La Junta tribune., 1909-02-20

ganization means TO La Junta.
Chicago has the most marvellous
natural advantages in its geograph
ical position of any city In the world
and that carries with 1t the most al
Turing possibilities for expansion In
every line. We have conferred In Chi
cago thirty-ieght separate and dis.
tinct lines of railroad. of which
twenty-seven are trunk lines termi.
mating In Chicago. That cannot be
said OF any other city In the world
The old song goes Put me off al
Buffalo, but you have got to get
off at Chicago. Fifty million people
are within a radius OF one nights
ride from Chicago.
l will venture to say that the great
est Influence in La Junta for any
good, other than that accomplished
By your churches and your schools.
Is being accomplished by your busi-
ness organization. and every citizen
and business man In this town owes
an obligation to your association to
support 1t morally and financially.
Citizens are prosperous only when
the community Is prosperous. and
no citizen in any line OF business
or profession can permanently pros
per at the expense OF his city. Your
business grows as La Junta grows.
Isn't that true? II Is necessary to
your business that La Junta should
be prosperous. progressive and alive
Your business is directly or indi-
rectly affected by those things which
affect the growth and progress OF
La Junta. You should give support.
sympathy and encouragement to new
Industries and new enterprises.
The success OF the land deals in
which my firm, Farmsworth, Bills &
Company. are interested in your i'm
mediate vicinity means much to this
town. II is your business to sup
port us in our efforts to up-build and
add to the population OF this COM
munity. just as you should encour-
age the location OF Industrial plants
In your city.
Successful organization Is team
work. and team work Is successful
and there Is one man who
has never received from the public
the p'audits he deserves. mean
the promoter.
AS rule he Is made the subject
OF ridicule all through the days OF
his labor for the formulation Of a
company. or the floating OF a bond
issue. or the carrying the election.
or the securing franchise. And
then he is cursed.
That is his fate. Hindered and
by jests OF every mental
I'm town. through the time
when any opposition is sword
with which to smite him. and then
hated and bitterly opposed IL he wins.
II he loses. he is forgiven. That is
the odd thing about II. know OF pro
motors who have worked long and
hard for things that should have
been accomplished. and were fought
with every weapon that malice and
personal interest could invent or
sheer cussedness could WELD. and yet
they settled down in the community
where they were overthrow, without
an enemy in the world.
But let them start up the pro-
motor business again. and they will
find every crony kicker. every
friend a foe.
Yet there is not in all the range
of profit-seeking activity. between the
rising and the setting OF the sun,
any man who deserves better of the
whole people than does the pro
motor.
Who built the railroads? The pro
motor. Don't for moment think II
was the capitalist. Don't think II
was the merchants of two cities
which are the terminal. Don't thini
1t was the farmers whose grain i
brings to market. Don't think 1t was
one Of the interests that is betteret
by the building Of the road. The
promoters did It,
He talked the farmers into it-ant
many hard days work that meant
He convinced the merchants ant
the manufacturers OF the value Of 1t
and heaven only knows how man,
insults he had to put up with from
them. He got the right Of way. Ans
the votins Of bonus. and the grant
| ing Of franchise from city coun
eli or . county board. and ever,
idlsr about the building pointed hin