The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-05-17

DoS'r SEND AwAY.-Den't send
away from town for anything You can
buy here. Encourage every store,
Office or shop in the city. That's the
way to build up town. You build up
yourself by helping every mechanic
and business man in the city. By
keeping all the business of the town
here you make business good at home
and strangers noticing this arc induced
TO settle among us. Don't be imposed
on or submit to eXtortion. There is no
danger of that though, when there is
so much competition in every branch
OF business. Suppose a hundred of
our citizens should club together and
send cast after their boots and shoes,
dry goods, groceries, oysters, oranges,
lemons, candies, cook stoves, tin-ware,
etc. They might each save few dol
lars annually by buying in quantity
east, but they deprive their neighbors
of the trade which justly belongs to
them, and starve out 4 half dozen con-
Germs which ought to be sustained.
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printing each year, which ought to be
kept at home. People have invested
money here in printing materials, and
If they conduct their business in such
way as to command your confidence,
they ought to have your patronage.
We have seen several jobs of printing
done east, which were no better done
nor cheaper than they could be had
here. People who take their work
away to some eastern city are .build-I
ing up institutions which never spend
cent here. The papers here are de-
voted to your interests and are doing az
much as any other agency to build up
your town. They spend thousands of
dollars annually in your stores and
shops, and yet we occasionally find
men who, for the sake of saving fifty
cents or dollar, send their work off
to be done by somebody who has no
interest in the town, nor cares a cent
whether it prospers or not. If you
have work which cannot be done here,
of course no one can blame you for
sending it away. We have recently
had occasion to compare our prices |
with those adopted by several of the |
printers unions in various cities, and |
find that we print many kinds of work |
in common use among business men,
cheaper than they are done in respect |
able establishments in Cincinnati, |
Philadelphia and Boston. The argu-
ments we use in favor of printing will |
apply TO all other branches of business.
Suppose the papers here were to adj
wise people TO buy their goods east, and |
thereby discourage every business en-
terprise in the city. How long would |
it be till there was general complaint |
that these papers were working against |
your interests. And yet that is just |
what is being done every week by |
some of the business men. Every |
time a "bummer" comes along from |
some little back alley printing Office in |
Chicago, Quincy or Cincinnati, he re-
ceives orders for work, and our obser-
walton is that the work is a swindle in |
some way. If we were to do work on
the same kind of paper used by the
''cheap" city establishments for their
country customers, it would not be &C
cepted. We have no particular cause
to complain that we are not well |
patroniZed, but occasionally find a case |
for complaint. We apply our remarks
to all branches of business. We ask |
nothing for any man who does not do
his work well and at a reasonable |
price, but we insist that the only way
to build up a town is to encourage,
with every dollar of trade you can,
every man who is engaged in business
here