Catoctin clarion., 1892-09-01
COMMUNICATED
How to Retard the Prosperity
Of yOur Town..

Don't deal with your merchants and tell
everybody you see that they ask enormous
prices for their goods.
Don't deal with your town bank because
it might have some profit out of your pat
ronagc and might possibly result in improv-
ing the town with nice substantial bank
building.
Don't subscribe for your town paper and
tell everybody it's not worth reading 1t
advocates and encourages progressive ideas
relating to the general Improvement of the
town and community and might prove Il
benefit TO it's readers.
Don't employ your home mechanics, they
might possibly get enough money together
to build homes for themselves and have n
small bank account in the town bunk, they
would also subscribe for tue town paper
which would encourage them 10 deal more
exclusively with our own merchants.
DO all you can to discourage and annoy
our few manufacturing plants, keep your
eye peeled and bc ready to prevent Others
from locating, don't let any one make a dol
lar If you can't get 90 cents out Of 1t for
yourself.
Don't encourage the Public School and the
High School; your children nigh, learn to
have broad and liberal ideas. Tell every
body you see the teachers are very poor and
can't impart instruction to their scholars.
When asked about your churches, say
there are too many of them and that The town
is the most immoral and ungodly place you
ever knew of and that genuine christianity is
as scarce as hen s teeth.
When away from home in n neighboring
town don't forget to run down your town
and its enterprislng citizens and if asked how
your ncighbor MIR. B. is getting along don't
fa;l to give him a black eye. Remember the
more cnterprlsng he is the more you must
exert yourself in backing his eye, If you
don't de- this 1t might be the means of Civ
living hlm some prestige away from home
and as you can't have that yourself don't let
any one else hayc it if in your power to pre-
vent.
When asked about another fellow towns
man MIR. G. say of him, he is no good, he on
ly thinks of himself, he is a hog, he is m king
too much money therefore he Is rascal and
deserves no quarter.
Don't forget to speak dispa raglngly ofyour
Corporation officers, complain about the
heavy, burdensome taxation imposed upon
the town, this will have good etfer, in
keeping people from locating and building
up your town.
Don't forget to give the Water Company
the devil, because the stockholders are real
lzlng per cent on their investment this is
an outrage that must not be lett 60 by un-
noticed and in the future no such substantial
improvement must be introduced in your
town, it was a sllp-up and the like must noi
occur again.
1fone of your neighbors meets with re-
verses or has departed somewhat from the
path Of rectitude, don't go to him with wors
of warning and counsel, but herald his mis-
fortune far and near, show everybody what
a poor depravod creature he IS and say That
your town is composed Of just such material :;
if possible get your clergymen to preach on
the subject Of his depravity.
Should he undertake to redeem himself
don't give HIM any encouragement, but kick
him down the hill and keep him there.
Never have a good word for your own
town people, as all the good deserving people
liyc i'll other places.
The writer believes that the aboye rules
closely by a sufficient number of individuals,
OF course you want concert of action to make
them work perfectly,