The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-04-23
A Suicidal Practice,

"a Ru4G4Qd1 SEdSt4SSt
The CITIZEN, of course, delights
in whatever tends to Pulaski's pros
perity and is opposed to anything
that is calculated to hinder her ad-
vancement. Because we love the
people and glory in their Happiness
and success we have often protested
against a suicidal habit to which
they are addicted. 1t is the prac-
tice they have of giving the town q
bad name as business place and of
dashing cold water upon every en-
bryo enterprise before it gets its
eyes open. Forgetting ever TO speak
Of its many advantages, its health
fulness, its educational institutions,
its felicitous situation in the midst
Of one of the richest counties of the
richest section of one of the richest
states of the prosperous, growing
south, they seem bent only upon
magnifying the few disadvantages
of the town. Why, stranger in
our midst can hardly engage Il bust
ness man in a five minutes CONVEX
satlon on our streets without hear
ing something that is calculated to
create in his mind the impression
that Pulaski is not much of place.
If he happens TO be here when The
streets are not thronged with people,
when tue farmers-are at work max
ing money to pay for goods they
have already bought, the stranger
issapt to hear from the lips of some
chronic grumble standing on the
street corner: Business is darned
dull to day-this town is about dead
any how" The business man and
the cronic cuss, both of whom are
in reality proud of their town and
anxious for It's prosperity, seem to
forget that the stranger will adver
tise whatever impressions he may
receive in regard to the place. The
business man may have spoken I'M
thoughtedly and prejudiced the
stranger against the town uninten-
tionally, or the grumbler may have |
stated a fact when he said it was q |
dull day, but no matter what is the
provocation, suchexpressio1s are I'M
necessary, uncalledfor, suicidal, !
foolish. Suppose it is a dull day.
The stranger, if he be a man of
sense, can easily discern what is the
business status, and there is no
good sense in riVeting an unfavora-
bic impression upon his mind. Why
not refer to the business of yester-
day, last Saturday or first Monday
and tell him how lively things we're
then? He would Immediately light
Oh to the correct conclusiOn-Pu-
laski, like all other towns, has her
dull and her busy seasons. Now,
every day is not dull one here and
the worst sorehead in town has too
much respect for truth to make such
an assertion; neither are all our
days very busy ones-some days
must be dull and dark and dreary-
and nobody will deny this, but
where is the pleasure or profit in
gazing continually on the dark side
of the picture and of holding up to
the view Of others the same objec-
tionable scene! Truly there is still
left in this world an abundance of
II umdH HdGuIG anu uldShlduS CaE
be expected to wear smiling faces
when there is an aching void or a
growing emptiness in their pockets
or elsewhere, from whence comes
the cry, cash hash but then to
speak disparaglngly of your own
town is not the best means to adopt
in order to satisfy mortal hunger
Dr. caprice. If you must look always .
On the dark side of the picture your
sell, exercise some discretion and
policy and don't invite others to
,our csA peiat Of view. Hold up to s
he gaze OF the world the otncc.r side. ! !
# you will grope in the midst of the Z
loud which your imagination and
Iour grumbllng bring down upon
he town, direct the attention of the
outside world not to its black, sti- =
ling mists but to the silver lining.
n short, keep your mouth shut, or
peak well about your town. If you
amt do either, perhaps you had !
better emigrate, in justice to your I
jelf and your neighbors.