The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-03-04
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.

Mr.. EDIToR:-That Elktou has an amb-
ton to become something more than she is,
and that that ambition is not being salts
fed, is abundantly evidenced by the many
appeals, suggestions, and projects, made
public through your columns. Think ng
prosperity, that is different from any yet
adduced, and that if adopted would be pro-
life in results, l beg you to indulge me in
the privilege of making few statements.
In the first place, | arm convinced that the
much longed- for tide in our affairs will not
be brought to the flood by our doing as we
have done in the past. The plans, the
enterprises, and the usages, that have oc-
cupied US for the last fifty years. have now
been fully tried and have signally failed
To trust to them longer would be idle folly.
Nor will it be FASTENED by the estab dish
meut of reading rooms, coffee houses. libra
ries, or any other better class " of "places
of resort for young men. The places of
resort that the young men need are anviis.
FORCES, work benches, counting desks, and
sales rooms. Work is their only salvation
and they want it. Many of them do not
know that they want it-they may even
see the miserable, pitiable, empty lives
many of them lead, know how much they
want it.
1t will not be ushered in by great fair,
or bazaar, whatever Miss Kitty Clover may
think to the contrary, notwithstanding.
What is the good of asking our already
impoverished townsmen to buy things they
do not want, aud cannot afford to pay for :?
Elkton already has all the luxuries she can
afford, and more too. would by no means
be thought of, as discouraging Miss Kitty 5
l,udable ambition to assist. On the con-
trary, am only sorry that she has assigned
herself so insignificant role. Mems minds
once reused and in motion, she will soon
find a demand for woman's action in a
much higher and nobler sphere than that
of selling nothngs at bazaar.
But having consumed so much space
with the negative side of the question, |
will briefly state the other. Let the town
authorities call meeting of the people to
devise means to carry into effect the fol-
lowing measures:
T. To purchase two or three lots of one
acre each, eligibly situated for the building
Of manufactures thereon, and convey them
to trustees, in trust, to convey one of them
to each of any responsible companies OF
corporations, who will engage to erect
thereon manufactures that will employ
such a stated number of hands as may be
agreed upon.
2. To procure the County Commissioners,
or whoever has the power to do SO, to grant
such companies, or corporations as will
make this engagement, immunity from tax
alton for five years.
3. To have an offer of these privileges
together with a statement of the natural
and local advantages of the town, adver
tised in the New York, Philadelphia and
Baltimore papers, and kept before the visl-
| tors to the Centennial Exhibition.
Such liberality as this could not fail to
induce favorable results; but so long as the
| inhabitants of the town constitute them
selves into an array of open mou;hed YAM
| pires, ready TO suck the life blood from any
industry that locates in their midst, the
| originators and promoters of these indus
tries will very naturally and properly avoid
the place.
The plan mentioned may be though,
/ mpracticable. Most likely it is. But it
is only so, through the avidity and supine-
ness of the people. Most likely, the town
will 90 down to posterity, moss grown and
venerable, as it is at present. But if i,
| does, posterity will have the questionable
satisfaction of knowing, that it is owing tC
/ the want of proper enterprise i'll their faith
ers, who held the penny SO close to theil
/ eye, that they could not see the dollars
beyond. l..
/ OUR PUIrITs To MORROW AT the Pro
testant Episcopal Church, Rev. MIR. Skin.
ner, a 10 80 A. NJ. and =. VI.
Presbyterian, Rev. Mr.. lIeberton, at 10. 81
A. NJ, and 80 +. NJ
Methodist Episcopal, Rev. DR.. PbWbus
10 30 A. NJ, and 7 80 p. VI.
Catholic, Rev. Father ballard No ser
vice to morrow.