The Brunswick daily news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1903-1906, 1904-05-12
SPEND MONEY AT HOME.

or taking advantage Of excursion rates
to 60 to neighboring cities.
The complaint is possibly a just one.
but the probabilities are that the cause
for it is not as general as those yoic-
ing the complaint seem to suppose.
Brunswickians are not, as rule. tn
pid and it would require great stupid.
ity for any one to imagine that shop
ping could not be accomplished as adj,
yantageously in Brunswick as in any
other city In many respects the IA
cilities here are unexelled. In the dry
goods shops, for instance, the stocks
may not be as extensive and varied
lis in some Of the great houses Of the
large cities, where comparatively limit
less capital enables the merchant to IN
duIge in the greatest imaginable ex-
travagance; but such values are to be
had here as are rarely placed at the
disposal of shoppers in other towns
fact testified to warmly by visitors
who declare that there are certain ar.
tiles TO ne mad here tilat can moi pc
duplicated for the same price any
where else.
/ It Is undoubtedly true that there are
some men and womea who, attracted
by the glittering temptations Of Ger
tain advertising displays, turn from
their dutlful allegations to their own
townspeople to spend their money in
cities other than their own. This fact
is a most regretable one for many
reasons No city can be successful
financially socially artistialily. mum.
cipally, in short-where citizens are
not bound together by certain sense
of brotherhood. To work indefatigably
for the highest good to the greatest
number of ones immediate neighbor
hood is one of the ideals of true clti-
zenship. This means that there must
be an exchange Of money as well as OF
courtesy. Mr., A. cannot successfully
carry on his business unless he has
the support Of Mr. B and Mr.. G. anc
the money handed over the counter
by these ard others, Mr. A will il he
recognizes the general obligation g, |
pended in such manner as will until
mately accrue to the profit OF air 3
and Mr. G.
There was recently printed a clever
little sketch, in which it was shown
how a single $40 bill handed about
IRON one person to another at board
ing house table was made to do the
service that ninety or a nundged dol
lars might reasonably be expected tol
Every ten dollars sensi-
bly invested carries with ii eertainl
of profit, and this profit
should, as near as practicable be reap.
ed mutually.
OF course America is a free country
in a measure and legally everybody
has perfect right to spend his OF her
money wherever and whenever he or
she pleases, but there is certain
moral obligation which declared that
money should be spent where 1t is
made. BY this is not meant that be.
cause a person claims a certain city
as a home and because he makes his
income there, he should never spend
money in any other city There are
certain objects of art, for instance,
which cannot be secured in Bruins
wick, since the comparatively limited
wealth here would not make il profit
able for our merchants to import such
Since one owes certain
service TO beauty, as well rs to duty
no one who can AFFORD such luxuries
should be criticised for securing them
Whenever it is possible to do 50,
Again. merchant in some other
town may. by some exceptional series
ii events. be able TO ofier some par
iicuarly remarkable value that the
inclined person would
ike to secure, and which be would be
perfectly iustihable in securing.
There are, in short, many exceptions
o this rule as to all others; but gen
rally speaking money should be spent
n the city in which il IS made, anu III
he long run the spender is never the
oser by his loyalty to that which be