The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1913-08-15
ONLY FOOL OR MADMAN
KNOCKS HIS HOME TOWN
Business Man Tells Investor If He Plants
Money in LeayenwOrth He Will Never
Cease to Regret 1t

Nearly always there are two ways
out Of dilemma. A newspaper owes
it to the public to print the happenings
in the community without favor or fear,
If you do anything you don't want to
see in print, don't do il" is the sole
answer of the scribe. 1t sometimes
happens that to print the news lays
the purveyor open TO the charge Of
vindictiveness or malice, for this reason
and for the further reason that undesi-
rable notoriety reflects on the depend
ents Of the principle, we had fully con-
cluded to with hold all the facts in re-
lation to an incident that occurred here
last Friday afternoon and evening,
On Monday OF this week our attention
was called to fact in which the in
terest of the town as whole is in
volved, which is responsible for the
change of mind. When a business
man knocks the town from which
he solicits business support he does
direct injury to every resident.
If he cannot say a good word for
the town that feeds him the least
he can do is to keep still. To
smite the hand that gives him bread
and butter is the basest kind Of in
gratitude.
From a disinterested party who for
merly resided at Arlington, Wash,
where he knew G. H. MayberrY for
number of years, we learned that he
recently sold his business and bust
ness house for 81 900 and has for the
past few weeks looked over eastern
Washington for a new location, with
the purpose Of investing his money in
property or business. Mr.. Maybery
came here Monday and looked at prop
erty on Front street opposite the via
duct, in his search for something de-
sirable he found piece OF property on
the corner OF Commercial and Eighth
streets. near where James w. Cor
coran's place of business is located and
he walked in and asked him who owned
the property. Mr.. Mayberry says after
asking him what his business was and
whether it was his intention to buy
property here he was astounded to hear
him make statements about the pre-
sent and future prospects of Leaven-
worth as place for investment, and
as he had decided to locate here he
deemed it his duty to make a signed
statement, which he urged this paper
TO publish, that the people may know
who is trying to prevent strangers from
investing their money in the town.
He sent for an Echo reporter Monday
evening TO make the following volun-
tary statement:
''On Monday, Aug. II, James W.
Corcoran said to me if you locate here
YOU will be sorry of it as long as you
live. told him I thought OF buying
a lot opposite the viaduct and he said
il would prove bad buy as the via
duct would come out almost any day.
That this was the dearest town to live
in in the state. That it was upheld
solely by the saloons, but that 81 per
cent of the population favored prohibi-
tion. and the town would vote dry in
side of year. He said that the prin-
cipal support came from loggers but
that they did not have much money
but what they had they spent with the
saloons, and that I could not make
living here, that the town was made up
of a drunken set. He repeatedly ad-
vised me against investing money here.
I had previously talked with several
genteel and prosperous looking business
men and other property owners, and
talked with others since my conversa-
ton with Mr.. Corcoran, and they all
spoke encouragingly of the town. I
also talked with J. I. Brownlow and
his son, who are employed by the
Leavenworth Lumber Co., who own
property here and have lived in Leav-
enworth some eight months, and ne
spoke well of the town. Mr.. BTOwnlOw
and his son lived in Arlington, for
number of years and came from there