The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1901-09-06
SPEND YOUR MONEY AT HOME.
The Business Men of Town are the
Ones to Whom Citizens,Should
Pay Money for Goods.

The Howard Democrat has an inter-
esting article on the matter of patron
izing home business men, and which
demonstrates the bad feature of sending
your money away from town to build up
other communities. 1t tells the story
SO plainly that we reproduce it as fol-
lows:
Year after year as the time flies by,
is the fact brought home to us that the
country store keeper has hard row to
hoe, aud it is continually getting worse
through the constant efforts of the
mail order" house with it's large cata-
logue OF innumerable contents. They
ingenious]y word their ads to lead the
inspecting reader that by dealing with
them they will save mint of money.
No single enterprise can hope long to
hold out against the great combination
of wealth at the command of the modern
department. store. People try and try
again to remain loyal to their home
store that gives them credit between
the sowing and harvesting of a crop,
but they as quickly forget, even while
owing the local merchant, they will
send away to some department store
while they have to pay cash, while nine
times out of ten they could do as we'll at
home, where the money 80 spent would
enrich to that extent the local grocer
or d:y goods merchant, who lives here,
has his money invested in the land and
building and the contents upon his
shelves; who pays taxes, and helps to
support the schools, churches and all
public enterprises, who is expected to
contribute literally to every philan
thropic epidemic that may strike his
village, and is expected to carry his
customers from year to year. II the
local merchant should ask his custo-
town Institutions, to pay cash, as per-
force they have to when dealing with
such foreign houses. they would get red
headed and foam at the mouth, declar-
ing that they were not being Justly
dealt with. Now, if those who trade
out OF town were to stop and consider
the pros and cons of this question there
| is bus little doubt in our mind that,
although they saved little money by
such dealing, that they would come TO
the conclusion to patronize home insti-
tutions to their full extent. II the
home industries are not protected" by
those who should protect them, there
will come time when the country
store will close its doors and the peO-
pie who should have supported it will
have to depend entirely upon the cash
basis OF the department store. Then
they will be able to sock it to you and
it will be no more than you richly de-
serve. Your home merchants are de-
serving of your support; see to it that
they get it to the full extent of your
needs. Buy nothing out Of town that
can be bough in it, and if you should
want something that could not be got
in town instruct your merchant to pros
cure it for you, not take the chance an
Iroquois man did when he needed some
barb wire which he saw advertised by
the T.. M. Roberts supply house, to
whom he sent the money to pay for
such wire just before the firm went to
the wall, and who has not yet received
the wire neither has his money been
refunded. T. M. Roberts has both wire
and money. The moral to be- drawn
from that mans experience is obviously
to trade at home. Well bet that man
will from now on. We pay for our
schooling sooner or later, all of us.