The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-16

demands IOr auultiOnAt~ HlaTts VI oaiVci
and supply for the varied commodities
of commerce. Babylon is fallen, Garth
age, Palmyra and Nineveh are not.
Memphis and Thebes are mounds above
which the desert drifts its sands. Boston,
that was planted on the New England
coast as the metropolis of the
Puritan, and grew with the
growth of their descendants, has seen
much of the shipping that made
her great in the past history of
Massachusetts, diverted to New York,
Philadelphia and Baltimore, without
any loss in her material prosper
ity. Year by year her population rapid
ly increases; her wealth is greater than
at any former period, and the CONNER
cial activity of her merchants was never
so ceaseless as at present. Cincinnati
has seen in some of the branches of trade
that used to center here as their cad
quarters, gradual shiftingto other cities
about her without alarm. She has
saen growing up in nour own and neighbor-
ing States such busy and thriving places
as Urbana, Columbus, Dayton. Hamil-
ton, Springfield, Richmond, Covington,
Newport, and twenty others that might
be named, where the tireless buzzing of
the manufacturer lasts INCREASINGLY from
daylight until evening; but still the ac-
tivity in her own workshops and manu-
factories goes on increasing. Her mer-
chants prosper still; her population
swells with each recurring year; dwell
ings of princely elegance rise on every
street, and public Improvements, making
Cincinnati the seat of art, science, taste
and refinement in the great central
basin of the United States. 1t has
been alleged that the completion OF our
Southern Railroad was to deal fatal
stab to Louisville, that when done with
it ramifcations penetrating every South
ern State the trade of a vast section,
that now is secured in great part by
Louisville, will be brought to Cincin-
natl, to the detriment or almost ruin of
the prosperity of the former city. We
can not so believe. The Southern Rail
road reaches through region capable of
infinite development which it will stim-
ulate into immediate growth. Towns
will cluster along its line, farms now al
most worthless will be rendered valuable
and profitable by the markets that the
road will bring to the farmers door. The
tide of emigration will find its way into
those sparscly settled States and parts of
States now almost wilderness and young
thriving communities will grow up to
build new villages that will call on Gin
cinnati, and Louisville as well, for
the thousand and one elegancies, COM
forts and necessities of prosperous pop
ulation. Because Chicago is great city
| it does not prevent st. Louis from being
q mart of unceasing activity and hustle.
Because St. Louis is the center of vast
system Of railroads radiating in every d.
rection and penetrating to all the West
and Southwest, it does not prevent Kan
sas City from springing into marvellous
growth but little way beyond, nor does
it take one iota of business away from St.
Louis, notwithstanding the extraordinary
prosperity she enjoys Population is
rising and swelling like the tides through
out the United States, and cities wax,
but rarely or never wane. They have, it
is true, their periods of unusual pros
perity, and sometimes of stagnation,
but still the course is onward,
save in cases exceptionally rare. There
is no reason why Chattanooga should not
become Southern Pittsburg, and if she
should, Cincinnati and Louisville would
be all the more prosperous in conse-
quence. Give lis the Southern Railroad
with all the name implies and then let
Louisville without jealousy and without
fear join Cincinnati in making prosper.
Gus and fair the waste places of the
South and the wilderness of the adjacent
States to blossom as the rose, for theil
prosperity will be ours, the surplus
wealth which they produce shall flow
into the Golfers of our merchants and
manufacturers forever.