East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-05-26

Money at Home and Promote Bet
ter Feeling All Along the Line.
Fairview Farm, Briggson. ore. |
May 24.-(To the East Oregonian)-
AS so very much has been printed
lately in all the newspapers advocat-
ing and admonishing the farmers to
stop the practice of sending away to
distant points to buy their goods, etc,
and that instead of sending their
money away to such places the far
mers should patronize home industry
and spend their money with the home
merchant and help him to prosper
because said merchant is taxpayer
here, etc
Now. this is very good logic and
would certainly be the right thing to
do, provided, that certain amount
of reciprocity was at the same time
practiced by that home merchant.
But how about the farmer? He also
is a taxpayer here, so in that respect
honors are even between him and the
merchant. Now, in this article l re-
fer principally to all those small far
mers upon the foothills of the Blue
mountains and other places, and
whose crops consist largely of fruit
berries and vegetables.
1t has come to be a we'll known and
also a widely known truth that these
mountains produce a good potato,
which for extra good quality cannot
be excelled anywhere in the United
States. and the same claim applies
with equal force to the mountain
strawberry. as 1t is found to be the
most delicious, wholesome and health
full strawberry in existence, because
/ it is natures own production and
that delicious nectar which nature
stores in the mountain strawberry Is
never soaked out nor exchanged FOL
water as is the case with Strawberries
raised by irrigation, and the same
perfection applies in the same man
ner to all other fruits raised on these
hills.
Reasons for Reciprocity
Now, then, all of this being true
it would very naturally be expected
that the grower of such produce
would experience no trouble at all il
marketing their crops at good, fai
price. and right here is where tn
home merchant should show his reel
procity and good will to the farmer:
First-By always buying for hi
own use from these home-farm-in
| dustries.
Secondly aiding these growers t
obtain a ready market for all the
have to sell.
Thirdly rather holding up for
, good fair price for all of this clas
of produce instead of trying to fore
the prices down.
; Fourth-By never sending off
other states for carloads of any kin
T of produce as long as there is plent
, of the same to be bought in his ow
neighborhood.
AS a shrewd business man he ougl
, to understand that the more none
that goes into the pockets of thet
home producers the greater will
his chance of selling goods to the
from his store, and the less numb'
of bad accounts will he have on h
a books
- But on Ine Olhtl "bNA 49,
farmers. time and again, come dow
to their home town with load
IS berries, potatoes. etc. offering Il
Is same for sale, the merchant eth
= saws. mo. sir; we do not care to de
in that line at ALL" or else, perha
A, he will say, Eyes. we will take fe
a, crates of those mountain strawbe
If ries. but we will only pay you Z
same price which we paid for the la
picking of the Milton Orrigated) be
al ries."
,v And then again: "Yes, We will ia
= a load of your fine mountain pot
toes, but we will only pay you I
ie cheaper price for them, the same tn
'r we are now paying for Can inferi
l grade) of potatoes and which we
getting from Colorado and Minneso
etc."
at Now, then, why not patronize yo
e. home industries instead of sendi
IN off to other states for much
lr ferior grade of potatoes and tn
forcing the prices down on the bet
o. article and which are raised in yo
We own neighborhood?
on The Farmers Reasons.
al Another point to be looked at
this: that whenever farmer is fore
a to go away from his home town
r. haul his produce a distance of 20
IS 30 miles to some other city where
tt, merchants will buy his load at T
price. can you wonder at all then
of cause that farmer concludes In tu
es to buy his goods at the place whit
he he sells his produce?
,rt There never yet was case
that had two sides to 1t. Any set
merchants who desire to keep
- trade at home must in turn assist
20 farmers of their vicinity to secure
4. fair market for their produce.
Produce is the farmers capital, q
in no other form does money e
grow on his farm. In nine cases
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