Arizona republican., 1914-08-08
By F. E. RICH

By F. E. RICH
 There are many facts and conditions which are self evident and need only to be stated to carry their own proof, and which vet are often neglected and lost sight of
 Thos. Jefferson said: We hold these truths to be self-evident." And vet how long did it take the colonies to realize these truths as applied to them selves, until they were stated.
 It is the field of sophistry to con- ceal half truths and errors. and clothe them with the innumerable Windings of many garments, whereas truth has aptly been called "naked"-it needs no clothing to make it presentable.
 The sophistry of Fl Paso. Los An 1 geles and San Francisco jobbers, uses ] the clothing of the Glad Hand ex- cursions, the "HoWdy," the Booster, to support their claims to our trade. l We welcome them in the name of fel- ! lowship. as a brother, as big broth er if you will. But it is our purpose | to state the naked truth as to our po- sition as a jobbing cen enter.
 ! HeTe are lWO Nol Itl SLcllto uiiN.'i lying the building of a citys greatness, manufacturing and commerce. Phoenix | is not and has no visible prospects of becoming a manufacturing city. She must depend on commerce far her growth to any size beyond that of a large country village; and that mears sle must develop her jobbicg business and handle the trade of the greater part of Arizona.
 l me business If the iobbGr as ' u all !fntW, is to pb an goods from mills
 and factories in large quantities and
 distribute to the retail and mechanical
 trades according to their requirements
 and the natural determining of a job ping center is a sufficient territory to
 absorb these quantity lots when dis
 tributed through the regularly estab-
 lished channels of trade. I say natural determining, for while Phoenix has for l years been ready for and entitled to q jobbing business, it has until recently been deprived of its natural rights. The most marked and generally rec Iognized distinction in the quantity O
 goods is the car load and less than ca . load, and in a general way any city ol I section that uses goods in car loaC ' quantities is prepared for a jObbnt . line of business.
 Until recently our freight rates iron
 the great manufacturing centers bein! : based on coast terminals and loca V rate back added. it was manifestly i'm y possible for anyone to initiate job = ping business here, as the coast iobbe n could deliver from his established busi
 ness and stock, as cheap or cheape
 than the local jobber And you al
 know the life and death struggle tn Q coast is now making to perpetuate tn s condition of commercial peonage il e which we have heretofore lived
 But our present freight rates, whil
 not all that could be desired, are sue
 that as far as the railroads are con r, cerned. we are independent of any Job
 hing city on earth. and it is up to u e to take our own.
 .- Now why should Phoenix be job
 ping center?
 T First. as to the consuming trade, tn retail store and the mechanical line I It is manifestly to their advantage {
 have a stock of goods available locall
 for immediate delivery, rather than
 have to send away and wait from
 week to six months for them. The ., can also be sold cheaper when shippe here under car load freight rates. an ,,, either delivered in the city or re-shir ", ped at L. C. L. rates to surroundin +o cities. than when shipped direct froi il, outside points at l.. C. l.. rates.
 It is one of the anomalies of ou h time that some individuals will sen " to the eastern catalogue houses f. n articles that they could get to just z l. good, or better advantage, from the ,- home dealer; and it is another anomal
 of our time that some of the retailer m and among them those who most lout
 ly decry the first condition. will ser ys to an outside jobber for goods the " could get to just as good or better a' l. vantage from their local iobber Hov 70 ever, it is the experience of the speal s- CT that the local trade very general