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11'uLOTS OP T1HTTII.J. IE. Simmons, who practices what he preaches by patronizing the follow at home, in an address last night before the Commercial club, called. +attention to tlio fact that if every cno **■f■fIn the city were to do in and things made or 'Sold hi Atlantic wo won 1.1 have a city here as big as Des Moines Me said among other tilings tint, “if j 1i+■fall the money which lvais gone out o'-!a this town for 'blue shy' ’had been kepiat home and invested In things hero we would have a factory on every corner employing ten people.”Mr. Simmons expresse-d a world ot truth in that statement. If all the money which has been used to further the schemes of the fellow with theuncn11haslihole in tha ground in tlie west, all the 1°aaeI \ ty(r.f\»IImoney which has gone to help build sky scrapers in Los Angeles and develop other places, had been kept, here we would liavo a city of 100,000.There are many sections of this [^country whose prosperity has come fTOiB»i4J*eu, money expended there by Iowa people, 'Jtaople who have taken the money bh^s splendid section has made them and invested it to help build up those sections. If all thisj( bad been kept at home it stag- j gers one to try and comprehend the things which (might have been don * ifith itJn tlxe last twenty-five years there Sms been loads of money invested in gold mines of the west, in worthless ©31 stock and in. the countless an J fine other/ Vget-fldck-quick” schemes which axe everr land anon presented to 4hose who belong to the brigade of those of whom one is born every minute. Think what could have been done If this money had been investedihere. The strange part of the matter Is, too, that very often the people •who “fall” for the siren song of the /grafter with the gold mine in tho west or the smooth talk of the fellow with the oil well, are the samp people who kick like Trojans on improvements at home and do not want to pay for sewerage or paving or any ■40f the other things which made their home town a better place to live. It Sm ia queer philosophy, isn't it, this holding. onto money like grim death when home people want anything and spending it like drunken sailors to help make the sand dunes of California fit to live on and to fatten the purses of those in tho alleged El Dorados who thrive on tho sucker crop jfrom the middle west. If every onein this section did that way the town iwould ho a series of cow paths, there would be no schools, churches, nice homes or (anything else, and the dogs would bark at strangers
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Atlantic News Telegraph
Atlantic, Iowa, US
Wed, Aug 05, 1914
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