Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1907 — Rensselaer Surely is in Need of Factories. [ARTICLE]

Rensselaer Surely is in Need of Factories.

A town without industries may be a pleasant enough residence town for people with plenty of means to live without work, or a good enough place to make money for a limited number of business men. But how abuut the young people who have to grow up in idleness because there is no work for them, and when they reach a point in life where they must work, they have to go away to other places to find that work? Suiely, when you come to think about it, it is a mighty bad showing for a town like Rensselaer that in a day and nation that has work for a’l, thatall its young people have to grow up .in habits of idleness in youth and to’ go away to ather towns as soon as adult age is reached, in order to get their share of that abundant work. In this day and age it should be as much the sacred and unavoidable duty of the citizens of towns and villages to provide work for the people and working people of their community as it is to provide them with schools and ch u rch es. An d it should be and is a great and ever growing reproach to a community which fails in this duty. Al.l’that is needed is a united and liberal public spirit, intelligently directed, and the think will be done.