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Show H DON'T BE A KNOCKER. WHEN a possible investor comes to town nnd enquires of you in relation to the land, m the possibility of developing new water H supplies, the value of certain mining claims or of H the character and conduct of our officials, don't H knock the other fellow or his properties, cxpec- H ting to secure a personal advantage by his down- H fall or pecuniary loss. It doesn't usually pan out H that way. B The knocker is the worst clement a town has HH to cope with. He is a block in the wheels of pro- H gress and must be got rid of before a town can B make the strides forward that it is entitled to. It is with regret that The Record admits that we H have some of these "undesirable citizens" in Cedar Some few months past a man of considerable H means came here from an adjacent county, with H the intention of investing some money in land or H real property. After looking about the country H -for some little time he found a piece of property H that suited him, nnd told the owner that he could H consider the deal made, and that a check would be forth-coming on the morrow. After visiting a H' certain place of business in the city, he told the H owner that the deal was off, and that he had de- H cided not. to purchase. To other persons he H' stated that he did not care to have anything to H do with a community of knockers. The investor bei L - - Wflftilflqfti1iffiVlR iRtv' nm HS'"oney wil1 doubfless 1 mc K"J be placed elsewhere. What has the confidential KJ adviser, who probably had a parcel of land of his H own that he wished to sell, gained? The man of 1 money went away in disgust. It can always be H relied upon that knocking the other fellow's prop. H erty never benefits one's own. H Another circumstance in point occurcd last B weck when an inspector visited the local post H mce- After satisfying himself in relation to the H accounts, and congratulating the postmaster and HH assistants upon the neat office, fixtures and ar- HH rangements, nnd upon conditions generally, he Hl visited about among the business men of the town. HH The majority made a straightforward statement of the conditions and service ns they had found it. H One or two tried to trump up charges against the H office and the clerks, which were so apparently H groundless and contradictory, or so far fetched M as to be ridiculous, and only tended to disgust the 1 impartial inspector whose aim wns to secure good 1 service to the public. B One of the persons preferring these charges is H tle editor of a paper who dared not publish his H lying reports in the columns of his paper and give 1 the postmaster an opportunity of disproving H tllem ut sneaks around and tries to plant his fl poisonous venom where it cannot be seen, and HHH wliee he hopes it will bear fruit in kind. Such flRH tactics are too disreputable for decent people to flH tolerate. He and some others of his kind ought HRDH . to change their ways and be men, or for ever HSHB grace the community with their absence. Their HgB presence is a fester on the otherwise healthy body HjH politic, a blot upon the social page of Cedar City. WSSM n |