The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1910-03-31

could not find what they wanted
here For their information permit
me to say that there Is not mer-
chant in the city who Will not be
glad at any time, to give any customer
q letter of Introduction TO any. manu-.
facturer or 70 order from catalogue
the things selected and lay them down
IN Iinot at the same price. or little
less than it will be necessary for the
purchaser. to pay the foreign firm for
the same goods. Now why not give
this merchant chance? The very
next time that you want something
that he has not in stock, he will get
it for you and save you money.
TO illustrate how it works against
the city's interests, let us take for
instance the item of printing. If
every man in Minot who uses sta
tionery would have it printed here,
even II he had to pay a trifie more,
instead of having thirty-five printers
employed in Minot, we would have
fifty to fifty-fve. l will venture to
say at least twenty additional wage
earners, representing at least one
hundred people, would ybe added to
the Minot population, and this with
out any effort or bonus, or financial
assistance of any kind from the club.
Should proposition present itself
tomorrow which would bring twenty
additional wage earners to Minot, this
club would appoint a committee to
solicit funds for a site, ETC., in order
to get the industry to come here. kp-
ply this argument concerning print
ers all down the line to include the
tailor, the 9milliner, the cigar makers,
he.candy manufacturer, the shoe man
in short, every business represented
in Minot, and If we ACT UPON 1T,
We will increase the population thou
sand or more In a very short time.
Let our motto be home industries,
first last and all the time. This
means the clerk and the stenographer
as well as every body else in Minot.
We have a business college here
with 120 boosting students from forty
or fifty outside towns, who will spend
close to twenty-five thousand dollars
of foreign money in Minot this season
and probably twice that much next
season. l have sold hardware that
went into homes that were built here
by outsiders who wanted to educate
their children in this college. I never
expected to see this college win out,
because was in position to see
that as a proposition, it was the
toughest of the tough. What are we
doing for this school that is already
doing so much for us and which will
do more? Do we think Of it when we
talk to outsiders about Minot. All
the money 1t brings to Minot stays
here, and viewed from q moral as
well 40 . financial standpoint, it Is
one Of Ainot's best assets.
had occasion to discuss the hole
in the p. o. business only recently
with q Lady from the country. Why
she said, zone half the people of Nj
not are sending away for goods" She
gave this as a reason why she sent
away for goods. She said that even
some OF the merchants and the mer-
chants wives sent away for grocer
les, dress goods, shoes and furniture.
If this is true. all can say to this
class of merchants is, that the sooner
we all get the hole in the P. o. habit
the better. We can then all 60 to
Chicago together, at one time, and
get reduced railroad rates, and per
haps Judge Lewis will give us me
Nelson cure at half price. We mer-
chants have this consolation however:
If we march out, we will take the law
yer, the doctor, the banker and che
real estate man with us, for all these
are helpless without us. They could
not even have a postofice with
hole in it..
The merchant is the hub of the
wheel of community. With out a
or a storekeeper, you could
not have a post office, to say nothing
of educational or religious institu-
lions. Show me city the merchants
of which are prosperous and will
show you a growing, vigorous commu-
nifty; community with churches that
are paid for. whose priests and minis
tiers receive their salaries regularly
and live in houses that are In keep
ing with their calling. will show
you a city with paved streets, with
parks and places Of amusement be-
cause the merchant is home-loving
man who cannot get away unless he
takes the Nelson cure. Therefore he
re.invests every cent he makes in
his home, his place Of business or in
some other way In his home town. He
cannot escape the assessor when he
calls. for his property is In plain sight
he Is the first victim Of the soliciting
committee and the man with tickets.
And woe to the merchant who dares
refuse to subscribe u buy.
We praise and make much of the
money loaner; we say he helped us
out many times; that he is a model
man, a charitable man who has help