The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1908-09-01
TO KILL YOUR TOWN.
SUREST WAY IS TO TRADE WITH
MAIL ORDER HOUSES.
Encourage Your Local Dealer and
Thereby Enhance the Value of Lo-
cal Property.

BY sending the money away from
home the person who patronizes the
mail order house impoverishes his local
merchant, prevents his local merchant
from bringing on well assorted stocks
or large stocks Of merchandise, pre-
vents the local merchant from employ
ing more help, which usually comes
from the ranks Of his patrons; pre-
vents his local merchant from assisting
| worthy local enterprises. either the
church, lodge. factory OF political
movement, that are nearly always for
the benefit of his community, says
Up to Date Farming, published from
Indianapolis. The paper continues
with this strong argument for home
trading:
1t prevents the growth Of popula-
| ton In the community in which the
patrons of the mail order houses live
and in that way reduces the value Of
laud in which the farmer in particular
is interested. The, greater number Of
people in the community the better
should be the price Of land. 80
By patronizing. the mail order houses
the person patronizing such houses Is
often. deprived of the privilege of buy
ing many articles that. he needs i'm
medlately that would be of great ben
eft to him and whose cost could prob
ably be saved many times over if he
could but be supplied at once.
BY refusing and failing to buy from
his local dealer ne loses the opportuni-
ty of buying goods which he actually
| needs and which by comparison he
could pick out as the best and the
cheapest,
It Is we'll known fact that mail
order houses get the most of their
business based on low priced goods.
and when a low price is named In
variably low class goods are furnished.
1t Is also a we'll known fact tnat
mail order houses buy seconds and
goods Of low quality. AS rule, Of
course, they keep some standard goods
that they offer at less than Legitimate
profit, which blinds the mail order
house customer and makes him believe
that everything the mail order house
offers is good quality and low in price
which. Of course. is not true
1t behooves every person. whether
he be farmer. mechanic. professional
man or capitalist. to buy everything
that he needs from his local merchant
when it is possible to do ito do
everything that he can to encourage
the local dealer and local manufactur-
4rs. The sympathy Of your own peo-
pie is thing much to be desired and
very much needed.
1t is fact and can be proved that
many former successful merchants in
communities that were prosperous pre-
vious to the advent Of the mail order
houses have beell bankrupted and re-
duced TO poverty, and the people in
such communities can get only the
bare necessities and have to make fire.
quent trips to nearby towns In order
to make selections that they formerly
could obtain at home from their local
merchants.
We appeal to all persons to patronize
their local merchants always and never
TO let the small difference in price on a
few articles stand in the way Of pat
roniZing the local merchant
is it consistent TO undertake to fight
the trust with one hand. the trusts that
have reduced the price Of labor and
farm products to such an extent that
your calling is the poorest paid In the
land. and help form another trust with
the other hand because these trusts
are willing to sell to you in some in.
stances at n price slightly lower than
your local merchant can sell the goods
to yut. Cor and get II living profit?
You will find that your home mer-
chant will sell you the same quality OF
goods just as cheap. IL You pay him
cash aud the freight. aud you get. the
goods without waiting from two to
three weeks for them.