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Show I WHY WE SHOULD BUY AT HOME, j For a long time past the American i people have entered on a perfect; Plgy of huiying away from home.! Could the ho'ine people but realize J how much more powerful this makes' r'he prowling creature called the "High Cost Of Liv;ng." It is purely a misconception on the part of the public to think that they can be ; more benefited elsewhere than in their home community. But the public will say. "Is it not! jtiue that we can buy goods cheaper': foo.m the mail order house than we) can from the local merchant?" This; is not true considering the value o f -the goods and the service you get. I! it were true, then mail order! .houses of the country could sell goods much cheaper on the average than j i.the retaiil merchants. Then whar ' i wnuld happen? Why the greatest! and 'brightest business meilohants ofj j' he country would have to go out of j business. No man wi'.l long engage j I in a business that is unprofitable. j I What makes a community deatfr It is the people, failing to buy goods j When you increase the taxes on you-, j '.'and and when you decrease the, Vxeial life in a community, yit decrease de-crease the v.'Imb of your land. Every ! time you send money to Chicago yo.. . help iboost real estate valaies in that city, and decrease the value of your own land. You can send to New York or Chicago, or anywhere you please for your goods, but you cannot Send away for your paved stireets, for your schools, for your churches or tor your' social life. Neither can you iget your Business. Social and Frater-inal Frater-inal Organizations by mail And if these do not make a community, what does? In the case of SeirYice, which is never much eonsido ed by most buying buy-ing people, it can be shown that no Service can lie rendered, like the Service Ser-vice rendered by buying goods at Jianie. The illustration of where t lightning struck a man's house shows (what I mean when speaking ot Ser ivice. A house had been struck by j lightning, and the man immediately! .sent a frantic call for the fire wagon. He was told over the telephone to jend to the mail order house for a J'-re wagon. The man expected the town to furnish him fire protection J. et he was supporting the fire wagons in Chicago, New York, and possibly ither cities, rather than bis own. Mt. Pleasant has $500,000 mor.-itaxable mor.-itaxable property than any other (own in the County. I1s stock in stores is greater than any two town; In the County. The town is the hub of Sanpete; Sanpete is the hub of I'tah; and Utah is the hub of tho Groat New West. With this in mind the people should fool it a pride to 1-jv goods at home. Read the following fol-lowing poem: "If you live and you work and develop de-velop your town l:i spite of the fact 'tis small, I You r.riy find that your town your own little town. Is the very best town after all." Secretary. Mt. Pleasant Lions Club. |