Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 229, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1912 — Partners In Town Business. [ARTICLE]

Partners In Town Business.

A village, a town, a city, is a partnership. All of us here are in business together. Ownership of property is individual, but our prosperity as a whole is closely bound up in each* other’s interests. If you have a house to rent, goods to sell, labor to sell, your success in getting a good price for such service depends on the prosperity of your neighbors. If they are doing well, they will pay fair prices, and as times go, these prices tend to rise. On the other hand, if your neighbors are not succeeding, they will haggle for the last cent for your house, your goods, your labor. The prices for these services will tend to fall. When you buy goods away from home, you work to reduce the prosperity of your neighbors. Thereby they become less able to do anything to help you, and you have failed to build up business ties with them so that they feel no personal interest in you. When you buy goods at home, you increase the prosperity of your neighbors. They are not merely better able thereby to help you along 4n return, but you have created business friendships that make them want to help you. Buying at home pays!