George Blackstone Irving
Published: 2017-10-12
Total Pages: 136
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Excerpt from My Town: Or Community Patriotism Rome killed its genius, Caesar, and likewise many communities are killing their local genius. While in Muscatine, Iowa, under the auspices of the commercial club, I protested against the officers promoting a public market for the reason that it would antagonize the resident capacity to build social and material welfare. Whatever embarrasses the home business man is of doubtful merit inasmuch as the local business man is a leader in promoting social as well as other com munity welfare, those intangible but invaluable desi derata of every town. Business men personify Con structive Genius, therefore the commercial club of Muscatine, which was organized to conserve local life of the community, sought to destroy it by a public market, which was an incident kindred to that of the commercial club of Valley City, North Dakota, rais ing with which to equip their club rooms and the committee traveling all the way to St. Paul, Minnesota, and purchasing at retail there. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.