The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-05-25

No Money to Burn.

| club undertake to raise it in this man
ner.
No Money to Burn.
President Hixon said that the club
has not got money to burn. but 1T
cannot afford to take the stand that it
will not help such projects. 1t had been
started for the purpose of booming Man.
kato. There are two ways of raising
| the money. If the secretary must con-
tinually drum up and down the
streets to raise subscriptions for this
and that small thing, when a factory
proposition is presented the business
men will feel that they have been drum
med to death and will fail to respond.
He would hate to see the club get into
a rut of this kind, but he saw no way
out of it, for there is no money in the
treasury for such purposes and the club
| is up against it. The club should have
some system for handling such appeals
for aid. 1t should decide whether to
take the money from the club treasury,
appoint committee or have the secre
tary do the work.
Dr. Webster favored the plan of show
ing good will by appointing a commit
tee to solicit subscriptions, and this was
as far as the club should 60. To take
money out of the treasury would be
the greatest encouragement for various
organizations to come in with requests.
If there is anv rock upon which the club
will break it will be on the financial
one. 1t is the same thing to guarantee
as to pay out of the treasury and he
was opposed to it. He did not like the
idea of the members being nagged every
two weeks for something.
Should Support Everything.
DR.. Andrews only partially agreed
with DR. Webster. He said that this
was the only commercial body In the
city, and the only one to which appeals
can be made 1t should lend its support
to everything that will bring people and
money to the city. The teachers VIII
leave thousands of dollars in the city,
as would also the commercial travellers
If these things are all gotten here it
will help the city.
Mr.. Patterson said that he had notic-
ed in his recent trip that other cities
| try to oct all of the conventions and
meetings that they can and the CONNER
cial clubs extend their help so as to
get people into the cities. This club
will make a GREAT mistake if it does not
do the same thing. To get subscriptions
| for this and that will not be making
anv change. for this has been done in
the past.
Must Have Money.
President Hixon suggested plan by
which all difficulty can be obvlated.
Some of the members could afford TO
nav more than $40 a year, and If they
would send checks to the treasurer 1T
would make fund for just such pur-
poses. The club has got to have money
if it is to make a success. In almost
every organization of this kind there
are sliding dues, the jobbers, retailers
and professional men being classified ac
cording to their business. 1t is hard to
classify the business men, but if they
would make donations it would save the
clubs money until something big and
GOOD came. when the club would be in a
position to get it.
DIR. Schmauss said that half of the
members are unable to pay more than
the $lO
Mr.. Currier ventured the opinion that
one factory employing fifty hands Will
do the city more good than all OF the
conventions that have been held here
during the past ten years. If the year
goes by without factory being secured
the members of the club will say that
it has done nothing and will refuse to
subscribe further.
Mr.. Patterson's motion was carried.
Good Roads Needed.
President Hixon said that he had
written to number of factories, large
and small, including one mentioned the
other day by local paper, but had re-
ceived no replies or obtained no results.
He brought up the matter of good
roads, saying that st. Peter has us bad
w whipped in that regard The roads
leading out of the city should be inn
proved with gravel. While taking some
capitalists around the city few days
ago. he had landed in a quagmire on
Glenwood avenue and his eXpatiations
on the beauty of the city had sudden
ly ended. The poll tax law is wrong.
The legal lights in the club should get
together and devise a practical way OF
solving the matter and get a law pass
ed that would do this. The club would
profit more than in any other way if it
would 90 down into its treasury and