The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-01-12
THE LAST OPP0R7UNTK. q
i" THhRE is 4 3IDE1N THE re
OF MEN, WHICH IAhEN Al I I17
LADS ON TO FORTUNE" 49,

/" IHNRE rs a 4lDlz - ~ 49, sszaAszA
OF MEN, WHICH TAKEN AT THE FLoOD'
LADS ON TO FORTUNE.
The above aphorism has it's truth
fuIness illustrated before the eyes OF
the observer almost constantly.
A4most-cvery man gets into the
road to prosperity at some time in
his life. This is the "flood tide
to him. Notmany, however, realize
the fact at the proper time. As it.
is with individuals, so with whole
communities. The food tide some
times comes. If it is realized
seen at the proper moment,-and if
it is "taken" whenait comes, it eEleads
on to fortune. If it passes, the
ebb sets in, and. fortune is gone.
We believe the flood tide is rapidly
approaching Merristown now. But
this by no means Indicates per Sc,
prosperity. 1t only means grand
opportunity. If it is seized upon
and used, then prosperity comes.
If this does not. happen, then the
child ofto1day is apt to see Morris
town a way station when he is old.
II. our opinion, the hour is critical
one and we beg you, reader, to
consider yourself a part of this com
munity, and to remember that you
owe very much more to society than
to yourself Co nsider that in a lit
tie thfiftless village there can be no
great prosperity for you, while in a
rushing, growing young city, for
tune will knock at your door every
day.
We have not said why we believe
this to be q critical hour in Morris
towns history. Yet you know. If
the opportunity which we now have
to connect our town with the coal
fields at Cumberland Gap is not
ed-apen at once, the tide will
soon begin to ebb, and our oppor-
'tunity viii be gone. Stop and
think 1t may, dear reader, depend
upon your action. Your hearty
support of the enterprise may en-
courage half q dozen others. Your
diffdence may discourage, others.
An united effort only. will be sue
cessfdl Consider for moment
what results will be. Cheap coal is
the very Uade mecunp of prosperity.
to any town. Transportation on a
narrow gauge railroad is the cheap
est possible overland transportation.
No railroad town in all the South,
literally surrounded with iron as is
Morristown, has coal in, abundance
SO near as Cumberland Gap is to
Morristown. With the Southern
connection made, there is not a bet
ter distributing point for manufac-
tured articles in the South than
Morristown. ..0 .-: /
All these things being 50, (who |
doubts any of Them if the narrow |
gauge is built to Cumberland Gap,
there is not power any where to pre-
vent MOrristown from becoming a
manufacturing town. Now, if each
citizen of Morristown, who is, able,
will subscribe $1,000, $500, 500,
1926, to the stock of the company, an
impulse will be given that viii se-d
cure the building of the, road. For
thenit will be known to the farmers
of HaInblen--to, the people of Grain
ger and Claiborne and Lee counties
that there is business ahead. And |
these people across the mountain |
are on tip-toe. about this matter even
nowl On the contrary, gentle read
er, ifyou go into your own hole, and
take the hole in after you, as the
people of Morristown have been so
long doing, and if your neighbors
do the same, then the matter had as
well drop. For just that will cause
the tide to ebb, and you will spend
your life at way station unless you
emigrate, |