Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 273, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1915 — Public Selfishness. [ARTICLE]

Public Selfishness.

Selfishness kills more towns than any other cause. When you find a town where its business men look only to their own aggrandizement look for the writing on the wall, fpr it is doomed. No place yet has ever prospered unless its citizens went to work upon a universal platform of the greatest good to the greatest number. One-eyed ideas won’t win; neither will a selfish desire to monopolize some line of business. Work together for the common good, for unless your town prospers you can’t prosper