Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-12-04
NEW BRUNS WICK.

NEW BRCNS WICK.
More than thirty five years ago, Judge
Halliburton published his "Sam Slick" in
which he endeavored to arouse the prov
inces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia
to initiate the enterprise of the Yankees
and bend their energies to internal inn
provements. The contrast which he pre-
scented in the reputed Yankee dialect OF
the Slickville Clock Maker, OF the condi-
ton of the two peoples on either side of
the boundary line. although rich reading
to outsiders must have been very distaste-
full to the provinciafs, especially to the
Nova Scotians. But proved an excellent
medicine. Some of the public works
there advocated have been built, and others
of far grander proportions than the keen
author of the Slickyille Clockmaker
dreamed Of have been completed or are
in progress. s''f you have no riyer,p said
Slick to the Halifax man, SNAKE rail-
road, and that will supply its place" IA
bridge makes a town, a river makes a
town, a canal makes a town: but rail-
road is bridge, river, thoroughfare. canal,
all in one; what whopping large place
that would make, wouldn't III? 1t would
be the dandy, that's fact. No, when you
go back take a piece of chalk, and the
first dark night, write on every door in
Halifax, in large letters-a railroad" &c.
Wen, Halifax has improved the lesson,
and railroad" win make her one of the
most important cities III America.
But while Halifax has become the east
ern terminus OF the great railroad line on
the international route, St. John. is en-
deavoring TO make the most of her excel.
Scarcely was the European & North
American railway opened to business, be-
fore the building of other lines was
preached and plans projected for the ex-
tension and control of trade. Railroad"
seems to be written on every door in ST.
John. If the province was asleep thirty
Ave years ago il is awake now, moving
with such vigor as would delight even the
Connecticut clock pedler. One OF their
enterprises is a road from st. John to the
river De Loup designed to carry the
trade of upper Aroostook away from Ban
gor and Maine to the Bay of Fundy
This is an invasion of Yankee land of
new order. Here are our dull neigbbors
whom Sam Slick slashed SO, numerically
with his pen, and to whom he held the
Yankees up for models in enterprise,
aliyVsteaing march upon us and pre-
pairing to pick the plums from the Aroos-
took pudding which we have taken much
pains to get ready for our own table. The
pupil seems determined TO surpass and
overreach the master. OF course when
the farmers and husbandmen of Aroostook
can find more profit in trading with st.
John than Bangor they will go where the
profit is. How about the establishment of
Scandinavian colonies in the Aroostook
regions. to enrich the pockets of St. John
merchants 1t might as well be them as
American citizens whose trade is thus
filched away from US, but having taken
pains to induce and aid people to come
from Sweden to settle our lands for the
benefit OF the STATE, we see more plainly
the true state OF the case. How very wise
we should be rs State to pay the expense
Of settling and allow New Brunswick to
take all the profit Of the operation. Yet
this is what the shrewd rogues are after,
and what they will accomplish unless they
are checkmated by move on this side of
the boundary. If the sovereignty of Maine
is not invaded by this move upon Aroos
took, most surely it squints so cleverlv in
that direction that the State would appear
to be justified in resorting to some means
for self-defence.
Among the measures of the New Bruins
wick people to promote the growth of the
province is one ia favor of encourag ing
Scandinavian immigration. Herein they
are copying after US. Their young men
have found it more agreeable to leave the
province and seek employment in the
United States. Hence the increase of
population is small. 1t is the same tale as
with the State of Maine, and the remedy