Morris tribune., 1908-04-25
COMMUNICATION.
MORRIS TRIBUNE:

ksOWns valley, down at Benson, al
around us in fact, our nelghbors
whether merchants or business mel
in other lines of business, Or farmers
are moving. to put their severa
DcaIities in position to secure thu
Benefits which are sure to accure tt
all parts and localities. of this state
(Which are put in position to take
advantage thereby as result OF the
creation of our State Bureau of Imml
grafton and the good work it is doing
What is the reason, if there is any
Feason, why the people of Morris are
mot actively at work to put Morris
10 put Stevens County, in line and ir
position to secure to Norris, to the
tepritory tributary to Morris, te
Stevens County and to all parts o.
Stevens County, the material benefits
sure to result or accrue to Stevens
County, and especially to Morris, il
the right steps are taken without de-
Inv. to secure these benefits?
There is perhaps notion enter
sained by those accustomed to take
but narrow view of the good of any
community of which they are part,
shat it will be he who hurries to sell
his lands to the first incoming settlers
who will be the primary beneficiary
of a movement to double the popula-
faon of Stevens County; but this no.
sson is so palpably erroneous as to de-
eeive no person who is accustomed to
do his own thinking for the primary
and the major benefit derivable fro m
a doubling of Or material increase of
the number of farmers in Stevens
County, will be to the merchants and
ether business men in the several
soWns of the county. The secondary
Benefit will accrue to him who does
not sell but who holds for future sale,
the productive farming lands in this
county of which he is now possessed.
Take as an illustration the Village
of Donnelly which, for the most part,
draws it's trade from the townships of
RendsvilLe and Donnelly in which the
number of actual resident farmers
probably does not exceed 100 and
perhaps not 100 but in which the
number Of actual resident farmers
should be 288, that is to say, farmer
on every quarter section.
Now, assuming that the merchants
and other business men doing bust
moss in DonnelIy, can now do business
there proftabEy with but the present
population of the tributary territory,
how would it be with them if there
were an actual resident farmer on
every quarter section of the town
ships referred to- Or how would it
be with them with but doubling of
the present number of actual farmers
in the townships referred to? Would
mot every merchant, every blacksmith
every hotel keeper, every banker,
svery lumber dealer, every fuel deal
or, every feed mill owner, every
livery man, every druggist, every
carpenter, every brick layer, even the
saloon keeper, whose operating ex-
penses would remain substantially
tho same Notwithstanding the volume
Of his business would be practically
doubled, receive his proportional in
crease in profits? Would not the
Rsrm of every farmer when sur
rounded with other cultivated farms
and good ueighbors, become more
desirable as home and more valu-
able as farm property? Would not
country roads soon be better graded
and country localities soon be made
more desirable9 II so, why then
should not every one in Stevens
County, like our neighbors in adjoin-
lng counties, see that it is his duty to
boost, using Minneapolis express
sion. and not to knock? Would it be
. difficult thing, would it be a very
undertaking, for the bust
moss men of DounelLy, using Donnelly
simply as an illustration, to do what is
necessary to secure from Ohio, from
Indiana, from Illinois and elsewhere,
1870 or 100 actual farmers to double the
Eposentr farmer population of the
eerritory tributary to the trade in
Donnelly? think not. Of course,
what have said as to Donnelly, if
true, applies with equal force to every
other town in Stevens County and
with even greater force to the City of
Morris. Would it be better, or worse,
Cor Morris if there were 20 actual
resident farmers living upon and
working the 1000 acres of land within