Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1906 — SPEND YOUR MONEY AT HOME. [ARTICLE]

SPEND YOUR MONEY AT HOME.

“Do Unto Others As You Would Have Others Do Unto You. If you sell groceries to Mr. Smith, it is only natural that Mr. Smith should expect you to buy moat in his shop. Isn’t that perfectly fair? Well, then, if you earn your living in Rensselaer, is it unfair to expect you to spend what you can of it here? Many of those who do their shopping out of town do so thoughtlessly. If your brother sells furniture you wouldn’t go into a Chicago store to buy a chair just because it looked pretty and cheap in the show window, would you? Wouldn’t you say to yourself: i “My brother can get me that chair just as cheap. I couldn’t think of getting it from any one else?” If you have to live and earn a livelihood in Rensselaer, every other person who is similarly situated is your brother. He can get it for you just as cheap, no matter what it is. Make it your resolve this year that you will make your purchases at home, spending your money where it will not go out of the community, never to return, but will circulate at home and help to make everyone just a little more prosperous; furnish a little more work to the laborer; pay a few more debts and help in various ways to build up your home town.