Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-03-09
The Mexico Fair.
AN ARTICLE FOR THE BUSINESS
MEN AND CITIZENS TO
PONDER OVER.
After q Dozen Successful Years Can
Mexico and Audrain County
Afford to Abandon an En.
terprIse Like the
Mexico Fair3
From Colman's . Rural World. /.

We regret that our good friends al
Mexico, Mo. have not got their mat
ters settled in regard to their fair and
trotting meeting Of last fall. Misfor-
tunes are liable 70 boiaii almost any
one or any association. The failure
at Mexico was a misfortune that no
one anticipated and we are sure the
managers have the sympathy OF all
right feeling people. No one charges
that any fraud has been perpetrated.
Mistakes may have been made but
who has not made them2 Is there
any one? If so let him tsthrow the
first stone"
Those who aided in enlarging the
grounds and in laying out the kite
track, who put their money, their
time, their brains into the enterprise
did it with the best motives, expect
ing it would rebound to the best in
terests of the city of Mexico. They
had seen great and successful en-
terprise inaugurated and successful
ly carried out at Independence, Iowa,
in much smaller town, and they
expected to secure similar results.
1t was mistake the head. No one
made anything by it; it was. a loss in
pocket, in reputation, modification
hard to bear. It came as other fail
ures have come and as they will
come while time lasts.
But what is to be done about it?
Are the good people of Mexico going
to let this heavy cloud which has
fallen upon their beautiful Fair
Grounds remain there, or will they
help to lift it up and let the sun
shine of prosperity again flow upon
it? 1t will do no good to blame this
or that man; that wont open the
Fair Grounds. There have been too
many happy hours spent on the
Mexico Fair Grounds to have them
closed forever. There has been too
much benefit conferred on the live
stock interests of that section of the
State not to have them re-opened
and that benefit continued. What
is to be done, therefore, to reopen
them, that the fairs which have been
so largely attended in the past may
again be resumed in the future?
There is one way, and only one
way, this can be done. The Associ-
alton must be lifted out of debt. 1t
is like man failing IN business; he
can't begin again until he has in
some manner paid or secured, or
satisfied his creditors. TO pay the
debts requires money, not great
deal of it. 1t may be a disagreeable
duty to go down into ones pocket
and help pay out, but there is no
other alternative. Every well-nisher
of Mexico is interested in doing it.
Every stock raiser IN Audrain coun-
ty is interested. Shall it be said
that the great and rich. county of
Audrain, and the beautiful and
growing city of Mexico can't raise
enough money to pay off this debt?
But what Is everybody's business
is nobody's business, it is said.
Some one, must take hold of this
matter. Let there be q call for a
public meeting to take the condition
of affairs into consideration, signed
by hundred of the leading citizens
Of Mexico and Audrain county, and
have some plan devised to lift their
Fair Grounds out Of debt. There
are plenty of good men to do this.
mo good can conas from longer de-
lay. Let steps be taken at on ce to
remove the present troubles, that a
good, old fashioned fair may be held
this fall.
These remarks have been made
by the Rural World without hint or
suggestion from any human being,
and if they are acted upon we shall
feel well paid for what we have writ
ten. ..---.