The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1892-04-28

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Another reason is that the greater
part of the means necessary 10 the
building of roads through private en-
terprise is supplied by merchants and
others engaged in competitive bust
ness, The building of roads brings
increased business, it is true, but in
creased business invites additional
people to compete for it, and these
people, not having shared in the orig
inal expense necessary to secure it,
are enabled to place those who did at
disadvantage in the resulting COM
petition. The new people not only
divide the new business, but they
also share in that which fell entirely
to the old merchant previous to the
changed conditions. 1t is, therefore,
not to be wondered at that class of
of people whose means are usually
limited to the necessities of their
business, should hesitate to expend a
portion of those means in an enter
prise that at best promises only such
advantages as may be equally shared
in by those sustaining no part of the
attendant expense. And yet the
people of Weiser, cognizant of these
facts, with a liberality in keeping
with their broad public spirit, offered
to furnish one-half the amount re-
quired for the road if the county
would furnish the other half. But
their offer and the petitions were ig-
nored with scant courtesy. This
offer on the part of our citizens
should offectually silence the charge
of selfishness occasionally heard from
certain quarters.
The fate of the Mineral road prop
osition, as foreshadowing the proba-
BILE fate of future similar PROPOSE
tions, may prove far-reaching and
disastrous in its consequences. Pub
lic-spirited citizens, now willing to dc
more than their share in upbuildine
the county, are likely to relax theil
efforts, and if they cannot at once
sever their connections with us, they
will bide their time, and having
husbanded their means, will HE them
selves to localities where their effort!
may find profitable employment an(
where progress is recognized as I
condition precedent to prosperity.
There are no other people in tn
county better able to stand the unjus
treatment accorded Mineral than ar
the people of Mineral. They con
sumo such products as we produce
but if we don't care to supply ther
they can get them elsewhere. The
create and set in motion create
volume Of original business than an
other locality in the county, and Will
we decline to handle it, others ar
only too glad to get it. These cor
ditions can only tend to widen th
breach. Each year will witness
marked increase in the volume {
, traffic eminating from that locality
+ with increased benefits to an outsid
/ community and corresponding loss
: us.
As q result of those condition
e it is safe to assert that at no distal
It day loud cry will be heard all ov
the county demanding that the mo
r ample facilities be provided for u
f tramelled intercourse with Minera
II The demand will be needed and Il
g road built, but the question of inte
e course will be another thing. Wi
i open arms we will invite them to us
e to accept the road and give us the
1t business-but by that time the fet
J. ings engendered by unfair treatme
IS will have crystalized into fixed pr
l. pose to let us alone. The Minel
" people will say to us: "Gentleme
le you have at last done an act of tar
=? Justice, but even now we appreci;
n- it, and the spirit that prompts it
so we'll. You ask us for our busine
~ and that is quite another thing.
at days when we were less prospero
Id than now, but still with sufficient {
y, ergy and means to redeem eve
rd promise, we offered you our busin
st, if you would but simply provid
n way for getting it to you. We
N, sired to trade with your farmers
,ly merchants, but felt unable to ira
port your products on our backs. {
MS petitions for better facilities W
use treated with lack of neighborly
ad terest and discourtesy calculated
yer humiliate us and to make us