The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-06-10

value of property, raises the price of
real estate, increases trade, teaches
people their wants and the best means
of supplying them, calls attention to
the best methods of doing business and
of producing the worlds wealth. 1t isa
school in which the important lessons
of commerce, agriculture, manufacture
and productive industry of all kinds
are taught. It is not only all these to
the farmer, the tradesman, the manu-
facturer, but it does it without cost.
People are too much in the habit Of
counting its value in dollars and cents
produced on the spot. Its principal
value does not lie here, but in opening
the veins of business life which a.
years non-intercourse and devotion to
private aims and personal ambition
clogs up, and which need this perodi-
cal reyiyifying to enable people to take
a broader view Of the wants of the
consuming classes. 1t Las its influence
upon the quality and quantity of stock
the tradesman puts into his store, the
line OF operation the farmer will pur-
sue in planning his years agricultural
operations, the direction of the special
features the manufacturer will intro
duce into the character of the years
work. There is no need why it shall
not in future be paying institution,
considering merely the finances of the
association itself. Let no grabbing
notion of the value of the fair to you
shut out the consideration of these
higher values. A fair which is re-
garded simply as common plumber, out
of which all is to come and into which
nothing is to 60, would soon be an
Iempty concern from which no one
could derive either profit or amuse-
ment. 1t is simply digging up for use
the seeds which have been planted
rather than letting them grow, and in
due season receiving the benefit of the
increase. The prosperity of the fair as
an institution is the prosperity of the
community. The fair will be paying
institution in the full sense of the
term when every effort is made to en-
rich the association, all means possible
being open to them to make it pay, and
J then every dollar above what is neces-
sary for actual expenses being used in
making the fair as attractive as posi-
| BILE by paying liberal premiums and
using every inducement to bring out
the resources of the county.
4 The association is 81 100 in debt.
Its premiums are unpaid. What kind
of policy has it been that has gov
erned the patrons of county fair that
!, shows such results as these? A sui
cidal policy it has been at best. Our
!, readers will notice in the report of the
secretary what has been done. Ii
shows that there is one business man,
at least, who appreciates the benefits
that derive to a community from a
well-managed, energetic county fair
There are manySothers. The fact Isl
people have not considered the threat
ened demise of the institution. Let it
| be considered that your attention has
now been thoroughly called to it, and
do the very best you can. The debt
must be paid, and thorough campaign
for the success of the coming fair must
i be organized at once. Let 1t be a Wig
forous one, so that the fair may fairly
run over with attractions, and the
good people coming in, not for day or
two days, but for whole week, may
go away filled with what they have
seen and heard.