Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1909-11-30
BOOST OR MOVE.
The Mercenary Would Have You Live Be-
You'd Your Means and Loose Out.

ihe mtIGendIJ WOula hdIe leu Live DE-
yond Your Means and Loose Out.
If you don't like living in your
own town, for the sake of the
community get out of it. The To-
cal paper is about an even hun
dred times better than the sup.
port you give it. The town gov
ernment is what you make it. The
streets are in a far better condi'
tlon than the returns you made
to the tax assessor are accurate
Your competitor is just as good
man financially and morally at
you are. The stores handle just
as good a stock of merchandise as
the trade demands. They sell
these goods just a little bit cheap
er than you can buy them else
where.
The little children are just as
happy, the women just as pretty,
the grass is just as green, the flow
ers just as fragrant and opportu'
mites are m ,re abundant right at
home than any known spot on
the universe. If you are 80 blind
ed by envy, hatred, malice or pet
ty jsalousies, or you can't dc
what you have willed to do at
home, 60 to that place where the
environments are in accord with
your nature. Don't stay in a
town and knock it. If you
haven't the patriotism of your
fore-fathers nor the cooperative
spirit of the present generation,
you are not going to be much of a
faotor.anywhere. M Q c h a n is
Journal.
The above is splendid picture
of the average boosters intolera-
tion, the, mercenary spirit, the
tyrant, but yet little mild, be-
cause it contains enough truth to
make it take to a certain degree.
We do not know of any good reas-
on why more drastic language OF
methods or not taken with the
fellow who will not boost. Why
not hrng the man who dares fail
to boost and boost as the booster
thinks booster should boost?
Hang him and burn his remaina
if he is even suspected of unhar-
monious thought. The life of the
town depends upon some such Wig
orous and effective proceedings.
Hang King David in ef6gy 365
days in the year for writing the
23rd psalm. Why should a man
enjoy a walk beside still waters,
lying down in green pastures, or
the taking of moments rest
when he,might be boosting, chas.
ing the almighty dollar, making
the quiet waters turn wheels and
shaking the green pastures by the
effects of steam hammers, blast
furnaces, and the flight of the 10.
comotive; filling the fresh air with
the odor of the fertilize factory,
the sweat.shop, the fish packery.
and making the eyes sparkle with
delight with the sight of men
breaking rocks in the brolling sun,
blowing their lungs away IN glass
factories and dying In mines9
Yes, the mercenary, the boosting
mercenary, a cooling, refreshing,
quiet, refined being in whose com.
pany all is serene, ''peace be
STILL" and joyful, like the bab.
bling, uncovetuous brook. Yes,
by all means be a booster, if you
are not a real estate agent with
lots for sale, or a schemer with
something to unload on tender
foot, boost any way. Boost any.
thing. Boost taxes, hoost high
prices, make it impossible for a
man of ordinary means to buy a
home or live within ten miles OF
your town. You know when
mems incomes do not keep pace
with their expenses he is becom.
ing happy, when his home is en-.
hancing in value he sleeps better,
he feels better, the little addition.
al cost of keeping up his home, in.
creased taxes and insurance, which
is going to the other fellow,
makes him still more happy. he
becomes attached to his little
home and he joins the boosters,
and all is we'll until he finds the
enhancing business and the march
of his worship, Progress, orders
him sell out, give way to some one
who is able to own the place, take a
back seat and reflect on the effects
Of boosting, wild cat schemes, en-.
hancipg values, get rich quick,
watered stock etc., VS.. prudense,
conservatism, bonora BILE methods,
contentment, etc. Yes, you must
be a booster, or you are too utter.
ly ut for anything. Why if you
are not a booster it may be you
won't get an invitation to a