Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-12-01
THE OUTLOOK FOR 1904.

Did any town ever need few en-
ergetic, wide awake citizens as Bax.
ter Syringe now needs themf We
mean CITIzRNs who live In Baxter
Syringe. We have quite q number
of thrifty paying institutions, but
they are generally owned by people
who reside abroad and invest their
profits In other localities. The
owners of all our lumber yards are
pushing, progressive capitalists,
but they don't live here and cannot
take very much interest in the
growth of the city. Our electric
light plant and telephone system
belongs 10 non.residents. If We put
In water works, -four mills, sanitar.
iums or factories of any kind We
must induce non.resideuts to put
up the capital and furnish the
brains to run them.
We have no word to say against
the men who have invested their
money in Baxter Springs. We think
they are the very best sort and We
hope to have more just like them,
but We are aiming to stir up little
enterprise Ia our own people. We
wish to encourage some of our own
business men and leading citizens
to turn loose some of their capital
and brains for the benefit of the
town in which they live. We are
not asking them to revive corpse.
Baxter Springs 10 the liveliest sort
of a town and has az good pros
poets az any town in the state. Her
circulation has been a little slow
and her internal organs don't work
as well az they might, but she is
just springing into new life and
now presents the best opening for
capital and energy of any town.
The mines, the railroads, the new
cheap water power, the natural gas,
the medical water, the rich agricul.
tural resources, all favor the unlirn.
tied investment of capital. Our own
people know of all these things, but
they have been so like Missouri, in
state of innocuous desuitude, that
they are letting them 60 by. When
we consider the fact that every dol.
lar invested in Baxter Syringe real
estate will double itself in less than
one year, why not put it in? Why
loan money at six or seven per cent
on doubtful security when you can
get ten times as much by upbuild.
ing your own town? Why let out
siders get all the good Investments
while we sit idly by? Shall we take
up Topolobampo and other wild
cat schemes when we can make SOL
id and safe investments in Baxter
Springs?
Now, we need good many things
here that will not only pay az an in.
vestment, but will prove of ever.
lasting benefit to the city. We need
a first class flour mill; we need a re.
constructed planning mill; we need
a sanitarium; we need a fret class
hotel on Military street; we need a
good opera house; we need whole
sale grocery; we need modern, up
to date bath house; we need a steam
laundry; we need an ice plant; we
need water works; we need thous.
and dollars in cash to use in adver.
tising our various advantages and
wants; we need the support of all
our home people as well az the out.
siders; we need the prayers of the
religious people.
II seems to us that we can push
many of the above named enter
prises through If we drop all per.
sonal animosities and jealousies
and give public affairs a little of
our time and money. And we
should think our public spirited
capitalize would take pride leav.
ing behind them some monuments
or mementoes of their good will
towards the town. What monument
could be better than the big "Joues
Hotel" the Brown Opera House."
the "Robison Sanitarium," the
smith. Thompson FIGURING MILL"
the "Great Western Wholesale Drug
House," with drinks put up at all
hours of the day or night. These
things can all be had without any
great effort If our people could only
be made to see that they will pay.
And they will psy-every one of
them, and more, unless something
comes along to blight present pros.
poets.
We need new capital aud new
blood and We would be justified In
spending $1,000 In advertising our
city during the coming year. The
commercial club 10 all right, but
needs more back bone and q little