Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-08-22
STAND BY YOUR TOWN
Why It Is Right and Proper to Spend Your Money al Home.
SUGGESTIONS TO FARMERS.
Strong Argument For Patronizi:1g the Local Merchants Instead of Sending Your Money to City Mail Orde' Houses-Where Your interests Lie.

trade at hone?" is answered in the following manner by writer in I 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 wrong-not will I save it, but is | just? Not is it more convenient, but is it fair? Not whether I gain but is il right in principle?
 The town as local market is worth at least $-5 year to the ordinary farmer OF course the town does l4os donate him that amount. The t6"a was not built for philanthropic pur poses alone, yet he receives an actual cash benefit because the town is ;.2r', and hc is under actual financial ohIig' tions b return that beae.it by leaving his money with the home town. It i, not an obligation that t'!c law T0ulQ rec 3sn.ze. hut is oac tis2t appeals to those tlean Aeartal men of high honor who tell that perfect Aose&t y demands that when cacits are roeeivcl from strang r or ar3chei', frienl or foe. bone fits stand to ae rata!~iioI.
 It is r,cat for t!la country 10 spnnei it's money '%s.::.,a tlH ho2,c t5@n hecau5s of the social obligations be:wco:! thcm Tho town is the center Of your com. munity From it divergas your rural mail service. Tn it center your tele phone systems. On the streets of the town you meet your neighbors 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 higsI 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
 
 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 corne. nf fop hn oh1 lN come one of the honorable town Deo. pie
 Yes, the town is mighty good thing to have. convenient thing, and, of course, like all good institutions the more you put into it the more you get out of it. It grows according to the trade you put into it, and the more it grows higher will grow the prices on your land. You know a good town 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. tc and storekeeper play marbles in the street
 There is still another and stronger reason why the country people spend their money at home, the moral oh- 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 i'll protection of their village. The same spirit of loy- atty 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 a good safe place, not too fast nor yet too slow. It Is the place from which spring most ali great business men, lawyers, scholars, physicians. and the place where men are helpful! and neighborly.
 To the city belong the mail ortle, houses and the trend of evil. With it's corrupt government, overflow of popu- lation and its depravlty. the great citv is the menace of our morals and our liberties. The city, like the dragon swallows the vast throngs of country girls and boys that flock into it anl sooner or later, when health and virtue and hope are gone. spews them out to die in want or wander as derelicts over the face of the earth. The town my farmer friend, is yours, and don't you see that when you take the money from the country town you destroy the chance of success there and the boys and girls will follow where you have sent the money?
 This town of yours was founded on faith in the customs of men for hun dreds of years to trade at the near. est town. They put their all in their business time. money and hope. Their success or failure is in your hands For youl trade they will give you goo returns, and ali viii prosper togethe: They work hard-you scarcely realize 1 how hard-and have pinned their fait'l to the town. Even If you could save