The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-10-28
TO BE HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS.
Rev. j. ID. Gold Talks Common Sense to
the People of Columbia.

IO BE hAH11 AND l. NHOoA Inv SO'
Rev. j. ID. Gold Talks Common Sense to
the People of Columbia.
The pastor of the First G. P. Church
stated to a large congregation last
Sunday night, mostly young men,
that he wanted to have an open,
honest, and straightforward talk with
the people of this community. He
began by saying that the la vs. OF ma
terial comfort and prosperity were
as infexible as any other laws OF
nature, and if they were violated,
business stagnation and distress
would be the Inevitable result. The
three laws OF commercial prosperity
are soIriety, industry, and honesty.
II these are obeyed, prosperity must
follow as certainly as effect follows
cause.
Has Columbia been violating these
laws? The speaker argued that it
had, and that our present condition
was due to the violation of the plain
laws governing business prosperity
A drunken man is never successful,
neither is q drunken city or nation
On the low average that each liquor
seller in Columbia took in ten dol
lars day last year, our city's liquor
bill was about sixty thousand dol
lars. A leading lawyer of Columbia
said that Maury COunty's liquor
bill was over hundred thousand
dollars last year. Talk about free
silver" Would not silver be free"
enough in Maury County if this
hundred thousand dollars year,
with all its kindred losses, were
turned back into the Golfers of the
people? The great solution OF the
silver aud greenbsck questions lies
in watching what kind OF liquid ell
ttrs your mouth. SuppOsing we
quit worse than throwing away
sixty thousand dollars of Columbia
hard earned money every year, and
apply this annual saving to es abb
lishing manufactures, from which
ten Thousand dollars a week will be
paid in wages to our working men:
Would you not have free silver"
enough?
Industry is the next infeXible law
of business. No city which tries to
exist on boOms, attractions, celebra-
tiOns, shows, crowds, parades, horse
racing, ETC., can ever succeed. For
the simple reason that wealth is pro-
duced only Ly productive labor.
Adam Smith, in his famous book,
The wealth of nations" ignores all
such things, as being worse than uu-
productive. Scott f. Hershey, in his
celebrated "Scieuce of National
Life.U rigi,lIy excludes them FROM
the productive and wealth producing
forces of brain and Drawn.
What Columbia wants is indus
tries. The man who succeeded in e--
tablishing the cotton factory and
such industries in our midst, Is, III
doing this greater benefactor
TO the community than il he
should get up half dnzen celebra-
tions a year. Nothing but work pro-
duces wealth. Venice started out to
live on fairs aud exhibitions and to-
day, w. D. Howel!s tells us i'll his
''Venitiau Life,n the poverty Of its
people fiuds no parallel in the world
Edinburg, Scotland, is three times
the age OF Glasgow Edinburgh has
lived on past glory and celebrations
while Glasgow has lived on mining
iron works, ship building and com
merce, until TO day it has three times
The population and as many times
the wealth OF Ed iuburgh-
Is Columbia going to make the
| mistake OF N+niCe and Edinburgh
| The manufacturing ceuteTs OF our
own country are the places of com
merce, energy, Invention, comfort
and national prosperity. What
headN have New Orleans and st
Louis made-two of the Oldest cities
on the continent OF America? Yet
they live on caIniVals, lotteries
veiied prophets, crowds, parades
fairs, gambling, prize fights and beer
When the minds of the people are
given to these things they are with
| drawn from the wealth producing
avenues of industry. You can not be
! Idle and active at the same time, anC
! il is industrial activity that makes
a permanent city.
Honesty is absolutely necessary tC
! the solid gsOwth and prosperity OF
community. Speculation produce
little, if anything. Nothing but hon
est toll produces. Speculation Ii
something like robSing Pete- to pS1
Paul, ana if Paul wins this tIm'
Peter will likely win the next game
80 that in the long run no real wealth
IS added to the productive accumuia
tiOns of tie town, community o.
nation. Unbridled speculation il
the curse OF any people. 1t with
draws the mind from productive an(
solid progress. Selling potatoes be
fore they are grown is, to say th'
least, u risky speculation for ou
good people, and no community cal
add much to its permanent wealth
thereby. II the potato grower wins
this year, the buyer will likely VIII
next year. 50 that there is litil'
gained. All forms of gambling
Whether in futures, bucket shOrs {
morse racing, is dead loss, and abso
lutely clogs the wheels OF any
communiUy's progress.
For the enjoyment OF the town n
recommended reading circles, gym
uasiums, a choral union OF all ouI
singers, a philosophical society,
literary club, science and art classes
2ight schools, etc.