The Tupelo journal., 1909-01-22
To the Pessimistic Citizens
of Tupelo. =.

Of Tupelo. r
The writer is almost certain
that you have some feeling of
nope and pride in the untiring
and effectual work now being
done by your optimistic fellow
townsmen and neignbors through
out this section.
1t is indeed gratifying if not
encouraging to those who are
ever looking out for those things
that will materially benefitour city
and community, to realize that
they have even your Silent sup.
port and approval Of any plan
that might tend to bettering the
conditions Of our city, and there
by also bettering the condition
OF you, pessimists. Think for
one moment how much easier a
burden can be borne, or a great
task accomplished, when every
one to be benefited thereby puts
his shoulder to the Wheel" and
does his level best to the accom-
plishment of the task in hand.
Can it possibly be true that
some of our citizens are content
to fold their hands and sit idly
by and soliloquize: well if any
thing comes Of the effort to bet
ter our city and community / am
healed, for | have abundant real
estate in the city, and the chan
ces are that its rental values will
be doubled and the market value
trebled or [ have a fine dry
goods business, grocery business,
cotton business, banking business
or a lawyeror doctor with a large
and lucrative business, or citizen
or county officer, with large
and fat office. Let the improv-
ments come, thick and fast, and
let the very earth on which our
city is located quake and trem-
BILE with your boom and forward
march of development, enter
prise, push, hustle and business.
Let the electric cars of the Tu-
pelo, Pontotoc Fulton and Toe
opola R. r. whiz and buzz and
hum through Main street. Let
the passengers roll off aud hurry
to my store, my bank, my Office
to have their wants supplied, if
you will, but as for me. | am not
lnsthe fight and push, work and
worry incident to getting these
goodthings for our city and coun-
ty, but, if she comes and / don't
believe it will, | am sure elect
ed.
Gentlemen, Fellow citizens and
Townsmen, wake up arouse your
selves to the accomplishment of
the task before US. In these days
of business sagacity. Commun-
tiles are not ravished with these
good things, on the other hand
1t takes fight and push to get
there. Once this development
is obtained, the rapid growth and
permanent and material devel-'
opment of not only our city but
the entire surrounding country
as we'll, is forever settled. Just
think OF it, the cotton crop of
Lee county of 1908 brought S65.z
90 per capita to its citizenship,
81, 500, 900, The banks of this
city alone have deposits sufficient
to build this rail road.
Since the year one, there has
not been time 50 propitiol5 for
floating bonds. 5, 10, 40 percen
bonds can be sold at sufficient
premium to bring the interest to
4a percent. The money centerS
on full to overflowing, with cash
money seeking investment at a
and 5 percent. Men, as sure as
the world stands there is in store
for these United States for thet
next Is or 20 years an era of
prosperity that is going to record
a new and unprecedented high
watermark, the pixies Peak"
of the age.
We want every man in Tu2elo
to come out to the meeting of the
Commercial Club, Monday night
Jan 25 at the Court house, and
let us seeif we can't line up and
toe the mark, and make a straight
steady, and all together pull for
the sure thing Of building this
railroad and any other good
thing or things that may BE-
hanging around loose.
THE COMMEPCIAI.C CHR