The Holly chieftain., 1915-10-15
DOLLARS DIVERTED FROM
NATURAL CHANNEL MAKE
MUSIC FOR MILL|ONAIRES
Powerful Argument of a Noted
Economist In Favor OF
Home Industry

A@SAAS AA0oSLy
There is town in Pennsylvania where
an organization has for its object tn e
Home lndustries-and he is eligible only
who is willing to have his name published
in the Daily Press as challenging anyone
to prove that anything was recently pur.
chased outside of this town-that could
not ss we'll have been duplicated at home.
The New York Commercial says:
Civilization is the result of cooperation
and mankind ascends to its scale in ex.
act proportion to the collective efforts
men make to improve their conditions"
And these two paragraphs cuiled at ran
dom-trom many wise arguments in favor
OF loyalty to ones own household, or the
community which contributes to his wei.
fare-prompts this message to the people
who earn their money in Holly and send
it away to enrich other communities:
True, the immortal bard advises
Ibis above ail To thine ownselt be
true,
And it must follow, as the night the
Thou canst not then be false to any
man.
And thus from a justfabIe stand of self
preservation, the alluring values of the
mail order cataloe-tempt the dollars that
have swelled the sales of such mail order
establishments into the hundred million.
Even tho the saving were not myth
real or imasinary-the saving is but
boomerang, which returns to injure the
sender, as the complaints of the sender,
compared with the prosperity of the
recipient indicates.
When local merchants in the various
lines, agree over their own signatures to
duplicate any article purchased-fro
mail order houses-to furnish equally as
good or better tor the price, what grounds
are left for those who patronize out-of-
town institutions with the sole excuse of
saving money thereby
The preachers and the press use their
influence in checking contagious maladies
when education and enlightenment can
thus be used to good advantage why then,
should not the better informed and more
loyal citizens arise in their wrath and
quell this disturbing element by which
business community suffers more than from
any other individual cause-as all other
commercial ailments are attributable to
this source of contamination?
Loss of position, due to no work, is in
turn due to lack of demand for the ncces-
sites or luxuries of life-and if the dollar
earned in a comparatively small commun-
ity be diverted from natural channels, the
pleasing jingle of the coin will make music
for the millionaire to whose fortune we,
who are guilty, contribute and who con-
tribute nothing in return save the sardopc
laugh our sullibility eneenders.
1t is the dollar planted at home that pro-
duces fruit for the househod-the dollar
we leave with our local merchant or
manufacturer, which in part, again returns
to us, as a nuceIus for providing for
present and future needs.
Prosperity is contagious.
The dollar sent to another community
brings in return the products OF such com.
munity-thus doubly deprivne the indus.
tries which support US, of their chief re.
sources, the home consumption of their
products.
THE proof of the pudding is the eating"
Let any of US who are tempted to order
from out-of-town concerns, first visit local
establishments of merit and reputation,
and show the allurine advertisements,
which is about to make an migrate of US.
1t is a forsone conclusion that the local
merchant will furnish convictine evidence
that it is not only better for your con-
science, but more loyal to your purse to
purchase at home from those who con.
tribute to your livelihood, and whom to
destroy would inhict injury upon Yourself
-Si&mund.