The Delta independent., 1909-10-22

zens will never be benefited by it
again. 1t has gone far away to enrich
our rivals.
Certain classes live on the merest
pittance and send the greater portion
of their wages TO the distant countries
of their birth. How long would it take
three thousand of these TO build a city
like Delta America?
If our per capita is S52. and each
person should mail away a dollar a
week for one year, how much money
would be left to carry on business in
Delta and to operate our farms?
Why. we would all be bankrupt; busi-
our workers would be thrown out of
employment. Then what would be-
come of the farmers perishable pro-
ducts?
OF course. such disaster is not like
ly to occur. but every dollar spent out
side of our own community reduces our
capital. reduces our home business and
contributes toward just such state of
affairs.
The reasons why we should trade at
home, both general and specific, are
many. too many indeed to give in an
article of this scope, but here are a
few of them:
We should trade at home because it
enables our merchants to carry larger.
finer and more meritorious stocks of
goods from which to make our selec-
tons. If we do not trade here, there
is no incentive to carry such stocks, be-
sides in many lines business will not
warrant it.
We should trade at home because it
enables our merchants to make con-
slant changes in their stocks, thus Civ
ing us the newest, most up-to-date
goods. Styles change SO rapidly now
adays that only the merchant whose
sales require him to make new pur-
ehases constantly can expect to keep
up with the times.
We should all trade at home because it
enables our merchants to sell us what
we want at lower prices than they
could otherwise make. In a given To-
cation, merchants rent and general
expenses. aside from clerk hire possi-
bly,, are the same whether he does a
business of $500 or 81, 900 monthly. As
these general expenses must come out
of the profits. it is obvious that the
more goods he sells the smaller will be
the profit required on each sale to meet
these expenses, and consequently the
smaller the price.
We should trade at home because we
can then see what we are buying and
know exactly what we are getting. 1t
is impossible to determine from the
truest engraving or the best written
Tor most glowing) description exactly
how goods will look, as we can do if we
buy them in our home stores.
We should trade at home because if
an article does not give satisfaction we
can return it without trouble or delay
and personally select something that
will satisfy.
We should trade vt home because we
get immediate delivery, with no vexa-
tious delays or damages in transporta-
ton. Everyone who has bought any
quantity of goods from out-of-town
houses knows how often they are de-
layed or damaged.
We should trade at home because
distance lends enchantment" and
after time it is usually. learned that
the money saving idea of trading with
those far away is only an illusion
Freight, express, money orders, post
age and other unthought-of incidentals
often far exceed the profits we imagine
we will keep our local merchants from
making.
We should trade at home because our
stores give our friends and ourselves
employment, either directly or indi-