The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1911-12-29

New Years u the time Ri tskintl
account 81 stock. II ii the tims iori
summing up the Losses and gains 81 the
year and 70 see how one staads flnan:,
cially. II this Is true as individuals
would it not BE also true that 4 town
like this should once = year figure its
debts and credits and take account 81
the stock on hand with view to future
business. Pembina has this year UNI
doubtedly seen some reverses. Pessi.
.mists may think them vital, while opti-
mists may think them trivial. But
neither Of them know. Only the real
figures, debts on one side, and credits
on the other can show the true trial bal
ance. As to the present, it need not be
. matter Of guess-work to tell where we
stand. First. each citizen can figure his
own individual gains, losses and present
assets. Second, these accounts may be
added together and grand total found.
The latter we may never do in just
that manner, but we eek each citizen to
think the matter over and see what the
last two years have brought to him.
Then look about him and see whether he
thinks his neighbors have red better
or worse than he.
As surely as the individual has assets
over liabilities SO sure have tn" aggrega.
ton ofindividuals something to the good.
In the opinion Of some, as we have said,
taking the aggregate of the individual
citizens, Pembina may be a bankrupt,
but even il so, the rankest pessi-
mist must acknowledge we can pay more
or less on the dollar anyway The assets
of this little city are many, and in some
ways are assets that few country towns
possess while it is true that our pos
ition in tie far corner" of the county
and of North Dakota has caused US the
loss of the county seat, yet, in many
other ways this place where the Red
river crosses the international
boundary line, this center of the Red
river valley, this situation on the banks
of tim bered streams where the waters
flow from the south and west to the
where five railway systems
have already centered. where the Gus.
toms stop every train of cars, where the
natural gateway of the great Canadian
northwest is situated, all these and what
they imply for the present and the future
are assets which are possessed by no
other town in the county, ard by few
towns any where else. Socially, politi-
caIly, financially, we are Twin, close to-
gether, living III harmony and peace.
At this season we want our fellow
citizens to go at this matter and make
it definite proposition just as the mer-
chant does when he looks over his trial
balanace. Personally, we have no doubt
hat the result instead of being dis
ne rte ming instead of showing bankrupt
~. will prove that old Pembina has still
l larger capital with which to do future
than any other town in the
county, so far as natural advantages are
But there is one thing more that must
De added. No matter how much stock
We have on hand, in itself it is but dead
natter A stock of goods cannot sell it.
self. There's got to be a man behind
The gun.
The merchant who would keep his
loors closed, who would not invite people
n to buy, who decried the qualities of
lis own goods, would be pronounced a
EEL. Bnt there are citizens in every
own that sit around and run down
and every body IN their own
and forsooth. these are the
'nes who pose as the wseacres of the
Village.
Yes, fellow citizens, let us take account
If stock in the beginning of this new
irar Of 1919, let us face the facts, good
md evil, then all together, pull for old
Pembina.