Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1880-02-21

ih"h0 hi"hhoi ehecL tHe OIner, IOr tny
ssssts OF our county and town are
one and inseparable. In proportion as
the country thrives and grows rich so
the town prospers. The farmers and
mechanics furnish the products and the
merchants and traders furnish the mar.
kets-w without either the whole would
wane and perish, yea "die amid abund-
ance."
Seeing, then, that our interests and
welfare as one people, whether in the
country or town, are the same, we now
propose to consider the duty of the
hour.
Three months from to-day the object
of these apprehensions will be an &C.
complished fact and the train will be
sending its shrill notes up the valley of
the Caney Fork, and whatever Warren
county is to lose will be then set to her
columns off5sss. That W . afe destined
to lose an important branch of trade
from that direction and that alone, no
one can reasonably doubt. So far our
commerce will be wounded and to that
extent perhaps dismembered. But the
wise economy of nature has so provided
that when any wound Or dismember-
ment is received by the human system
the inherent strength of the remain
Is stimulated to rush forward to repair
the loss and heal the wound.
Political economy teaches the
same principle as true when applied to
the acquisition Or distribution of wealth.
If the extension of the railroad should
threaten and actually inAict an injury
upon our prosperity as a people, War
rem county has inherent strength with.
in herself to repair the loss and under
the healthy stimulus to extend her
prosperity far beyond anything dreamed
of in the past. She has this strength
locked up in the fertile soil of her val
leys, in the iron and coal beds of her
highlands and mountains, in the water
powers of her never-failing streams Sc
cond to none in the United States, and
finally in the virtue, intelligence and
manhood of her citizens-in these lie
hidden a strength, force, a power
which when aroused would make any |
people not only wealthy and powerful
but great and glorious.
What, then, is the duty of the hour?
We propose to let an older head and
a wiser tongue than ours answer this
question. Hon. Asa Faulkner stands
before the people of Warren county to-
day as an example, an individual ex-
ample of what we have said is possible
for our citizens as a body to accomplish.
He says that defective industry is the
material wealth of arg people,"
If we would avert the impending
blow that is believed will soon be
hurled against our prosperity by the
'ver'changing tide of progress, let us
iced his admonition. Let us 90 to
work, laying aside all chickering's and
ault-fnding, all divisions and strife, all
political and sectarian animosities, all
own and country prejudices, and stand
ogether as one man for whatever tends
o promote the prosperity, intelligence
md morality of all our people. t
Our readers will pardon us just here !
or suggesting that in order to accom- :
'lish this there are some things we |
must all lay aside for the general good.
)ne of these is we must cease to pro- t
cribe our neighbors so bitterly in poll \
les. Another is we must not prescribe !
ur brother so exclusively in religious r
matters; that is to say, we are too Sec c
arian, too exclusive and run too much t
, individual grooves for the common
God. As people we must not let y
lese things divide us, ALLEVIATE our in $
,rests and defeat cur progress. We tt
peak of these things only as they tend 1t
, divide our efforts and waste our 9
,rength, 1t is the interest of our peo- "
lie, therefore, to lay aside everything d
nat tends to division and weakness .
nd cultivate everything that tends to