Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1896-04-24
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he STllCle III ldSl "SSh LN mum OLIOi'
under the above heading seems to us
worthy of reproduction for its sugges-
tions are timely and good. We ought to
look very charitably upon the peculiar
propensities of men to grow rich suddenly
because it is so prominent i'll our natures.
Ponce de Leon visions and the wild i'm
patient and restless spirit of men caused
many failures, fearful disasters and the
loss ofmany lives seeking fabulous wealth
III the hope of obtaining it without la
Dor. But the beginning of the founda-
ton of American society never came until
men went to work and developed villa
ges, cities and wealth out of local mate
rial which went into local improvement
and accumulation. 1t is the experience
of all time that no wealth or prosperity
is permanent except such as comes by
accretion, wrought out by labor and
added to the common stock and so
wrought into it by the energy of men as
IL uldhS IL SSNulC. IL IL SIlOuSu " Noll-
vince anyone to look at the diffusive dis
position of New England capital within
the past few years. To convince anyone
of how New England has suffered one
does not have to go out of the north
eastern counties of Vermont to see where
piles of money have gone to the west
and to the winds. Principal has beer
lost sight Off the wild chase for large
interest, forgetting that "slow ant
steady wins the race"
1t is sometimes said that furnishing
capital to the west or to any locality
builds up the locality where it sOrs and
that building up any portion of the
country contributes to the increase o.
the whole country. But the wide waste
extravaganza and pictures of unshelter
ed flocks, costly and unsheltered uten
sils of agriculture, and reckless man.
agement, and ruined farmers, which has
followed localities into which this money
has gone does not vindicate any such
assertion; nor does the fact that in those
localities few scheming men have grown
suddenly rich far above the mass Ell
courage the hope that such monies have
contributed to the common good of the
country. Besides the sending of this
money away in the hope of large gains
instead oil the possessor using it to build
up his immediate surroundings is more
Or less selfish. There are men enough
in New England honest, industrious and
enterprslng whom the public good re-
Aulres to be furnished with money at
lawful and moderate rates. Take any
town, ours for instance, and suppose the
money which was the result of the de.
Nelopment and waste of its raw material
and which has gone elsewhere, had been
retained and used in the future deyelon.
ment and Improvement in the town OF
locality in which it was produced, and
will any one then say that that locality
would not have been improved and pros.
pered almost beyond conception, or that
even the whole country would not in the
aggregate have enjoyed more wealth OF
prosperity?
The article we refer to we'll says that
The secret is to bestow the most labor
upon the least raw material, thus retain,
ing the benefits of the whole manufacture
of the material. The difference is simply
between the stumpage and all the sub
sequent benefits that grow out ofbes.ow.
ing the tabor of manufacturing. Every
observing man sees that the attempt o.
concern among us to retain the benefits
of dressing, finishing and manufacturing
as far as possible lumber here is one Of
the principal clements which keep our vii
lage and town alive.
ii we should be referred to instances in
which local enterprises have not met the
expectations Of their projectors this NAV
be answered by simply saying that il
men should stop endeavors, the cause Of
occasional failures, then all enterprise
and endeavors would cease and progress
would become purposeless. Individually
we are too apt to forget that what each
contributes to the movements of all de-
signs benefits not only the whole but
each one.