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Show , PATRONIZE EACH OTHER No town can be permanently prosperous pros-perous in which the citizens and the tradesmen depend on each other, do not patronize each other. The merchant mer-chant wants a harness, for instance,' and although his neighbor is a good harness maker and trades with him, he imagines he can save fifty cents by sending to another city or state for hla harness. The harness maker In turn sendB away for his groceries, boots, shoes and clothing. The shoemaker shoe-maker sends away for his coat, and the tailor sends away for his boots, and so it goes. As a result, the new people coming to trade, see all the tradesmen sending to other places for goods, because, they say, they can save money by doing so, and come to the conclusion they, too, can do better elsewhere; and then everybody every-body growls about hard times andi no business. No wonder the business men themselves turn the tide of trade elsewhere, for if they .can supply themselves to better advantage by depriving their neighbors .of their trade, others learn to try the same experiments. It Is a dangerous one to inaugurate. Ten dollars is lost where one Is saved, because the enetire business bus-iness of the place is dwarfed and hampered thereby. The fact is but little is ever saved by going away to trade, and, oftener, counting all expenses, there is loss. Show us a town in which the people make it a rule not to send away for anything they can get at home, and we will show you a town in which business is lively, and everybody buys, and trade Is centered from abroad!. ab-road!. Prices are low and the tradesmen trades-men patronize each other, having no suspicion that confidence will bo abused. Let It once be understood that the business men of any town are In the habit of sending abroad for purchases, and the business will languish. Having no confidence In one another, how can they expect others to have confidence in them? No that is not the way to build up a town. .Patronize each other, and keep all your business at home Re-pjiS-t |