Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1905-11-24
TRADE AT HOME AND
BUILD UP YOUR TOWN
Practical Pointers on How to CO.
operate for the Best Inter
ests of All.

Never before has the country press
been aroused to such an extent as il
is at present as to the evils Of patro-
nizing 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
accomplish good perhaps go to far in
abuse of systems that take money
from their neighborhoods and by
severe crltisms 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 i4herent 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 se-
cure. Others may charge him what
he considers an exhorbitant price.
Quite often he may learn that he
makes mistake by buying goods
without careful examination of
them. When this is the case--and it
frequently is--the purchaser becomes
better patron of home institutions
than ever before.
But there are few things that the
average man and woman overlook. 1t
is that the dollars that they send
away mean money taken out of local
circulation and the consequent i'm
poverishing OF the community to
that extent Say that there are 1000
people in the community. Five dol
lars year from each one sent away
amounts to $40, 600 year and in 10
years 100000.
Supposing that fifth or sixth of
this represented the profits that
should be left in the community.
II would be quite enough to establish
business enterprise that would sup.
port several families. But from some
communities the average amounts sent
away for goods are from third to a
half and often more than the total
paid or needed supplies. Think of
what "A great loss that is Think
that this trade given to the home
town would Immediately increase its
business from a third to half.
How many years would 1t take II
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 a benefit.
All the residents of "A community
have common interests IN II. The
laborer, the farmer, the merchant,
the doctor and the lawyer prosper in
common. Their interests are parallel
The community Is cooperative. If
the merchant who employed men from
some distant city to do his work
would patronize an out Of town doc
tor 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 farmer be
afflicted? Suppose that the merchant
is compelled 10 do business without
profit Can he pay as good wages TO
his help as they 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 in.
dustry, and by being such you assist
yoursellf and all IN your sneighbor.
hood.