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Show What is the Reason? Two or three bulsiicss men were discussing the local financial situation on the street today. AH agreed that we had had a very prosperous season, and that thero aie a great many people peo-ple In the community that arc pressed for money to meet their obligations and wondered what the cause -was. One of them was of the opinion that the people had not been economical enough but had oer reached themselves. them-selves. Another stated thst t he real cause was the Implement houses and the Life Insuiauce men, that the people had been talked Into puiehas-ing puiehas-ing maehineiy, buggies etc that they could hae gotten along ery well without, that they had given their notes and assumed obligations that they could not now meet without boi rowing, ami it was causing them a good deal of trouble to raise tho money. There is no doubt but what, there Is more tiuth than poetry In this statement, but It seems that the bulk of the people will never learn how to say no, and mean It. They can usually be talked into almost anything and if they were not tied up w ttli Implement Imple-ment notes, they would be Investing on a rubber farm in Mexico or South America somewhere. If any one has money to Invest llieie arc Just as good openings right here in this valley as any where else on earth' and the returns w ill be Just as large and Just as sine. We w Ish the people would consider these things for their own good. Debt Is an awful burden at best. If we would be happy we must keep out of bondage. |