Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-07

issue letter. The Dayton News pub
fishes the edict in full.
UNLESS Dayton can outbd other cit
les, she will lose our plant 1t seems
that there is some difficulty in secur-
ing the right quality and quantity
of labor in Dayton, the inference being
left that no such difficulty would be
experienced elsewhere in these days
of commercial progress.
Again, somebody, probably a knock
er. has spread the report that many OF
erratic and crazy" and this prevents
good men from coming even after they
have been employed.
1t seems the summers are hot at
times in Dayton, and the public parks
are too few, but principally, Dayton
seems to have gone to extremes on
this question of grade crossings" The
canal bed should be converted into a
railroad bed to help Dayton, but it does
not appear from the letter whether the
much needed railroad is headed tow
ard the factory or owned by Mr.. Pat
terson. 1t does appear, tho, that We
want our plant to be connected with
at least two railroads.
| Then we come to the black type.
Since Mr.. Patterson is supposed to own
the newspaper, this emphasis in type
is important. THE Booster Club
should stop the extension of the city
limits. Dayton has the reputation of
being the worst governed city in the
state" Mr.. Patterson then advises Il
vigilance committee to deal with seven
or eight members of the city council
who dominate it, and he offers to
contribute $1,000 toward their investi-
CATION. 1t is not explained whether
their crimes have been committed as
councilmen in extending the city linn
its so as to include the cash register
factory for city taxation, or as men,
bers of the board of equalization, which
is so often adjudged iniquitous by local
milionaires.
Free baths are demanded for Day
ton to help keep the councilmen clean.
Streets should be extended; specific
streets, and sewers built, but the letter
does not give an insight into the own
ership of the property so badly in need
of these extensions.
Eleven years ago 1 gave a talk on
what should be done to improve Day
ton; this talk was afterwards printed
by the board of trade ATTACHED please
find copy)," but it seems nothing has
been done. Here is the secret of the
most that ails Dayton. The 5000 en-
ployes constituting the town may have
taken charge of the municipal govern
ment and inaugurated some notions
about running their business that
seemed to Mr. Patterson as crazy and
interloper; they may have extended
city limits for taxation purposes in
stead of water mains and sewers for
development purposes, but their great
est crime has been that the wishes OF
their patron, the overload, have been
ignored. The gratitude of groveling
has not been shown for those free din
ners to ten thousand on the lawn. oh!
shame on Dayton. Why will employees
presume to be men? Why must en-
than they feel they are entitled to learn
that the only restitution which will
in pay envelope? How beautiful
might life become in the factory flower
garden, at the factory night school, in
the factory reading room, or under the
factory shower baths, if the employees
would only accept the overlordship of
the employer, and if the employer
might be of a generous turn of mind.
To insist that he is only one citizen
among 10000, and to proceed to jostle
him among the crowd is the most
shortsighted kind of crime a man like
Patterson can imagine. Dayton must
now outbd the world or lose her fac