Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1884-01-02

PUsH.-There is no success, no gain,
no achievement, without a certain
amount Of risk. In business enter
prise a rash and inconsiderate risk is
not advisable, yet capital and capital
lists are wrong in being too conserva-
tive, and the stand-still, wheel-blocked
condition of many communities and
towns is traceable directly to dead cap
ital, locked-up resources and lack of
reasonable enterprise on the part of
moneyed individuals. Towns are ben
Gifted by possessing a certain amount
of the spirit and grit that famed up
with the great Chicago fire, when upon
the smoking ruins of the mercantile
palaces, the next morning were beheld
the board sheds decorated with signs
indicating that business would con-
tinue without interruption, though of
course on u more modest scale. If
capital were entirely timid and re-
served, if capitalists were all towards
there could be no growth for cities, no
outlet for enterprise, no encourage
ment for invention, no expansion of
trade and manufactures, and it is we'll
known that without these very con-
stituents there could be no aggregation
of capital, no accumulation of wealth.
Labor is bold and ready, but powerless
without the support which it must re-
ceive, and which it seldom betrays.
Capitalists, as a general thing are
not philanthropists, are not addicted
to extensive charity and cannot be ex-
pected to invest merely for the sake of
other people, without reasonable prom
Use of profitable returns; yet many OPP
portunities are neglected, progress is
retarded, stagnation is caused by the
selfish timidity of men who turn the
vault keys upon their idle thousands,
or prefer sure five per cent. to a pos
sible forty. Yet after all, it appears
that there ought to be more of the
virtue known as public spirit, a spirit
of fearless enterprise and mutual assis-
lance. Labor produces capital, yet
labor will die if not encouraged and
sustained to some extent by its own
productions. 1t is fortunate that men
of means are not generally workers,
they are consumers but not producers,
they demand labor to satisfy their per-
sonal wants and carry out their per-
sonal designs, thus unavoidably giving
the laboring man some support 50
society is thrown into two great classes
the producer and the consumer, and in
order to maintain the great social bal
ance, and equalize social forces, tc
avoid the dangers of communistic dis
affection, there must be not too much
of q patrician reserve or selfish reluc
lance, but recognition and a mutua
assistance.
How is a community to thrive? 1t:
mechanics and artisans are skillful an(
industrious, they would be contenteC
and cheerful, but there must be build
ings to erect, there must be roads ant
streets to lay out, there must be yes
sells to build, machinery to fit out
manufacturing to demand their toll, ant
numerous outlets for the honest enthu
siasm of industry. Homes would b
happy, firesides pleasant, cottage
bright with every evidence of prosper
ity, but there must be an income,
a constant source of support, a certain
ty of reward for willing toll. If cap
tai leads retired and elegant life i
a mansion while willing industry mus
exc out painful existence in a hu
Prosperity will fold her wings and di
appointed Progress will sit by the way
side in sack-cloth and ashes. In
town approaching three thousand il
habitants, favorably located and Ell
vironed by a rich and fertile agricu
tural district, with numerous residen
possessed of abundant means the SUI
cess and prosperity of the communal
can not depend altogether upon I'll
productiveness of the surroundin
country or the amounts of individui
bank deposits subject to draft. Their
must be home industries, mannfactu
ing establishments which will give ell
plOyment to the people, a broad ente
prise that will keep trade in motion,
series of industries that will show fro
the outside and attract populatio
Let the busy engine hum and t
spindle whirl it's thread; let the fl
tory walls loom up in the suburbs, al
the smoke of furnace and forge fic
over the house-tops: let wealth Al
industry walk together, playing in
each others hands, and that town al
community must prosper and ACHE
a grand success.
Smyrna and Vicinity.