Show LOCAL MARKETS ARE ESSENTIAL equal responsibility for their support rests upon the farmers and merchants to RUST MUST ASSIST EACH OTHER prosperity of community depends upon each of these two classes buying products and goods goode of each other copyright SIT 1917 beetem nejep union the first essential in the development of any business Is the possess possession loa of a market the manufacturer must have a market fo for his products or he cannot succeed no matter how bow talu able those thoe products may be or how efficiently his plant may tie be operated the wholesale merchant and the re tall merchant may have the choicest stocks of goods but they may as well go out of business if they have not dot a market where they can dispose of their stocks the tanner farmer may produce bumper crops but they will rot upon the ground if he cannot find a market for them the wage earners skill and muscle bring him no returns unless there Is a market for his I 1 labor a bor the question of markets Is the big ono one in every una 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 fari farmers liers who live in the surrounding country as well there ire are two sides to the market question lon the business men of the town must have a market for the things which they have to sell otherwise they cannot continue in business at the same time the farmers must have a market tor for the things which they raise or they may us as well go out of business when either falls both suffer the merchants of the town can provide a market tor for the products of the farmers and the farmers can provide a market for the goods which the merchants have to sell eai As long as each class of citizens provides a market for the other class all Is well and the goose hangs bangs high but when either class falls fails to provide a market tor for the other the goose Is cooked not only tor for the class which Is deprived of the market but for the other as well the farmer has haa a right to expect the town which Is his natural trading point to p provide i lovide a market top for his products and the town Is not performing its proper function as the trading center of its community it if it does not see that such a market Is provided the responsibility of looking after the fulfillment fill ment of this obligation rests largely upon the merchants of the town the farmer Is a p producer I 1 and he must dispose of his products before he can become a consumer it Is therefore not only right but necessary from a bustness business standpoint that the merchants should aid the farmer in turning his products into money otherwise the farmer fanner naturally will have no money to spend in the stores of the town obligation on farmers oat on the be 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 riot not I 1 provide such a market in this case also it Is not only right but it Is necessary to the prosperity of the farmers that they should aid the merchants in turning their merchandise into cash otherwise it is obvious that the merchants will have no money with which to by buy the products of the farmers thi this la is a double proposition and the obligation rests equally upon both the merchants and the farmers to maintain the markets which are essential elal to both classes of citizens any town which would import from points hundreds of miles distant the farm products which it could buy at home would be pursuing a very shortsighted short sighted policy for it would be making it impossible for the farmers in its herrl territory to buy the goods of its merchants As a matter of fact no town does this unless it Is forced by unusual conditions to do so A town may be located in a community which Is not productive enough to meet the local demands mauds lo and in that case it is forced to import form farm products product but the town which Is compelled to do this Is at a disadvantage from a commercial standpoint unless dunles j it is essentially a manufacturing town in which case its products fire are sold to other communities and bring in enough cash to offset that which ch Is sent away to tb purchase farm products must have outside Bu business in the average community hn however wever tile the town Is dependent for its P prosperity ros upon the money received froni from the farmers in the ordinary channels of trade ither rither r than upon that obtained from froin the sale of its own products in the average town the merchants cannot make money and continue in business it if they are d dependent solely upon the people of the town tor for their business no business can last long with I everything ery thing going out and nothing coming in and it Is equally y true that no bustness can be operated on the principle plO of everything coming in and nothing going out to maintain the balance which la Is necessary to the maintenance of prosperity in a co community there must be an even trade between the business men of the town |