The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-12-17


ty Republican could be made 20 ct in
any county in Kansas It fits IN Shsr- /
man county:
The people Of Jewell county are IN
tbiukingly following a course, which il
persisted in, viii eventually work
great injury to this country and to
themselves. We refer to the growing
custom OF buying the common nee
essfties. such as clothing, groceries,
dry goods and implements Of the big
monopoly stores in the great cities in
stead Of giving their trade to our home
business houses. We know that tens
OF thousands Of dollars are sent out OF
this country every year in this way,
and that it crippIes trade, discOurages
enterprise aud stops the growth OF
our home towns. Our money goes to
fzttsn express companies and make
the already powerful and far-reaching
department stores OF the cities mo
nopoIy that crushes out the thousand
and one small and heretofore flourish
inz industries that make the whole
country prosper. Some country peO-
pie are never able to see how their own
Interests are advanced or injured with
the interests Of their home town; but
there Is nothing surer. You need but
to ask the price Of land near live,
growing market town to see the point
Towns are what the people make them,
and il there is no loyalty for the town
at home and no public spirit that looks
to the general good, and, if what right
fully belongs to- it Is diverted into
other channels, business will lsnguish,
the town die, and every interest will
be injured in just the proportion it
would have been benefited had the
town 1ourished. Our merchants bring
on heavy stocks and large assOrtments
Of goods. the city stores food the land
with their advertising, aud agents and
peddIers scour the country. Now, to
whom will you give your business?
Will you give it to irresponsible men
who are here to-day and gone tO-mOr-
row, taking your money with them!
Will you give it to the gigantic mono
poles Of the cities that are cOncentrs-
ting all kinds of business into one
mammoth aggregation, designed to de-
strOy all competition and kill the cOun-
try towns, or will you give your bust
ness to the men who have the same
interests you have in the good Of your
county? Men who pay taxes to sup
port all public enterprises aud who, il
they prosper, spend their money here
in permanent improvements and in
the employment Of labor, in making
near markets, and in helping to open
the ways for all other branches Of
trade to do weIl7 Will you give your
help to those who want to kill your
town or to those who want TO build it
up, which, There are now people in
Jewell county who keep the catalogues
of these monopoly stores always in the
house. They regularly make up large
orders including almost everything
| they need to buy, and they not only
/ make all their own purchases abroad
but they induce their neighbOrs to do
/ the same. No matter how much the
home merchants have studied their
needs, no matter how close he has fig
ured his profit, no matter how glad he
would be to ill that bill himself at the
same price aud guarantee every article,
he gets no chance to do so. This IS q
! free country, OF course. If men pre-
fer to help mOnOpOlies and million
aires IN the cities, rather than help the
business interests OF their own town
and county, no one can deny them
| that privilege; but men who get in
such ways are not doing what is best
| for their country nor for themselves.
II everybody should do as they are do
ing in jewell county towns would be
! dead in the shell inside Of a year. No
business could live here. We wish
some Of the people who are buying
their stuff away, would Just for an ex-
pertinent, take their next big order TO
some of our home stores or all Of them
in succession, before they send it in,
| and see how we'll they can do at home
/ when they order from SO to SO worth
at a time. That Is where the big stores
! catch many. They know that the
I goods will go out in job lots and they
can quote job lot prices. If you would
ask for job lot prices at home you
/ would get prices just as low, freight
/ considered Try it and see. And as
/ you hope to get a living profit out of
| your business, always be willing to al
/ low your neighbOr a living profit out
Of his.-Jewell Republican.
/ Bert Hendricks Of Seibert, Colo,
good fellow, sportsman and sheriff of
] Kit Carson county, Colo, on Monday
/ presented Billy Henry with a fine
/ trophy of the chsse-a Rocky Noun
/ tain sleeps head The horns are
| about three feet in length.
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