Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-09
Boouns.

An exchange says that kansas is
booming" Kansas is doing no such
thing. Booming is an unnatural,
unhealthy growth. Boom" is wind
bag initiation. The growth and de-
yelOpement Of Kansas, to-day, is nat
ural, healthy, permanent and substan-
tial. 1t is based on great harvests of
wheat, oats, rye, fax, barley, and /
other cereals, and vast oceans of corn !
and grass. That sort Of growth and /
prosperity doesn't collapse like a /
punctured balloon or a fictitious |
"boom." We had an experience in /
the ''bOom" business two years ago,
and 1t IS enough, we hope, to last all |
our people for a generation. We
want no more of it In Kansas. We
do want what we are certain to have
- I,y, certain, prosperous, sub
stantiaI development. - AtcbjsOR
Champion.
The above article from the pen of
Gov. Martin is saturated with good
common sense. The term 'boom"
certainly brings to the mind visions
Of soap bubbles and wind bags. An
unnatural growth is just as disaster
GUS to a town as it is to a state, and
he is certainly no friend to his town
who will seek to boom" it beyond its
! legitimate resources. It is true that
by a systematic course of incoherent
ceilings from the house tops. and by
continual pufings through the press
and otherwise, a town. for a brief
season, may rapidly expand. Block
after block of brick and mortar may
be erected, electric light and teIe-
phone wires may girdle the streets
and alleys, a neighboring hillside may
be adorned with the stand-pipe of
water works, and the principal streets
glitter with the iron for street rail
ways. Yet, if there are insufficient
resources in the surrounding country
and the town itself to warrant such
improvements and luxuries, many of
those self same blocks will stare va
cantly at the passer by, empty, save
for the placard, ''to rent" which
| hangs pendant in the front window
those same electric light and tele-
phone wires will hang loosely upon
their decaying supports, and serve
no other purpose than rOosting
perches for the feathered songsters
which twitter IN undlsturbed gaiety
through the silent precincts; the
street railway system will take sum
mer vacation, excepting perhaps up
on Fourths Of Julys, and other festive
occasions; and the old citizen, vainly
endeavoring to unscrew a rusty by
drant, viii swear at high taxes anc
resort once more to the wind mill anG
chain pump.
We do not want it understood for {
moment that we are opposed to prog
ress and improvements, on the con
trary we are more than anxious to Sc,
our country, and every town and city
within it, prosper as rapidly as The
circumstances will justify, but Nc
faster. You cannot make something
from nothing, water will not rise
, above the fountain head, and there
can be no permanent effects without
: legitimate causes. A false boom
may for a time be a harvest for the
real estate man, but is a whirlwint
for the town, and when the collapse
comes-as it must sooner or later
will drop into that class called 'deaC
towns" from which it will take a Ions
time to be extricated.
Fortunately Phill1psburg is no
now, nor has it ever been a Doomed
town" Our growth has been steady
and sure and we trust it may continue
in the same course. Give US prosper
ity, and plenty of it. based upon prop
? er resources and sound business prin
, ciples, but deliver us from a false anC
unnatural ''boom"