Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-02-08

aluorS VINO LnlnK tHat DGcduso mdn HdS
|ade money in stanton, he is legally or
orally bound not to invest it elsewhere.
mans money is his own, the result of
Is own labor, his own industry and his
va Judgment, and no other man has any
ght to dictate as to how he shall invest it.
#hose citizens of Staunton who have here
1fore invested in Roanoke, Florence, or
hy other place where the Inhabitants had
bterprise enough to offer them chance
L investment, denied them by the apathy
their own people at home, had a perfect
rht to do 1t-and to do it without the
larling comment or criticism of others.
&hey have the same right now that they
r hid then.
But having said this much, the justice
j which every reasonable man will recog-
ze, let us say word to the people of
taunton who are able to make any in
$stment however small, now. The sur
bindings in Staunton have greatly chang
in the last few weeks. The people have
ZEN aroused to the Importance of start
g enterprises here and they are eVincing
cir awakening by their subscriptions.
be subscription list to the first popular
&terprise in Staunton is a study worth
time. The absence from the list,Which
bpeared last week IN this paper, of the
ames of business men who are credited
the popular mind with the control of
rge means was remarkable. Nine-tenths
the subscribers to the $40 shares in the
urniture Factory Company, on that list
ere men on salaries; men on weekly Wag-
proprietors of small business houses,
bid the like. The general absence of what
called capitalists" from the list was
Enerally remarked. II was also general
remarked that while absent from this
BIT they were not absent from a list of
disorders to another enterprise, with
ore costly shares, located at distance
om Staunton and certainly not greatly
slculated to benefit our city. But six
Ibntlemen could be gotten to give their
me to soliciting for home enterprise,
nd we give their names for they deserve
he credit-Messrs. r. }. Gushing, T. j.
roWder, J. W. Teabo, A. G. BraXton,
has. E. Haines and j. Howard Wayt. But
trouble was found in getting the fore
n enterprises doomed, and the difference
the subscriptions is reported to have
ben in the proportion of one hundred to
le, in dollars. Even to this we have shall
fer no objection, it was their money and
hey have the right to do it.
But let US LOOK at this matter in the
ght Of permanent investment. Money
vested in an enterprise here yields its
uits here. Money invested elsewhere
kpect to live here must of absolute neces-
lily have some sort of manufacturing
bing on if We expect to see money drawn
IRE from abroad. 1t is a fact, a fact stated
US by mechanic who has lived in sew
al cities. that it is hard for man who
asn't seen it, to realize what pay
bll of even as little as $500 week, works
a small city. 1t changes the whole face
things; the money is scattered, new
edits are established, the mode of
2gIng of the people is elevated, and classes
rift into the cash system. If so small a
anlfacturing interest does that for a
what would not dozen more faetc
II re do?
1 We must remember all this in our
descriptions. and We ought at the
.ery least give our own town fair
\ bow. She is no longer tagging behind
3 she was. She is running neck and
+ eek with other enterprises and
/ is bad thing to see her citizens feeding
burning and cheering the strange horse in
be race. while they turn the cold shoulder
or such little piece of warm shoulder
3 to amount to the same thing-to their
pine horse. Do we want examples to the
bntrary ? They are not lacking. Take the
cad name on the home enterprise list,
bat OF Ex-Secretary A. FL. Ell. Stuart
zne of the largest as we'll as one of the
5arlieSt subscribers to it-a man of ma
, onal fame and of broad and varied ex-
Prience in practical affairs. Does cause
Fed a better leader than that to vouch
pr its wisdom and to guarantee it's value
} the city? Take the names Of the lady
disorders on the list; do they not show
pat the new spirit Of manufacturing en-
erprise in our city has also in it an
ement of pride and enthusiasm for the
felfare Of our home? Take the youngest
5lbscriber On the list-a boy of ten years
Ed-d0es it not SLOW that the new en-
Ehusiasm has peryaded every class of
be people?
Does not all this justify US in calling on
taunton capitalists TO give their own town
fair show in this race. Does it not Justify
s in asking that the merchants of the CITY
ball rally to enterprises which will bring
customers TO their own counters, instead
to merchants of nelghboring towns :?
Poes it not appeal to property owners to
Elpport enterprises that will give them
bore tenants at better rates? Let us all
1pnsider this matter. Let us conclude
bat there is, to say the very least, as
fuch permanent profit in putting our
foney at home as there can be speculative
nd temporary profit in putting it abroad.
fet us give Our own town fair chance
laC Is all she asks, a fair, even chance.
you send dollar elsewhere give some
Taunton enterprise dollar to match it.
ne boom Staunton is on now,is not spec
latlve. There is nothing in it to gamble
P. What is being offered you in Staun-
pm has the end in sight and there is no
peculation about it. 1t is to start work.
pops he''e, where you can see the men at
Fork in your own town under your own
pc, and the pay rolls of viii, b you can feel