Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1893-06-23
The Remedy for the Loss Of Rowland.

Editor Interior Journal
STANFORD, June 70. -Staniord has los
her Rowland. For more than a score o
years the h G. Junction has been pourius
monthly benefit into Stanford and the
whole county and year by year that
= bounty has increased until it has grown
. to an important consideration. Now oil
sudden the goose that laid the egg OF
gold has been killed by the ruthlessness
OF monopolistic convenience and saving
practice. Who need be surprised? Ii
is the history OF hundreds OF towns that
flourished and grew on railroad pap
Who is to blame for the calamity? I'm
Questionably our own people. Had We
worked our facilities to half the advan.
tage offered by location and natural pro-
visions, Rowland could not have folded
her tents and stolen away. IL would
have been necessary for the railroad TO
keep force and repair shops here. We
have the light. the water the ice; We
have the soil TO produce-shipping IA
ciities timber at hand which is now
and has been for years cut aud sent TO
build mp factories in other towns, In
other States, and we have the capital TO
employ the labor and build the factories
here. Look at the grand and generous
natural invitation for canning factory |
here. For a wagon factory here, where /
millions of spokes are shipped from and /
the few used here are brought back ,
ready for the wheel. For large cooper
age factory. Some OF the best soil about
Us is burdened with Walnut, Cherry,
Gum and other timber sought for else
where by furniture makers. And not
even an axe helve, broom handle, a
toothpick made here! What then do
we lack? Enterprise, sir, enterprise;
that is all, but that is much. An article
last winter in the INTERIOR JOURNAL I'M
der the caption, why Young Men 20
West" would read TO day like proph-
esy. Fellow townsmen, the time Is at
hand for you 20 invite these young men
back from the West, where they have
changed the word Enterprise" that led
them there, to that of Achievement.
That is the watchword they have learn
ed as they became Infused and inspired
with the spirit of Western Enterprise by
tho natural laws OF contact. Rowland
is gone. Who are the severest sufferers
Not YOU whose list OF patrons is depleted.
y IHfTaasa !
Not you whose income from various
sources is sufficient for your comfort
Not even the farmers throughout the
county, and all the lsborng classes who :
found advantage in the circulation OF
sum OF nearly 100000 a year in our
midst. Who then? Why the very men J
" ho made Rowland town and peopled
(, and sent this money out monthly
through various channels over the
county. Their homes are worthless to ,
hem, their savings they paid 10 me- I
,hanics TO build, TO lumbermen for ma {
erial and to owners for lots are gone.
These homes are empty to-day, or soon
must be so. They cannot rent them,
hey cannot occupy them and make
heir runs to and from other points; @
hey cannot occupy them and labor in 4
hops at other points. Rowland is a 81 {
ent city, deserted village, and the men
Who builded it with their earnings - I
armed under all kinds OF weather and
lnder many dapgers-by the most ar
Iuous toll and faithful labor, are the :,
men who deserve sympathy. The re- \
noyal makes them to suffer hundred ]
old greater than any and all others. We
an build factories, but will We? We b
an bring and employ more people than
ave left Rowland, but will We? And y
lad we done il sooner We would have .
eld Rowland too. Public meetings are u
veil enough, but let us not give them
yer TO selfish aims and objects so far as G.
0 forget the real sufferers whose greater Il
lisiortunes should lead us to forget our
wn. Meet and resolve. Promulgate
esolutions and publish appeals. Will a =
abroad harken and relent? Where :,
len is thc feultuN F''h o"' ~" VI D
he best mediums of advertising, and Y,
hrough them offer cite for canning
,ctory and pledgeto take nall or more n
stock necessary to run II. O1er the ~
anne for a wagon and other factories. -
'es, gentlemen, pass resolutions to that ~
lIect and hold faithfully to them, even r
necessary to 20 down into the musty
pliers and bring out some of the retired 10
,ecie. And when another railroad
nall head this way don't head it OIL, but N
pen the way and help to pilot it through u u'
8 you did not know what the goose
as worth until she spread her wings II
adj took her flight, do not run after in
arch OF waited feather, but secure de
,other and make her nest little more en-