Show SOME WEAK POINTS commercial SOMETIMES MKE BLUNDERS STARTING NEW enterprises bonuses often G ven and little bene f ats ts ga ned ay the towns that G ve protect ng estial estabi shed industry es within the past few years a corn com merceal club organization fever has taken hold of many towns in the west ern country it Is a kind of good fever to have but quite often like other of the less harmless fevers that afflict physically passes away and doe n t make much difference with the our general health town building is much like erecting a good bridge it Is essential that a good foundation be laid natural con editions have much to do with it cities and towns spring up where there Is a good cause for their existence art ard ficiala means may be employed tor for booming purposes but unless there be something substantial and lasting all the booming that can be done will not result in the accomplishment of permanent good the average rural town receives its principal support from the business given it by the con territory the trade of a jim cited section of country will sustain a comparative number of business es if a town possesses natural advantages location etc for certain lines of manufacturing so much the better it would be foolish as have been demonstrated in a num her ber of western towns to commence the manufacture of cottons or silks or furniture when the raw material must be transported from a great dis tance and also the fueg fuel for power still it if a town assume any great proportions there must be industries to give the people occupation the judicious investment of capital in canning factories in paper mills in glucose works and a few other enter arises it if these enterprises are rightly conducted might prove a valuable factor in some of the western towns when a commercial club Is orga nihed generally efforts are made to secure some industry tor for the town that will ghe give its people employment and which will bring new residents to the town quite often bonuses are of fared concerns which are located in other places to relocate it has been the general experience of towns which have made efforts along these lines that a concern ahat that asks very much encouragement in the way of ready cash is hardly worth bothering with and is likely to prove a failure another thing that the average corn com mercial club does not take u consid J oration Is that it Is better to belld up institutions already located than to encourage new ones of doubtful success A manufacturing concern Is only valuable to the towa town as a means of placing a greater amount of money in circulation the greater the pay roll the better tor for the town but it matters not how big the amount Is that is distributed among workers on a saturday night it results in little good to the town it if it is sent to some other town for needed supplies commercial club members should keep in mind that it is tar far better to devise means of keeping money earned by farmers and laborers from being sent to large cities for goods than it is to have new concerns start ed if there be a few hundred dollars a day sent from the place to mall mail or her der houses it would be far better to prevent this by devising means for having it spent in the town than to encourage i the location of a factory a pay roll of a like amount it should be the first duty of a corn com mercial organization to protect its home industries and when strangers see that this is successful they will be more likely to seek the place as suit able for the establishment of some business enterprise D M CARR |