News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1905-08-09
HOME TRADE IDEA.
VALUE OF ITS APPLICATION TO I'M
PROVEMENT OF TOWNS.

How the Patronizing of Home Indus
try Tends to Increase Business ana
the Size of commandments Advo-
cacy by the Country Press.
Never before has the country press
been aroused to such an extent as 1t
Is at present as to the evils of patron
iZing other than home enterprises, says
the Home Trade Advocate.
Editorial and local columns of the
papers, especially in the western
states, are filled with common sense
articles setting before the people such
facts as appeal to reason and patriot
ism. Some editors in their zeal to ac-
complish good perhaps go too far in
abuse of systems that take money
from their neighborhoods and by Sc
we're criticisms of patrons of out of
town concerns "overshoot the mark"
and fail to accomplish what is much
desired.
None will gainsay that the wage
Garner has the inherent right to spend
his earnings wherever he desires. If
he wishes to buy his clothes in some
distant city, he has that privilege.
Sometimes he may have cause to do so.
His home merchants may not carry in
stock what he wishes to secure. 9th
ers may charge him what he considers
an eXorbitant price. Quite often he
may learn that he makes mistake by
buying goods without a careful eX-
animation of them. When this is the
ease-and it frequently is-the purchas-
er becomes better patron of home in
stitutions than ever before.
But there are a few things that the
average man and woman overlook. 1t
is that the dollars that they send away
mean money taken out of local circu-
Iation and the consequent ilnpoverish-
ing of the community to that extent.
Say that there are 1000 people in the
community Five dollars year from
each one sent away amounts 70 $780,
900 year and in ten years 100000.
Surprising that a fifth or sixth of
this represented the profits that should
be left in the community. 1t would be
quite enough to establish business
enterprise that would support several
families. But from some communities
the average amounts sent away for
goods are from a third to a half and
often more than the total paid or need
ed supplies. Think of what a great
loss that is! Think that this trade
given to the home town would imme-
diately increase it's business from a
third to a half.
How many years would it take If
the home trade principle was adhered
to strictly before your town would be
more than double in size? 1t would
only require very few years. And
with the growth of the town every one
living within its. limits and its trade
radius would receive benefit
All the residents of q community
have common interests in it. The la
borer the farmer, the merchant, the
doctor and the lawyer prosper in COM
mon. Their interests are parallel. The
community is cooperative. If the mer-
chant who employed men from some
distant city to do his work would pat
poniZe an out of town doctor and the
town doctor send away for the help he
needed the laborer would suffer And
suppose that the laborers should send
away for their eggs, their vegetables
fruit, butter, etc, would not the farm
er be affected? Suppose that the mer-
chant is compelled to do business with |
out profit. Can he pay as good wages
to his help as thew should be entitled |
to? So it goes down the line. The
better the home town can be made the |
better it is for ALL Be patron of |
home industry, and by being such you
assist yourself and all in your neigh |
borhood.