Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 180, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1914 — HOME TRADE BOOSTS [ARTICLE]

HOME TRADE BOOSTS

Dollars Come Home to Roost

VERY fanner who makes bur town his market place has an interest In 11118 community. The fact that he Is a member of the community makes much difference to him when he considers that the prosperity of our town is his own prosperity. But when he sends his money to the mall order houses HE DOES NOT STOP TO THINK THAT HE IS NOT HELPING TO PAY THE REQUIRED TAXES IN HIS OWN COMMUNITY; not that he does not "pay his own legally assessed taxes, but that he Is not helping our local merchants to pay the taxes necessary to support the community. The mat! order man has absolutely no interest in the community. Ha plays the part of a fisherman—strolling about, casting a line here and there, where.he thinks the best fishing Is to be found, and after pulling out the fish be departs. The mail order man does not contribute to the upkeep of the community. He merely takes away from It. <• When a farmer sends his dollars to the mail order house he prevents a certain amount of Improvements, say, for Instance, In road building, here in our county. The mail order man does not help to build our roads, but the local storekeeper does. If we keep the dollars at home they will keep on helping us all. Dollars, spent at home, come home to roost. They come back in the upkeep of out* town and county Institutions- We have none too many dollars at the most In our community and it seems a shame to send any of them away to the mall order houses, where we will never see them again. The dollars we send away help the mail order man to take a vacation. In Europe or at the seashore. THEY HELP HIM TO MAINTAIN HIS AUTOMOBILE AND TO RIDE ON PAVED ROADS. If we keep these same dollars at home they will help us to have better roads in our own county. Of- course, the mail order man pays his taxes in the city, which helps to pave the streets of the city, but we here in our town don’t benefit by that. Therefore, the best thing for us to do is keep our money at home, where It will do us some good. OUR LOCAL MERCHANTS WILL USE THE DOLLARS TO GOOD ADVANTAGE BY HELPING TO PAY THE TAXES HERE—THE TAXES REQUIRED TO BUILD GOOD ROADS. EVERY DOLLAR SPENT IN OUR HOME TOWN MEANS IMPROVEMENTS AT HOME. The merchants of our town deserve the patronage-of the people In our community. They are a part, a very large part, of the community and they pay a major portion of the taxes. The more business they do the more taxes they must pay and the more taxes paid into the county treasury, the more Improvements we can have. ~ Unless we are careful and watch our own interests we will find out to our cost that the ultimate result of the mail order scheme will be the centralization of all of the country business in the large cities and the absolute destruction of the financial interests in the small cities and towns. The only way to prevent this is to stop sending our. orders to the mail order houses. Let the dollars come home to" roost. That is the only way, and they will come home to roost if we do not send them too far away. The dollars spent locally will circle around and keep things lively, but if sent away we must get more dollars from outside to take their place. It is not always an easy matterto do this. THE SAFEST THING TO DO IS TO TAKE NO CHANCES, BUT TO SPEND THEM AT HOME WITH THE LOCAL STOREKEEPERS. If we had any expectation 'that the mail order man would ever do anything to help our community, things might be different But there is no chance. He comes to us in the garb of an artful deceiver, with gross misrepresentations, false promises and a record of disappointments. But we welcome the opportunity .to again place ourselves oB roco«d. an,briSlt> dupes. There isn’t a grain of kindness In his whole makeup. He demands his cash in advance and gives you that which he wishes to send. You have no redress. You have no tights that he is bound to respect The mere'fact that wo are silly enough to send our money away, out of our* own community, to a stranger, thereby injuring our own business prospects and Jeopardizing our own prosperity, justifies Mm In believing that he can take the most outrageous liberties with us. Bread cast on the waters will return, not so with dollars sent to the mail order house. Turkeys will come home to roost, if somebody does not catch them. BUT DOLLARS WILL COME HOME TO ROOST IF WE KEEP THfcM IN CIRCULATION IN OUR HOME TOWN. TRY IT.