The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-10-08
PROSPERITY.
Build Up our Town and Country

money, but they are OF precious HI
tie benefit TO any place. A people
to impress new corners, must show a
degree of intelligence and refine
ment in keeping with high civiliza>
ton. If man starts business in
your town, doa't discourage him by
speaking slightly of his prospects,
but assist him in getting a business
foothold.
Industrious mechanics if they res
side in town, they want that town
to contribute to their happiness and
pleasure, as we'll as their physical
wants, as they are human beings
and like to meet with kindly atten~
ton and social courtesies. To give
a man work and then snub him, not
only makes the hot blood rush to his
cheeks, but creates a desire to quit
the town and seek a moro congenial
community.
Just so with profitable enterprises,
you can throw cold water on them,
until you can freeze them out
That enterprise or institution that
induces population, brings money in
to that town and builds it up. Pop
ulation is wealth. The more fac
tories, shops and colleges, you have,
the more people you will have to To-
cate in the town, the more food and
clothing will be required, the more
money necessarily spent, and inN
creased valuation of property and
general prosperity is the result.
People 60 to prosperous towns,
preferable to poor ones, simply from
the fact, they stand better chance
of prospecting themselves. There
fore, there is no just cause of envy, for
every mans prosperity is enhanced
in proportion to that of his neigh~
boris. If every man in Marietta was
worth a million dollars each, except
ten, those ten would stand better
chance to become wealthy as the
rich 10 their abundance would pat
ronize literally. Yet there are per-
sons so cnviOus and selfish, that they
hate to sec any one make dollar
more than they do, and will throw
every obstacle in the way of their
prospority-pull them down-back-
bite and discourage. This is all
wrong, for God has made US de-
pendent creatures, and we should
mutually work for one another'S ad-
vantage. This way we can mfuse
new life into all branches Of business
and all prosper together. 1t is so
arranged in the ''eternal fitness Of
things" that we either retrogade or
go forward, diminish or augment, in
all that appertains to wealth, morals
and religion. Events go to show
that we are a progressive people,
The fossilzed ideas Of an antiquated
generation have long ceased to keep
pace with the ready thoughts and
grand improvements of the present
age. Let Jus catch the spirit on
every occasion, and with enllghten-
ed experience give new impetus to
exertion, bursting the rusty letters
of lethargy, and cheerfully cooper
ate in forming an indestructible
foundation of prosperity in this coun-
try, that will benefit and make rich
not only the present generation, but
those to come.
Our people should more extern
sively build factories, shops and mills
and make at home what we send oft
for. The Southern people must not
be "hewers of wood and drawers of
water" for Northern people any long
err. The reason we are poorer to-
day, before the war the North in
vested their money in permanent
property, factories, mills, railroads,
etc., while we invested every spare
dollar we could rake and scrape in
perishable negro flesh. When slav-
cry was abolished, we were swept
high and dry, and had nothing TO
show for the accumulated wealth Of
a century, but land. Let US learn a
lesson from the misdirected invest
ments of the past and from so sad ex-
perience, raise and manufacture at
home all we send abroad for, and in
twenty-five years we will be more
prosperous than the section that de,
vastated our fair heritage.