Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-04-17
A Chapter Ga she SubbeeG OG Patron
fzamg Home Institutions.


A ChsPter ca she subSect OG PasrOn-
1zang Home InsGiGuGl0ns.
EDS. HERALD:
What pleasant reelection it must be to-.
merchant who has spent his entire life
in studying his business, acquainting
himself with the wants of the eommunizs
ty in which he lives; in catering to their-
wants and fancies; spending his money,
visiting the head of market; racking his
brain, in rummaging over great piles Pf'
goods, and exhausting his physical nature
as we'll, in making selections for his mar
ket; dickering with the commission mer-
chant, first on prices, then on discount,
in order to get their goods down to bot
tom prices, all in order to be able, when
he gets them home, to sell them to his.
neighbors and friends as low as they can
be had in any market in the land and
when he gets his fresh, new stock in, all
in shape, placed on the shelves, he looks
them over and fiatters himself that he has
made a success in his labors this time and
of his own certain knowledge he con-
graduates himself that he has now got a
stock on hands that will compare favOra-
bly, with the best stores in the country. 1
say it must be quite consOling to such a
business man as I have here described to
meet his friend on the street, to whom he
had expected to sell nice carpet, or a
suit Of clothes, or his wall paper to fit up
his room for the Spring, and ask him to
call in now and look through the stock,
| that you want to sell him what he may
need for the season, he replies: FtWell i'm
| deed, / am sorry, but my wife and went
down to Cincinnati and 1 purchased my
carpet there" or 'Fa man,came here the
other day from Columbus with a nice
line of wall paper and 1 thought I would
get It while could; I did not know you
kept it;'' or, "as Mr.. Blank, from Cincin-
natl, tramp merchant, taking measures
for suits was here, and he had such nice
| goods I concluded to order a suit, and
then did not know you kept such goods. -
These same men who have made their pur-
chases in Cincinnati, and of the tramps
who carry samples, are men who depend
upon the same community for their sup
port. These same men will take their
money away from their own town, will
pay more for goods of the same kind than
they can be had for at home, as many OF
them, when they make the comparison
win acknow ledge.
Men who are thus treated should go tC
Cincinnati and employ their attorneys
and when county officials approach them
with their blandest smile, and solicit theil
vote they should be referred to their Gin
einnati constituents for support. Busi
ness men, who take their patronage away
from home, should be quietly passed by
and patronage given to the man who pat
ronizes home, and thus teach such mer
lesson they will learn in no other way
In Washington there is to be found som,
of as good stores as can be found in Ohio
and sell goods just as cheap. Our mer
chant tailors are first-class, always VI
with times in fashion and workmen, ant
no need of any man going away from her
to get good suit of clothes and at bottom
prices. In boots and shoes our market i
overflowing, and in every other class o
trade similar abundance is to be found
and in all cases as low in prices as can b
found anywhere. Men who cannot fin
goods in this market to suit their very re
fined taste, and who assume to be abov
the community in which they live, shoul
go where they can find such things NOR
! congenial to their refined taste, and ge
their patronage from those they patron
, ize. We think the man who lives in
community and makes his money off {
that community should patronize home
, especially when it costs him nothing to
so. If man cannot find what he want
in his home market he is not to blame i
going away to supply his wants, but h
should, as duty he owes his own shol
keeper, at least have the courtesy to e.
anime his stock and see what he has g,
: and not say he did not know he kept sue
: goods. This matter of making lit
|, money of of community and then goir
away to spend it for the very commodil
l. that is to be found in most abundance
l. their home market is becoming too coz
mon to be very encouraging to the ente
], prising and venturing merchant.
te A PATRON OF HOME.