Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1908-11-14
A GOOD WAY TO
KILL YOUR TOWN
Start In to Trade With the Mail
Order Concerns.
THE REASON WHY YOU
SHOULD MOI DO so

property in Your city--Why Hell
to Build Up and Foster an Outside
Trust?
by sending the money away from
home the person who patronizes the
mail order house impoyerishes his 10
cal merchant, prevents his local mer
chant from bringing n well assorted
stocks or large stocks OF merchandise
prevents the local merchant ron EN-
ploying more help. which usually
comes from the ranks of his patrons;
prevents his local merchant from as.
sisting worthy local enterprises
either the church, lodge, factory OIL
political movement, that are ready al
ways for the benefit of his commun'
ity, says Up TO Date Farming, pub.
aished from indianapolis. The paper
continues with this strong argument
for home tradinc.
1t prevents the growth of popula-
ton in the community in which the
patrons of the mail order houses 1--we
and in that way reduces the value OF
land in which the fan mer in particu-
lar is interested. The greater number
,of people In the community the better
should be the price of land.
ny patronizing the mail order
houses the person patronizing such
houses is often deprived of the privi-
iege OF buying many articles that he
needs Immediately that would be fof
great benefit to him and whose cost
could probably be saved many times
over If he could but be supplied at
once.
by refusing AMI failing to buy
f'ro.n his local dealer he loses the OPP
pntnnfty of buging goods which he
actually needs and which by compar-
.lson he could pick out as the best and
enc cheapest.
ii is well known fact that mail or
der houses get the most of their busi-
ness based on low priced goods, and
when a low price is named invariably
ow class goods are furnished.
1t is also well known fact that
lanail order houses buy seconds and
rtss,Se of low quality. As rule. OF
aaprsg they keep some standard
goods thai they offer at less than legi-
itinate profit, witch 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
II behooves every person, whether
ne 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-
ers. The sympathy of your own peo-
nle is a thing much to be desired and
very much needed
1t is a fact ana can be proved that
many former successful merchants In
communities that were prosperous
previous to the advent of the mail or
der houses have been bankrupted and
reduced 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 former
lv could obtain at home from their To-
cal merchants.
We appeal to all persons to patron
ize their local merchants always and
never to let the small difference in
orjce on a few articles stand in the
way of patronizing 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 palo
in the land and help form another
trust with the other hand because
these trusts are willing to sell toyot
IN some instances at price slightly
lower than your local merchant car
sell the goods to you for and get
living profit.
You will find that your home mer
chant will sell you the same qualit!
of goods Just as cheap II you get th'
cash and the freight, and you get tins
voods without waiting from two &
three weeks for them,
Then on the other hand, the mer
chants should patronize their custom
ers as much as possible in their pur
chasas The rule works both ways.
Foreigner Improving.
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