| Show SOME men love to cry progress pro grebs public improvement factories rail ways etc bufa when it comes for them to show a willingness to help along any enterprise of a public nature they desiro to do so to their own advantage and to the detriment of the company supposed to be favored for example it a manufacturing company desires a certain site for their establishment certain water facilities or a certain kind of are men possessing such who place double prices on their property thinking that a company cannot secure a auti suti able site elsewhere and hence must buy from them for which cause up go the prices again a railway in order to conform with tho natural grade mast go across a mans land it cannot be well avoided from the nature or the surroundings roun dings in such a case there are men who would say yes come right along if you pay me what my land is worth A railway is a public necessity and you shall be charged no more for tho right of way than the land could be bought by another while othora would reason that the road would have to come that way and hence they fight for high prices the company is able to pay for it they reason and pay they must tho believes in all syndicates paying their way we have not much faith in tho kind that constantly seek a bonus from the public still men who will cry progress sess and then seek to take advantage of railways and manufacturing companies to mako them pay double prices for property that must bo had are retard ing the onward march of a city wo believe it would not be wrong to even sacrifice a little to favor enterprises of a public nature aud for the publics good every community has men of abo kind above mentioned who seek to bleed avery now enterprise that is launched forth and secure as much individual gain as possible but just m proportion to the number of such suckers that a community supports can its progress be measured provo or any other city may possess natural advantages far above other neighboring cities but thia fact will not always secure the liberal investment of capital la acts a community looking only to their own sg may utterly keep capital and progress out or cause it to seek fields anew on the other hand the copen hearted generous community is the one that the ita lists love to dal with that railroads capitalists favor and that business men seek w |
