Gunnison news-champion., 1923-09-28

home industry. Following Is the
editorial:
When a resident Of any city. town
or community makes the casual re-
mark that he can not see why he
should buy Of home merchants or
show a preference for home manu-
featured goods he sets the NOR.
thoughtful Individual To thinking, and
he Is apt to think along straight lines.
He has heard a strange sentiment
expressed that wakes him Up. and he
Is apt 10 reflect somewhat after this
fashion:
Now, II all the citizens in this town
talked and felt rs this man does We
couldn't and wouldn't have much of
> town. and neither community nor the
state would be getting just returns
for the expense and trouble il has
gone TO in building up the community,
and for the civil government il has es-
tablished for Safeguarding the lives
and property and other interests of
its citizens. IL would not be receiving
just compensation for providing
schools, and parks and jobs for the
wage earners and business for the
merchants 10 enable them to make n
good living. Such man is not giving
value received for what he gets out of
the community Of common into rests.
On the other hand the home-patron-
age and home-industry proposition
works something like this: II the
local merchant neglects or refuses to
rcciprocate in patronizing those who
patrouize him he is not doing his fair
share, either. II he does not BUY his
boxes, brooms and mattresses, for in
stance, of the home manufacturer or
the state manufacturer, and sends his
orders away for such goods. he gets
the goods, to be sure, but the out-of-
the-State firm gets the money, and
thus II is taken out of the home cir
culation market and it lessons the
wealth of the community by just that
much.
And moreover. the box and broom
makers, the mattress makers, and the
proverbial butcher, the baker and the
candle stick maker is deprived of so
much needed employment, and il
hurts, for the local laborer and sal
aired person In town has less money TO
spend with the grocer, the clothier, the
dry goods man and everybody else in
business; and so because a link in the
chain Of natural trade has been broken
the entire chain of economies Is made
weaker and less efficient.
Il works the same way when
family sends its order off to Squeers.
Sawbuck q company, or other big mail
order houses in Chiyork for household
supplies, the struggling home mer-
chant OF jobbcr and the state manu-
facturer or iobber is deprived of his
legitimate trade, but he is called upon
just the same to contribute to multi
tude of small benevoiences and enter
priSeS, and he must submit without
protes; TO being plucked about every
so often and occasionally in between
times
So let il be understood that the bust
ness man is very useful and neces
AIRY adjunct 10 any community, for he
no, only Affords employment to others
but he is among the heaviest of tax
payers who keep up the running eS-
pcnses of the home government for
offensive and defensive purposes, so
that he Is entitled to consideration and
support 1t is thus seen tina: home
patronage has its selfish side and its
loyal side that appeal To US both going
and coming.
Reciprocity is \ grand and noble
institution when made to work both
ways I, then falls from Heaven 1t
-adiates = sustaining and soothing
influence upon all persons and inter
ests alike. II is human sort of
sentiment that needs to be more gen
orally praeticei- II is the Golden
Rule applied 10 home building and
business afairs. II relates to every
body and everything.
II the rule were more universally
observed there would be bigger and
better home and state mercantile
manufacturing and jobhing concerns.
more employment and lower taxes, and
there would be fewer votuEninous
dog cared catalogues of the big out
cf-state mail order houses in use