The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1896-02-13
STAND BY THEM.


Loyalty IS cardinal virtue, and it is
just as applicable to the. more trivial
relations between man and man, be-
tween citizen and the community in
which he lives, as in the broader field OF
adherence and devotion to country.
Like charity, loyalty should begin at
home-but should not end there. Every
man owes it to the city and community
in which he lives, and from which he
draws his sustentation, to contribute
what he may to its prosperity and sup
port. 1t is his duty to upbuild-not to
tear down. There are men ineyery town
who are expanding money, energy and
whatever OF ability they may possess to
furthering it's welfare, and yet too often
toese Efforts are not recognized, or if
recognized, NOT SO Apr eciated as to be
given support. A failure to stand
together for the common veal is the
stumbling block in the way of progress
of many communities. Unfortunately
there are always to be found the
thoughtless, the thankless and the en-
vious-people so Supremacy selfish that
their own individual welfare and COM
fort is all that enters their narrow and
soulless lives. TO see another thrive
ani prosper is as wormword and gall to
their embittered and embittering spi-
rits. Such men, when they have col
lar to expend will send it out of town
for fear that some neighbor may get it
after they have parted company with it.
Narrow souls, these. And they are the
ones who, as rule are most agsrieved
at their neighbors who do, even in less
degree, just what they are doing.
Ifyou would see your town thrive,
stand by 1t, inits every interest; always
speak well of it. and those who compose
it. Stand by every enterprise in it, and
particularly SO by those which are do
ing the most for it ard for you. Has 1t
manufacturing enterprise ?-ifyou have
no occasion to patronize directly, speak
a good word for it. Has it a mill?-use
its flour and declare that tits the best
made. In short treat every interest as
though you had direct and personal
interest in its prosperity. And while
this IS very general in its application
lake it right home to yourselves in Sank
Centre. Deal with legitimate trades
men in their respective lines. What
would be thought Of a dry goods mer-
chant who was busily engaged, for in
stance, in inducing some fellow business
man to purchase his clothing from
country farmer, whose inferior work in
tailoring is done at stray moments? Or
what would be thought OF an editor
who would canvass the streets of the
city to find some one to purchase rural
made harness in direct competition with
legitimate harness makers of the town in
which he lives? Are these highly colored
supposititious cases? Hardly.
Sank Centre has two newspapers,
which in point of loyalty compare fav.
Orably with any in the state, labOring
week in and week out for the welfare of
the community whose organs they are,
and yet there are business men whose
prosperity is not a little directly depend
ent upon them, who not only never
think of patronizing them, not only
sneer at them, but who deliberately
work to take away legitimate patron
age from them-not by sending their
own work merely to a rural blacksmith.
but who actively canvass their neigh
bors to the same end. And yet, these
are men who pirate about loyalty, and
are representative to newspaper criti-
cism.