The advocate., 1894-04-04

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"Al right" interrogated the ques-
tioner, show is that?"
"Oh," responded the dealer, 81 only
deal in foreign goods and a good home
product would ruin my trade"
Was he to blame or not? He was
simply looking out for No. l, and the
person without sin is solicited to cast q
stone.
These few citations apply equally to
every industry in the city confines. We
appeal to the thinking clasSeS-to the
opulent and the person of small means,
whose positions may be reversed in a
day-can you not assist one another even
at the present?
Between producers and consumers
there can be but one alternatives unity
or q fall While neither desire nor
should they have Chinese wall about
the city, the interests of all would sug-
gest that charity should lean trifle to-
ward the home line. The citizen who
goes from home to purchase what can be
secured from his fellow townsman is
equally culpable with the merchant who
wholly ignores his home products, rest
ing contented that his own interests do
not suffer. Both elements fill niche in
society, but would to God we had less Of
them.
AS members of the various affiliated
labor organizations of Topeka we ask the
mercantile interests to assist in pushing
forward this labor Of love, and appeal to
the wage-earners to remember that the
Lord helps those who help themselves,
which literally translated means. Don't
trade with Caesar unless Caesar trades
with you"
Patronize your home markets, and
thus aid in giving many an idle man in
your city employment.
Reserve your dry goods trade from for
eign territory and Topeka merchants
must of necessity employ additional
clerk hire, and their quick sales natural
iy mean smaller profits.
Patronize your packing houses and
thus create a demand for supply which
draws producers from the surrounding
country, who from the products Of the
farm furnish tine necessaries, and in
turn contribute their mite toward keep
ing the wheels of industry moving.
Patronize your Touring industries
they need no adulation; their fame is
world wide, but crowd them with such
demands that enlargement OF surround
ingS and additional help must perforce
follow and let foreign Touring industries
see to it that Topeka's citizens are loyal
to home industries.
Give to the cigar makers Of Topeka
their deserved patronage. Their facill-
ties are unequaled-no market furnishes
better stock and no industry better
class of citizens. See to it that credit be
given where credit is due, and thus add
to your midst that which will alike inure
to the benefit and prosperity OF the city.
Aid your printing establishments and
enable the proprietors to furnish employ
ment to large class Of wage earners,
who will see that the natural channels OF
business quickly absorb the earnings to
which you may have contributed.
And so on through the list Of indus
tries, all of equal value and all occupy
ing their proper relation to each other.
Let it be the aim of all to see that none
suffer, but that each be pushed forward.
Then bonuses for industries will be like
angel visits-the industries will come OF
their own volition, and Topeka viii Sc
cure boom surprising any in its his
tory.
This is the belief Of the members Of
the Trades and Labor assembly. Does
it not accord with yours, fellow citizens?
II not, we trust that upon reflection you
may be led to agree with US.
Respectfully submitted,
WILL SULLIVAN,
81. r. JONES,
WILLIAM E. TRUE.
Committee.