The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-01-27
WILLIAMS URGES
MORE ENTHUSIASM
Uurges Commercial Club to Buy Tract
of Land, Plat And Sell It as
Addition to Vinita,
st. Louis, Mo-, Jan. 25.

St. Louis, Mo-, Jan. %.
Editor Vinita Daily Chieftain:
l understand that there will be a
mass meeting at the Commercial Club
rooms Thursday, the object being to
get your citizens out, that they might
be interested to a greater extent, for
the benefit and future upbuilding of
Vinita.
Sorry l am not able to be at this
meeting, and take this opportunity in
Isaying what l think about its future.
After meeting with your Commercial
Club, and business men, on stove
manufacturing proposition, find that
the outlook for the future is very poor
indeed, from the fact that we have no
leader that has the faculty of instilling
Iconf1dcnce in the citizens as to the up
building of your town.
One of the principal reasons for this
condition of affairs lay in the fact that
the people who own the most property
and are the most benefited, allow 9TH
ers who have ambition to build the
| town do all the work and pay all the
/ bills.
The newspapers and the banks, are
in position to do more than they have
done, by organizing, and working in
harmony, for instance the newspapers
can keep up the courage of the people
by telling them what we have, and
what we are going to have, and what
Vinita is going to be, if we all pull
together. The banks can assist the
Commercial Club by cooperating, offer
ling them money to buy tract of land
and sub-dividing and selling town lots
to it's citizens and the proceeds to go
for factory purposes, this will give the
citizens a chance to get their money
back in a good many ways.
The best towns in Oklahoma and
Kansas, owe their rapid progress along
this line. We allow outsiders to come
to Vinita and put on additions and sell
to our citizens, making the promoters
rich when the Commercial Club could
do this just as we'll and keep the
money at home, making the purchasers
more money off of their investments
than has been done by outsiders
Vinita is in better shape today than
| it ever was, and the inactivity of the
Commercial Club, or its citizens, will
not be able to hold it back, for the
reason that the great natural resources
good water, railroads, cheap lands, and
last but not least good schools. There
| is more building going on now, than
ever before in Vinita's history More
has been done in the last two years.
in town building than twenty years be-
fore. Vinita is better advertised in the
mercial world, think we'll of Vinita.
have had the pleasure of meeting the
officials of both the NJ, K & T. and
the Frisco and they say that if Vinita
would do something for herself they
would feel justified in assisting, in diff
ferent ways. New railroads and new
oil fields will be a future asset, and
property will make fortunes to those
who have the nerve and grit to buy
and hold. Giving sites and bonus to
parties to locate factories is wrong and
an injustice to the citizens unless they
employ a number of men, not less than
twenty, and tie them up with bond
to hold them to their contract. If the
Law and Order League would use half
their energy they lose in prosecuting
whiskey cases, to the upbuilding of
their town, would be great benefit.
Let us all assist in the greater up
building of Vinita, for the benefit of
ourselves as we'll as our children, cut
out business jelousy, harmonic, lets
have one religion, one politics called
greater Vinita. hope every citizen
will come out tot he mass meeting
Thursday night, and get enthused with
the new progress that is now knock
ing at our door.
Very truly,
w. G.. WILLIAMS.