A Plea for Progress

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Excerpt from A Plea for Progress: Enforced and Illustrated by a Short Dissertation on the Habits and Characteristics of the Rhode Island Clam Our goodly City of Providence is possessed of natural advantages second to those of no other city in the United States. Picturesquely located at the head of our most beautiful inland bay, with sufficient diversification of hill and valley to give a pleasing variety to the landscape, circumstanced most favorably as to water supply and opportunities for good drainage, situated in the midst of a large variety of important manufacturing interests with the accompanying tendencies to the production of a teeming population and constantly augmenting wealth, Providence should be advancing in material prosperity more rapidly than most of her urban rivals and neighbors. Land values should be increasing, the pro rata wealth of the inhabitants should be steadily growing, and our city should at least maintain her relative position in these respects, as compared with other cities in our country, similarly or less favorably circumstanced. What are the actual facts of the case? Every intelligent citizen knows that Providence is falling behind in the competitive contest for wealth and population - the two factors which make up a city's prosperity. Unless one has given special attention to the statistics, he can hardly realize the actual condition of affairs. Our citizens are not wanting in civic pride and patriotic feeling, but it is too frequently of the self-complaisant sort manifested by a young lady from a neighboring city, in the midst of the wonders and beauties of the Paris exposition, who "did hope she would get back to Ta'nton in time for the cattle show!" About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.