The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1895-10-26

The csnse and the Remedy are Largely to be
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found az Home.
THE DIAMOND DRILL has labored
zealously FOR many years to Impress it's
readers with the Importance Of recog-
MIXING that imperative duty which every
citizen owes his town: Patronize the
home merchants. That It's efforts. how
ever. have fallen upon barren soil is best
evidenced by the number OF people who
continue 10 throw every dollar they
have 10 spare out OF Crystal Falls by
patronizing establishments OF Chicago,
New York and other cities and In many
instances voluntarily Offering themselves
up as sacrifices for the craft Of swindling
concerns. II must be granted that there
are cases when you cannot get exactly
what you want at home. IL is foelish
to expect merchant doing business in a
town Of the size aud population Of our
own to carry stock endless in variety.
This, however, excuses no citizen Tor
dumping his dollars into a foreign mar
ket, as there Is not merchant IN town
who would not gladly accommodate
every customer by ordering exactly what
Is wanted, provided the same can he OBJ
tained.
difference in prices should not hinder
any fair minded man from patronizing
home merchants, for it is an undeniable
TACT that you can buy fully rs cheaply
at home as you can abroad provided
you pay cash Tor your goods and add
freight charges. True, our merchants
cannot give you forty pounds OF granu-
lated sugar for 81 90 rs you may be able
TO obtain from certain swindling con-
Germs in Chicago, which at the present
time arc flooding this town with circu-
lars, Offering an assortment OF groceries,
so-callcd, for certain amount, which
assortment II invariably headed with
the alluring item, 40 lbs. OF sugar for
S1.00." This sugar-coated proposition
N finding a good many ready takers in
Crystal Falls, who order the assortment
Of groceries and in due time get it-right
where Sally got the muinps. They do
not appreciate their loss. however, but
gladly pay the freight and drayage and
hasten TO their neighbours to tell that
they got "lve pounds OF crushed coffee
for 81 co." forgetting to note that about
fifty per cent Of the ''crushed" coffee is
peas aud beans. Then, they lay their
ears back and proceed TO curse the local
merchants with vengeance that cracks,
for having robbed them in the past, for
getting to consider that had their profits
been as large as these bargains" ~ould
indicate, the Aforesaid merchants must
Of necessity be rolling in wealth, while tits
a lamentable fact that with hardly sim
gle exception, no merchant has ever done
business In Crystal Falls with successful
financial results. During the cursing bee,
Il also escapes the memory OF these bar
gain" hunters that il was the local mer-
chant who accommodated them when they
were hungry and had no ready money,
by giving them goods on credit, taking
their honesty as present remuneration.
which in great MANY instances has
proven case OF misplaced confidence.
DO you get these Recommendations in out
side markets? We think not. In TACT,
THE DIAMOND DRir.L Is prepared to back
up this opinion by Offering u prize Of
500 TO any person accustomed 10
trading in Green Bay. Chicago or else
where (thnt is, citizen OF Crystal Falls)
who buys his goods ON credit.
BY trading in outside markets you are
doing wrong. First, to your town, by
sending out money that would other
wise circulate until all or part OF it
returns to you. Secondly, you are
wronging your home merchant, who
is your neighbor and as such is entitled
10 your patronage, be it ever so small
and third, to yourself, because you are
bound 20 get the worst OF IL, even
though you do get forty pounds OF gran
ulated sugar Tor $l00
Let those citizens OF Crystal Falls who
send their dollars To foreign markets for
the necessaries Of life dezist In their COM
plants OF "harl times" They have in
n lnrge measure themselves TO blame for
the condition OF things. The best way
to kill town is to boycott the home
merchant.
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