Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-04-17

several cigar making estdOIlS!''lIei'I5
running in this city. Their product
IL largely shipped to other points for
cons urnption. while it would be a
nntural suppositiOn that they would
have Il monopoly Oi the trade In this
city. Some nf them aver that out
aitIers come here and sell M interior
article ut better prices. Such ought
not to he the case. Home manutac-
turers and traders should he
patronizrd in preference to oreisners.
II our people would determine to
stand by home manufacturers. and
publish that fact to the world. no
doubt, a large number "f small man
ufacturers would thereby he induced
to come and do business in our city.
As long az foreign manufacturers
can come here and sell their products
Tor Il greater price than they could
get II they had the factories here.
| they will not come here to DO tnelr
manufuc turing. In this matter there
is an opening for reform. l fear that
many get in debt to our home mrr-
chants: trade ON credit at home, and
send the bulk of their cash down to
Seiglebun, or some other bum, and
let the home merchants wait until
u day after doOm's day Or until they
pass in their checks, when their
meag-r estates are 10y law all turned
over to their widows and orphans.
Such tactics will never build up a
large city at Little Falls, or any
where else. Such parties can well he
spared from the community, and
would suggest to them that thev
emigrute and go down to Fitzgerald
in the state of Georgia, where the
experiment Of trying to build city
with old soldiers and wind Is being
tried.
Our efforts something over two
years ago to secure a competing line
Of railroad have come to naught,
owing to some cause To me I'M
known. One OF our greatest needs
ia competition, and l would advise
you and our citizens not to give up
in despair ut our one failure, that to
some ex tent must retard OurEroWth.
We should renew our efforts in that
direction. We are, and for some
years have been, the greatest ship
ping point or the Northern Pacific
railroad, between the Twin Cities
and the city of Helena, Montana.
This fact. together with the fact
that the tonnage of our shipments
is rapidly increasing. must in the
nature of things aetract the notice
Of other railroad corpora tions. and
soon bring to us the. much needed
competition.
Those who move away from Little
Falls expecting to find better place
are doomed to disappointment. We
have here all the cOnveniences found
in large cities, while the cost of living
is much less; which fact, II generally
known, would not fail to attract to
us many retired capitalists. who are
anxious to get away from the tur-
moil and unhealthy atmosphere
with which they are surrounded In
u metropolis.
Owing to the stringency of
the times YOU have deter
mined to reduce the police force to a
very small number. II experience
shall demonstrate that the people
cannot be properly protected with
the reduced force trust you will not
hesitate to authorize it to be in
creased to the number that may
seem to he needed for ample protec-
ton. I construe my recall to the
position of mayor of our beautiful
city to mean that my former policy
in the main was satisfactory to the
people. 50 shall only make such
changes from my former policy as
nv experience shall dictate to he for
the best good Of the people. l be-
lieve in being liberal and allowing
persons who are in pursuit OF inno-
cent amusements a great amount of
liberty. But such persons as cannot
appreciate favors and take advan-
tage of the liberty allowed them to
trample upon the rights OF Others,
I will hold SO far as possible
to render strict account OF their
doings.
Before closing, I deem it my duty
to note the death Of Honorable
Jonathan Simmons, who passed
from time to eternity. in this city on
the 4th inst. He was an old resident
of Little Falls and did much to ad-
vance the material prosperity Of this
CITY. During the years of 1887 and
1888 he occupied the position OF
president OF the village council, be-
ing the two years just prior to the
change of Little Falls from a village
to a CITY government. which posi-