The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-11-09
PUTTING IT UP, TO YOU.

Between now and the 25th day of
December many thousands of dollars
will be spent by the people in the
purchase of holiday articles. The
manufacturing cost of those articles
must of necessity go to the factories
scattered broadcast over the country
That can not be helped.
But there is another cost which
should be seriously considered by
every person who has any regard
whatever for the future welfare of
this city and this community. That
cost is the retailers profits on the
sales.
To make this community prosper
GUS and keep it so it is necessary that
those profits be kept at home, and
that can only be done by patronizing
merchants who live here and con-
duct their business here and spend
their own money here.
No citizen has the right to feel
that it is all right for him to send
his money away from this community
because che is only one person and
his money will not be missed" It
is just such people who are building
up the great centers of population by
strangling the rural business inter-
Z ests all over this country. They are
= the people who produce hard times
: in the country towns and farm Sec
: tions of every state, because they are
millions in number.
Let us bring it right home to you.
Suppose every person in this city and
the farming section around here
should buy all of their goods from
business houses located in other Sec
tions of the country or state. How
long would our stores keep their
,doorsaopen, and how long would you
be able to buy even a pin or a nail
in this: town?
And if everybody kept on sending
their money all out of the city and
community, how long would it be be-
fore we had no more money to send,
and when we found the community
: .pauperized where would we turn for
relief.
The profits of local industries
both farm and city-represent the
money that is kept in circulation at
home If those profits are sent away
we cannot expect long to have any
money in circulation in our midst,
for other people in other places will
have it; and we will be getting poor
er7and poorer all of the time, and our
community will be getting deader
and deader, until in time no one
would care even to live here.
Certainly no sane person would
want such a condition of affairs to
exist, here.
But what is the remedy, you say?
1t is both sanesand simple.
Quit doing, your shopping out, of
town and buy goods from home deal
ers. That is, buy: everything you
can here.
Don't be carried away with the
false idea that you can, buy cheaper
somewhere, else, for you can not. If
you want shoddy and worthless goods
you can find . plenty of city stores
and firms who thrive on selling coun-
try people just such rotten stuff at a
few cents less than you would pay
your home dealer, for a good article
that he is willing to guarantee. But
you can not buy a reliable. article
elsewhere any cheaper than you can
buy the same article right here at
home. ...:~.....
We are pushing the "buy it at
home slogan in this community and
We want you to join us. We are not
doing, this in order to enrich the local
"A merchants, but we are doing it to
protect the future of this city and
our farming community and the peo-
pie among whom we live.
We want to keep prosperity at
home" and we want you to help us
in our work by doing your share,
and, you can do, that by, buying at
home and keeping all Of the profits
at home. = =. 5..r.. !.
1T, is a serious problem that con-
fronts us in, the near future, and we
should grapple with it as becomes
men of brains, and determination.
Shall we trade at home and keep
prosperity in this city? Or shall we
continue to. make city millionaires
who wouldn't give us q flve-cent piece