Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-07-29
STAND BY YOUR TOWN
Why 1t Is Right and Proper to
Spend Your Money at Home.
SUGGESTIONS TO FARMERS.
Strong Argument For Patronizine the
Local Merchants Instead of Sending
Your Money to City Mail Order
Houses-Whsrs Your Interests Lie.

trade at home" is answered in the
following manner by Il writer in Il
recent issue of the New England
Grocer:
1t is the right thing to do, for, after
all, the fundamental question in every
transaction is whether it is right or
wrong--not will l save it, but is it
just? Not Is 1t more convenient, but is
1t fair? Not whether l gain. but Is 1t
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 benefit because the town is here.
and he is under actual financial obliga
tons to return that benefit by leaving
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.
1t is right for the country to spend
It's money with the home town because
Of the social obligations between them.
The town is the center Of your COM
muntty. From 1t DIVORCES 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 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 spre you can see from
your home, your son will preach the
gospel. In the brick building three
doors from the corner Il farmer lad
will open up law office, and in the
little frame building some blocks away
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
I'm
lot not far from the church and be-
come one of the honorable town poo
pie.
Yes, the town is a mighty good thing
to have, a convenient thing, and, of
course, like all good institutions, the
more sou put into it the more you get
out OF it. 1t grows according to the
trade You put into it. and the more it
grows higher will grow the prices on
your land. You know good town
where there is plenty of work for car
pentcrs, 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 at home, the moral OBJ
legation. The town Is yours, yours to
ruin or prosper. The same sense of
obligation should prompt you to sup
port ii 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 10y
atty should inspire you as fired the
highland Scot to shed his blood for
tho welfare of his clan. The country
town. with all it's faults, is rightly gov
erued, best enlightened, most moral
and the happiest spot In civilization.
It's good safe place, not too fast
nor yet too slow. 1t is the place from
which spring most all great business
men, lawyers, scholars, physicians.
and the place where men are helpful
and neighborly.
To the city belong the mail order
houses and the trend of evil With its
corrupt government, overflow of popu-
lation and its dep 'avity. the great city
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 and
sooner or later, when health and virtue
and hope are gone. spews them out to
die in want or wander as derellctS
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
lreds 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 your trade they will give you good
returns, and all will prosper together
They work hard-you scarcely realize
how hard-and have pinned their faith
to the town. Even If you could save
little by sending away your patron
age, don't you think 1t the. fair thing
the right thing, to trade at your own
home town with those you know, those
whose prosDerity and happiness you