The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-03-08

q moments generally. Now, howeYer,~thea
| tao7urer clearly takes ground. We wouo
nave preferred that it should support tns
Measure.
And what do all It's arguments amour,
20? We have before stated and answers
hem; 50 has our correspondent. Inc sun
If them all Is unprecedented expenditures IL
Manchester; that Manchester ooeS i,o' 49,
- . milk NOW renting water from tue cor
p,ration; md that we have ""'ei pm" ,,,a
| ND r;vor, front enough without Goss'is we
:. vor These and tho irrcsoiute ana a'i'h '''
,nrnos,;on that it thinks that the s'e cor
,,orSt;ons will get along better: ..saaft tlian
nn;,cd is all that can be made out OF 'ne re-
rcyvcd statement OF the EAqI'fc'S fcAec'
tons.
lir,t-The expenditures for AlancHcsIct
,o,,., hc under the entire control Of Rich
nond-she having n representative WeiSnl
=. twelve to one against Manchester.
second-Manchcster invited tic mills to
become the customers Of her water power ny
agreeing for limited period to assess no cor
porate tax upon them. Thus she gets the
water rents, and she acquires large ropula.
ton, which requires to lie lodged and clothed
and fed, to the great advantage OF iahuloroS
and merchants. Bat the agreement Is Inn
tied. we understand; and if it were not, II Is
q cood one ANYHOW. None but the most CIR
cunscribeI Judgment could fail to see the
advantage that Manchester derived ironi heT
ARRANGEMENT, How much moro good sense
did that corporation show in its arrangement
than does the writer in the Enquirer by MS
objection to it, But there is water power Il
plenty yet in NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. thah VIC
have. In the hands of Richmond 1t can be
made farmorc beneficial 10 the people OF Ooth
sides than it can be in the bands OF Aanchcs-
ter alone.
Tbird-It is known to every mechanic ana
practical man that there il now little or no
water power to spare on the Richmond SIDE.
And every man WHO has any idea OF an
1ctivc commerce, such as we Shall certainly
have. knows that we shall need the entire
river and the water frontage Of both shores
,or It's accommodation. And we say now
hat if those who have the opportunity and
he authority to acquire the southern shore
fail to do so, they will hereafter repent
t, and be convinced that they did great
wrong to the people Of Richmond.
Fourtll-It Is III obsolete idea that two
communities 80 near together can manage
their resources better separated than they
can uuitcd-that the disbursement Of means
bv the two, stimulated by rival interests and
iyr,prcssllc antagonislnS, could accomplish
more than its employment under ono govern
mcnt for the good Of both united. The bare
statement Of the case condemns the assump-
ton as utterly impractical.
We really can sec no good objection TO an
neyinr Manchcstcr-to giving one corpora
ton tic control of both shorcs-while it has
been demonstrated that Richmond cannot get
on without the south side. It's facilities arc
for our trade and for ourmanu-
features. No other town i'll the State has
such advantages as Manchester has, and when
we have the chance Of acquiring those adj
yantagcs and adding some five thousand to
our population, nothing but some unac-
countaDlc faulty or folly could cause the loss
Of the opportunity.