Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1889-06-07
BUY AT HOME.

TMoorhead News: No town can al
ford TO buy its manufactured supplies:
from abroad, when its own citizens
are engaged in the work Of manu-
featuring them. We don't care if
they do offer them little cheaper.
If so bought the money goes at once
out Of the city and no part Of it re-
mains in local circulation. Its ten
dency is entirely in the interest of
building up large centres, Of trade
and manufacture, massing the people
in the cities and destroying the small
towns. Il
Every man doing business in a
community, is more or less dependent
upon the cooperation and patronage
Of every citizen, and he cannot do
business on purely selfish and
independent basis and long sur
vive. We must assist each other, or
else every business will fail and every
store and place of industry will be
closed. The tendency Of the time is
for the concentration of business and
industries at centres. The large
establishments in St. Paul, Mime
apolis, Chicago, St. Louis, New
York, Philadelphia and Boston are
constantly reaching out to extend their
trade in the country districts, and
attempt to and do control legislation
relating to postal rates, express rates
and railroad fast freight rates in their
interests. They send out large, COM
plete and attractively illustrated
price lists, comprising every known
article for family, household and farm
use, showing prices as rule consider
ably below the prices Of local mer.
chants and dealers for similar articles
and exert every means both by pub
]ished advertisements and the glib CAB
of cheeky solicitors and canvassers, to
induce the people living in towns and
country districts to purchase, and we
are sorry to record, with increasing
success. Thus are built up institu-
tons which can see no other interest
than their own which is purely selfish
and sordid-the main desire being to
secure the almighty dollar, which is
worshipped for its own sake too much
in this country. If this scheme of
retail purchasing in the large cities,
and shipment to every hamlet in the
land by mail, express or freight is
carried out to its conclusion, the
Legitimate and necessary effect will be
to make the cities, and the latter will
assume political us we'll as commercial
supremacy.
Buy your goods as far as possible
from home dealers. These are your
neighbors and friends. They will
assist you in times Of sickness and
distress. They are interested in your
welfare and in the prosperity of the
town. Competition between the local
dealers will prevent exorbitant prices.
The local dealers and manufacturers
pay taxes to sud- port the expense Of
your city and county governments.
They assist in all charitable and
worthy objects to improve the we'll
being Of the community, and they
invest their money, if they can make
any in erecting buildings to build up
and make your city attractive. These
cormorants from the big cities don't
care a rupee for you except to get
your money. If you sick they will
not nurse you. Ifyou are hungry they
will not give you bread. If you are
thirsty they will not put the flagon
to>your parched lips, and finally they
will squeeze the last dollar from you,
and cheat you in the end.