The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1923-08-30
WHY HOME INDUSTRIES SHOULD
BE PATRONIZED.

The following editorial was award
ed first prize by the Colorado Editor
ial association. The prize was offered
by the Dry Climate Ink & Roller Co
DO manufacturers generally really APP
preciate what the local newspapers do
for the community in their efforts to
encourage Industrial development and
make a better market for the factory
output? Read what Editor Byrnes
says in the Pueblo Colorado Indicat-
or:
when "a resident of any city, town
or community makes the casual re-
mark that ne can not see why he
should buy OF home merchants or
show a preference for home manufac-
tured goods he sets the more thought
ful individual to thinking, and he is
apt to think along straight lines He
has heard a strange sentiment ex-
pressed that wakes him up and he is
apt to reflect somewhat after this
fashion:
NOW, ii all the citizens in this town
talked and felt as this man does we
couldn't and we wouldn't have much
OF town, and neither community or
state would be getting just returns
Or the expense and trouble it has
gone 10 in building up the community,
and for the civil government it has
established for safeguarding the lives
and property and other interests OF
it's citizens. 1t would not be receiv-
ing just compensation for providing
schools, and parks and jobs for the
wage earners and business for the
TO enable them to make
good living Such man is not Civ /
ing value received for what he gets /
out of the community of common in /
.erests.
"On the other hand the home pat
'onage and home industry proposition
works something like this:
III the local merchant neglects or .
efuses to reciprocate in patronizing
hose who patronize him he is not do
ng his fair share, either. Ii he does
lot buy his boxes brooms and mat
resses. for instance, of the home
or the state manufac-
urer and sends his orders away for
UGH goods, he gets the goods to be
ure, but the out-of- the-state firm
cts the money and thus it is taken
ut of the home circulation market
nd it lessons the wealth of the COM
iunity 10y just that much
And, moreover, the box and broom
lakers the mattress makers, and the
roverbial butcher the baker and the
andle stick maker is deprived of so
luch needed employment and it hurts
IL the local laborer and salaried per
IN in town has less money to spend
it'll the grocer the clothier, the dry
pods man and everyone else in bust =.
sss; and so because a link in the
lain of economies is made weaker
nd less efficient.
ut works the same way when g
mily sends its orders off to Squeers,
lwbucl x CO., or other big mail cat &
ogue house in Chiyork for household 81
pplies, the struggling home mer- a.
.ant or jobber and the state manu- hi
cturer or jobber is deprived of his O.,
ultimate trade, but he is called upon ia
st the same to contribute to a null
ude of small benevelences and en- T
rprises, and he must submit without
otest to being plucked about every
often and occasionally in between
mes. OPP
$50 let it be understood that the fl
siness man is a very useful and ne co
ssary adjunct to any community. of
? ne not only affords employment to iii
hers but he is among the heaviest of bI
xpayers of the home government for
'ensive and defensive purposes, so TO,
at he is entitled to consideration he
ID support 1t is thus seen that or
me patronage has its selfish side bv
d its loyal side that appeal to us he
tn going and coming. er,
Reciprocity is grand and noble of