The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-20
Encnnraoinp Siqns.

There are sings that Savannah's business
men are gradually getting a clear under
standing of two things which have been
brought to their attention within the last
two weeks One is that Savannah must
have more railroads, and the other is that
if new railroads are built for Savannah's
benefit they must be largely the product of
home capital and home enterprise. Any
intelligent man who will take a map of
Georgia, and trace upon it existing rail
roads and those which are now being built
in the southern part of the state, will be
convinced at once that unless Savannah
builds Two or three railroads she will lose a
great deal of valuable trade.
Savannah cannot afford to lose any trade
Indeed, her trade must grow steadily to
support her rapidly increasing population.
1t is imperatively necessary, therefore, that
she shall not only hold the trade she now
las, but that she shall enter new fields.
Has size the energy and financial strength
to push her way into new fields? OF course
she has She may be a little slow in ex-
hibitlng them, but she possesses them, and
under the pressure of an urgent necessity
they will become apparent.
There is great deal Of money in Sa van
nah that can be obtained for any safe and
legitimate undertaking. There is steady
inquiry for good securities. If a company
of substantial citizens is organized to build
a railroad from this city to McRae, or to
Columbia, s. c., and it is made clear that
in the building of it there will be careful
and wise management, and also reasonable
economy. the company will have no diff
Guilty in getting all the money 1t needs as
basis for its undertaking. When it
has built and equipped a few miles
it can readily dispose of its securities to an
amount sufficient to complete the enter
prise. The business men of Macon who are
building the Georgia Southern ard Florida
railroad are pushing that railroad forward
vigorously, and those who have put money
into it are much better off than they would
have been had they boarded their money,
or loaned it at the usual rate of interest.
The stock of the railroad already commands
very large premium.
There are men in Savannah who are we'll
fitted to take hold of the building of rail-
practical business men. They can be de-
pended upon to manage skillfully and hon
estly any undertaking Some of them are
ready to begin at once the work of building
Of the railroads which Savannah needs Let
them go to work theoretically, and let each
of them call to his assistance his friends
In a little while their success would surprise
even themselves.
What is needed now are few deter
mined and energetic men TO take the lead in
railroad building. They will find that they
will get all the support they ask for Sa-
vannah's business men and real estate
owners have too much pride in their city
and too much at stake within her limits to
regard with Indifference the schemes of
other cities to get from her what she has
always regarded as belonging to her.
Don't let the spirit of enterprise which
has been aroused lately die out. Keep it
alive by promoting enterprises which will
help financially those taking part in them,
and which will infuse into Savannah new
life. Let Savannah'S leading men pull to-
gether, hopefully and strongly, and they
will make her far more prosperous than she
has ever yet been. Savannah's future de-
ponds upon her own people. They can
make 1t great. Will they do it,