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Show WHAT WILL THE SEQUEL BE? In wishing our readers "A;happy and prosperous Xi Year" we do so ; in all sincerity and heartiness, but the query "What will the sequel be?" 1 persistently forces itself upon us. Of course the answer t this, much depends upon ourselves. Talk is cheap, very cheap, and the old, old axiom "Words without deeds are of no effect" is as true to day as it ever was. Let us talk religion if vou please, but let it be the religion of progress, industry, truth and honesty, and let us not alone talk or write it, but practice it. The old style of all talk and no "do" is played out. Goodey- goodey men may be very nice as ornaments and self-organizers, but we want here now something else besides ornamental nobodies. Hv goodey-goodcy men we mean those who may pel haps have, or profes; to have all the good world qualities that go to make up a "good man" but at the same time they posses no gct-upism, no enterprise or push, and when they have worked themselves into some executive office they prove a damper, a pull back and the indirect in-direct cause of failure. There is such a thing as being "good for nothing." San Pete's net essity at this time is a class of represent!! e busines men, men who are hones, industrious and progressive, who will think and then act -"strike the iron w hile it is hot." - If they are self rtlaintand independent indepen-dent in their idjas, so much the bet ter for San l'ete, for independence begets thought and originality. That we have such men in our midst there is not the slightest doub' , but unfortunately their number is very limited, or rather, we should say there are many here, but they : have not been recognized and giv- en a show to develop their abilities. There are many of this class of men who are money poor and figurative ly speaking, stuck n the mud, and i want a willing and itrong hand to " pull them out. I' Here is what we are getting at. In almost every settlement in this cotintry can be found one or more men, who, through economy, extra exertion or luck have made a snug j , v-, , ' little pit Df a few thousand dollars. In the past, as a rule, they have ' nflt "sed their means to develop the ni'ljiiiijj luiii) lu IIJti, ,L.()JrwHejv Tis true they have kindly lent out to- their neighbors, when there was undoubted security, a few hundred $ i ' dollars at one and somtuajta. "per Cent Interest per "month, but this kindness has often been more harm I r- - ful than beneficial to the borrowers, j - What these -"Capitalists" ought now to ao ts to regulate this loan business to the local banks. Let them look .-round in their ov n neigh i borhood and sea what industry is most suitable and applicable to the wants of the mass of his neighbors then.when, he has well digested the matter let him ca' the people together i and talk, then organize and incorpor are.on a sound business basi.'.To pro tect himself let him take a control-ing control-ing interest in the busines, if-he so pleases, put up the money for machinery ma-chinery and material and let his ' neighbors supply the labor together togeth-er with a proportion of the capital needed. Above all, if he do3s not want to see his enterprise become a tlire failure, he must keep out of rr' nis executive the goodey-goodcy ' non-doer, and mi's put in men to run the btisincs i w ho have brains 'industry and proves dveness men who work mor toa 1 Jliey talk, v If soire of oiti moneyed men v-111 take thj ab i.-e g-;it! : lunt very "seriously to heart and act upon it, 'then indeel will they be blessed by their fellow-men and in the years to 1 come, whe.i their infant enterprise has developed into a mighty and beneficial industry enriching all concerned, then, indeed, will their names be held in veneration and respect and their deeds be a last-times last-times memorial of honor and cultivation, culti-vation, when on the other hand, the name of goodey-goodey talker and non-doer will be lost in oblivion. ! Believing that God helps tham who help themselves and that our 'ultimate success depends upon our ow.i exertions, we ask with aH earnestness earn-estness ,'What will the sequel be tor A. I). 1 89 1?" . . . . , |