The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1909-04-14
NEED FACTORIES
T. SAYS UNCLE JOHN
BRUNSWICK MUST TAKE ON
SOMETHING NEw-wE HAVE
1T AT OUR DOORS.

Mr.. Editor:
You are right. believe that Bruins
wick has the 100 per cent. capacit.
Of great city, and all that is neces
sary 10 make It one is the intelligen
and determined energy of IT'S people
] believe her rightful position is en-.
dangered by our smallness of view
and the attitude of Indifference OF tbs
men who ought TO be our leaders anC
promoters, and because of the despon-
dency of the masses, who too easily
magnify present woes as a forebodine
Of the future II is a pitiable condi
tion of life to give up, and yet. il
takes the nerve of steel to overcome
it.
There IS reliable basis upon which
we may calculate the safety of town
building for profit There are two
delinquencies that must be considered
in any discussion of Brunswick's flu
ture prominence. The lack of a sub
urban farming population and the
weakness OF her manufacturing enter
prises. We've got TO secure the one
and strengthen the other The inter-
dependence of the city and rural pop
ulation Is as emphatic as any law of
trade. Brunswick has attempted to
contradict this law by an ephemeral
spurt. that for time has IN way
justified the assumption. The timber
fields with their wasteful labor class
and the docks with their hand to-
mouth labor element in their brisk
ness. have met a struggling trades
demands But these are vanishing
and we've got to substitute them,
There is wonderful reward in
building Brunswick With central
property at from 500 to $50 a front
foot and ebbing away to as cents and
a dollar a foot, that has in It the Dos
sibiTties of from 900 to 1000 per ceni
front foot advance there is iustilica-
tion in attempting great enterprises
to brine about legitimate city values
that are the gliding touchstones Of
wealth
We can no longer depend upon such
conditions and influences. The pur-
pose Of these writings has been neith-
er to fatter or fahricate It's simply
an oldfashioned campaign Of facts
and truth.
Brunswick has got to have an ad-
iacent farming community to be &
prosperous city. She has got 10 sc
her factory enterprises upon a sure
footing to keep from losing ground
Ii is no longer a question of gettin
deep water, but how to keep out 0
lit The best, surest, and quickest re
suits In farming are omen TO us II
truck gardening, with the big profit
and multitude OF markets. II stand
for dense population. and our specially
adapted lands lie so as TO make sucl
population equivalent to a part of on
town community The drainage, recla.
nation and setting of the Buffalo
swamp Is justified by the good i vii
do Brunswick. by the good il will he
for the county, and because the in
creased values of the property VII
justify the cost Of the work II is an
Improvement within the jurisdiction
of the police and sanitary authority
of the county and therefore can he
accomplished by the issue of bonds
that make all bear a proportionate
part of the expense for an improve
ment that accrues TO all Of us.
The resurrection Of our factory in
terests calls for individual enterprise,
and study OF the methods that make
such factories profitable investments
There are only two points involved
and they are to make the goods cheap
enough and large enough to hunt a
market for them. II they can shir
sash. doors, blinds and ready made
houses from Michigan to Georgia and
make money out Of it. they can be
made in the timber belt OF Georgia
and shipped to Georgia points at
profit 1t only takes money and man
agement to put five hundred men to
profit working in our wood shops.
"UneIe john"