New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-09-16
HELP IT ALONG.

HELP 1T ALONG.
New Ulm owes it to the managers of
the Fair to give the coming exhibit un-
stinted and liberal support. The Fair,to
be sure, conducted as it will be this year
on the broad platform of "open to
every body, will be distinctively coun-
ty institution, and as such 1t is expect
ed to elicit the patronage of the farmers.
But at the same time, New Ulm is to
receive benefit from the holding within
its limits of the biggest Fair in the his
tory of the county and New
Ulm should be willing to pay for the ad-
yertisement. Ten thousand people
within our city on. next Saturday means
q great deal. For that reason our citi-
zens should be willing to do some
thing towards helping along their own
opportunities.
And then there is still another reason
why New Ulm should put her shoulder
to wheel in this enterprise. To begin
with, the Fair is to be one of big pro-
portions, greater in it's scope ard OBJ
iect than any ever held in New Ulm.
If it succeeds, it will mean the success
of still grander enterprises in the fu-
ture, If it fails, it will in all probability
be the last one that will be deserving of
attention.
The expenses this year, we are in
formed by the secretary, will be oyer
$4,000, and as the only source of income
will be in the gate receipts. it will re-
9uire the attendance of at least 5000
visitors to come out with credit and
debit side evenly balanced. Thus it can
be readily seen that New Ulm people
cannot afford to class themselves among
the "stay-at-homes. Without their
assistance the managers will be left in
the lurch. There will be good-sized
hole in their pockets, an abundance of
encouragement pulling at their ambi.
lions and. as the result of all, a gloomy
certainty that we will not have any
more Fairs. The managers, it must be
remembered, are not millioniares. Their
intentions and desires no doubt for
years to come would be to hold big an
nual shows, but their capital, you know,
isn't large enough. Besides, public ap
probation nowadays is only recognized
in patronage, and unless New Ulp1 citi-
zens know enough to encourage their
own rustlers, they cannot expect that
these rustllng qualities will be forever
DEVOTED to public use. The spirit of
public enterprise soon becomes slothful
if not famed by encouragement that is
material and substantial. Nicely ex.
pressed compliments have their effect of
course, but it's dollars and cents that
count in the long run. This should be
borne in mind in connection with the
coming Fair.
And then again the people of New
Ulm should attend the Fair because it
will do them good. Every attraction
advertised and every promise made will
be honestly kept, rain or shine, make or
break. Whether you think so now or
not, there will be something for every
body, something that it will pay each
one to see. We don't promise State
Fair, with all its devices for making of
every man sucker, but we do promise
an exhibit of our own resources that
should call forth honest pride in every
resident of the community. AS L. P.
Hunt said recently in the Mankato Free
Press, "there is no wife like our wife;
there arc no children like our children;
no town like our town." So also there
should be no Fair like our Fair. If it
is worth having at all, it is worth all
we can do for it with good words and
with money. If everybody talks Fair
from now until September Goth, we'll
have big one. If everybody attends
and invites his friends to attend,we will
have one that will be success financial.
ly and a standing advertisement to the
push and energy of our town.
The St. Peter Herald offers the name
of Cyrus Northrup of the State Univer-
slty as suitable candidate for the Uni
ted States Senate. The suggestion is an
excellent one. Northrup is broad, lib
eral, intellectual and with brain like
Webster's. Moreover he is brilliant,
powerful and progressive. In short he
is an individual who combines charac-
ter with exceptional talent, one of the
few great men of the northwest. Adj
vanced in learning and humanitarian
ISM, Northrup would tower in the senate
like mountain peak in desert.
A great many people, who are OPP