The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1915-11-11
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Merchants.

wv Will uoG weary our readers
by be'rg too insistent upon any
one subject, hut the we:f."e #
our community should be upper
most in minds of every loyal citi-
zen and that welfare calls for few
very pertinent remarks at this
time of the year.
Between now and the 25th day
of December many thousands of
dollars will be spent by the pco..
pie in the purchase Of holiday ar
tlcles. The manufacturing cost
of those articles must of neces-
slty go to the factories scattered
broadcast over the country. Tha,
can not be helped.
But there is another cost which
should be seriously considered by
every person who has any re-
gard whatever for the future well
fare of this town and this COM
mnuity. That cost is the retail
er's profits on the sales.
10 make this community pros
porous 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 right for him to send
his money away from this COM
muntiy because ''he is only one
person and his money will not be
missed 1t is just such people
who are building up the great
centers of population by strangl-
ing the rural business interests
all over the country. They ale
the people who produce hard
times in the country towns and
farm sections of every state, be-
cause they are millions i'm number
Let as bring it right home to
you suppose every person in this
town and farming section around
here should buy all their goods
from business houses located in
other sections of the country or
state. How long would our
stores keep their doors open, and
how long would you be able even
to buy a pin or a nail in this
town?
And everybody kept on send
ing their money all out of town
and community, how long would
ii be before we had no more mon
ey TO send and when We found
the community pauperized where
would we turn for relief?
The profits of local Industries
both farm and town-represent
the money that is kept in circula-
ton at home. If those profits
are sent away we can not expect
long to have any money in circula
ton in our midst. for other peo-
pie in other places will have it,;
and we will be getting poorer and
poorer all of the time and our
community will be getting dead
er and dcader, until i'm time no
one would care even to live here.
Certainly no sane person would
want such condition of affairs
to exist here.
But what is the remedy, you say
Ii is both sane and simple.
Quit doing your shopping out
of town and buy goods from home
dealers. That is, buy everything
you can here.
Don't be carried away with the
false idea that you can buy cheap
or 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 country 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 else
where 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
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rich the local merchants, but we
are doing it 10 protect the future
of this town and our farming com
munity and the people among
whom we live.
We want to keep prosperity at
home," and we want you t. help
u: in our wJck by dung your
sabre and you can do that by buy
ing at home and keeping all of the
pI Gifts at ho'.lo.
Il is serious problem that
co:'fronts us in the future, and W.:
should grapp!c with it as becomes
men of brains and determinations
Stall we trade at home and keep
prosperity in this town? Or shall
VT continue tn make city million
arcs who wouldn: give us five
cent piece if W. were hungry for
/ :eed?
Remember, brother and sister,
this applies not only to your
meighbors, but to YOU as we'll, if
you happen to be one who has
been doing your shopping in 9TH
er places.