Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-06-10
STAND BY YOUR TOWN
Why It Is Right and Proper to Spend Your Money at Home.
SUGGESTIONS TO FARMERS.
Strong Argument For Patronizins the Local Merchants Instead of Sending Your Money to City Mail Order Nouses-Where Your Interests Lie.

Your Money to City Mail Order
 Houses-Where Your Interests Lie.
 The curious question, "Is it right to trade at homer" is answered in the following manner by a writer in recent issue of the New England Grocer:
 It is the right thing to do, for, after all, the fundamental question in every transaction is whether 1t is right or wrong-not will I save it. but is it 1ust? Not is 1t more convenient, but is 1t fair? Not whether gain. but is it right in principle?
 The town AS . local market Is worth at least $75 . year to the ordinary farmer. Of course the town does not donate him that amount. The town was not built for philanthropic pur- poses alone, yet he receives an actual cash benedt because the town is here, and he is under actual financial obliga tons to return that benefit by leaving his money with the home town. It is not an obligation that the law would recognize, but is one that appeals to those clean hearted men of high honor who tell that perfect honesty demands that when benefits are received from stranger or brother, friend or foe, bene- fits stand to be returned.
 It is right for the country to spend its. money with the home town because of the social obligations between them. Tho town Is the center of your com munity From 1t diverges your rural mail service. In it center your tele- phone systems On the streets of the town you meet your nelghbors during the week and exchange news and ex- perience. You go to it for recreation, for throughout the winter lecture course you hear great, orators and high grade musicians. The political rallies, the church conference, summer Chau- tauqua or associations are held there. Then some day in the pretty little church, whose spire you can see from your home, your son will preach the gospel. In the brick building three doors from the corner farmer lad will open up a law office, and in the little frame building some blocks away another son from the soil, just home from college, will begin the practice of medicine.
 There is the high school to which you send your children, and then after awhile your daughter will teach. And by and by when you find the farm work has grown heavy for your age and you want to be near your children you will build on some grassy corner lot not far from the church and be- come one of the honorable town peo- pie.
 Yes, the town is a mighty good thing to have. convenient thing, and, of course, like all good institutions, the more you put into it the more you get l out of it. 1t grows according to the trade you put into 1t, and the more it grows higher will grow the prices on your land. You know a good town where there is plenty of work for car penters, bricklayers and masons, plenty of work for everybody at good wages, is worth many times as much as the little village where the mechan. ic and storekeeper play marbles in the street.
 l There is still another and stronger reason why the country people spend their money at home, the moral ob- ligation. The town is yours, yours to ruin or prosper. The same sense of obligation should prompt you to sup port it as prompted our Teutonic an cestors in the forests of Germany to stand elbow to elbow in protection of their village. The same spirit of loy- alty should inspire you as fired the highland Scot to shed his blood for the welfare of his clan. The country town, with all its faults. is rightly gov erned, best enlightened, most moral and the happiest spot in civilization
 It's 6 good safe place, not too fast nor yet too slow. It is the place fro:.,
 which spring most all great business men, lawyers. scholars, phyeicians
 and the place where men are helpful and neighborly.
 To the city belong the mail orde,
 houses and the trend of evil. With its corrupt government. overflow of popu.
 lation and its depravity, the great city
 is the menace of our morals and our
 liberties. The city, like tae dragon
 swallows the vast thronss of countr,
 girls and boys that 6Ock into 1t and
 sooner or later, when health and virtue
 and hope are gone. spews them out tc
 die in want or wander as derelicts
 over the face of the earth. The town