The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-03-07

. IN. IL Is thbp'ldtlt li dill'hE ti'G ""
r.ous interests in a community, ani
SO agreed 10 try and make a little
talk en- that subject.
This discussion reminds ME Of one
of Henry w. Grady's famous stor
jos. He was addressing a large meet.
ing al Dallas several years ago. and
lin trying to illustrate what kept the
south back, he said he once attended
/ a funeral in Jasper county Georgia,
and that while they buried the man
in an iron ore hill the shovels and
pick were manufactured in Pittsburg,
! Va. while tho fferal process
sion passed through a pine for
lest the boards In the coffin came
+ from Vermont; while the cemetery
! lay alongside a large cotton field. the
winding sheet came from Fall River
. Mass. and in fact about the only
thing that Georgia furnished was the
| corpse.
II is the same way with Cairo to-
day, While our grocer houses are as
tbig and their prices as low, our re-
Itail merchants buy their supplies IN
St Louis or Chicago; while orr dry
goods houses are as upto-datp as any
and carry many things that are on a
restricted price list. still our retail
Try goods men pay freight on c. NJ.
D, Borden's prints, in order to pat
ronize New York and Philadelphia
houses. Notwithstanding that the va
bought for cash at the factories Our
hardware lines are as strong as any
I'm tho United States: still you viii
find Keen Kutter" on your butcher
knives aud hatchets; YOU will find
Studehaker wagons on our streets
aud our old friend Rears & Saw
bucks name on your lawn mower, al
though we have right here in our city
lar up-to-date buggy and implement
house our local flour mills produce
patent hour that will make biscuits
rise to the skies, still the Minneapo-
lis millers enjoy a lucrative business
from the bakers and consumers of
Cairo. Why, We even drink Cana
dian Club whiskey when Old Josh
Quincy is an appetizer that would
make any man eat seyenty-fye
cent meal at a fifty cent hotel Where
is the factory that puts up better
cigar for the money than our local
people turn out? You can go int
our retail stores and see foreign trade
marks on their shelves until you are
forced 10 the conclusion that about
all the jobbers of Cairo furnish, is
customers to buy from the retail
stores.
The same is true of the consum-
ers. Go to any of our homes today
and YOU will find on the table Switts
hams, although our local packing
company prepares excellent meats;
you will find Reid -Murduchs canned
goods. although every grocery has
its own products just as good You
will find Montgomery Wards cata-
logue, find where you pay a dress
maker IN Bowling Green. Ky, or a
tailor in Chicago III,
About an our supply houses here
furnish is taxes 10 make streets and
sewers and pay the police. The truth
iS We are apart and far apart Let's
Get together, Let's help each other,
patronize your local i0ber-he is as
smart as the one YOU buy from in
Chicago or New York. although YOU
perhaps do not realize it because you
know the local man personally
and The foreigner only by rep.
ntation. The Book OF Proverbs says
"A prophet is not without honor save
I'm his own country" and nowhere can
this Dee more apuy applied than with
reference TO your local iobbers.
] have net great many people in
business way all over the country
and can truthnly say that Cairo.
people measure up to and above any
ri them. Our retail men are as hon
est and as bright and as live as any
In the United States-our banks arr.
as strong and their policies as lirer
f'i 40 mus N'N VIII III any rs mere.
eur municipal and county officers arr
AZ dillleent and efficient as could he
desired. our professional men are a..
capable as those YOU will find any
where. in fact We have here In this
little neck of the woods all the com
Ponent parts of a great city and with
The proper cooperation and closer
business relations We can make Cal.
rc tho first AMI foremost citt for it's
size IN the country
There is not a city anywhere that
"Ill respond more readily t. back a
legitimate enterprise than Cairo win
-cnl la' week a committee an
pointed bv this Organization here rae
Cd sioo to help complet, gravel
road m our neighbor county Pulaski
without being turned down in sin
E|o inat3ucc by either wholesaler orI
retailer and YOU all remember how
promptly AMI generously the mer-
chants responded to help entertain
RcrseE'it and the Egyptian Hnstlers
This same attitude towards our local
Institutions would materially benefit
every one iu fhil ar,7., sss az, H. Fu..,, 81