The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1915-02-19
CONTRIBUTING TO SUPPORT A GIANT MONOPOLY

cash with orders, the only terms upon
which orders will be accepted, while
asking the local merchant to carry
them month after month for goods
Does it look fair, is it just, to ask a
merchant to trust you when in stress
for ready money, and the moment you
get hold of money to send it abroad for
articles you can buy at home?
OF course every man has right to
act upon his own initiative as to
spending the money that comes to him
more or less honestly. If he earns
the money he is a free agent in the
disposition of the same and no one
is going to say him nay, yet if he
would stop to consider this matter of
home trading VS.. mail order buying
l. is believed that there would be "A
falling off in mail orders and a per-
ceptible increase in the volume of To-
cal business. Figure this out for your
SELF and then pass up the great city
monopOlies in favor of your friend
and neighbor, the home merchant
The Danville Qlls.) Press contains
timely article that just fits this par
ticufar case, and it is given here for
the consideration of the public:
The home merchant. Who is he?
He is the chap who gives you credit
when you are financially broke, and
carries your account until you are
able to pay.
He is the chap who gives you back
your money or makes exchanges when
you are not satisfied with what you
have bought.
He is the chap who stands behind
his guaranty, and makes restoration
Of all losses that you may sustain on
the goods you buy.
He is the chap who meets you at
the door with handshake, and lets
you out with message to the kids, ;
and real come-again goodby.
He is the chap who meets and greets
you on the street every day in the
year, and takes neighborly interest
in your family and your affairs.
He is the chap whose clerks and
bookkeepers and other employees live
in your town and spend their money
with you and with other town people.
He Is the chap who pays heavy
taxes to help support your schools,
and build your streets, and maintain
your fire departments and police de-
partments, and parks, and lighting
and water service.
He is the chap who helps support
your churches and hospitals and char
ity organizations and your lodges and
commercial clubs, and talks for your
town and boosts for the town every
day in the year.
He is the chap who visits you when
you are sick, sends flowers to your
family when you die, and follows your
body out among the trees and tombs,
as far as human feet may travel with
the dead.
He is the home merchant-your
neighbor-your friend-your helper in
times of need.
Don't you think that you ought to
trade with him, and be his friend and
his helper in the time of his need?
Don't you know that every dollar
that you send out of town for mer-
chandise, is sent to strangers-to men
who never spend a dollar in the town,
to men who would not trust you for n
box of matches, to men who would
turn you over to the police if you
should enter their Offices?
You don't save much, frequently
nothing, when you send your money
out of town and you take all the risk
yourself or short weight or measure
and OF getting damaged or inferior
goods. And don't you know that the
growth and prosperity of the town de-
pends very largely upon the success
and prosperity of the home mer-
chants? Out-of-town people judge
our city by the appearance of our
stores and the degree of enterprise
shown by our merchants. And our
home merchants can not succeed I'M
less home folks give them support.