The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1872-12-12

Our Town.
We have heard people talk about
Pulaski becoming a town of five or
ten thousand population in the
course of FIVE or ten years. We
have occasionally INDUCED dreams
of this character in the past our
selves, and have tried to point out
to our citizens the road that would
lead to this end, so much desired BY
all of us. Bat tile DIR, an is past and
our hopes have fed. Our people
have lost their energies in all mat
tiers pertaining to enterprises Of a
public character. We have plenty
of private enterprise of a cramped
and rather narrow character, but no
public spirit. Our merchants are
making money, our lawyers are able,
energetic and successful in their pro-
fession, ranking with any bar in the
State. Our physicians ride night and
day &c visit the sick and minister to
the suffering, and rank like the law
yers. Our farmers are delving and
blowing, and clearing and fencing,
and progressing. Our mechanics
are skillful and Industrious, and our
capitalists are building fine houses
and investing in stocks and bonds
and cotton. But what does it all
amount to2 You say they are ma
king money. Well, what do they do
with it? Are they investing it in
any manufacturing enterprises? Are
they devoting any Of their time and
energies and money to any industri-
al enterprises OF public character
Are they trying to build any rail
roads2 What are they doing about
turnPikes? What about hotels?-
And last, but by no means least, who
is It that manifests the least inter
est ia public schools2 No town in
the South ever had a brighter future
than Pulaski, il the capital ard en-
ergies Of our people could be direc-
ted in the right channel; but there
the rub. Since the war we have dis
played enterprise only in one thing.
We have built our town anew-at
least the business PORTE of it,
We can boast of the best and hand
soonest business houses of any town
in the South according to popula-
tion. But houses will not and can
not make a town. True, we must
have houses, but we must also have
schools, and hotels, and turnpikes,
and railroads, and shops, and faeto-
Ties, and live men, or we can never
have population and thrift. Think
Of il, tellow-citizens, and let US do
something else besides build stores.
Let US have schools first, turnpikes
next and then hotels, factories, rail
roads &c, and then population will
fiow in upon US abundantly.
Pulaski has more wealth than any
town of its size in the State, Is u
habited by the eleverest people in
the world, is located in the center Of
the finest agricultural region beneath
the sun, possesses remarkable ad-
vantages as to location, water,
health, scenery and surroundings,
her streets are broad, her private
residences neat, many of them pic
turesqUe, some of them grand, her
business houses new, attractive and
commodious; 1t is the natural cen
ter ola vast wealth-producing region,
the preferred market for the cotton,
grain and stock produced by thou
sands of thrifty farmers who inhab-
it these vast and fertile valleys and
hills, and il our capitalists and bus
mess men would make it accessible
by turnpikes, and add to it the
charms of a good public school and
the convenience and attraction of
first class hotel, it would soon rank
as the weaithiest, healthiest, hvest,
most prosperous and most populous
inland town in the State. Why may
we not do this? Can't we find Mo-
ses that will lead us out of the will
derness2 Who speaks arst2