The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-05-10
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/ proposition is presented to the Pres
sdent OF the Board ana he refers it to
a committee, there il stops. Why?
Because the committee to whom it is
referred are too busy with their own
Affairs TO attend to the Affairs. OF
other people. We are speaking now
of a condition, not a theory; of what
is, not what ought to be.
The Herald has always believed that
the Board of Trade ought TO have
some money, and spend some money;
we de not believe they viii ever &C
complish anything until they are en-
abled to 60 to work on money basis.
How to proceed or rather how to get
| away from the startling point, is the
question. We make this suggestion:
Maury county needs laborers. We
need laborers worse than We need
manufactures or capital. The town
is short on cooks and house-maids
and Office help and stable boys; the
farms are short of pillow hands; the
phosphate mines are short Of hands
70 die the rock, drive the wagons, load
and unload. There is nothing now in
so great demand in this town and
county, as labor How to get it is
the question? And we answer that
question by saying, "go after ii"
And that brings up again the ques-
ton of money. And our idea about
that is this: First, few men, as is
always the case, will have to bear
the burden at the start. These few
men should "employ'-mark the word
"enploy"-one good man to make al
canvass for money! and when they
have gotten hold of sufficient money
to pay his salary and expenses, al
competent, active and thoroughly re-
liable man should be engaged, who
will give all his time travelling and
hunting laborers for this fruitful field
in Maury county. He should goI
north. south, east and west. and adj
vertise as he goes, that he wants
working men and women, for Maury
county. one Of the most favored spots
on earth to live in; where every man,
white or black, will be given regular
work, good wages, and square deal.
What an advertisement that would
be for the county. 1t would attract a
class of laborers that we need, and we
already have lands and phosphate
and other investments that will attract
capital as fast as the labor can han
die it,
Mr.. Van Leer Polk, who after ramb-
ling the wide world Ger, has recently
returned to Maury to settle down for
keeps" in conversation with the
writer, said: Il have travelled some;
The has travelled more perhaps than
anv other man in this state has trav-
eled:) and for living and working,
and enjoying life and making money,
have never seen anything to equal
Maury county. Here we have a COM
of all that is good, and moth
ng that is bad. We have right here
n one of the most christian and cul-
.ured communities on earth, all the OPP
for investment and specu- ]
alton, that may be found in any new I
v discovered territory on the ragged
sdge of civilization. A mining camp
n the very heart of civilization. A
country, noble people,
climate, a At place for the
sods to live, and yet belted with
mining industry for investment, spec
llation and development, out of which
men have made and are making and
viii continue to make, fortunes, large 6
nd small. in day. repeat, as I
ombination place to live, work, buy, g
ell, invest, speculate, get-rich-ouick
n. | have never seen place in any s
md or country, equal to Maury t
ounty" Il
That ought to be told from the t
ousetops. Maury county ought to d
ave a man on the road, telling 1t to c
abor and Capital in new town or b
ew city, every day. il
The phosphate industry in this a
Dunty in it's infancy. 1t is being !"
,und in new spots every day; prop s.
rly advertised, worked and devei- n
ped, 1t would be to Columbia what Il
lie development OF coal and iron has
zen to Birmingham. But the world ii
,es not know it. Labor and Capital 81
as not found it out. 1t is our mis- Il
on, it is the mission of the people OF W
is county, through its Board of Trade g