The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1899-11-23
Our Shoe Factory and Employees.
Communicated.

Communicated
A modern town has been rearec
on the old town plot. Numerous
business buildings now deserve adj
miration; many beautiful homes grace
our shady streets: two good and
well eqippcd printing oflices--ample
hotels, richly furnished and famous
for their cheap rates, extend the
visitor hearty welcome. Our re-
tail stores contain more merchandise
than is usually kept in place of
its size. Situated in the most ia
nous and unsurpassed climate A
merica can afford, bids fairto become
more populous in coming years; and
deserves public enterpsise. An I'M
surpassed and healthy climate did !
say? Why the rosy cheeks and the
sturdy carriage OF all our daughters
that grace the streets, bear me out
in this argument and challenge the
world to surpass it.
Have we not abundant reasons to
praise and speak well of this town
and surroundings?-for our beauti-
ful homes, pleasant families, beauti-
full glens and wildwoods surround
ing us "a prosperous 1899.
The following was uttered by one
of our stockholders, and a good kind
father he is: ode foreigners cooma
doa hare un grea hocha wages un
unser kinner shoffa tor nix udder
bissel un mere orma dunner hucha
doa hee TN hen nix. Un was goode
dood de shoe factory, any how ?"
Now Mr.. Somebody kindly take
chair and be seated right in front
of me where | can look you square
in the face, and where you can watch
my countenance and the very apple
of my eye.
Now then is it not true that lowe
Justice to myself as swell as 20 others?
these people whocame here are good,
kind, busy, faithful and Industrious;
and right here don't forget that "the
busy are the cheerful" a good old
maxim,-hence they are cheerful,
why ! because they have learned
their trade, they are masters of their
trade and have spent many years
learning it ;and will have the wages
they earn. President Mckinley once
said: "rhere is no motive to make
a product if you can not find some
body to take it; the maker must
find a taker." So these people are
self-made masters of their trade and
have found q taker. But you say
"what good will the factory do?"
| beg leave to express myself as a
Yankee, and answer this question by
asking two or three more, to which
| believe it will be quite as difficult
to furnish a satisfactory reply.
And l ask, what good does any
thing do? What is good? Does
anything do any good?
The person who suggeste this OBJ
lection, of course thinks there arc
some undertakings that do good
and should therefore like to have
the idea of good explained. When
this is done, if l do not demonstrate
in about two minutes, that the fac
tory does the same kind of good that
anything else does, l will consent
that the stone in the foundation
should be reduced to gravel, and
carted off to fill up Mr.. Ulsh's mill
pond ;or in other words that that
terrible hurricane from the north
which moved it six inches should
have loweredit to the ground and
reduced it to kindling wood; for this,
I suppose, would be one Of your
things. Does a railroad or a canal
do any good? Answer yes. And
how? 1t facilitates intercourse,
opens markets and increases the
wealth of the country. But what is
this good for? Why individuals
prosper and get rich, and ultimately
gold and silver will flow into our