The true northerner., 1909-04-30
IN THE LAND OF SOMEWHERE,


Once upon a time, in the Land OF
Somen here" there arose great aud
mighty city, called the City OF Factor
les This town had, within few years
grown from modest aud unassumiug
village aud had become one Of the prin-
cpal cities in all the great Land OF
Somewhere" and its inhabitants had
become proud and arrogant because of
the prom inent position occupied by the
place of their nativity, which had be
come known throughout al the nations
and had become famous in ali the beau
tiful Land OF Somewhere" Many OF
its leading citizens. wise in their own
conceit, proclaimed that the city owed
its wonderful prosperity TO ITS numerous
factories, OF which there was one for
every five hundred people within ITS
borders. These factories, they said,
make the city to grow and flourish like
the "Cedars OF Lebanon" inasmuch as
they greatly increase the business OF
the community, induce people from
elsew here 10 come into the city and
spend much money, and they also lift
great financial burden from the
shoulders of the people 10y contributing
freely and abundantly to the public ex-
chequer, by way OF the payment OF
special assessments imposed for the
privilege of conducting the numerous
factories that have been established, and
thus relieving the dwellers in the city
from the payment of much taxes.
Nevertheless, there arose 10 the same
country certain unreasonable and fool
ish persons who were called fanatics
and who boldly asserted that factories
were not an element of prosperity, but
that, on the contrary, they were lnJur-
Gus and damaging TO the we'll being of
the people demoraizing and degrading
and productive of much poverty dis
tress and crime throughout all the
broad Land of Somewhere and that
instead Of having been of advantage to
the great city, it had fiourished in spite
of them
And 1t came to pass in the course OF
time, that these foolish fanatics so or at
ly increased in numbers and streug h
that they arose in their might and over
threw and abolished all the factories
in that part of the Land of Somewhere"
that was round about and adjacent to
the great city,
And when the propretors OF those
factories whose trade had been thus
ruthlessly overthrow and destroyed re-
covered from their amazement at the
summary and unexpected treatment
they had thus received at the hands OF
those foolish fanatics they said with
one accord; "Neriy we will arise and
shake the dust from of our feet and we
will no longer strive to benefit an unap-
preciative people, but we will remove
our places Of business TO the great City
of Factories where the people recognize
and appreciate good thing when it
mauifeSts itself to their vision, and
where we will be welcomed and re-
ceived with open arms, and where there
will be none TO molest or to make afraid
end where we can add to the prosperity
and well being of the inhabitants Of
the city, tighten their burden of taxa
tion, increase their happiness and, at
the same time, lay up many shekels fol
| ourselves" d."
But the denizens of the great city
said; "Nay, nay, for verify We do not
want nor will We have any more factor
les in the midst of our city, for have We
not already many more such institu-
tions than are conducive TO the welfare
( of our people?
And those men of great benevole nee
/ who would re establish their overthrowu
! factories IN the great city we're greatly
astonished and stood aghast, saying
among the hemselves; How can these
things be?' Is not the city that has
/ the greater number of factories the
most prosperous?" "Can it be that
those foolish fanatics have actually
spread into the great city and that they
have obtained foothod thereinY
Woe is unto US if this be true, for this
our craft, is endangered and the great
god 'Bscchus' is set at uaught,"
.. W ROWLAND
y B-For the "City of Factories
subs tilute the city of kalamazoo Foi
Factories read saloons" For the
Land of Somew here" substitute the
state of Michigan
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