Wadsworth semi-weekly dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-10-04
CONSISTENCY,
THOU ART
af1lEs ArJEWEL,
The Tuscarora View Of Deal
slesH ing With Foreign
i Houses.

iS0Se SSliOSPhOi u thS tOOio tiOJ iiidhC
of themselves in the building up Of
hard times In the town. Have they
ever thought the matter worthy Of a
moments consideration When they
20 to our merchants with a subscrip-
ton for some worthy and distresslngly
urgent charitable purpose in which they
feel a deep interest does it ever occur
to them that they are continually de-
priving the same merchant the ability
to give-to give liberally1 From the
county commissioner who regulates the
financial affairs of the county to the
poorest scavenger whose self-imposed
task Is to sec that the public streets
are cleaned Of half smoked cigars,
there seems to be a congenial similar
ity in the effort to build up and keep in
position the mighty structure Of hard
times. Our merchants pay q license
for the privilege of keeping in stock
for our accommodation, such articles
Of consumption and use as are re-
quired to supply the wants Of the COM
munity. Whether he may ever dis
pose Of them Of not he Is called upon
to pay taxes upon each and every arti-
Gle. for tina support Of our county and
State government; he is deeply inter
ested in the welfare and prosperity Of
every man, woman and child, in our
community; he hears the hard luck
stories of the poor but honest" wage
Garner and gives him credit (often
with misplaced confidence to the over
hard times; he employs clerks to wait
upon his customers and experienced
book-keeper to make the proper en-
tries in the ledger with a profit and
and loss" attachment; he does all this
with the presumption that he too is en-
titled to some consideration at the
hands of those he has SO patiently
waited upon. AS a rule. the wage
earning community like ours, those
employed receive their pay from
month to month, and the merchants.
ho~tel-keepers and business e gen.
orally. are expected to "put It on the
book" until pay day; in the meantime
the wage Garner has discovered,
through a catalogue a more fortunate
neighbor has loaned him. that he can
purchase from a foreign dealer-who
pays no taxes in u State and has no
interest in keeping up the standard Of
wages he is receiving or OF any interet
with which he is connected-the
shoes, hat or dress. himself or his wife
or children wear, for a small. percent
age less than his home merchants
charges him. and. when the pay day
in which he is wont to ask his creditor
for further time-comes, there Is al
ways a certain amount reserved to
send awaysto some foreign dealer. while
while the merchant carries W. the
account Of the customer,-looks with a
sigh at his loaded shelves. and.-turn
to wait upon an applicant in the cause
Of humanity. i
There is q sufficient competition In
every branch Of business carried on in
our community to preclude the posi-
bility Of an imitation of prices. Our.
wage earn.rs are receiving far greater
emoluments than are, the employees of
those to whom money is sent out OF
town, and, every dollar paid for foreign
goods is a stab in the back to the poor.
starving. struggling, w~orkingmen who
are forced in the east and west to WORK