The Glenwood post., 1911-09-02
ABOUT HOME PATRONAGE

home patronage. After reading them
straight through we began to ponder,
to wonder how before the eyes of Wise
solomon people would insist on writing
for passes to Denver, mailing out sy-
tensive orders to eastern houses for
groceries, household furniture, cloth
ing, dry goods and hardware.
To be sure, we unlocked the Office
coat and went out calling. We visited
most every business man in town, es-
pecially those Immediately effected by
the loss of home trade, and not one
MERCHANT denied point brought out in
the ten reasons.
Could they duplicate the prices made
by any responsible concern anywhere
on goods of equal quality, in the same
quantities and on the same basis of de-
livery and payment? By all means, yes
and better. The management of one of
Salida's leading dry goods firms made
the statement that he would be glad
to place all his goods on display if the
public would be interested enough to
ask an investigation. And on every
piece of goods he would pledge himself
to display his price along side of Den
ver's catalogue price, and his goods
would come less in the majority OF
cases.
Then is it fair, all reasons being con
sidered true, for citizens of Salida to
help pave and lay out handsome streets
in other communities with the money
that rightfully belongs here for the
same purpose. Is it just deal to so
check and hinder the wheels of pro
gress at home, thus retarding public
Improvements and shaming the face oe
Fair Prosperity until property values
come to standstill and residents be
gin considering new locationsg Surely
Salidans are not as hard hearted as al
of that. There is a reason:
The greatest hindrance to the wheels
of prosperity in the line of home trade
and patronage which Salida has to face
today is the DAILY INFLUX OF
FROM SIX. SEVEN, TO EIGHT
HUNDRED DENVER PAPERS WITH
THEIR SCREAMING ADVERTISE
MENTS, MISLEADING OR FAIR.
Show us the man who says advertising
never pays, and we mean by that the
brainy, the diligent and the right AMI
continual kind of advertising, and we
viii merely take him to the railroa
officials who are daily writing Denver
shopping passes, or we viii refer him
to the postoffice reports on money order
houses. If Denver prices are dupi,
Gated by Salida merchants as we are
told, citizens of Salida have had little
chance to know it. Foreign merchants
do not wait for customers to hunt up
their firm to ascertain prices on Ger,
tain goods, they tell hundred thou
sand people every morning and even
ing of the month that they have a GER
tain line of goods which they will SCI.
for a certain sum of money. That's
certainly simple enough, isn't its Yet
every day it is paving Denvers and
Chicago's streets with gold In coh-
clusion, we ask the Saliia shoppers 20
read the ten atore mentioned reasons
for home patronage found in the dis
play section of this paper. They are
true. To the merchants We say, adver-
tisel
Ten good reasons for home patron
age:
| l. Your home merchants can dupli-
cate the prices made by any responsible
concern anywhere on goods of equal
quality, in the same quantities and on
the same basis of delivery and pay
ment.
2. You can examine your purchases
IN the home stores and be assured Of
satisfaction before investing your mon
ey.
| ). Your home merchants are always
ready and willing to make right any
error or any defective article purchased.
4. Your home merchants help sup
port, through direct and ind rect taxa
tion, your schools, churches and other
public institutions.
5. Your home merchants help make
a good local market tor everything you
have to sell, and that market-more
than any other factor-gives your land
its present value.
o. Your home merchants are ysur
good friends, ever ready to extend a
helping hand in time of need
Z. If this community is good enough
for you to live in and make your mon.
ey in, it's good enough to spend it in.
s. The best citizens in this commu1,-