Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1909 — Should Patronize Home Workers-Not Outsiders. [ARTICLE]

Should Patronize Home Workers-Not Outsiders.

While the Commercial Club is working to boom Rensselaer and to build up the manufacturing interests of the town, the fact should not be lost sight of that there is enough job printing bought out of town to .jkfep a gopd sized office busy, it is work too that can be done in the afilcep that are now in the place (In Just as good style as it is done at present. Thousands of envelopes are used that come through the Government, checks, drafts, order books, sales books, abstract and legal blanks, etc., are purchased of out of town shops that do not pay a cent of tax to help support Rensselaer institutions and it is also a drain upon the industrial life of this place. We have establishments here that depend solely upon the city and surrounding country for business that do not give an order in a year to a local printing office. They prefer to buy of outsiders. If reciprocity is a good policy for the nation why is.it pot good in local affairs. While the newspapers are lending their energies to boost Reusselaer, why not give them a boost by cutting out the put pf town printing shops and Jhelp home workers? Save some of the more intricate,jobs of ruling, there is hardly a piece of job printing used in tpwn but what can be duplicated at city prices and in city style in home offices.