Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1915 — SHOULD TRADE AT HOME. [ARTICLE]

SHOULD TRADE AT HOME.

Township Trustees Should Buy Everything Possible in Jasper Coiinty. The Democrat regrets to note in looking over the reports of the various township trustees that a great deal of money is spent outside of Jasper county that should not be so spent. All the money that passes through the hands of a township trustee comes from hte people of his township and county. It should therefore be his honest endeavor to spend every dollar of this money, so far as possible, in the township and community where raised. Providing, of course, the local dealer does not attempt to hold him up for exhorbitant prices.

Every dollar sent to "Kiger & Co.,’, or other supply companies, in Indianapolis or elsewhere for coal, sewer pipe, culverts, or printing supplies? that can be purchased at home, is taken out of circulation in the trustee’s township and county for all time, is it not better to leave this money at home where it will be in active circulation to the benefit of the commuinty in which the officer is interested and which is interested in him? —The Democrat hopes that our township trustees will be more careful about spending township money with these supply house in ' the future than they have been in the past. We all know that many supply houses have borne the reputation in the past of being most awfully crooked, and no officer can purchase supplies from them which he can buy equally as good and equally as cheaply at home—and perhaps more cheaply—-without arousing a suspicion -in the minds of the tax payers. A suspicion that perhaps it is made to the officer’s personal gain to purchase from the distant supply house.

Your home dealer is entitled to whatever public patronage you have to bestow, and in 99 cases out of 100 will sell you as good or better goods for less money and give you full count and full weight, than will the supply house located a hundred miles or more away.

We hope that in the reports published next year we shall see less of this buying from the foreign dealers, who have no interest whatever in our townships or county and pay no taxes here.