Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-05-15
WAUsE0N MONEY
How Much of 1T Stays In Wauseon?
How Much is Lost Outside of Wau-
seon? why Not Make wauseon
Money Work in Wauseon?

Some copy reached the editors
desk this week that set the editors
thinker" running and as thinking is
a benifcial exercise the editor is
passing on this copy to his fellow
citizens of Wauseon. The copy re-
ferred to was unsigned and therefore
we don't know who the contributor is
but it bears a Columbus, Ohio, date
line and we take it that somebody in
that city sent it to us. There were
some things political that were men
toned in the aforementioned Copy,
mainly about candidates for the Re-
publican nomination for U. S. Sena--
tor and the prediction was offered
that Hon. Ralph Cole would be the
man who would secure that nomlna-
ton. But the particular part OF TINS
"Copyr that we desire to call atten-
ton to, reads as follows:
Turning aside from things political,
there is q business campaign on In
Columbus now which is attracting
some attention, not only because It is
unique, but because it is being con-
Quoted by a syoungster." John a;
Kelly, secretary of the INDUSTRIAL
commission of the Chamber OF Com-
merce, a young man not many years
out of high school, is nervous Celt
who doesn't understand why every
other man in Columbus doesn't spend
the greater part of his time boosting
Columbus like he does. He was a
newspaper man, and like men of this
ilk. had q habit of cleaning up today s
work today and forgetting about it
while he looked for some new stunt.
So when a manufacturer appeared
at the Chamber of Commerce to say
his factory was ready to expand, and
that he could just double his working
force If he could get $4,000 more
capital, Mr.. Kelly couldn't under
stand why he couldn't get the $4,000
in about five minutes and start In
right away to get $4,000 for some
other manufacturer who wanted to
double his capacity.
So he started an investigation, and
found out that within ten years Col
umbus people have lost $3,000,000 In
money unWisely invested in big min
ing propositions, to say nothing OF
the small ones, but that it was hard
err to get the money for home indus
Tries tUaU IL ID W PuAf q iAoth- oOr<>s
tooth out of horses jaw. The rea-
son seemed to be that distance lends
enchantment,v and Mr.. Kelly is now
conducting a campaign to educate
people to the advantageous invest
ments in safe propositions offered
right at home.
He is writing letters to the news
papers, and when they don't print
what he wants them to, he buys
space and puts it In anyway. He is
writing letters, making speeches in
public and private, and, Of course, is
getting other leading men interested
too. And he thinks it is campaign
which might be carried on in every
city in the state, with result that Ohio
would soon have all the money it
needed for any legitimate purpose
for Mr.. Kelly isn't at all narrow. He
says that whoever helps Ohio, helps
Columbus, and he asks the whole
state to adopt a new motto Make
Ohio money work in Ohio"
Why doesn't the above apply in
some measure to Wauseon? Why
shouldn't the money made in Wause-
on be invested here providing there is
safe investment right here at home
offered? Why shouldn't Wauseon
merchants be patronized by Wauseon
people, providing these same merch-
ants keep in stock the goods Wau-
seon people want Why shouldn't
Wauseon money work in Wauseon?