Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1918-11-09
LOCAL MARKETS
ARE ESSENTIAL
Equal Responsibility for Their
Support Rests Upon the
Farmers and Merchants.
MUST ASSIST EACH OTHER
Prosperity of Community Depends
Upon Each of These Two Glasses
Buying Products and Goods
of Each Other.

Copyright, 1917 Western Newspaper Union-)
The first essential in the develop
ment of any business is the possession
of q market. The manufacturer must
have a market for his products or ne
cannot succeed. no matter how valu-
able those products may be or how
efficiently his plant may be operated
The wholesale merchant and the re-
tail merchant may have the choicest
stocks of goods, but they may as well
90 out of business If they have not a
market where they can dispose of their
stocks. The farmer may produce
bumper crops, but they will rot upon
the ground if he cannot find market
for them. The wage earner's skill and
muscle bring him no returns unless
there is a market for his labor.
The question of markets is the big
one in every line of business and in
every community the question is a
vital one. In each community, which
must be taken to include not only all
the people who live in the town but
the farmers who live in the surround
ing country as well, there are two
sides to the market question. The bust
ness men of the town must have a
market for the things which they have
TO sell. Otherwise they cannot con-
tinue in business. At the same time
the farmers must have q market for
the things which they raise or they
may as well go out of business.
When Either Falls Both Suffer.
The merchants of the town can pro-
vide market for the products of the
farmers and the farmers can provide
market for the goods which the mer-
chants have to SELL AS long as each
class of citizens provides market for
the other class all is well and the goose
hangs high, but when either class fails
to provide a market for the other the
goose is cooked, not only for the class
which is deprived of the market but
for the other as well.
The farmer has a right TO expect the
town which Is his natural trading point
to provide q market for his products,
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proper function as the trading center
of its community IL 1t does not see
that such a market is provided. The
responsibility of looking after the full
flllment of this obligation rests largely
upon the merchants Of the town. The
farmer is a producer and he must dis
pose of his products before he can be-
come a consumer. 1t Is, therefore, not
only right but necessary from bust
ness standpoint that the merchants
should aid the farmer in turning his
products into money. Otherwise the
farmer naturally will have no money
to spend in the stores of the town.
Obligation on Farmers.
On the other hand, the merchants OF
the town have a right to expect the
farmers to provide a market for the
merchandise which they have to sell,
and the farmers are not doing their
duty to their community If they do not
provide such a market. In this case,
also, 1t is not only right but it is nee
essary to the prosperity of the farmers
that they should aid the merchants in
turning their merchandise into cash
Otherwise it is obvious that the mer-
chants win have no money with which