The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1904-09-22
pstronizing the City Fellows.

Under the head of, "Things to
Calk About. Does it Pay TO Pa
tronize Foreign Business?, Is it
Fair Treatment to the Home Peo'
ple?" the Val Verde County Her
sld quotes from all Exchange"
as follows.
Who sympathlzed with you
when your girl was sick? Was it
the home merchant or was it Sears
Roebuck IL Co? Who carried you
last winter when you were out of
a lob and had no money? Was it
Montgomery, Ward 81 Co., or was
it your home merchant? When
you raise money for the church,
or some needy person in the town,
do you write TO the Five Cent
Store in st. Louis, or do you 60
to the home merchant?
How much does the cash buyers
Union give towards keeping up
the sidewalks of the town or pay
ing the minister's salary? When
you were sick how many nights
did A J Childs & Co. sit up with
YOU? When your loved one was
buried was it your home paper
who shed the tears of sympathy,
and offered the cheering words, or
was it some st. LOUIS or Chicago
newspaper? Remember that in
case of accident to yourself or
your family, your home merchant
is the one who applies the balsam,
especially your neighbor.
The Herald then adds the fol-
lowing for good measure:
The above is all right as far as
it goes, and deserves careful con-
sideration Of everyone having a
particle Of home pride or consid-
Grafton for favors bestowed, and
will doubtless receive the hearty
endorsement of every business
man in Del Rio and elsewhere.
We imagine we hear them, one
and all, saying: That's God 8
truth, every word of it !" which it
is; but how about those business
men themselves Do they al
ways set the example of trading
at home? Continuing in the
same vein as in the above article,
we might say: How many
good things do Maverick Clark
say about Del Rio? Do Clark e.
Courts boom the town in season
and out, and labor incessantly for
the up-building of every material
interestY Do these printing hous-
IS patronize the local business
men-turning back to them every
dollar they receive for the work
they do? Do the local politicians
and office holders depend on those
concerns for support and the adj
vancement of their political in
terests? We rather think mega
tive answer must truthfully be
made to the above propositions.
Yet it's a fact that a considera BILE
volume of job printing is sent
each month to these out-ot-town
houses, that could be done equally
as well and just as cheaply by the
home offices.
A slick tongue, the gift of Gig
ar or the presentation of an ink
stand or paper weight seem to
frequently WELD a greater in
fluence in job getting than con-
sistent, ever. day devotion to To-
cal interests. Is this right? , Can
u business man or public official
consistently inveigh against the
practise of sending away for
things" when they are daily do
frauding the home papers of that
which is their due Yet it is a
fact that hundreds of dollars
worth of job printing is sent each
year from Del Rio to foreign
concerns, that could he executed
just as satisfactorily and just as
cheaply by home printers. Do as
you would be done by"
San Angelo merchants are pretty
fair to San Angelo printers and
but little work of that sort goes
away from this city. If the mer'
chant sends away for his station.
cry the printers only recourse il
to send away for his wearables
his furniture. his medicine, hi
hardware, and can even do hi
banking by mail. But thi
course is not necessary with Sal
Angelo printers and we believ,
that if Del Rio would make i
a matter of printers dollar
against merchants dollars in
stead Of 81 matter of sentimant