The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-04-25

honest effort made to succeed with
them. There must be competition
with brains. Certain industries in
this country probably will be closed
but If, however, his policies and his
tariff should not prove for the great
est good of all, then the people will
again change it as they have changed
it in the past. So we should fear no
permanent nor lasting injuries from
any tariff legislation.
We still need other things in
Honesdale. Our streets should be
paved and suitable drinking foun-
tains located thereon. Occasionally
we see some unfortunate person be-
ing taken to Scranton to leave part
of his anatomy in some hospital We
need hospital; not so large, but one
large enough for Honesdale and
Wayne county.
We need an active and energetic
Young Mems Christian Association
for the improvement and uplifting of
every denomination. A very good Ii
brary is being collected in the High
school building and the Old Ladies'
Home will come with these other i'm
provements.
1 believe the industrial future of
llOLSSudlS lS DIlSul. lie lOCdIlOu
has been spoken of; only one thing
is needed to make it an almost ideal
location for factories and that is the
extension of the main line of the Erie
through the town. This would short
en- the distance between Lackawaxen
and Lanesboro about twenty-four
miles and the grade would be much
improved, and had Hartman lived,
this change would doubtless have
been made.
l believe the same energy and the
same determination to succeed which
has been used in Honesdale already,
If used in the proper direction would
result in putting Honesdale upon the
main line of the Erie railroad. Our
location would then be almost ideal.
With the climate, good water, and air
cooled by the mountain tops, the
place unsurpassed for health, with
farming community surrounding us
which could easily support $4,000
people, the future of Honesdale
would then be secure.
This building represents the union
of capital and labor. Look about you
and examine these works and every
thing you see here is a union of capt.
tai and labor. There is nothing use
full which does not represent these
factors which control the world.
Capital and labor enter into every
thing which we use, occupy and en-
joy. An injury to one is an injury
to the other, and a blow at either is
a blow at both.
We are proud of our factories and
of our hundreds of men who work
therein. Man represents also in him
self capital, and a man who can earn
one thousand dollars a year has in
himself assets worth at least twenty
thousand dollars so long as he is oc-
cupied, and every man should guard
we'll and not impair the capital with
in himself
There is no place in Honesdale for
the lazy person. Idleness, at what
ever end of the social scale, is a vice,
and he who, by education or habit,
becomes so refined that he is unable
to engage in the work of everyday
life, is not a good citizen.
The erection of this building and
the other matters of which l have
spoken, recalls the duty of all to be
good citizens. Not only should
every good citizen obey the law but
he should see that others obey and
respect it, and he is good citizen
who lives a decent, honest, honorable
life, endeavoring to be true to him
self and to the community in which
he lives, and trying to make the
community better for his living, and
none is so high that he is excused
from the duties of good citizenship,
and none so humble that there is
nothing for him to do
And may all our industries, and
capital and labor, each have due and
proper respect for the rights of the
other, and work together in peace
and harmony.
And may you and l all play the
part of good citizens and so act our
part that Honesdale may continue
to grow and may be a still better
and happier place in which to live,
and may industrial strife and
troubles never be our unhappy lot,
and may there be no drones, pessi-
mists, cynics, carping critics, breed
ers of discomfort and unhappiness in
our midst, but may we all put our
shoulder to the wheel, and with hon
est effort and hard endeavor make
this town one of the most prosper
Gus, most happy and contented
places in which to live in this grand
old Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
SCHILLING-MOLL NUPTIALS.
The marriage of Miss Rosella