Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-12-10

cause you will have the unreal instead |
of the genuine, because you will In |
sist on dealing with the unknown in |
stead of trading with your own home |
merchants. It is human nature for
you to do this because the rule of life
is to follow the will-o'-the-wisp blindly.
Everybody does this, everybody tries
to grasp the indefinite instead of grab
bing the things at our very home
door
Really it is laughable when you
come to think of it. You sent your
dollars to us because you fancied and
hoped that the distance, which gives
enchantment to the view, would send
| you something in the way of a great
| prize. OF course we did not.
We spend our dollars like water in
| foreign lands while at home we do
rather we think that we do not. Year
after year I have made the pilgrim
age into practically all of the foreign
lands. It has cost me, 1 do not care
to say how many, thousands of dol
lars.
Yet all this time 1 know and realize
that we have better things to see, bet
ter things to ride in, better things to
eat, than any other land. To the
crooked and thieving guides in Paris
and London and Berlin we are the
"easy marks" We are the simple
minded. We are the deluded, the
easily decoyed. The gilded palaces of
revelry in Paris and Vienna, the I'M
wholesome cabaret of st. Petersburg
and Brussels, the gambling hell of
Monaco, the glittering vice halls of
Cairo-are all maintained by Ameri-
can dollars. We support them. We
make them rich. We have made
champagne necessity, we have made
truff1es and mushrooms both expensive
and desirable.
It's the history of life. Every crea-
ture shall prey upon the weaker. And
we are the weaker who lavish our
money on this sort of foolishness. 1t
is really true that it is you, the peo-
pie of the soil, the dwellers in the
country, who are the wiser, after all.
We seek dissipation and spend our
energy and health as well as our dol
= lars in looking for excitement.
1t is to you, in the country, that
! the nation looks in time of war. Why
, not in peace also? The strength lies
= with you The power is within your
= your rights of franchise and your good
sense and judgment.
Try it. Get together among your
. selves in your scattered communities
Hold meetings. Discuss among your
selves what you ought to do to i'm
prove conditions. Talk it overflow
to keep the money at home. Simpl.
. feather your own nests, that's all
u Make your efforts count to your owl
y advantage.
y Is it possible that the dissension
and petty jealousies that are popular
= ly supposed to exist in all small com
munities cannot be done away wit
~ so that you can all combine for tn
good of the whole? What if an arme
le power were on the way down tn
county road to burn and sack you
wv Ii SuL IAO tAlOulo Vi JOQI WOu
s. en- and children? What would yo
Oh do? Would you sidestep mas
III meeting, called to create defens'
a because Bill Jones or Hank Buncom
80 was going to be there? Would 20
IL. sulk and refuse to have thing
ne do with the defense plan just becaus
le you had some grievance, real or othe
M wise, against somebody who would
or there?
OF Not on your life. 1t would be
,e- grand rally. 1t would be Hello Bill
dy and Hello Hank" Gimme Ii
OF with this pesky cannon" "Cut buck
hole in this strap for a belt to hold |
my sword" Hand over the powd
lot there, l want to fire few bullets
I'D the enemy"
lid That's the spirit. Unite for the col
art mon interest with trade at home
CT your slogan.