The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1892-01-22
Patronixe Home Industry.

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many of them practice what they so
earnestly advocate? The Importance
to a community of such a doctrine
scrupulously followed cannot be estl.
The Sioux City Journal,
that staunch champion of the interests
of Sioux City and the west, recently
read Sioux City people a lecture upon
same subject. The burden of
which was a plea for Sioux City and
her enterprises. And the Journal was
What applies to Sioux City APP
plies with equal force to smaller towns.
1t is a common practice among a cer-
tain class of economical (?) people to
send to Montgomery Ward & Co. for
goods under the mistaken idea that
they Il saving money therehy,-wc
say mistaken idea and that is exactly
what we mean, for there is not a mer-
chant in Hot Springs that will not sell
for cash-understand for cash, and in
the same quantities, goods, kind and
quality the same, as cheap, laid down,
as can be purchased of Montgomery
Ward & Co. But suppose, and it is a
mere supposition-that goods purchas-
ed of our home merchants did cost a
little more then it is, economy is prac-
tlced by buying at home. Suppose
every one in and around Hot Springs
sent to NJ. w. & Co. for everything
needed, the retail store would soop be
an institution unknown IN Hot
Springs. Every would be forced
to leave for want of trade. The grocer,
and dry goods mau would go. Tie
harness denler, t!le hardware merchant,
tho furniture wnaer and ell these
vsrious branches OF retail tra.s would
to driven out. WIZ them would go
quite a respsctable army of clerks, as
sistant j%ourney-me. AMI laborers.
What would become Of the city? 1t
would be depopulated. What then
wonld he the condition of the farmer
who lives tributary to Hot Springs
land this question is put to the farmer
chiefly, TO, the farmer is the person
that is usually led away by the seduc-
tive circular Of the foreign tirms)
Who would buy your butter, eggs,
cheese, vegetables. surplus hay, corn,
oats, ETC.? Would Montgomery Ward
C Co. take those things off your hands?
by no means. You look to the people
of Hot Springs to buy these things
from you. You go to your home mer-
chant and ask him to trade his goods
for these products and grulnble be-
cause he will not pay cash. But what
do you do with the cash when you get
it? Let me say. You sendit to Mont
gomery Ward & Co. Then when you
want credit for a few weeks do you go
to NJ. w. & Co. for it? But enough
of these illustrations. the merchants
of Hot Springs and their stocks Of
wares are home industries. Every one
of them we'll maintained makes your
farm or home more valuable and your
labor or products more saiatle. To go
farther. There are many cigars
smoked in Hot Springs daily. How
many of them are home made? We
have a factory here in our midst that
makes a grade of cigars as good as any
in the market, and yet Hot Springs
merchants send money out for cigars.
Is that patronia,ng home industry?
We have a stucco mill that is capable
of manufacturing MS much stucco as
can be used in Hot Springs and of a
quality AS good as any, and yet stucco
is shipped into this city from outside.
Is that p%atronizing home industry?
Many more illustrations might be &C.
duced. Never will a city be built here
unless the people stand by each other.
Never can a city be successfully and
rapidly built anywhere unless the
people build it themselves. Never can
a city be built unless it has the sup.
port of the people in it, and also Of
those adj accent to and tributary to it.
OF what permanent value is a cigar
factory to a town il the town buys its
cigars elsewhere and the factory is
compelled to close down for the want
Of patronage? The SrAE is not find
ing fault but indicating some ways in
which a town or city and its surround
ing country can help itself. And If
the application a be made to fit Hot
Springs-let 1t fit. However, we ask
your careful thought upon this matter
and after a thorough self examinst on,
we venture that very few can truth
fully say they are in everv particular
maintaining the industries and enter
prises Of this city to the exclusion Of
all others.