New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1905-10-25
KEEP YOUR MONEY AT HOME
Country Flourishes When City is
Prosperous.
Trade Bulletin Gives Good Advice
to the Buyers.
Advises Cooperation of Country
and Villages.

Advises Cooperation of Country
and Villages.
The current issue of the st. Pau
Trade Bulletin publishes the following
excellent article, which it would be well
to put in practice in Brown county.
The prosperity OF any town depends
largely upon the success of local bust
ness enterprise, and every citizen of a
community should realize this and help
advance local interests and work
againstinfiuences which endanger these
interests. suchas the mail order cata-
logue house, etc.
There are members of so called far
mers papers and other cheap periodi-
Gals which are continually advocating
city buying and advising their sub
sc1lbers to patronize the city markets
setting forth as inducements wonderful
bargains. These publications do this
for the benefit OF their advertisers, who
support them, and they know that they
are doing great deal of harm to the
country merchants by drawing away
from them their trade without which
they will fail in a short time.
The longer dollar is kept in cir
culation in one place the more good
it will do, but when it is taken to an
outside point it is taking that much
from the place, and making it much
less prosperous. When customer
goes to an outside town to buy goods
the profit of each transaction which
would remain in your town and 90
from dealer to dealer, is sent away,
business is curtailed and the result in
time is that the city becomes poorer
and poorer, and eventually is known
as an insignificant place, not worthy
the title of village.
A town will keep pace with it's chief
trading point. If the principal bust
ness interests of the town fail SO will
the town itself, the price of land and
produce depends to great extent on
local conditions and if these are not
good the land will dwindle in value.
but ii any merchants and citizens
generally are prosperous the value of
town property will increase, new set
Tiers will come and towns will be built
up and prosper.
The success and supremacy of mail
order houses means the enriching of
some at expense of numerous home
merchants, it means concentrating
capital and population at the expense
If the country towns and villages, it
means the failure of individual mer-
antile enterprise and in time will do
way altogether with a home market
lpon which depends almost entirely
ne prosperity of almost any city.
The interests of the country mer-
hants are closely allied with their
ustomers, they select and sell the best
he market can supply, their ADVERTISE
lents can be depended upon and their
GODS are reliable, and can be returned
they are not alright. You cannot
eturn catalogue house goods. Gus
omers can visit their home store and
ee for themselves what they are pur-
haslng, but when they order through
1all order catalogues they are buying
ntlrely on chance, and in many cases
tatements of mail order houses in
are entirely unreliable
nd can not be depended upon. The
ountry merchants are in general pro-
resslve and entertaining, they are
ways working for the good of their
own, they pay a good proportion of
ne city taxes, and encourage local
Enterprise and Improvement.
The co- operation of the people with
lelr business men is all that is neces-
airy and locality where this rule is
ollowed will soon be ranked at the :
cad Of progressive commercial and L
ldustrlal centers
By an error in shipment we kave a
ase OF Christmas books which we will ,
I'll at cost to dispose of them,
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