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Show .2 l.;DU3T..!3. A ; riat (1 ril cf money centers in this city. A .. : amount is s-en( away, for the' steady revenue : is f rum the 'mines, and many of the stockhold- . ; ia mines are non-residents and draw their shares tl.c dividends. But much remains here and a 1 -ic',e proportion of the wage-earned money in nearly near-ly camps, gravitates here. , It is this volume of money remaining here' which' in great part fixes values and regulates trade. When it increases, business increases; when it decreases, business halts. Of the productsof Utah which are font away, there are few except bullion, wool, sugar, talt and live stock, hence the especial need of keeping keep-ing at home the money in general circulation, for : the imports of the State, those which money has to be Kent away to purchase, are something tremendous tremen-dous mining, mining tools, hardware, dry goods, clothing, furniture, a great. proportion of the food that, ia eaten here almost everything must come ! from outside the State. . This makes it imperative .upon the people to buy'Jiome products whenever , X'ossible- ; Again, the men in "business here, who ' have to pay heavy rentals and carry great stocks of i goods, should receive every dollar of home patronage patron-age possible. The difference between buying 1 $10,000 worth of goods here and of sending away for them, is a difference of f 10,000 in the home volume vol-ume of money, and if this much. is continued weekly for a year it means a difference of $520,000 in that 'money volume, a sum which fn itself is enough. to ; quicken business if it remains here, enough to de-. de-. press it if sent awav. Hence it is the manifest duty of every citizen to, o far as possible, buy what he has to buy at home. When a merchant shows his goods to a man who ' (lias a job'printing plant, he should not leave his letterheads let-terheads around with the stamp of a Chicago printing print-ing house upon them. The man with imported ! clothes on should not try to sell a corner lot to a. home tailor, and when he asks a brewer to take a :lrink he should not eall for St. Louis beer. The thought should be by every purchaser that 'At he spends money he must. If possible, spend it Where it. will remain here at home. In one sense a town with all its people, is like a family. ;The money should be kept in the family if possible; whatever influence one member has should be used to help all the others. . ' . |