Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1910-08-10
THE HOSPITAL PROPOSITION.
Some of the Things to Think About
i'm Connection With This Matter
in This County.

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fall, under the provisions of the law
passed by the last legislature. 1t
will be only few years until practic-
ally every county in the state will
have it's hospital. 1t will be econo-
my for them to do so. A county
| hospital is the best possible invest
ment a county can make. 1t is as
important as county poor farm or
court house. 1t will pay for it
self in very short time, and will
pay its way many fold every year.
In the lives it will save, in the COM
fort, the convenience, and in the
assurance of being able to have the
advantage of modern surgery and
treatment near at hand in case of
necessity, we will soon wonder how
we got along without it.
1t will cost but a mere pittance,
compared to the benefit that will ac-
crue from it. 1t will be open to
every person in the county, to every
doctor in the county, it will be the
peoples hospital, where when sick
ness or accident befalls you, you
can have the best of treatment.
Go down to the depots in De-
corah, meet every train for a week
or two as we do, and see the num-
Der of our people, sick, dishearten-
ed and discouraged, dragged onto
the train, undergoing the strain and
the fatigue of trip to some hospi-
tai when they ought to be here, I'M
der proper care and treatment.
Then you will vote for hospital
We are getting tired of the talk
among some of the farmers that the
hospital proposition is simply an
other play to "get something for
DEBORAH" This kind of talk has
been heard almost every time a pub
lie matter has come up in this
county. No man of good sense who
stops to think the matter over will
put any credence in such talk.
While, of course, hospital would
be of benefit to DEBORAH, yet this is
not to be compared to the benefit il
will be to the county at large, and
DEBORAH will much more than pay
its share of the cost. The people
of DEBORAH who have comfortable
homes are not going to leave them t.
go to a hospital for anything shor
OF an operation, as rule. 1t is the
country people who do not hav,
modern conveniences in their homes
and who do not have physicians a
, their very door daily who need tn
hospital most. But further thar
this, and right to the point, is tn,
fact that anything that benefits De
corah, no matter what it is, is O
direct and lasting benefit to ever,
farm in Winneshiek county. Ever,
time DEBORAH, right in the center q
the best county in the best state IL
the best nation in the world makes
an advancement, every farm in tn,
county Is enhanced in value JUS
that much. If there had been NOR,
of spirit to boost" rather thai
to knock" during the past ten o.
fifteen years in this county, ever,
farm in the county would be worth
from $40 to $25 per arce more thar
1t is now; there would not have
been one-half the exodus to the Da
kotas, to Canada, to Texas, to Mon
tana, and the other places doomed
by spectators. Our people would
have remained at home, where many
OF them wish they were now, and
more people would have come in as
they are doing elsewhere, the larger
farms would have been divided up
and prices would have greatly in
creased, as they are bound to do in
the future. You can't find a spot on
earth where land as good as Winnie
shiek county land sells at so low a
price. You can't find a spot on
earth where such a sure crop is pro-
duced every year, regardless of the
season. where there are so many
comforts and conveniences, where il
Is SO easy to get crop, and where
there Is better opportunity to
make money on the farm.
Think these things over: look
about you bit and see what other
communities are doing, and see il
you don't think it is about time for
Winneshiek county to get busy.
Boost; you don't have to stretch
the facts here. Simply tell the
truth, favor public improvements
better roads, etc., and the land will
take care of itself. Boost the hos
pital; boost good roads, and you will
never have cause to regret it.