Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-05-31
PEOPLE OF AMERICUS SHOULD
SUPPORT HOME MERCHANTS
Athens Mans Letter Pointed One Applies Equally
Well Here in AmGFICuS Home Money Should Sup
port The Stores Of the Merchants at Home.

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isfylng themselves by patronizing
some other person or some other citJ.
Right here in Athens can be found
people who have made every dollar
they possess in Athens and are stilI
dependent on Athens for their pros
perity Yet they will knowingly al
low the money they make in Athens
to go elsewhere and exchange at a
higher cost for what they could get
in their own city. This kind of a ci,-
izen doesn't deserve and should nor
receive patronage from the citizens
of Athens.
The truth of the business to begin
with is the men themselves are
most to blame. Every citizen, wheth-
er he be business man, professional
man or capitalist, should be wise
enough to see and know that his
success depends on his city's pros
perity
The merchants and business mea
have the brunt of the burden to carry
They pay the taxes and builH the ci-
ties; they work for the public; they
risk their all in credits and 9TH -
ways to oblige and accommodate the
public. Strangers are allowed to
come to the city of Athens and traf-
fc their wares, practice their pr J.
fessions, etc, for a paltry little SUN
called city license.
These "didappers" can come and gss
at their will, but the citizen of Athenx
has to remain and help pay the ev.
penses of running and building up t.,a
city.
Peddlers of any and all kinds of
wares. and professions are allowed tg
come into Athens and dupe the peo-
pie, The writer is wise to the fact
that intelligent people have been
duped by peddlers of laces, linens.
curtains, rugs and various other ar
ticles sold under Misrepresentation
for fabulous prices; such as ordinary
torchon laces, sold in the stores at
Is and 10 cents, these peddlers get 2ss
tc so cents on representation of their
goods being hand made" They sell
around town mercerized cotton table
cloth for linen, for which they get
three to four times the price the sams
goods can be had at the stores i'm
Athens.
Reciprocity is the life of trade"
and until the people of Athens awake
to this fact they will have to wait a
long time to see Athens larger,
hustling city, the kind she should
have been years ago.
Citizens should net lose sight of the
fact that it is the people that mako
the town. We have better location
and chance for a large and prosperous
city than any spot in Georgia, and it
the citizens of Athens will all tak,s
hold of the same end of the rope and
pull together, pull for Athens, first,
last and all the time, they will see
the present little city grow to be big
city in a reasonably short time
If you find an Atlanta man on the
top of the Blue Ridge mountains you
will find him talking and pulling for
Atlanta. If he is thirsty for drink
and knows where he could find It
close by, l venture to say that hs
ould almost make up his mind TO
wait until he returned to Atlanta ID
buy the stuff from the Atlanta blind
tigers j.,
Put this in your pipe and smoke
it and one of these days before yoM
realize it the taste will be pleasant
and to help Athens will be a pleasure
to you.
In helping others you will find that
you are helping yourself
ALEX II. DAWSON