Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-07-21
AUTOMOBILE Olives
SERIOUS PROBLEM
HELPS TO WIDEN LIFE OF Av-
GRACE WELL TO DO AMERI-
CAN FAMILY.
GETS UNTOLD THOUSANDS
AWAY FROM CITY INTO
COUNTRY.

The outcry against the automobile
lately voiced by the certain financiers
and educators of national prominence
relative to the great and increasing
popularity of the motor car is the
hoary old cry against progress. That
the world needed this improved sys-
tenn of quicker transportation and
was ready for it has been proved by
TIE immediate and well nigh univer-
sal response TO and approval OF 1t.
Human ingenuity has always ap-
piled itself to invention that would
save time, expedite progress, tighten
human labor and contribute alike TO
human happiness and usefulness. AS
the telephone by its virtual annihila-
ton of time and distance has In
many substantial respects doubled
the hours of every day for the pos
sibilities of practical achievement, TO
say nothing of it's gifts in contribu-
ton to human comfort, so has the
automobile greatly increased the pos
sible and even the certain chances
for every man who can employ this
great new agency nearly to double
IN very many instances his days
profit, and for cities and commun1-
ties to make progress never before
possible.
The automobile has helped con-
tn n
gestion in cities and to make feast
BILE better and cheaper residences in
the country In the serious menace
of the last few years of the surpr1s
ing and undesirable growth of city
population over country population
the automobile is greatly helping to
settle most important question.
Far from being against the public
welfare, it has in every respect in
vfgorated and insured public pros
perity 1t has added new hours of
opportunity to every business mans
day, contributed to the enjoyment
and happiness of his family and by
the creation of a great new industry
furnished fresh employment to hun
dreds of thousands of workingmen
and many thousands of business men. |
Instead of encouraging extravaganza
among those who are not wealthy, |
it has oftener taught those who had
not the money to buy machine to
economic and to save to that end.
We hear no cutlery from the illus
trious antagonists of the motor car
directed against the expenditure of
hundreds of millions of dollars annu-
ally for unnecessary clothes, for to-
bacco for Intoxicating liquors and
for other human habits. 1t is obyI-
Gus that hero there is much room
for the exercise Of relative economy.
Why should rich critics deny to
those who are not rich the privilege
OF gaining the means by which they,
too, may be able, by comparative
economy at the most, to enjoy this
most remarkable invention for botn
human ned and human comfort? The
popular faith in the stories of SO
many homes being mortgaged to buy
automobiles rests most largely. il
not entirely, on false assumption
an assumption which has doubtless
been created and fostered in large
measure by banking and deposit
companies, which naturally believe
that which is kept on deposit, either
without interest or at a rate very
Row.
This is not an intelligent time to
challenge or sneer at the thrift or
wisdom of the American family, and
especially not time in this era of
general prosperity to impugn the
sense of a large number of typicap
American families who have found
In the automobile a chance to widen
and simplify their lives and Increase
their daily pleasure.
The world moves on Human soci-
ETY. moves with it. And one of the
inner and saner American ambitions
Is TO stimulate each family in the
land to procure for itself a fuller
higher. more enjoyable and at the
same time more useful life. One
just criticism of our people as
whole has been that the average
family does not aspire to and obtain
for itself an existence holding more
OF rational and healthful pleasure
That a motor car can add greatly
to the happiness and definitely widen
the life OF any family able to buy
one nobody acquainted with the
stimulation and diversion of the road
will deny.
So with the automobile industry.
risen to fifth in rank in the line of
American commerce, and paying hun
dreds OF millions of dollars for the
manufacture of machines-in the
last analysis ninety per cent of this
going to the pay of labor. WHY
should college and railroad presidents
and bankers and other self-consti-
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