The daily sentinel., 1902-11-22
THE CITY'S FUTURE.

little in common remarked gen.
tleman the other day. While they
all believe in the city and its future.
there is little unity of action on their
part.
There is an old and trite expression
used much more in the east than in
the west, which about fits conditions
here, it is ''root hog, or die" which
is interpreted to mean that every fell
low is for himself, and if he gets left
it is his own fault.
"a In some instances it, the sentence.
referred to, is applicable but we have
little faith in the resultant prosperity
coming from its application. There
should be an amalgamation of the
general interests of the merchants and
citizens of Grand Junction for its gen.
eral upbuilding and welfare
There are constantly arising new
interests and new propositions for the
good of the city. which no one man
can solve and which should be submit
ted to some general body, represent
ing the city's intere SITS.
The Sentinel has been endeavoring
to create sentiment in this city fav-
orable to the formation of a CONNER
cial body. 1t finds that il is hard
work to make men take interest in
the scheme. If they could only see
the matter in the light in which such
bodies are regarded in every large
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they would eagerly embrace the
chance for the organization of such a
body. The merchants of this city
have too widely divergent opinions to
make any great success for this COM
:munity. unless they get together and
have thier ideas crystalized and work
together for the city's upbuilding.
To be even more plain about the
| matter the merchants and property
owners are very selfish in regard to
this matter. Their business and their
, interests alone to them seem para
mount. No one objects or can have a
right to object to a man making his
own business matter of first consid-
GRAFTON. On the other hand he will
more perfectly attend to his own bus
mess by contributing to the general
welfare of jhe city and to its upbuild-
ing. than to selfishly attend to his
single business interests.
What would property be worth in
this city. if there was not gen
eral desire to push the city forward
If each individual merchant and pro-
perty owner would sit down and say
to himself. as many of them do. l will
let the other fellow attend to those
matters and L will be farther ahead
by attending to my own business how
much would the city improve. if all
should adopt such a policy.
The city is working in the dark, by
permitting valuable time to go by
when it could be doing something for
it's general upbuilding.
Men grow old; those who have
been here in the first formative period
of the city are aging rapidly. 1t
they are content to jog along all of
their life in one horse town. proba-
bly, thev can be Accommodated. If they
would like to see this city take DO
sition in affairs of the state and sec
tion, to which it is justly entitled
they should move out of the groove
and rut in which they have been
working and force new conditions.
new life, new blood, new energy into
the general upbuilding of the city. 1t
can be done, it has been done hun
dreds of times before and can be done
again.
Some one should move. Some men
who want to lead now may want
to lead. where the whole body is CON
cerned. 1t is up to the citizens to dc
for themselves. They have been urged
enough to make them feel the duty
that is upon them.