The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-02-20

lic, schools, academies, business
colleges, training schools and the
like, has always a reliable basis
for thrift and growth -oue that is
not apt to fail. Teachers and pup
lis are largely from abroad. Once
in the town they are apt to become
attached to it. While they are in
the place they purchase or rent
homes, b.y food, clothing, luxuries
and in oil ways contribute to busi-
ness thrift thereof. They make q
community life which the best
people in the world like to live in
and TO become apart of.
lmppreciate manufactures as a
means. Of civic yrowth, but I have
not the vision to preoeive n.~ch in
that direction that rs attained for
our prairie towns, 80 remote from
cheap fuel aud other facilities, and
witAsal facing severe competition
froan wealthy and established in
situations in Older states, for the
| mamfacture OF every desirable
| cosnodity. II ~ur people shall
prore wise enough to permanently
| support the ,,ati@e'al pro4ectitiwe
policy which Washington ina0g-
urated, which Jackson approved
aud which our great national
oratcns, Clay and Blaine, defended
prairie towns may safely embark
in the manufacture of corn starch,
beet sagar, linseed oil, and other
things for which our rich aud fer
tile acces, furnish. the raw mater
ial, but until sucli era of protection
shall come, the capitalist who
rushee into manufacturing exper l.
ments can only Illustrate the
homely bat true proverb-"A fool
and his money are, saon parted"
Massachusetts, under the protect
i've system, has built mp twenty
cities, encl. OF. them with over
10000 inhabitants. But we will
have to- wait until there shall
come to us, through the grace Of
our national government, the same
protection which made the civic
prosperity and enormous wealth
of the New England states.
Among Worthington's attract
ions are the trees which line our
avenues and streets. Let this i'm
portant and attractive feature be
still continued. We were unfort-
unate in the tree planting expert
ment on the avenue leading to the
cemetery, made some years ago.
That was bad season, however,
for planting trees. Let US "try,
Try again"
The Worthington Cemetery-our
City of the Dead" which holds
he sacred forms of many who
owed and labored here in the days
gone by, should be made the hand
omest, most artistically adorned, {
most attractive landscape scene of
'eauty in the vicinity. Our
,eglect has not been intentional.
The pioneer struggle has kept us s
'usy for the living, so that tho .
memorials due the dead have not ,,
lad due measure of attention. =
Strangers judge something of =
he public spirit of a community r
rom the appearance of its church /
and other public build +
ngs. It is creditable to WORTH
ngton that its churches are so
numerous and influential. The +
ime has not come, perhaps, for t
rection of church houses of a g
aore permanent and commodious +
haracter. But some of our t
hurch structures need a now coat 8
f paint, with other added tokens 8
t ueatnsss and care outside and =
IA word to tho wise, by no - =
isans of rebuke or censure, only -
f kind suggestion, il. amply suf- a q
cient on this point, f
: Many of.the young progressive lj'
tics of the country, in both the 81
sst and, the west, have found g
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