The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-06-24
PAY TAXES, BUY PRODUCTS
ANDINCREASETHE PRICE !!
OF LAND.
Every Farm and Every Town
Home Is Worth More Because
There Are Home Stores
Then Buy Supplies of II
the Home Merchant.

An Iowa paper tells striking
incident with reference to buying
at home, and therefore draws al
moral. 1t is an incident worth re-
peating to Benton county and Cor
Wallis people. 1t will at least in
terest them. The paper in question
is the Marble Rock Journal. The
story is as follows:
A man went into one of the Mar
ble Rock stores the other day and
asked if he would oblige him by
excbauging an article he had bought
from a mail order house for a Sim
liar article of another size from the
merchants stock. The merchant
almost tainted at the mans gall,
but he was an obliging merchants.
and SO he did not get angry. He
asked the man why he did not re-.
turn the article to the mail order
house and have it exchanged.
because I have to return it at
my expense," said the man, "and
even then I stand chance of not
getting what I want. The cost of
returning it would be considerable
and it might get lost or broken. on
the trip, and just thought maybe
you could sell it to some one else,
and could let me have one that fits
me from your stock
The merchant looked sharply at
the man to see if he was joking or
really didn't know any better, and
seeing it was Only the latter be told
him that he would exchange the
article for him. And he did, and
the man was profuse in, his thanks
for. the accommodation.
4. And then the merchant told the
man in a gentlemanly way just
what he had done. He said:
"My friend, you live in this COM
muniiy. You have lived here for a
good many years. You own farm
that cost you perhaps SIS to $40
per acre, and it is now worth $75 to
500 per acre, and yet the land is
not as coed as when you bought it
What has made it worth more? Il
is because it is near a good town
to this town to which you and your
neighbors helped to build up by
your patronage. While you were
helping the town with your patron
age you were unconsciously doub
ling or trebling the value of youl
farm. The rule works both ways
The growth of the town increase
the value of your farm, and the de
terioation of the town Injuries th'
value of your farm. If you bu.
your goods in M be Ro:k 20,
help to make Marble Rock a large1
town and help to make your lant
worth more. If you buy your good
in Chicago you help to make Chi
cago larger city and you leave t
other people the burden of buildin
up your home community and in
creasipg the value of your land. ]
you help to build up Chicago hoz
much will it increase the value c
your farm?
"You are interested in this tow
as much as are the people who liv
in it. You trade your produce her
for things that you want, ssyou SCI
your stock and farm produce here
or in some other town near her
and if you are unfortunate and nee
financial help, the business me
e here, and no one but the bushes
7 men, are solicited to raise a purs
for you. And they always do
whether you have helped them c
not. If you are short of cash, {
your crops or stock are not yet sole
you ask for credit at the store
here and you get it, which is fave
to you though you may not kno
it. If you buy something at tx
store here that does not prove 6
- good as was claimed for it you ca
bring it back and exchange it {
get your money back. In the:
and a hundred other ways you al
under obligations to this town ar
the merchants here to trade wit
them, and yet you have sent yo,
cash to this mail order house
buy what you want and have nj
gotten what you want after all"
The merchant paused for brea
and the man mumbled somethir
about getting cheaper prices at Il
mail order houses.
"lf that were true" said the me
chant, Il wouldn't complain bi
If you could save money by orde