Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-06-20
Mbeelias Rsststss
TUESDAY. JUNE 20, ASA.
MARTINS FERRY's ENTERPRISE.

Yesterday morning our moss-baek
neighbor of the IateIigcReer devoted
portion of his valuable editorial space,
which he so often occupies in personal
puffs of his own importance, toinstruct-
ing the people of Martins Ferry in the
art of holding on to all they have and
risking nothing in the promotion OF
public enterprises. He Is no doubt q
competent teacher in the miser's arts,
but he made the mistake in supposing
our neighbors over the riverbelonsed to
the ''moss-back' fraternity. They area
live, enterprising, go-ahead people, in
talligent and wide-awake to their swn
interests; and they are disposed to re
sent his intermeddling in their affairs
unless he can bring a larger hsalt and
more liberal heart to the task. The fol-
lowing communication is endorsed to
the REGIsTER by a large number OF
the best people Of the thriving city:
10 ire Editor Of the Register.
MARTINS FERRY, o., June 10, 1852.
In the Wheeling HltelLiSeRcer or to-
day the editor of that sheet goes out OF
his way 10 NEEDLE in the local affairs OF
our town. But this is nothing unusual
for him on the subject of anything con-
nected with the Wheeling and Lake
Erie Railroad, as he has from the-ear-
LEST history of the road fought the en-
terprise and done everything in his
Dower. either in inexeusable ignorance
or settled malice, to drive the road from
Wheeling and Martins Ferry. And
now, in order to stab the enterprise in
the dark, he takes up the local interests
of our town. He grasps the issue at
Martins Ferry on the shop question as
an opportunity to show his spleen
against the road and the citizens OF our
town. Mr.. Campbell agrees with Mr..
Smiths article in the Times OF last
week, in which he says "there Is every
probability that the railroad company
will locate their shops at Martins Ferry.
He. like Mr.. Smith, is expressing an
Opinion on what he knows nothing
about. For, as has been repeat
edly stated, every town on the
line Of the road that has any show at
all as to location Is putting forth every
effort 10 secure the shops and in every
case more Is offered than is proposed by
Martins Ferry.
He, like Mr.. Smith, makes an effort
to miSlead the people Of our town by
saying that the $4,000 to be appropri-
ated Is to be given TO the railroad, a
statement absolutely false and forged
TO cheat the public view" The money
is not to be given to the rail-
road company, but put into real estate
and buildings to be OIgRed by the torn
and leased to the railroad at such terms
as may be agreed upon between the
town and whoever rents them. MIR.
Campbell is but the mouth piece OF MIR.
Smith when he says that "S5O,OOO put
into manufactures will be more for the
town than 1900 given away to ma
chine shops" And rs the statement Is
Mr.. Smiths, and has been made in the
meetings at the town hall and has been
answered by different speeches and
shown to be based on his imagination,
we will not again answer it here.
And then to say railroad machine
shops are detriment to q town and
not of first-class importance, is state
ment that hardly seems possible for
sane man TO make. IL railroad machine
shops are of no account to a town, why
is il that all towns in the eoantry use
every effort to secure them?
In conclusion, it is only necessary to
repeat that it is out of enmity to the
Wheeling < Lake Erie Railroad, and
to keep our town from gaining any
thing that will advance its interests as
against Wheeling that the article Of Mr..
Campbelps appeared. Will we allow a
man who has tried all through the past
to deprive us of the w. 4 l.. f. Rail-
road 10 NEEDLE in our local improve
ments and try to deprive us of them
also: We should say not.
MARTINS FERRY.