Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-12-05

An AppchL
Ii is an easy task for the editor of the
GLOBE-REPUBLIC to assert and prove that
the people of Springfield should buy their
supplies of the merchants of Springfield
Our tradesmen should do their best to give
goods to our people at reasonable prices,
and when they do this their fellOw-c:tizens
should show their appreciation of their
taste, public spirit and enterprise by buy
ing such of their wares or fabrics as they
need or desire. 1t is the cooperation of
the various classes of people to build up
the trade and industries of town that does
the work completely. 1t is mutual help
which produces the highest results in pro-
noting local prosperity.
Our Springfield merchants are really do
ing remarkably well in bringing here fine
and good articles of merchandise and con-
sumption for the benefit of our citizens.
Ampler stocks or finer goods were never
seen here. The displays in our tradesmen's
palaces rival those seen in the large cities,
and it should be considered privilege, as
well as regarded duty, by our people, to
buy such of the articles displayed as they
wish. If We buy our supplies at home, we
spend our money here and may get hold
of a good portion of it again, but If we
spend it at Cincinnati and Dayton it will
do its part to boom the trade Of the cities
mentioned, and will by just so much as the
expenditure amounts TO, lessen the legiti-
mate of the business done here.
That our people can save money by going
abroad. we cannat believe. Neither Gin
cinnati nor Dayton merchants csa give
Springfield the benefit OF margins of profit
which will cover their car fare. These
merchants buy to no better advantage than
our own merchants, and they can sell to No
better advantage By the use of tricks OF
devices they can sell occasional articles
very low, but they are sure to get more
than even on purchases made afterward.
Ii is TO the interest OF our merchants tC
| give TO their local customers better bargains
than they can get in other cities, and. hav-
ing made this market study, they know
what is needed and desired here. And
having spent their time and money. and ex'
ercised their good taste, IN behalf of oul
citizens, they have right to expect that
their efforts shall be appreciated and re-
warded by their neighbOrs and friends al
home. A large portion of our people have
something to sell. They wish their Spring
field friends TO buy Of them-and very
properly. Therefore they should buy OF
persons in other lines of trades. In othel
words, tradesmen should interchange Gus
tom.
The larger number Of our people receive
their income from our citizens in some way
The get their living here; they are pro
tected here In their lives and property; the!
are givena dvantageS, facilities and prlvll
eges of a very high order. and they should
therefore, Loyalty strive to do what they car
to promote local trade and industries. Il
one cannot suit himself, (or herselD at one
place, there are many others, and it Is
shorter distance from one house 10 another
than from here to Cincinnati. We call the
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nouncements of Springfield tradesmen, a:
they are amply and tastfully spread out il
the advertising columns of our several edi
tions and issues. They make good reading
they are well and spicily edited, by mer
who know how TO make points and hit:
with the pen as well as in devising new
schemes in pushing business. They arr
right here, in the city, and l
there is any mistake made they cal
and will rectify it at once. lhe!
are citizens of Springfield, too, and is to on
personal interest that they should pros
per-for as our merchants prosper, so vii
the city itself prosper, with all its seVera
classes of trade and industrial pursuits
In phrase, the citizens OF Springfield
should organize themselves into mutual
help-and-beneft society, in the operation
Of which it would doubtless appear, in du
time, that everybody was doing his best Il
help everybody else and that, as a logica
result Of this, it would be discovered tha
everybody else was doing his best to hell
| everybody.