Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1907-10-19

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America-Louis c. Coer an Gems g.
ers Many Phases of tie NJ; ttcr.
Recently the Springfield Glll Jour
nal offered prizes for essays IL buy
ing at home" contest. The 5000:
prize was awarded to Louis g. Cole.
man, a bright yourg man Of spring
field, whose arguments against mail
order buying are in pait rs fellows:
Buy at HON" T. br''" g 1t is
only fair play and n parc 'a! Ia the
home merchant. IIr rhlres " it'll you
the yoke of all taxes t. govern. patrol
and beautify your city. TO whom DO
you 60 for subscription to n public
charity or to secure new factory:
The local merchant every time. Is It
quite fair then. when you have Il little
money to spend that you should forget
your benefactor and send your money
to some mail order house which never
gave n cent to help our city? The local
merchant shares your burdens; share
with him your trade
But, more Important home buying
keeps money Mt home to help us pay
our taxes and bills Of nll kinds. II all
Of US should start tomorrow and send
even the small sum of dollar
month apiece to mail order houses and
continue that for year this city
financially would be vacuum. Buy at
home and in year the city will be
like mint or cornucopia to meet our
wants.
Then 1t Is really cheaper to buy the
vast majority of articles at home.
Figure the cost OF expense or postage,
figure your travelling expenses, com
pare the quality of the goods and the
home price is Invariably the cheaper.
And there Is reason. DO you think
that you who order. say. n china set,
once In lifetime can order such n
set In n distant city ana get It cheaper
than the home merchant who orders
thousands of sets a year and ships by
the carload?
Again. the alleged chenpneSs of the
mail order article. even If 1t were
cheaper, would be more than offset
by the lack of an opportunity to In
spect. When you buy Mt home you
need not pay cent till you thorough
ly examine the article. Then II you
later find the article Is defective or
will not fulfill its purpose YOU have
only Il few blocks to go to see the
seller in person, and the home dealer
to retain your trade, will repair or ex-
change. The distant merchant. how
ever, may and does with impunity
turn a deaf ear to your two cent mis-
sives Of complaint.
A woman in Jacksonville the other
day saw an advertisement in mail
order magazine of bicycle, com
plete in all its parts, price SO. She
sent on her money and in few days
received bicycle charm worth 30
cents or less. Such gold bricks, which
pave the path OF the mail order fiend,
never disturb the buyer at home.
We all know the delays in buying
by mail At home, If we need an
article. we have only to step down and
pick 1t off the counter. Why. then, do
we insist on putting ourselves in such
position by mail order that Martha
exclaims day after day, 81 wonder II
the expressman will get that waist
here in time for the party" and VIII
liam pouts away trembling lest that
fishing pole won't come before he must
start on his two weeks to the locks?
Home buying prevents delays.
If we begin buying Mt home more
generously than we have, our mer-
chants will be encouraged and protect
ed in expanding their stock. II we let
them know that when they become
progressive and keep not only stand
ard goods but goods Of exceptional
and unusual design, we will stand be-
hind them and go to them to purchase,
they will not hesitate to expand and
amplify stocks.
And II the stock Is to be expanded,
then 1t will take more clerks TO sell
and more bookkeepers to keep ac-
counts. Thus will home buying give
more work and employment TO our
home people.
Mr.. and Mrs. Property Owners, have
sou otoppNu W VI tliN tlltNl VI
your mailing that order to New York
yesterday? II you and your friends
don't buy Of your tenant, how is he
going to get money to pay any sub
ytantial rent1 And II goods can't be
told there who will want to buy that
building at any price? Let the volume
of trade in city continually expand
and there is no limit on real estate
values. Broadway New York; proper
ty has again and again bumped values
that already seemed colossally high
and still continues to soar ms trade still
grows. If trade grows In Springfield,
Springfield values will soon make pres
ent values seem small.
Buying at home increases city or
town pride 1t was not long ago that
in hearing people speak of unusual ar
tlcles you would hear them say, You
can't buy such thing in this little
town" Today the talk is getting to be:
"Well, you can get that right here.
In fact, there's hardly anything you
can't buy nowadays In Springfield"
Stand by Your Town.
II YOU do not stand by your town