The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-05-21

WHAT A DOLLAR CAN no.
l think that Of every dollar can keep
at home, and in the hands Of my neigh
Dor, part will return to me, not only
from the general prosperity, but from
actual trade secured to me, BY his proB-
penty and increased ability to buy my
product, Any sum Of money paid out ol
this community, into any other, goes to
enable the persons employed there, to pay
house rent and to purchase goods AT other
stores than ours; 1t La gone iroll Us, and
not dollar comes back 70 US. Does any
mechanic or lahorer Of Pittsburgh or
Cleveland come here to buy his goods
with the money he has received for work
done for, or material furnished 10 Wheel
ing? How much more prosperous We
would be II we kept our money ut home.
am sorry 10 say that some Of our manu-.
iaCturers, members OF this Chamber OF
Commerce, go elsewhere ior articles
and goods that could with proper en-.
couragement, be manufactured aud fur
niShsd In this city Of rs good quality and at
as low prices, aa In or by any other city III
the United States. ASK them why they
| do so, and they will tell you "because We
bny cheaper than In Wheeling" Why2
olphtthey not TO look for the reasons WY
In "a 80? Why Cannot Wheeling furnish
manufactured articles aAd products at aB
low cost and price as, for Instance, Pitts.
burRh can.
One reason Ia that every order given
10 rtBburgh enables her to produce
at lessened cost, and makes 1t more dihi.
cult Tor Wheeling 10 manufacture ChsapIy.
/ will show you why. In my business,
and II Ia the same In oil others, there are
certain expenses, that are, Il may bU said,
constant taxes, interest, salaries Of clerks,
foreman, watchmen, hostler, feed Of
horses, &C., which are just rs great,
whether melt two tons oil iron per day or
ten tons Ia my foundry. To pay thess
constant expenses | must, II melt twU
tons per day, add say one.quarler Of accent
pet pound 10 other costs, while, II by fur.
lishlng the goods needed by my neighbJr,
| eau Ilelt ten tons per day, l need only
add 0ne.twentleth Of cent per pound W
other COSTS To pay the constant expense.
Now II my neighbof, Instead oil giving nls
his work and helping me to feduce tile
cost Of production, gives II " Pittsburgh
he Is numbering me, promoting the pros
p4fily Of Pltsbutgn, and, as think, in
ldhng himself ami the entire community
oi which he ID q member,
A COMMUNITY sHogtD BB A PBotitRRHoon.
/ Canuot loo strongly suggest that the
persons who form 0 community should
consider themselves a. brotheta, having
au interest In each others welfare aud
prosperity. lie assured that when you
hIe iepthg your neighbof you are also
helping yourself II you encourage and
help him, and keep your money AZ home,
you will ast II again, In rents Of houses,
ID scouting consumers OF your own goods,
In al ih0teaas ol population aud 90 lessen:
Ing your taxes, In the general prosperity
Of your whole community, aud Ia many
other ways that will hs suggested 10 you
when you think the matter over
Why yahould notany Of us who may need
an atIlole that can be produced Of procured
within this city, ascertain at whst cost
II can be had from elsewhere, thon
propose 10 bis iellOW Gitissn hsTe, tu give
hlal Inception d meeting that cost, "Onp
says some one, that would not businesHi"
Let us see ab6ut that. No proposition
was Bvef made OF price named when the
lpafIy receiving II did not have the right