Morning journal and courier., 1889-03-26

to stay.
 stagnation has
 | their rapid growth
 country of it's life-blU,
 and hundreds of thousands
 | torted from the country and eoun.
 ! hastily put millions into the pockets ol
 | of the great centers This was done | wholesale discrimination in shipping rates-
 the most oppressive tribute ever laid upon a | people, and the most systematic robbery
 | ever perpetrated without arousing rebellion.
 ! The unholy oppression became so manifest
 | to reasoning men, and its ruinous effects
 were 50 imminent and go sure to be borne | upon swift wings, that there was 8 national
 l uprising, and the strong arm of the law as- l serted itself against the wrong, and already ! the result is seen in the checking of the wild
 and headlong growth of the great cities, and
 | in a corresponding revival of the country ! and the country towns. The interstate law | is yet imperfect, and no doubt it's provisions { are more or less evaded; yet, as law, it is
 \ very effective, and the moral effect of it's
 I existence is very salutatory. But not alone | to these facts is Lanesboro indebted for her new life and her new lease of prosperity. To her inherent adVantages-her combined | facilities for conspicuous place in busy life-does she owe everything. She has on every hand lands incomparably rich. She is favored with great abundance of timber, building stone of the best, brick-clay unsur- ! passed, an abundance of pure water, a cli- < mate healthful and invigorsting, scenery rare for it's beauty and variety, and greatest of all, water-power that will one day make this the most noted manufacturing center in the northwest. We do not say this day is at hand, but we do say that every enterprise and every act of every public-spirited citi- I. oi, than that with the rapid growth of this country manufacturing must rapidly in- crease, and with ths increase of manufactur- ing comes the inevitable demand for cheap power to drive machinery. Electricity is revolutionizing and simplifying the Ilanu- featuring problem, but electricity is useless without generating power, and for this water alone is practical for it's inexpensive nature. Thus does electric power increase our advan- tages. By the aid of electricity (we are not discussing an i'm upracticsl or merely theoretic question, but one that appeals to the good sense of every intelligent man)-by the aid of electricity every neighboring water-power can cheaply be centered at Lanesboro. The Dusschee power, the power above Scanlan's ford, the Densmore power and the north fork power-the farthest not three miles dis- tant-can all be centered at Lanesboro. By lengthening the lines i've miles the number of water-powers would be more than doubled. These powers are inexpensive in their natural state, and would only require 8 dam and water wheel at each in order to make them available, and to center at this point facilities for manufacturing far in ex- cess of those enjoyed even by Minneapolis, and no one need be so dull and non-progres- sive as to suppose that this very thing will not yet be realized. By an unnatural and congested state of affairs, as before ex- piained, the great cftfss grew and the coun- try became stagnant and dormant. The normal condition has been restored, and brighter skies are bending over the towns that have inherited so richly from nature.
 Besides all else Lanesboro will have addi- tional railway facilities within few months. This is sure to be the result of an energetic, public-spirited policy on the part of Lanes boro. The seeds of energy will surely pro- duce the fruits of success. Leave it for oth- CT towns to demonstrate how thing cannot be done, but let Lanesboro devote herself as sduously to demonstrating how it can be done. Lanesboro is on the wave of prosper ity, and she is there to stay.