Show THEY WHO HO DANCE MUST PAY FIDDLER people cannot take more out 01 ol a community than they put in COLLAPSE IS inevitable town will not survive long if its commercial structure Is torn down paster faster than it can be built up copyright 1917 western new newspaper P a per union he who dances must pa pay 7 t the he fiddler that Is an old saving which la Is full of truth the gilmary idea in this saying ot of course Is that one cannot have any pleasure without paying for it in some borne way but this Is not the oid only y sense in which it may be construed it means that we cannot pursue nay foolish policy indefinitely without paying for it in the end no man can overtax his physical strength indefinitely without risking ultimate disa disaster ter dissipation or overwork may be continued tor for a time without any noticeable results but it if continued for a sufficiently long time the inevitable comes to pass the laws of nature cannot be violated with impunity if one takes out of life more than he puts in it he tears down his physical strength faster than he builds it up he must eventually pay the fiddler what is true of the laws of n nature Is equally true of economic laws the people of a community may lor for a time tear down the commercial structure of a town faster than they build it up without meeting disaster but it cannot be continued indefinitely in the end they baist pay the fiddler exhaust resources of community the person who makes his living in a community receiving the money of the community for his labor or the products of his labor and then spends ills his income outside of his community Is helping to exhaust the resources of the community just as the man who expends his euer energy y through dissipation or overexertion overexert lon faster than he builds it up Is exhausting his physical resources one man may do this of course vi without noticeably affecting the economic strength of thee community but finhen a dozen men or women do it the effect becomes noticeable and when a hundred do it the resources of the community become exhausted to the point where collapse is inevitable those who are responsible tor for this situation bation may think that they have profited individually by their actions but they hae haae not realized that in the end they must pay the fiddler there are some persons who seem to be able to get through life without much effort there are some who proceed on the theory that the world worl a owes them a living and they proceed to collect it they take what they can get aud and give not nothing bIngIn in return such persons however are not very nume numerous rou most blost of us must pay for everything that N we e get some may have to pay more than their share and those these are carrying the burden of those who get more aban thy they pay tor for the fact remains that as a general rule one can not have much lucli worth w while bile wit without paying for it IL I 1 the merchants of any are the backbone of that community so far as its prosperity and progress are concerned Inal individually there may be some of them who do not exert themselves to boost their community but collectively they are the men upon whom the icing of every person in abe ie community depends the success or failure of an a n individual mer chaut may not be of particular concern to the people of it a community but the success or failure odthe of the merchants as a whole Is a matter of the very greatest concern provide market for farmers the merchants of a town la ILI the first place provide a market for a large part of the products of the farmers in the territory surrounding the town they buy the produce of the farmers in small quantities in accordance with their need and some of them buy in larger quantities for shipment to foreign markets if the merchants could not do this there would be no market at least for the small quantities except tit at ruinous prices it if the alie farmers could not realize a reasonable profit from their products there would be no money for them t to 0 spend and there could be no money to pay for your products or to pay for 3 our labor it Is therefore of the greatest importance to every member of the community whelk i er cr a resI resident deat of the town or a farmer I 1 in the country surrounding the town that the merchants be ennobled to provide tills this ni market arket for at least a part of 0 the farmers products every dollar seat away from a town to it 11 niall mall order house helps to diminish the ability or of the local to provide a market for the farmers fan ners products or to do any of the many other things which the merchants of every town do for their community business in a community cannot be conducted on a gnp sided basis A wan cannot take out of ills community 8 good living for alm lf and family and dol give in return ri il turn hi he may do so for fop a short time and get naly jtb it but in the end lie must adust pay the fiddler eddler |