The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-07-25
ONE WAY TO BUILDUp YOUR TOWN.


slight an opportunity to say kind word
for it. Always speak well of its people, its
institutions and its various enterprises. and
be sure to give them your patronage and
support. Don't send to other towns to
buy goods when you can purchase them
equally as cheap from your home mer-
chants. Should you become involved in
litigation, don'tgo elsewhere to engage the
services of an attorney, simply because he
charges you fancy prices for his services
the only thing by which you may judge of
his ability, for the chances are ten to one
that you have far better talent at home,
among class OF men with whom you are
acquainted, and who very naturally feel
much deeper interest in your welfare than
a stranger would and who will work hard.
er for your interest, for surely he wishes to
deserve your future patronage.
lfyou have manufacturers in your town
that make any article that you use or con-
sumo. then buy it of them, remembering
that every dollar you spend at home gives
you chance to get some of it back again
So you will perceive that even aside from
duty and the interest you may feel in your
town, that as matter Of policy it will pay
you to patronize home industries. Never
send off any money when you can possibly
avoid it, for when you do, you place it be-
yondsyour reach to ever recover it again.
But if you spend it at home the chances are
that it will find its way back into your
pockets again after while or some of it
at least
Don't fail to literally patronize your
home papers, for it is to them that you
must look to advocate measures that tend
to build up and beautify your town. and it
is to them tina! your town, and people must
look for defense when either is unjustly
assailed. Your home paper is ever sound.
ing the praises of your town. 1t Sights no
opportunity to say a good word for it. 1t
is always here upholding right in its battle
against the wrong and to protect the weak
against the expressions of the strong.
Ifyou are citizen subscribe for it, and
if you are engaged in business advertise in
tit is worthy of all the help that you can
give it, and will pay you back profit for
all that you may invest in it.
And last, but not least, we say that every
man that is in your midst, who is engaged
in legitimate and honest enterprise, give
to him, unstinted your warmest sympathy
and your kindest support whenever and
where ever it lies in your power to do 80.
Never join in with the rabble that would
run down your town or say unkind things
about it or its people. Shun as you would
the leper the man who tries to build up his
business by uttering falsehoods and making
misrepresentation about his neighbor; for
the business that cannot live upon its own
merits, and cannot stand the honest rival
ry in business, is unworthy to live, nor has
it any right to make the public partner
in matter in which it has no interest in
its nefarous design to injure another.
Such an enterprise would injure the public
with the same immunity that it would an
| individual when the time comes when it
answered its ends to do so, it matters not
how shrewd the pretext the motive is the
same. So do what you can to aid all en-
terprises that will help your town and all
who honestly and legitimately labor in your
midst They are worthy ofyour help, amp
will in the end help. This line of policy
cannot be objected to by any good citizen,
and must result in much good if followed
-Twin City Daily.