Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-03-19
An Advertising Dodge-r.

II All iAONeTtlSlnfs IDOuEe.r.
\ little dodger was circulated about
Hot Springs last Thursday afternoon
signed by neutrality-suspicious.. $
He used as text an item that had ap-
peared in the STAR urging business
men to help their newspapers by Civ
ing them their job work as we'll as their
advertising-that they needed it and
were entitled to it: that newspapers
are beneficial to any town and should
be sustained and encouraged; that the
best interests of the town ought to
prompt those having its welfare at
heart to such II course. instead of pat
ronizing job houses. 1t was an arg,l.
ment similar to this, general in it's APP
plication.-t writer not having any
particular case in mind-that prompt
ed the New York Store man to rant so
profuscly through his dodgcr methods,
about the STAR. One would infer from
his actions that he owned two or three
job snaps himself, or at least had II
good sized interest in one. He seems
to scout the idea that newspapers are
of any benefit to town. He says:
"Talk about booming the town we
have done IL hiti' for the town our
selves"
Yes, we think so too. ".A little"
It's so very little that it can't be seen
with the naked eye. But here is the
claim that he has upon the people:
I'VE have saved the people in our
town more money than the STAR ever
made Them
Thus argues the would-be imitator
and patron of Charles Broadway Rouss.
the wholesale AUCTION dry goods house
of New fork-hence the appropriate
ness of the name New York Store"
But how amazing, oh my countrymen,
that this genius has ''saved" the people
more mon y than the STAR ever "made"
them. We stand appalled, at the enor-
nous amount he must have saved for
this community by coming here. Any
body ought to be able to see that point.
For instance. if you buy IL suit of
clothes of one man for sl.29 and no
other merchant keeps such cheap
clothing,-nothing less than S5-you
have thereby been ''saved" s3.7l if you
| buy the cheap suit. 1t doesn't make
any difference, of course. whether the
cheap suit lasts you week, or a day:
you were saved" enough to buy you
| almost three more suits just like it,
because the other merchant was going
to charge 50 for u suit that would
probably wear not longer than twelve
or sixteen months. Thus it is plain to
any one that some merchants may
''save" the people whole fortune. We
never could understand before how the
people about here come to be so much
better off than they were before we had
any newyorkstore. Well all be wealthy
if things continue that way-even if
the cheap clothes we buy dcn'tindicate
it. The old time merchants who have
done ia little" for years to help build
a city here have subscribed to various
public enterprises and own property
here-must now Join in and help save
the people money. OF course they
will have to buy ''cheaper'' goods, but
we refer them to the New York king of
wholesale auction dry goods, Charles
Broadway Rouss-he keeps nearly
everything, said to be a prompt and
ready buyer of anything that is going
at auction. We have his address. You
may not be able to all have newyork-
store but such a snap will run for "a
while without name. We must come
down to the 10 cent ladies waist basis.
Il think have known newspaper
man sending away for things for his
own use that could be bought i'll town."
Observation-Disclosures.
Name your man: we'll stand on our
record. The newspaper men of Hot
Spring wouldn't wear much of any
clothing if they depended on the in
come from such men as run the New
York Store since he became so much
interested'in job printing snaps But
then so long us the STAR people pay
the tailors of Hot Springs and other
business enterprises more money each
year than the author of the above
statement we can afford to let him
rant.
We shall have to try and keep those
little local items concerning job work
out of the paper since it is evident that
one of our business men is preiudiced
on that subject.
Marriage of DIR. c. B. Boyle.
The above popular young ply sician