Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1912-07-04


some of the expensive literature
am sending broadcast over the coun- {
try. Ask the c. & o. Railway Peo-
pie how many hundreds of dollars /
have paid them for advertising in
their ANNALS. Does this look Ike
Ask Postmaster
Peachy who spends the most money
at his office for stamps. In short.
old man. ger familiar with your sub
iect and then come back at me.
Don't forget. among other things.
how hard Ball knocked this locality
when locating the Bisland. Bechtei,
Warner and other families
here. I really regret the seeming
necessity for these personal re-
. ferences. I don't care TO discuss
myself. nor what I have done; I only |
ask for a fair and square deal.
The principle of CO operation is
becoming 50 well known. and its real
necessity so well understood, that
thinking people everywhere are
studying and preaching the doctrine.
F. Men are learning that no individual
in any community can truly prosper
unless the whole community prosper.
If my neighbor Prospers he.
naturally lives well. He then has
money to enable him 10 Pauonize
my business, and that helps me to
pauonize my neighbor on the other
} side. Jealousy has no place in a
prosperous neighboThOod. and
: another man in my line OF business
! cannot build up himself by pulling
3 me down. AS well Try TO lift him
S self by bis own bootsTsrs. II IS
a necessary that the farmer pauonize
o the local merchant. and just as
e necessary that the local merchan'
@ paronize the farmer. II the farmei
At complains of the merchants prices
D. why doesn't the merchant try 70 figur'
IS things down little bit lower? WIZ
S, does nj the farmer 60 TO the merchau
ae as a friend, and say Bill. I want Z
G buy a cook stove. Some concern i
ed Chicago has sent me a price list. an
lal they quote a stove such as / want
NO about two dollars lower than yo'
.or price. Now. I prefer TO buy N
he goods at home. and VIII do so If
ne can. What are you willing to do
nd Maybe the merchant would get bu.
I've and do little thinking. and may
TO be wouldn't. I don't know wheth
DE he would, or not, but I'll be biest
lno I wouldn't try him.
tea And il I were the merchant
e" wouldn't kick because I thought
nee farmer was getting little two mu
tive for his eggs. hay. potatoes, or son
own thing else raised on the farm. M;
ein- be the farmer would spend h
we're more with the merchant If he Co
'ers' sell his produce for a little hig
and price. One thing is dead certai
now When the farmer is hard up
oney whole community suffers. l b
;. had opportunity TO study conditi
Give along these lines. and really bel
town I know what I am talking ab
Gods Make the farmer more Prospel
nigh. and you build up your town
If ne your State.
, the Iwould have people-our bust
your men. especially-stoP and consi
that Get together and plan something
Well, your community and then wor
It on bring that thing about. It has
aakes done in other places. and can be
in Williamsburg. But first Of
,cked get together. We need each o
I am and By giving much we will rec
have much. Everything we give
COM comes back to US. Give out
highly and love returns. To grasp and
,untry and seize is to lose. We are II
: from ing enlightened self-interest, al
e I'M there is a strong setting of the |
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