Devils Lake weekly world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1911-1914, 1911-09-29
Do You PatrOniZe
the Local Industries?
L. ARTICLE ON 1NCoNsIsTEl
RETAIL MERCHANTs-1IE URGES THEM TO
PATRoN1zE LOCAL CONCERNS

clothing business How do you like
its Say, by the way, Mr.. Clothing
Man, how about that bundle of stuff
you shipped home when you were off
at market on your last trip, contain
ing stuff you don t handle, but other
business men in your town do handle?
You thought l was through with you,
didn' t you, when told you about the
grocery businesss
"Now, say, Mr.. Hardware Dealer,
you that hollered loud and long about
the farmers sending to Sears, Saw
Buck & Co. for stuff, how about that
ear Of building material you shipped
in when you wanted to build7 Do you
think that the amount you claim you
saved has paid you any dividendsa If
Il balance could be struck showing the
facts l am very much inclined to
think your account would be heavily
in the red.
Say, Mr.. Lawyer, you who asked
the merchants of your town to vote
for You for an Office at the last cleo
ton, and who has to depend entirely
for your living (and salary) on the
taxes paid by people Of your own
ASuhS1S3 NAot UuSlASoS AoNC yOu SVC
sending to catalogue house for your
canned cherries and other canned fruit ?
Did the fellow YOU bought them Of
help to elect you to an Officer Do they
pay any taxes out of which you get
your living?
Say, Mr.. Banker, you who have to
depend more entirely on the good will
of your home town in order to stay in
business than any other business man,
what right had you to go to a certain
merchant in your town and say to him,
'I1l pay You 10 per cent above in
voice for that bill OF goods and if you
don t take it I III send out of town for
it? Have you any more right to die
tate to merchant what profit he shall
make than he has what interest you
shall charge on your loans? A certain
stakeholder in your bank is doing the
best to get people to send to Arkansas
for certain lines of goods sold in your
town. Why, you, Mr.. Banker, don Y
even obey the law Of your state in re-
gard to interest notes. If some Of the
merchants of your town would go tc
bowling on you they would put you
out Of business. Now, tell me of just
one thing that the merchants have done
in your town to make it desirable
town for the farmers to trade in. What
have you done towards making mar
ket for what the farmers have to sells
Now, the fats are these: All you are
worth has been made off the farmers
and you haven't done one thing to
wards lettering their condition. You
| are not doing anything towards cement
ing friendship between your tow
and the people living around you
You howl like a whipped cur whe1
some farmer slips in something from
catalogue house, yet you will no
patronize your next-door neighbol
where you can save few pennies by
buying out Of town. Consistency!
81 have only outlined few Of tn,
many things I see in my travels tina
are inconsistent in retail merchants
and I hope these are enough to caus,
you to stop and think, then, act, an,
| hope that your acts will be for tn
better.
"Show me town where the kind
Of merchants I have been talking O.
predominant, and III show you a dea,
town, and the only remedy have eve
seen for it were some frst-class flu
nerals. I hope there is some othe
cure.''