News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-08-16

new, young element and management,
backed by the wealth, good n
and excellent judgment of the intelli-
gent people of your town, will keep
Stowe up to the full level OF her un-
measured possibilities.
We must not think new things are
all bad things, that modern progress
means ruin, that money appropria-
tions mean insolvency, or that the
creating of new methods, new Gus
toms, new avenues of communication
are destructive Of anybody's rights,
or are dangerous to life and proper
ty, or interfere with the pursuit of
happiness.
No; if such beliefs controlled the
actions and minds of the people
of your town it would become seri-
ously depOpulated in a quarter of a
century. We must be up with the
times and not try to control them /;
be in the swim and not always trying
to get in.
Stowe has always been up to or be-
yond an honorable mark in all good
works, and | do not believe she will
ever be allowed to fall below it.
Every man, woman and child liv-
ing in Stowe is deeply interested in
her future. Every person out of
Stowe who was born or ever lived
here will take pride in her history if
she progresses, and will almost feel
to deny their own history in part if
Sha uoeS hack or Glands Stitl Tbio 10
no age for mere passive life; it is the
moving, acting, driving, fast-step-
ping age; the age when we can ride
in safety a hundred miles an hour,
when man has caught lightning in his
hands and tanned it so we can write
and talk through it, ride behind it,
grind grain with it, light the world
with it. We are going down the
home stretch q two-minute clip. 1t
won't do to be behind the flag or the
money. Electricity is the greatpower
now moving the world. 1t will be
king. Why not use it, appropriate it
to the uses where it will do the most
good to the greatest number?
Some say so long as we have dogs
and wolves it won't pay to keep
sheep, but sheep we must have, so
kill the dogs and wolves.
Some say, no use to plantpotatoes
because of the bugs. We must have
potatoes, SO kill the bugs.
Some say we must not have rail
roads, because they will scare the old
mare. W. must have railroads, so
swap off the old mare or give her a
life run at pasture and stable.
If we are becoming old and arein a
%pecuniary condition to live comfort
ably, so that progress and work are
not essential to our existence and
happiness, We must not stand in the
way of our less fortunate neighbor,
whose success in his life work must
depend upon his labor and local en-
terprise. We must remember that we
should not live to ourselves solely,
but in part with a view to the future
welfare of the boys and girls of our
time. We can do no grander thing
than to live so that our children will
rise up and proudly call us blessed.
Tender memories of our once having
existed are all right whether sung or
spoken, but what is better still is to
have our children and their children
able to say we have done a good
work in our day, the marks and eff
fects of which are still visible and will
stand for all time.
Yes, let Stowe advance. Give her
over into the hands of herintelligent,
bright, respectable, honest, active
and responsible young and middle
aged men and women, and she will be
perfectly safe, increase in population,
thrift and wealth, and grow strong
in social and political influence. To
be sure she is now recognized as
among the first in all these elements,
but let her not only be among the
first, but let her stand second to
none. Open up your resources, make
the very best of every opportunity,
create competition, use your money
in making your scenery and
more attractive and more accessible,
emulate the wisest and best methods
for producing grand and beneficial
results, bury all hatchets, conquer all
hidden and open ~jealousies, and let
your new century in its first decade
bring forth fruit, rich fruit, that the
history you make may be read with
enthusiastic pride by all who love
your soil and people, remembering in
the poetic words of Longfellow that:
mot enjoyment and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act that each tomorrow
Finds us further than to-day.
"In the worlds broad field of battle,
In the bivouac of life,
| Be not like dumb, driven cattle,
Be a hero in the %sUrife."
Congressman Powers Letter.