Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1903 — TALK OF MOVING AWAY. [ARTICLE]

TALK OF MOVING AWAY.

The Barcns horse-stocks company announce that they have had flattering offers to remove their plant to Peru, also from Wabash and other points, but if a bonus will be raised here sufficient to justify them in remaining, they will do so. Ths plant now employs aboat a dozen men, and if they can secure suitable quarters here or elsewhere they will increase their force. If sufficient inducement is made them by Rensselaer they will erect a three-story faotory, they announce, and will at once increase their force to twenty-five men. While The Democrat is opposed to this thing of bonuses to secure factories or employers of labor, it seems to be about the only way of securing or retaining them, when other towns offer inducements of the kind.