The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1913-02-27

destroying community prosperity.
You may have heard the story
concerning the Jew who sought
employment with the circus. He
was given the job of wearing the
skin of recently defunct lion,
with the admonition that he learn
quickly to growl and to roar.
Accordingly, after he appeared to
have become proficient in the role,
he was placed in a strong cage
and lined up with the other ami
mails Of the menagerie. During
his initial performance, the cage
containing the pseudo-lion was
run alongside that of fierce Ben
gal tiger A trainer announced tt
the audience that phenomenal
exhibition was about to take
place; the raging African lion
and the ferocious tiger were to be
placed together in one cage. The
jew within the lions skin quaked
with fear. The cages were run
close together, the massive door
was swung open and the hostile
tiger stalked into the lion S. cage.
The latter made a feint Of growl-
ing, but backed into corner of
his cage and began to pray muf-
fledly in Hebrew. The ferocious
tigar sprang to that corner of the
cage, opened wide his jaws and
snarled: "Quit praying and
growl, you chump. This tiger is
| likewise a jew
l say to you that before the
business men of the community
growl further at the farmer, be-
cause of his inclination to patron
: ize mail order houses, it is up to
those business men to correct their
own shortcomings in this respect.
! And I say to you that they are
cardinal sinners, in the game OF
> destroying community prosperity.
Let us remove the mote that OBJ
structs our own vision before we
: insist upon prying the beam from
the eye of our brother. The con-
: dition / have mentioned is typical
of nearly every town Of the rur-
al community class. One of the
first symptoms of individual pros
: perity in any rural community,
q is revealed when the family of the
e man who is prospecting, do their
e shopping away from the home
e town. And the truism applies to
your merchant, your lawyer, your
t lumber dealer, your doctor, your
e banker and to all the rest Of your
: business community. You know
( it and so do l.
e l am ready to plead guilty to
: the charge of having approached
this topic from the negative side,
$ But the affirmative is above re-
proach and should need no ad.
J vocacy. Why deal in platitudes
I when the commercial salvation
u lies in knowing, admitting and
r proclaiming the TRUTH We Of the
: rural community towns are face t
Il face with a commercial condition
! shorn of mere theory. We have
l new factor of opposition to com
= bat. Don't solace your business
n soul by abiding to the parcel pos
o as an entering wedge. The wedg
IS has been entering for years. Thu
Il parcel post is the maui calculated
to drive the wedge home. A negr'
IL was the star actor in a legal ex
a ecution in Arkansas. He stoot
is on the scaffold with the rop'
II properly adjusted about his neck
le "Well, Henry" said the sheriff
l. "everything's ready and you'll
r soon start. Have you any remark
le to make before you leave9' "
4 jest want to say to you all, . sai'
Ie the condemned, THAT this is agol
IS to be mighty good lessol
g to me. -
J. We business men of the -ura
n town zones have had our lessol
II for years past. Have we profite'
I'd by its teachingY Are we going t
a continue to neglect the precept
that lie before our vision like a
lie open book2 Are we going to fla
lie to grasp our opportunity when tn
q powers that oppose us are awak
,p and live to every vile known /