The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-05-22


THURSDAY, :::::::::::::::::::::kaAY ~, 1879.
Patronize Your Home Institutions.
The Banner believes that people
should patronize home enterprise
1t is directly in the line of the peo-
pie of any town, parish or State to
give their patronage to home men.
We do not say that people should
put up with inferior goods and pay
exorbitant prices Upon the theory of
keeping their money at home; but
they can afford to pay more for the
same article at home than they can
in buying abroad. Every dollar ex
pended at home helps to build up
home business; helps to give EN-.
ployment to labor; helps to open new
avenues of trade and industry; helps
to pay taxes, and all that. Some per
cent. of all the money expended at
home is quite sure to come back to
the pockets of those expanding it,
and if not to their pockets at least
to the pockets of neighbors or
friends who need it. 1t is selfish and
shortsighted to depend upon CON-
munity for a living and do little or
nothing in the way of giving others
Of the community a support. 1t is
popular with many people to send
away for what they want to buy
Many people will do this and get
poorer goods and pay more money
for them than if they bought at
home. There are people who hard
ly ever buy even their groceries at
home. If the local merchants de-
pended upon such for their trade
they would have to shut up shop
Such people want the good stores, to
answer the demands Of their accom-
modating trade, and they can be de-
pended upon to growl if their own
services or their own businesses are
not patronized by their neighbors.-
A good deal of this folly comes of
neglect to consider the matter in it's
various bearings. 1t should be re-
membered that the man who opens
afine stock Of goods, in any line, in
Fillmore, Bellevue, Rocky Mount,
Red Land, Collinsburg, Benton
and Dixie, Or any other place
in Bossier parish, will help the
whole community if he succeeds, and
hurt it if he fails. His success is
also something more than the vii
lagos. It will help in a measure the
whole parish and country surround.
ing, for his money will go to the up
building of enterprises calculated
to promote the welfare of his section.
We ought to bear in mind that the
prosperity of our neighbors in legit-
innate business is q direct help in
the advancement of. our own plans,
and therefore from q selfish stand.
point it should be our policy to help
those that are nearest to us. This
principle will hold good in all the
departments Of business, and may
be extended from the cross roads
and village to the parish, and from
the parish to the State, and from
the State to the United States. In.
stead Of spending our money away
from home, we should have a pride
in keeping just as much of itathome
az possible. People who have goods
to sell, however, have no business to
claim patronage on the ground of
home support alone. The mechanic
must be skilled in his trade, the
professional man worthy of his cases,
and the merchant equal to the rea.
sonable demands of his customers.
People cannot be expected to EN-.
ploy incompetents, nor to buy un-
satisfactory goods, and they will not
if they can help it. No rule can be
laid down that will relieve people