Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-09-08
Why It Is Right and Proper to Spend Your Money at Home.
SUGGESTIONS TO FARMERS
Strong Argument For Patronizing the Local Merchants Instead of Sending
 Your Money to City Mail Order < Houses-Whero Your Interests Lie.

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 it is right or Iwrong-not will save it, but is il Just? Not is it more convenient, but i> tt fair? Not whether gain. but is it right in principle?
 The town as q local market is woftu at least $75 year to the ordinary farmer Of course the town does not donate him that amount The town was not built for philanthropie pur poses alone, yet he receives an actual cash benefit because the town is here and he is under actual financial obliga ltions to return that benefit by leaving his money with the home town. It is not an obligation that tue law would recogniZa Lut 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 10 spend its money with the home town because of the social obligations between them Tho town is the center of your com munity From it divcrges your rural mail service. In 1t center your tele phone systems. On the streets of the town you meet your neighbors during the week and exchange news and ey perience. You go to 1t for recreation for throughout the winter lecture course you hear great ora tors and higl grade musicians. The political rallies, the church conference, summer Chau fauQua 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 tht gospel. In the brick building three doors from the corner farmer lad will open up 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 10 be near your children you will build on some grassy corne. lot not far from the church and be nP ho 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 1t the more you gel out of it. It grows according to the trade you put into it, and the more il 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.
 There is still Another and stronger reason why the country people spend their money a. home. the moral oh- aigation. The town is yours, yours to ruin or prosper. The same sense of obligation should prompt you to sup port 1t 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- nlty should inspire you as fired the Highland Scot to shed his blood for the welfare of his clan. The country town. with all it's faults, Is rightly gov erned. best enlightened, most mora and the happiest spot in civilization Its good safe place, not too fast nor yet too slow. It !s the pla"c iron which spring most all great bu ;ineSs men, lawyers, scholars. physicians and the place where men arc helpful and neighborly
 To the city belong the mail ovdrr houses and the trend of evil. With itS corrupt government, overflow of popu- iaton and its depravity. the g # city Is the menace of our morals aYl our liberties. The city. like tae dragon swallows the vast throngs of country girls and boys that flock into it and sooner or later, when health an tue and hope are gone. spews thcm [ to die in want or wander as q, ,tS over the face of the earth Tn 9sn, any farmer friend, Is yours. n~ mt you see that when you ta' r'., acy from the country town yo s3a chance of success there 2 Ii tt' 1a,s and girls will follow Whel,, %0u have sent the money?
 This town of yours was founded on Faith i'll the customs of men for hun dreds of years to trade at the near est town. They put Ger all in their business time. money and hope. Thcf success or failure is in your hand For youl trade they will give you gool returns and all will prosper togathc" They work hard-you scarcely realize how hard-and have pinned their faitl
 to the town. Even if you could save a little by sending away your patron