The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-05-09
HICk NANHSMS.
Scratch my BACK and I'II
Scratch HOnrs

scratch Yours.
If you want TO build p a college, oil
improve the educational institutions o.
your town or country, send your boy,
or girls abroad to be educated. 1t ha:
such happy effect in encouraging schoo
| teachers to establish good Institutions
and takes your children beyond parental
care and attention. Besides-its the flu
ish-that is, it finishes the struggling
home school-the teachers and patrons Of
which are. by their support, furnishin G
you the money that enables you to send
them off
If you want a fashionable dress or bon
net, be sure to send to a large city and
pay two prices for the same, because its
the fashion, and besides, if you were Ia
bestow this patronage at home you would
encourage sameness in fashion and per
haps enable number of worthy home
ladies to earn n support, and in time to
build up fashionable establishments at
your very door.
If you want buggy, carriage or wagon,
never buy one manufactured at home, for
fear it would encourage more mechanics
to locate in our midst, who with their
families would consume that much more
provisions, groceries, clothing, country
produce, SC, Besides, it sounds so much
better to say 81 bought this TO order in
the city Of.
II you want special kinds Of dry goods,
clothing, or groceries, don't get your
home merchants to order for you, because
that might induce them to keep similar
goods in stock, and thereby enable home
people TO make a small profit os you.
But, what you buy at home, make them
sell it TO you at as near cost as possible,
and if you have to pay n profit send off
to some city for such articles, because it
is the city merchant that helps to support
you in your particular business.
IL you are member of any lodge, or
der, or society, by all means urge that
the printing be sent off to some Eastern
printing office, because you know your
lodge, from time to time, in sundry ways,
will want editorial notices, and the East
ern printing houses are the very ones
you will want to give such notices free
CT charge. OF urse you won't want
such notices in your home paper, or if
you do, the home editor will give them as
items of news.
Ifyou want a fine pair of boots, don t
: ct Fethe or Shredder or any other home
man, to make them. They are as good
workmeu as can be found in any city;
but, If they get your money <hey will
spend it with your home merchants and
farmers for something to live upon, but
if you will send off to the city workmen
who set up of nights trying to help sup
port you ia you, turn, will get it. So il
is with clothing aud other lines of me
chanical industries.
If you want A, and 3 and c., to pat
ronize you in your business, let them see
that you are ndependent enough to send of
i city. and buy the goods that A., and B.,
and C.. are trying to make or sell at your
home. When they know that you are
sending of for goods in Aeir line it is
certain to make them intensely anxious
to patronize you n your line, and especial
ly when you brag and blow about how
much cheaper and better article you got.
And the worse you are ''sold in the city
just brag that much the louder.
If you are merchant, never keep in
regular stock, a quality of goods that will
10 for yourself or family, for it is too
good or costly for the market" If you
10 the people will not be tempted to send
or to a city precisely as you 10!
II any one says ''patrouize home me
chanics, agree with him at once, and
join in abusing all our neighbors for
not doing so-but be sure to send off the
first time you can save a nickie!
If you are a nechanic-curse every
body for not patronizing you in your
irade-but never think of practising it
by patronizing other home mechanics.
And be very particular to always patron
re those who send OF for everything in
your ljnel Remember that 'tO live and
let live is an exploded h umbug and that
you have got no interest or identity OF
interest with your fellows-only TO make
your support Of Of theng aud be assured
your eighbors are such fools they viii.
never nOlice.or care for any recipro cal
help from you, Or, if they do they u
Justify you because you got il or thought
you got it a little cheaper; aud hence they
will not in return following your example
get or try 10 get articles in your line
from some one else.
Scratch my back and II scratch
yours, r ght or wrong, is human nature,
and the sooner a community learns it, the