The Falls City tribune., 1909-11-19
AS TO BUILDING UP A CITY
IMPROVE AND 6EAuTIFY TWO
ESSENTIAL POINTS.
Cain and His Followers As Build
ers in the Land of Nod
Paid Taxes ~CheerfuIIy.

When Cain had killed off one.
forth of the people on the earth
leaving only three, her went into the
land of Nod and buildcd a city, il
is evident that he did not sit around
like a lump on a log, and growl about
the Nod real estate and people. He
was not himself. perhaps. the most
exemplary of men, and il he had
some reason 10 emigrate from the
land of his birth, he did not NOPE
and whine, but got hold of a piece
OF ground and Went to work to do
something, The man who could
build up a city under such auspices is
the kind of material we want in Falls
City; and We will not inquire too
infinitely into his antecedents, so that
ne takes hold like a mar and be good
at last.
But what is more, Cain did not
advise his son to go west, and get
out OF the old dead town" He name
the city after him, believed in it,
worked for it, bought his goods there
and kept his money at home. Does
anybody suppose that when strang-
ers came to Enoeh. mame of the
cityD with any notion of going into
business there, Cain told them it was
a dead old town" that it was es-
tablished by a murderer. that the
water was bad; its merchants all
sharks, and its mechanics botches-
that the own was not healthy and
would never amount to anything no
how Does anybody suppose that
when he wanted to invest Il few dol.
lars in dry goods he hustled off to
the city. or that he only went to the
merchants of "Enoch' when he want
ed Il fayor-wanted "a little timer"
DO you think he ever went away
from home to get clothing that could
be had at better rates In "Enoch'
than elsewhere, or TO Cincinnati for
'l'dp puSSitS Wutl lHt nolllt uedi-
err could meet every demand with
more stylish and substantial rigs?
Do you suppose he went moping
around about taxes being too high in
fInoch' and no one there knowing
anything about business? No, sir
He evidently wasn't built that way.
If taxes were high, he got up and
hustled to increase the value of
property, so that there would be great
encouraged others to do so. II city
lots got too low he bought up a
dozen or two, scattered here and
there, for the double purpose of per
sonal profit and strengthening values.
On these he put up plenty of houses
at reasonable figures, good ones, too,
so that when any II came to Enoch
he did not have to move into an old
tumble-down shanty Or move on. He
improved and beautified every lot,
kept the weeds down and set on
trees ON the lots and in front of them
even where he did not build, thus
adding to the value Of each lot and
adjoining property as well. He found
that it did not take so much money
to Il a eomely, we'll kept town as ii
did a dilapidated, God-forsaken one,
and there were four times the values
ON which to raise the required money.
That's the way he lowered taxation,
not by sitting ON IA stump and howl
ing about it, If a man wanted to run
a factory, or some other enterprise.
he was not afraid the fellow wanted
to make some money, but told him to
sail in and I'll help you all | can.
\ business that does not make money
is no good. We want every legiti-
mate business in Enoch to make mon
ely, and piles of it."