Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1893-01-27

There is a bill before the

the one hundred dollars valuation.
Ii it is provided that the roud tax
is to be devoted to the building or
s)lid roads, the increased tax
would be unobjectionable. But
if 1t is to be devoted to tearing up
and destroying roads as has been
done with the amount raised on
the Zoe. levy. the tax insteld OF
being increased should be entire
ly abolished.
If two-thirds of the cigars
sold in Kirksville were menufac
tured al home. it is estimated that
it would give employment to fifty
men in addition to those employ
ed IN the cigar manufactures OF
our city. If all the wagons, spring
wagons and buggies sold here
were manufactured by home men,
it would give constant employ
ment to fifty men more than are
now engaged in the business. This
alone would add five hundred to
the population of Kirksville, and
Increase the value of every foot OF
town property and every acre OF
farm land in the county. Bat this
is not all. Lei the fact become
established abroad that Kirksyille
and Adgir county are ioya! to
their manufacturing interests snd
manufacturers would tall over
each other in the scramble to Sc
cure a location in place SO desir-
able for business.
The accidents that haye re-
Gently oyertaken boys who losf
about the railroad yards, should
be lesson to both parents and
children. 1t is almost impossible
for the police and railroad men to
keep bows away from trains if
their efforts are not seconded by
the parents. The marshal has
frequently arrested boys for
swinging on trains, but the ar
rests have invariably brought
down storm Of Indignation on
his devoted head from some irate
father or mother. When boy
gets hurt, however, a heavy bill
for damages is always presented.
The boy found swinging toa car
should be arrested and fined, and
the parent who objects to such
proceeding should also be visited
with like penalty. Further, no
court should allow enc cent for
injuries sustained when the party
rsceived the injury by being in a
place where he had no business.
The shares in the artesirn
well stock company are being
rapidly taken. BY the close of
the week two hundred shares will
have been subscribed The bust
ness men have taken hold of the
project with commendable zeal,
and the united effort is having a
wonderful effect. The business
men and citizens recognize the
fact that Kirksville's future pros
perity depends largely upon the
extension of her manufacturing
interests, and that this cannot be
done without an abundani supply
III good water. The experience of !
other towns with artesian wells |
gives the reasonable assurance
that klrksville may have such a
water supply and that it will be
good for domestic and
steam purposes. Push the work
and LET all lend helping hand.
hlrksville is already in advance
of any town in North Missouri,
and united effort will keep her
there.
That there is a powerful
feeling in favor of additional re-
upon immigration there
Is no doubt. This feeling has
grown within recent years, and is
attributable to the in
tiux from Eastern and Southern
Europe of a class of immigrants
considered undesirable by their
native countries, and at least
undesirable here. 1t is !
IN immigration entirely alien in
blood, in training, in tradition and
TO the heretofore con- :
'olling elements of the United /
states. 1t is the immigration OF {
race trampled so long beneath /
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