Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1889-10-03
WE ARE NEVER CONTENT.

II has been many years since the hopes
Of the people of Lewiston have been in
spired and stimulated with what they
had reason to expect in matters of rail-
road building such as would build up the
business of the town and inspired many
with the hope of seeing the town grow
70 large interior city. Many have
expended what money they could readily
lay by in embellishing their residences
and grounds, preparatory for the future.
This state of things has continued Tor
some five or eight years and the hope
was not relinquished until the knowledge
of the fact became prominent that other
localities in different directions. outside
of Lewiston, were fast gaining the
ascendency in point Of business and
population, and even then but few people
residing in Lewiston were ready to be
convinced that their pet hopes we're not
soon to be realized, in regard to the
growth and prosperity Of Lewiston. But
for few months past these hopes have
greatly changed and from the movements
Of many who are canvassing the chances
to open business at some other point,
intending, If revival does not soon take
place here, that they will move their
effects to this other point and start a
business anew. These few do not seem
to have much patience to wait the
natural course Of events nor to abide
their time when the incentives for the
railroad companies to push their road
into Lewiston and thus give encourage.
ment to the people Of the town and
surroundings for extensive business.
Some Of these have already "pulled up
stakes" and gone elsewhere, who if they
had continued in the faith and been
energetic in their efforts, could have
made the prospects Of the place much
more immediate and certain. We have
no fault to find with this class Of people
further than that we find them easily
discouraged and dishearteped because
their great expectations have not been
fully realized within the time that they
had predicted, and instead of becoming
aids in building up a place they some
times are greatly in the way and have a
very bad influence in disccurasiug others
whose hopes had never died out. Al
most every man who has visited Lewis
ton and examined its facilities for doing
business and it's fine climate in which to
dwell has been pronounced in its favor
until they have met with a class Of
croskers, who, 80 far as can be inferred
from their habitual uneasy discomfort, are
ever ready to cry down the place and
everything about it on account Of the
most trivial objections, which their hope.
less ingenuity could invent. Many a
man has come to Lewiston, pleased. with
the prospects Of the piece, who has soon
become discouraged through the influence
Of those who are always cracking Of the
evils and difficulties which besct us
instead Of showing resolution and hope
and expending their efforts to build up
and strengthen the weak points. Lewis
ton needs no such persons, and if that
class would migrate the town would be iu
much better condition to progress 1t
is no pleasant thing to talk to stranger
about the advantages OF the place and at
the same time have some one or two,
claiming to be citizens, to spend their
breath in crying down these advantages,
and extolliug the advantages Of some
other locality. If our citizens, one and
all, would put forth and exhibit good
cheer and hope for the immediate future
prospects Of the place, we would be much
better prepared to entertain strangers and
hold cut inducements to them TO come
and make an abiding place among US.
1t cannot be expected that the railroad
companies IAN do all this without out
aid the disposition has got to be among
our own people; the railroad companies
can then stand in with us and make a
prominent and prosperous town of
Lewiston.
FEOla POTLATCH.