The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-06-04
FOR the Register.
COMMUNICATION.

MIR. EDIToR: In our last cofnmunica-
ton to your paper upon this subject. we
intimated that in another communica-
ton ave should speak of some of the
ways in which business could be started
and successfully prosecuted in Middle
bury. This we will partially do in this
article. The essential benefits that
would be derived, would not wholly
inure to the village or town of Middle
bury, but would be Immediately felt By
every town doing business at the couii-
ty seat. While the town of Middlebu-
ry acts In business point as the heart
OF the county, If it beats strong and
healthy, 1t throws the life-giving ener-
gy into its farthest extremities, giving
life and vigor TO every nerve of busi-
ness. We will speak here of those who
will receive direct benefit from a pros
porous and successful system of manu-
lacturlng interests in our town. In the
first place, those doing and operating
business; and in the second place those
that invest capital in it and cause it 10
be done. In the third place, the opera
tives of all kinds connected with the es-
tablishment. Then the owners of
stores, houses and lots in the village
would find ready occupancy and fair
prices for rcnts--the melancholy MA
cards -"to let" would be remembered
as some frigbtful and disagreeable
dream which had not passed. BY
reference to the newspapers in q pros
porous town, You will find such notices
as these: Wanted, Immediately, TO hire
store, or mill, or house, or shop, for
which fair price will be paid" "Want-
cd by the building association, large
number OF building lots, well located
within a suitable distance from the falls,
for the purpose of building a number Of
houses for operatives in the mills and
others. Those having land Cor sale
suitable Tor such purposes, will please
give notice - our treasurer"
WANTED: Two hundred operatives
to work in the mills; apply to the clerk
of the corporation"
"Wanted.: Three hundred brick
makers TO work in the yard near the
village, where an abundance of clay to
make bricks enough to rebuild the tow
er of Babel may be found"
These, and other notices would ap-
pear as soon as business prospects be-
gan to brighten. But now you read,
The beautiful residence of Mr.. w. will
be sold at low rate, and to all eterni-
ly given for payment Of the same, with
security.
"For sale-The cottage house on Maid
ell lane is for sale, as the owner now re-
sides in Colorado, where he is doing a
succe sful business. The property will
be sold at half its value, and time given
for payment" The above are some of
the contrasts that occur in different
towns.
But town that has but few if any
energetic capitalists to infuse enter
prise into its centres, is like ship upon
an open sea, that has sprung a leak.
The active and vigilant passengers take
timely heed, and get out the life boat
and row for the land, but others still
stick to the leaky old hulk, hoping some
favorable wind will give them relief,
but alasl that wind may never come
until ii is too late, and the vessel and all
its passengers are engulfed in eternal
ruin and dcsolation. But we will rccur
to the benefits again. The farmers and
landowners in the adjoining towns
would be materially benefited by hav-
ing a ready market for the produce
from their farms. The value of their
lands would be enhanced four fold in a
| NNi 0hDlt anu WOulU
not only be celebrated as a great and
popular educational centre, but also for
its active aud enterprising business
men. AS we have said before, nature
has been lavish in her gifts to Middle
bury, and like our first parents, all that
was needed for comfort and happiness
was put into our hands; but we, like
them, have let them slip from our grasp,
all the time looking for some cloud OF
financial enterprise to rise and pass di-
rcctly towards our town. All success
is only attained by well directed perse-
vering effort, whether it be a state,
county, town or an individual. The
idea that the Lord is going TO give us
thrift and business, without a CORES
ponding effort on our part, is simply
nonsense. The system of Divine econ
omy is TO second any well directed ef-
fort that may be made, whether of a
religious or secular nature; and if q
people disregard those plain rules, and
violate those wholesome truths, they
will sooner or later find themselves en-
quilted in irreparable and hopeless ruin.