mess engagements takes me from home,
ard if you deem it best you can present the
following suggestions in writing to the
meeting:
The prosperity and wealth of the county
must depend wholly upon the energy, en-
terprise and liberality of its property
owners. Capital is worthless without Ia
Dor. Labor first OH the part Of the owner
of the capital in designing the plans to
make it available and, secondly, the labor
of the laboring class of the community in
carrying out those plans practically. These
general propositions admit of no exception.
A community. the majority of whose
residents ---.-~ss;~, i..sis.S%-:-..s and lih-
eral, will progress faster and further in the
acquisition of material wealth and the COM
forts and Iuxurics of life than one whose
members are Indifferent, stingy and idle.
Labor ayails but little in securing material
property when confined to simply money
getting and saving, regardless of the gen
eral prosperity and public good Labor
would starve without the combinations of
capital, and property would be valueless
without the results of labor paid by COM
bined capital.
A squirrel can gather nuts which the
trees drop for him and live. A hog can
root for worms and grass roofs which the
earth produces for him and live. but both
will get no further. SO a man can raise
grain enough 10 live, make harness from
rear, but he viii remain an animal merely,
and, like the Esquemaux. merely live and
never progress. This disposition among
men to take advantage of mere temporary
things to save, tc keep, to accumulate, to
never let go of anything once got. TO push
back all who come and ask for aid to make
progress, is fatal to any community and
tends to barbarism by regular retrOgres-
sion, and enterprise shuns the localities of
such people. 1t is the temper and calcil-
lation which saves at the spigot, while the
contents of the barrel are running out al
the bung hole.
The frs. necessity and demand for pros
Derity is market. No matter what your
locality produces, whether stone, clay,
brick, sand, lumber, grain, minerals, water
falls. or what-not, it viii remain poverty
stricken with out a market. Give IL a mar
ket and it will progress in proportion to i'll
lsurplus FOR sale and the ability to marks
Il or, if it is " waterfalls" as | said, i
win command manufacto; ries in proper
ton to the facilities given to get in mate
rial and send off manufactures. Then th,
markLt will be valuable market in pro
portion to its inlets and outlets, its mean
of trans portation to and from, its ability Il
com Aand speed and certainty in shipments
and competition in rates for transportation
either on export or import If these ad
MANAGES are great, capital VIII seek sucl
localities as places for investment; AM
effect will reproduce new causes, and thes
n turn rev effects, until the locality be
comes self producing cause CT prosperit.
and the giver of wealth to an entire com
munity beyond its own immediate limits
Accident often contributes largely il
furnishing the means of prosperity, as il
location and natural productions but thes
are valueless without enterprise, energ,
and liberality among the people The riches
sections in natural wealth often remain
poverty cursed regions because of popu
| lation who hold on to penny that but TO
their grip would grow to an eagle, Will
other localities, barren in the extreme, be
come busy marts because their people ar
liberal and look to the future, 'castin
their bread upon the waters y that it INA
return to them after many days" 1 wi
| give you two well known illustrations:
First, Marshall county, Indiana, who's
people sent off kingdoms wealth in tin
| Der. which should have been partly mann