The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-05-18
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District on the 10Th of June to deter.
mine whether the District will take
$4,000 stock in the Narrow Gauge.
1t is stated that the vote will result
in favor of the measure by 3 to l.
Some of our tax payers are violently
opposed to the measure and think it
wrong for tax to be voted on the
Community for such n purpose.
After viewing the ground carefully
we have concluded that the Railroad
will be built We don't venture to
say just how, but the above is our
opinion.
We think that many ofour citizens
do not realize the Importance of this
measure or they would be more active.
We have made all the progress we
possibly can without railroad and
must be content to advance no far
Their until we get one. 1t is possible
that our ap&thN will prove fatal YET
President Thompson says the way
to reconcile the North and the South
is &c, connect them with railroads.
that railroads will accomplish more
in that direction than all the pol
itical parties that now or ever will ex
list. Our railroads nearly all run cast
and west. What the country now
needs is cross roads runnin& North
and South. The Pittsburg, West
| Virginia and Southern will be very
important cross road when built
viii the pcopts aid this important
enterprise?
1t is an important fact that the
T., W. Va. and Southern railroad is
20 be the peoples road-the people
who subscribe to the capital stock
| thereof--and that they will help to
control its policy. This will insure
its management in the interests OF
those who build it. Let the citizens
then subscribe to and own the road
and thereby take care of their own in
| tercsts.
President Thompson in his enlhu-
siastic and able speech at the Rail
road meeting Saturday evening, adj
vised the farmers to kill their hounds
| and raise more sheep and cattle. No
| better words 2ead have been said.
| If the hundreds Of farmers living
| between Grafton and Morgantown
would pay less attention to dogs
except killing them-and more to
raising sheep they would have more
money, and there would be no trouble
about getting money to build much
needed railroads,-G7Gff0R StntiHel.
The Grafton Sentinel of the llth
inst. says
president Thompson $ well known
ability as a logcian and his elo
quence rs an orator, led the people to
believe they would hear n good speech
and in this we are glad to say they
were not disappointed. The speaker
laid down his propositions in bust
ness like manner and supported them
by the strongest course of reasoning.
He explained vby he as preacher
Of the gospel came to Grafton to
talk railroad; and why he as n teach
cr came to talk railroad to our people
| Railroads, he maintained, were among
our greatest civilizers and educators,
and that in building railroads we adj
vanced civilization and education,
and with these, came all the blessings
that flow from christianity
Our State is among the richest in
| the Union, but our great wealth lies
| hidden beneath our hills and in our
valleys, and the way to get it to the
outside world is by the use Of rail
roads. With more enterprise and
railroads our mountains, filled with
their rich treasures, and our fertile
I valleys with their untold wealth would
teen with the hum Of busy industry
that would rival the great manufac-
turing centers OF New England.
r. Thompson.
| Only thirtecn days remain to us to
| complete our arrangements for the
railroad. The time is feagftilly short
| and we MUS'F be stirring or our OPP
portunity will be gone. We wish
that we could make every citizen of
Monongalia see the necessity for
building the road. We would do so
speedily and positively, but to do
this is slow business. Let every man
who has the power to think and rea-
son consider this subject carefully.
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