Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-07-31
READING FOR LABoRERs,
Which Shows Who Get the Beneht I
Public Improvements.

/ HEAOIN6 FUN LA0OnGnSp
which Shows Who Get the Benoft q
Public Improvements.
| A perusal of the real estate advertise
| ments in our newspapers will edify the
| laborer as to who are exclusively bene-
| flied by public improvements. The
| laborer shoulders the entire expense OF
these improvements, under our misgov-
eminent. down to the last penny. Let
him harken to the truth as it is uttered
| by the real estate spectators:
These lots are located right in the line
of Long Island improvements, and with
in fifteen blocks of the terminus OF the
East river and Rlackwell's Island
bridge. recently authorized by the Leg
| islature.
| All city improvements and conve-
niences--Croton, gas, postal service. po-
lice and fire protection, graded avenues,
quick transit, cheap fares, unsurpassed
| educational advantages, etc, all COM
bine to render the choice lots offered es-
pecially desirable for investment.
These lots are right in the line of
Brooklyn's magnificent improvements.
Private enterprise also results in the
| enrichment of the land holder. Witness
| the following:
We give away s. worth of land as
an inducement for people to build and
! locate, relying on future advances to re-
alize profits
The old story of the spider aad the
| fly.
Healthy location, very high ground,
excellent drainage. graded streets, city
improvements and conveniences, quick
transit. cheap fares and active building
in the vicinity, all unite to render this
property unusually desirable for invest
ment.
Portland, Ore, thriftiest city in the
| United States; real estate improve.
ments giving large returns; lots are
| rapidly advancing in value.
Spokane Falls, the thriftiest and most
progressive city in the West. Invest.
ments in real estate bring large returns.
Tocoma, the great money making GEN.
| ter of the Northwest; every foot of land
! will rapidly appreciate.
| Here is prospect for the laborer o.
the future which is not very encourag-
| ing:
These lots are as sure to go to value
of hundreds of dollars each within a
| low NSdTS dS tH0 sun 10 sure W Sulh0 W.
morrow.
For capitalists-choice offer; cheap In
vestment; block of 100 lots. and 200-acre
tract in the finest suburb in Chicago
The alluring profits set out in the fol-
lowing advertisements will be paid by
the sweat of the laborer's brow:
| Water, gas, electric light; macadam.
lied road, schools, churches; five blocks
from depot; the air is simply divine; la.
dies find this desirable investment;
money deposited in bank draws only
three per cent. interest; here is an OPP
portunity to almost double the invest
ment within year.
/ have exclusive control of some Of
the most desirable property in Duluth,
and can offer investors property paying
| from eight to fifteen per cent. in addi-
ton to the rapidly increasing value in
the realty.
Improved city property is the only
| paying investment where you not only
| get a sure return on your money, but the
security always grows in value. All
| other values, even not speculative, have
| an uncertain future.
| Here is a man who claims pay for ma.
lures bounties:
Only forty pleasant minutes away.
| Nature did much, and we have done
| a quarter-million. Go down and see it.
The following is refreshingly frank:
This, with free land, free stone, and
| location unsurpassed in this country,
has been the rich mans opportunity.
All the above quotations are culled
from a single issue of metropolitan
newspaper, three pages Of which were
filled with closely crowded advertise
ments of this nature. Curiously enough,
in the same issue we find that laborers
to the number of five hundred ask for
employment. Their little notices are
printed side by side with these alluring
advertisements of land spectators. The
contrast afforded is instructive, If we
bear in mind the fact that, through
their privilege of holding this globe as
so much private property, the specula-
tors at their own pleasure narrow the
confines of the field in which labor en-
p3oys itself, and force labor to go beg
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