Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1901 — Lafayette Afraid of Competition. [ARTICLE]

Lafayette Afraid of Competition.

The scheme to connect Indianapolis and Lafayette by an electric line is dead, according to W. Bfnt Wilson, editor of the Lafayette Journal. Mr. Wilson says that Lafayette merchants refused to encourage aid to the road and killed the scheme. They feared Indianapolis competition. These Lafayette merchants would think business men of smaller towns were built on a very narrow guage plan, indeed, if they opposed electric line connections with Lafayette on the same grounds. And along that same line they and the merchants of Logansport, no doubt consider it very unbusiness like in papers in neighboring counties to refuse their advertisements, as this paper has always done, because we did not choose to sell the use of our advertising columns where they would be used to the detriment of our own town and county. The difference is all in whose ox it is that gets the prod under the fifth rib.