The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-03-13
RUNNING AMUCK!
Interesting Correspond
enCe and Resolutions.
Thos. H. Parsons VS.. the
Community.
The Board of Trade VS.. Thos. II.
Parsons.
The following correspondence was
laid before the Worthington Board of
Trade and resulted in the passage of
the resolutions which are appended:

TRADE ana resulted IN the passage OF
the resolutions which are appended:
Il. G. CHASE TO 7. II. PARSONS.
GENEVA. n. Y, Feb IS, 1854.
THos. IL. PARsoNs-Dear Sir:-I have
just had the reading of your letter to
Maxwell under date Of Feb. Sd and 18th,
and am greatly surprised at the manner
in which you express yourself. l have
read and reread the one of the 18th,
thinking there must be some huge joke
unwilling conclusion that you were in
This certainly is very strange posi-
light you do to me, and many others in
this and other towns east.
Are you not slightly mistaken when
the work of your ''enemies,' us you are
pleased to term the people of Worth
ington? Whether you include your
patrons of the past ten or twelve years,
who live this way, l do not know.
1t seems TO me that you must see, if
you look the matter over carefully, it
was an er-confidence in your own
abilities as 4 farmer and advertiser that
brought on the trouble, rather than amy
efforts orthingtOnites or others may
have made to injnre you. You farmed
it without hindrance as long as you
saw fit, losing money for others as well
us yourself. sold the crops at>general
market rates and no one said aye or no
to you. You advertised to your heart S
content and do not bclierc any man in
Worthington or Mobiles county found
fault for your doing so; neither can
believe any man did one thing to hinder
you in any manner in selling lands to
WOuld-be new settlers or others, and
yet you lyy the blame Of your financial
downfall on your ''enemies." Had you
any right to erpect to make sales Of land
that would warrant an outlay of 81 900
for advertising? 1t seems to me not.
You have had lands of all sorts and
prices and could without doubt find a
place that might suit most any new
comer's idea and purse. One would
suppose from your manner of writing
that your 'senemiesn had been in the
habit of using their influence to induce
persons who might appear in W. per-
sOnally. in answer to your ADVERTISE
ments, to turn about and seek some
other locality in which TO settle. Can
this be so?
Allow for arguments sake, if you
please, that you have just cause for
complaint against the ''ringsters," and
that you would be justified in doing all
you could to injure them, is there not
another side to the question? Have
you not in years past induced many
people to inrest-by loans and other
wise-in Eastern MOBILES, upon repre-
sentation that it was u good country
and that you would personally guard
their interest in every way possible?
Did not the applications made out
under your supervision rate the land as
ruluaJlc?
Now, if you carry out your threats of
vengeance, you give the lie to all your
former assertions, and go in on a sys-
tematic plan to harm those patrons of
the past few years. all you possibly can 4;
and all because a few men in Worth
ington village have so conducted them
selves as to incur your displeasure.
Now, pray you, stop and consider
this thing very carefully before taking
the step you contemplate. Ask your
self if it is right that yon should pursue
the course marked out in your letters
to MAXWELL
Further, no one man can make or
unmaKe Il town or county, ana you Will
but invite further disaster if you move
on in the manner contemplated. If
Eastern Mobiles is worth settling. the
farms will all be taken sooner or later
in spite Of you, and il it is not worth
anything, it will 60 back in spite of all
efforts to redeem it. If you will devote
your talents to straight, legitimate
business methods, doing just all you
can III a Straightforward manner to build
up whatever section you may settle in.
you will get along all right; but mark
my word, if you make the attempt to
build up Western Mobiles and tear down
Eastern 1T the same time, you utterly
fail in both undertakings. The county
must stand as a county or go down as
county. and so you will find it.
hope to hear from you soon on this
subject. Yours truly,
r. G. CHASE.