Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 165, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1911 — Why Don’t You Pack Your Furniture and Quit Grumbling? [ARTICLE]

Why Don’t You Pack Your Furniture and Quit Grumbling?

Occasionally one will hear the remark, “I wish I was out of this town,” and then one feels like saying, “I wish you were,” for a man who stands on the street corners chewing and spitting—telling obscene stories, cursing the town, finding fault with his grandmother because she was a woman,, claiming that the merchants are a lot of thieves, that the lawyers and newspaper men would skin a man to a finish, and a whole lot more, is a nuisance and an abomination. Any town pestered with one or more such worthies would be justified in exercising cowhide authority on the bosom of their pants. No one is obliged to live where he is not suited. If one hasn’t an encouraging word for the business enterprise and institutions of his town, he should shut up and “go 'awy back and sit down.” If things don’t suit you, move to where they will. A growler and sorehead in a town is an enterprise killer every time. It would pay a town to donate him $5 and tell him to move.