Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-04-07
LETTERS FROM TIE PEOPLE.
The New Engines.

EDITORS APPEAL-We are sorry to
see one or two members Of the board OF
aldermen standing ready TO oppose the
interest OF the fire department, on the
most simple ground that the proposition
for new engines Was not Submitted to
them. 1t was submitted to the fire
com missioners and the fire committee
by the chief OF the fire department-in
all fourteen persoos-who are required
to keep the wants Of the fire department
in view all the time, so as to make it
efiicisnt for the protection OF property at
all times. CITIZEN.
A Suggestion.
EDITORS APPEALr-Knowing your
staff to be composed Of men wishing the
welfare OF this community, 1 desire
your cooperation in propsgsting the
idea OF a0 Independent police forcen
or "patrol,n - to consist Of citizens of I'M
doubted good character, to protect this
city from thieves ard vagabolds now
infesting this place. Nearly every night
somebody Is robbed, aud very seldom
any person RECEIVERS what is stolen, un-
less reward is offered sufficient for our
detectives to work up the case. Let US
have public meeting, and arrange for
selfprotection against thieves Of every
Elnd. What says? VO& PoPULl'
Railroad BuIIdinG, on Paper.
EDITORS SAPPEAL-YOur paper of yes
terday contained call for meeting of
merchants and Others interested in the
construction of another railroad from
Memphis. II not too much trouble to
you, please let us know what have been
the practical results of ali theseI IatlToad-
ind0rsirg meetings. During the past
few years we have had great many Of
them, and the city papers have given
column after column of their proceedings,
but the community has yet to learn of
the actual payment of any mODey to-
ward building the "indoised' roads.
Isn't it about time 10 publish another
map, with railroads as Wheelspokts and
Memphis the big wheel? 1t would be
beneficial to the entire community II
all the projected roads were completed;
and l respectfully suggest to our bust
ness men that money, and not wind, is
wanted by those who know how to build
railroads, II.
Thoughts for the People.
EDITORS APPEAL-There are many
things to make and to keep up hard
times among the American people, and
to imp3Verish US all, some OF which
things are: Too many consumers and
non-producers-t0o many that are in
various ways living at ease on the labor
and sweat of others, instead OF fulfilling
the command given to all without ex-
ception, Gin the sweat of thy brow shall
thou earn thy bread, until thou return
to the dust from which thou vast
made" There is something for all to
do, and that continually. There is too
much mismanagement and negligence,
Most OF our planters and farmers Of the
south devote too much land, too much
time sud attention, to cotton.raisiDg,
aI too little to the raising of food for
nan and b EAST, and too little to the rRis-
iLg of stock, such as beef-cattle, cows,
hogs, sheep, horses and mules. Oar
southern planters and farmers go in debt
to our southern merchants, and their
cotton crop ia seldom sufficient to pay
the merchants bill. Again, our south
ern merchants go in debt to our northern
and eastern merchants to keep up their
stock in trade, and cur northern and
eastern merchants in their turn go in
debt to the European merchants TO Keep
themselves supplied in articles for the
trade of the different States of the
Union, and that, too, for many articles
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tuEe here at home in the United States.
Thus Europa is Ss a great vortex swal-
lowing up our wealth and becoming
rich, while impoverishing us, and ST.
leptly staggering and glosting over our
worse than stupid and miserable folly.
The balance-sheet of trade and com.
merce is always against the United
States, and of course in favor Of Europe.
Commerce is q very good thing indeed
when wisely conducted; and we should
take care that it is safe and profitable,
and that by all means it does not bring
Us in debf, especially to foreign States
and people. Were it not for the great
resources that we are favored with in
the United States, we would have been
long since entirely bankrupt. We are
fast squandering away our wealth aud
means; they ere being rapidly drained
without benefiting US as a nation very
much, while Europe is receiving by far
the largest share. No wonder that in
Europe we are regarded as fools. The
administration Of eur government is
also sneered at by Europeans, as being
anything Tut wise, honorable and good,
which, too, is also doing US much harm
in pecuniary and in other ways. 1t is
well to keep these things constantly be-
fore our people until they act more
wisely. N, g. A,