Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1910 — BUT STRIKES THE RIGHT NAIL. [ARTICLE]

BUT STRIKES THE RIGHT NAIL.

The Republican says that the Democrat has its “hammer out for the proposed fair association.” Now the Democrat don’t care a rap whether a fair association is organized here or not. It never has nor never willy however, advise people to put their money into a project which is practically sure of being a losing venture. We have given the experience of other towns and shown that county s fairs are a back number, and even in their palmy days they were never much real benefit to a town. Horse racing, which was the leading feature of all these fairs, is alscLpractically

obsolete, and we cannot believe ;that the failure of the scores of fairs all over the country was due altogether to poor business management. The Democrat aims to tell the truth, and in this it of course has nothing in common with the Republican.