Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1892-02-06
ANSWER TO THE FAMILY MAN.
Proper Reasoning wanted and
Needed.

EUREKA, Feb. 4, 1892.
Ed. SENTINEL: Allow me in answer TO
the Family Man to say a few words. which
| hope you will not refuse, as ID IL not
only q plain answer but also enlightenment
on the Family Mans ideas, and as a COM
mon and true saying goes, what ia sauce
TOR the goose is sauce for the gsnder."
Now as to the Family Mans questions and
suggestions he is off altogether. First, be
says the community is poor, and poorer
than he ever saw it. What does he mean
to say, that they are poor and have to
economic now; or, shall the merchant give
aid aud help them along? This reminds
me Of the person that went to q drug
store and asked the druggist for an article
and told him to give plenty for the money
az II was for g sick person. He asks the
merchant, "Why 10 ID that people send
away for their goodsS This question is
easily answered; but In order to do 30,
you have to classify them, and will men,
ton, as time and space will not permit ID,
only q few Of them.
First-One has an idea that the goods
are not good enough in the local market
and send below, thinking Ii 10 better and
costs less when he sends to such firms As
Goldberg & Bowen, and other similar es-
adjustments which have the nsmeof keep
ing good goods, but at the same time not
the city high-tonded trade; but the
country hoosier gets inferior goods from
such houses and has TO pay as large sums
as though they had been supplied With
the best articles in the store, OF coures
the goods coming from them and the sity
must be good, but we have seen with our
own eyes, that there large establishments
get some OF their goods put up by the
wholesaler and manufacturer, from which
we buy out Of the same lot and sell really
cheaper than they can get the same article
below, ours are not 80 good. when we
know the goods they got from below are
OF the same lot and quality.
Second-Buys below because II Ia not
the saving they are after, but IL would not
look big nor staylish enough to buy at
home. even IL IL did cost q little more.
Third-Likes TO grab all In his reach,
Notwithstanding he is in the same boat
and has to make a living from this poor
community.
Fourth Buys below, because all be
cares for is, while he lives. be looks out for
~ MettcA tAu WnOAC COLu-
munily would perish as long as he can see
them buried, and stand on the grave and
crow; In fact he wants to bury everybody.
Is that not Eureka philanthropy?
Fifth-Buys below as an excuse, while
be makes his living of Of the public and
this community. buys of his poor relations
down there to help them along, but
he does not consider, like many others, II
he helps and keeps together q community
wherein he lives, 10 would be q larger
benefit to himself and others, thar 10
~patronize his poor relations by buying a
few dollars worth Of goods OF them.
sixth-Buys below because he wants to
spite the storekeeper, with whom his
credit is not good any more, and il he
has to pay cash he sends below for his
goods. etc. II is not the saving those peo-
pie make, il Is only as above stated. Let
them come 10 any grocey here. offer them
cash, say from twenty to o~ne-hundred dol
lars al e time, which amounts they usu-
ally send, they will find that they can buy
just as good and cheap. the usual freight
added, as at any other place on the Coast.
As a rule they claim the freight Is only so
much, never considering, that they can
not buy the goods and put them In their
pockets, but must have bsgging and boxes
to carry the goods safely 10 their distina- |
ton. II they will figure all these costs
properly they will fnd from so to vs.
per cent additional on the net costs
Of freight; further. they will see that their
savings are not worth a. much az the good
will Of their neighbors and friends In q
in which they intend to live
and make their homo.
Now. as to the reply TO the grocer's
heavy freights and non-psying customers,
the Family Man Is entirely of the track
on these two points at least. First, as to
the consumer as we'll as the mer-
chant has 10 pay the rate Of freights alike;
hence abe Family Man should understand
the merchant has no advantage over
he consumers on this point. As TO the
customers having to pay or
make up for n~on-paying customers, would
70 10 the same ratio as No. would be to
10. 3. or in other words, II the merchants
Iad TO make up for Whatever losses they .