TRADING AT HOME
MANY REASONS WHY IT IS THE
BEST POLICY.
SELF-INTEREST A BIG FEATURE
"That Which Benefits the Community
at a Whole Benefits Each Indi
vidual—The "Why and
Wherefore."
As self-interest is the law which KOV
-erns the transactions of trade, it is the
first light in which the subject of
"Trading at Home" must be treated.
Sentiment has little influence in trade.
The prosperity of any community
■depends on the volume of business
transacted vtichin its bord'.rs. The
facility with which business can b»
transacted depends largel" upon the
•*mount of money In circulation and
•any influence which takes money oui
of a community is detrimental to the
financial welfare of the community.
It is in this respect that trading with
mail order houses cripples a com
munity. Money which should be kept
In local circulation goes to swell the
volume of money in the distant city
■lnstead of remaining at home to be
turned over and over again as the me
•diurn of transfer amoug local mer
chants and their customers.
The effect of this diversion of money
Is not confined to the merchants who
lose sales thereby; it extends eventu
ally to every member of the com
munity. It is a curtailment of business
which affects the value of all property
•even to the labor of the man who is
•dependent on a day's work for his liv
ing. It reacts upon the people who
purchase away from home in a degree
which more than offsets any possible
'saving in price that may be effected in
purchase.
Every dollar sent out of any com
munity for goods which can be pur
chased at home represents a percent-
The catalogue man recognizes in the advertising agent his most powerful
assistant. He realizes that it is advertising which brings him his orders.
Let the local merchants awaken to the fact that the local papers can do for
them just what the advertising agents do for the catalogue houses and the
flow of money to the city mail order houses from this community will stop.
age of injustice to the community it
self. In the first place, some merchant
loses the profit on a sale. Not only
that, but the price of the article rep
resents so much of the merchant's cap
ital which is tied up in the article and
is not working. Having capital tied
*up means that the operations of the
merchant are curtailed to that extent.
He has that much less to spend; that
much less to pay in salaries to his
clerks; to pay in patronage of the
butcher, the baker and the other pur
veyors of the necessities of life; to in
vest in property, in newspaper adver
tising; to deposit in bank where it
may be used by other members of the
■ community, or to devote to church or
■ charity. The money which goes to the
mail order house decreases the per
.capita of circulation in the community;
a factor which determines largely the
value of all goods or property on the
market; the scale of wages and the in
terest on loans.
It is not hard to trace the effect of
the diversion of money from its legiti
mate channels. When money is scarce
trade languishes because of the lack
■of circulating medium; merchants and
all others curtail expenses; the volume
of trade decreases and nothing re
stores activity in trade but an increase
from some quarter of the circulating
medium. When the volume of money
Increases, trade moves and it moves
as fast as ttie volume of money will
permit. Money that is working is con
stantly producing profit to all; money
that is not working produces stagna
tion in trade.
Accordingly, it Is to the interest of
.every member of a community to con
fine his expenditures as nearly as pos
sible to the community in which he
lives. Every dollar he spends at home
helps to make his own holdings more
•valuable because they are more salable.
When a community has money with
which to buy there is little diliiculty
to sell and if the money is not divert
ed, it revolves constantly in the finan
cial circle of the community, earning
a profit for everyone who handles it
and turns it over.
Accordingly, the money spent at
home is bearing compound interest for
the community. Its effect is apparent
even to the outsider. Spending money
at home is a species of loyalty which
makes materially for the progress of
the community. If the community is
composed of the sort of people who
spend their money at home it ad
vances rapidly. There is money for
public improvements, money for new
enterprises. The money which the
loyal man makes at home is invested
at home; the city grows, the streets
are improved and the marks of pros
perity and progress are evident on
every side.
We are wont to inveigh against the
wealthy man who makes his money in
one town and invests it in another.
We criticize him for want of loyalty
to the community which produced his
wealth and feel that we are done an
injustice by his failure to put his
money in home enterprises which
would increase the business and pros
perity of our city. The criticism is
justified and it holds just as good in a
lesser degree to the man who trades
out of town. It is the same offense
on a smu'.er scale.
The effect of the reverse policy is
promptly seen. The writer has in
mind a notable instance. Two cities
of about 15,000 population each are
situated on opposite sides of a river
which is a boundary between two
states. Each contains several million
aires who made their money in the
lumber trade in the two towns. The
millionaires of one of the cities are
putting their money into other indus
tries in the same town as the lumber
ing goes out. As a result, the town is
rapidly forging to the front; everyone
is prosperous, the demand for houses
exceeds the supply; property is valu
able and every one is working. The
millionaires of the town across the
river are investing their money in
western and southern pine lands. The
town is languishing for lack of money;
new industries cannot start because of
lack of capital; merchants are fail
ing; stores and houses are being va
cated; people are moving away and a
general air of poverty and decay per
vades the place.
Few cities present such strong ex
amples of the value of money spent at
home but the same principle holds
true in every community. It is due
every community to reinvest the
money it produces in the community
which produces it.
The chance of being swindled is an
argument used against trading with
the mail order houses. Goods adver
tised at cut prices often fail to meas
ure up to the description of the adver
tisement. The few cents which is
saved on the price of an article so
bought is usually sacrificed in the
quality of the article. Buying from the
mail order house is buying blind. A
purchaser never thinks of buying from
a home merchant without examining
the goods, but will often send his
money to a mail order house with
blind faith that the article will prove
to be as represented. How often this
faith is misplafced can be proven only
by comparing the goods bought from
mail order houses with the goods of
fered for sale at home. If the mail
order buyer would follow this system
for a little while, he would probably
find that the goods offered at home are
of better quality and as good bargains
as the mail order goods, taking qual
ity into consideration. If this pre
sumption is true, the buyer of mail or
der goods is a distinct loser, as he has
secured inferior goods and has robbed
the community in which he lives, as
well as himself, of the use of the
money. F. R. SINGLETON.
In the Waist.
She was examining her new waist
by the aid of the big mirror. "Dear
me!" she exclaimed pettishly, "I can't
see anything pretty in this."
"Well, I can," chuckled the young
man who was sitting on the sofa.
"Really? And what do you see pret
ty in it?"
"Why, you."
And then she blushed and said she
thought the waist was just too lovely
for anything.
It's the Rage.
"Do you suppose this fad is going to
reign long?"
"Which one?"
"Brain storms."
The Aeronauts.
First Voyager—Have you any idea
whereabouts we are now?
Second Ditto —Not the/slightest. I'm
all up in the air. j
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1907.
STEPHENSON
Chosen by Wisconsin Re
publicans for Senator.
LONG FIGHT ENDED
Man Selected to Succeed Senator
Spooner Is 78 Years of Age
and a Multi-Millionaire.
Madison, Wis. The Wisconsin
j senatorial deadlock was broken
: Thursday night by the nomination
j en the first ballot in the republican
caucus of ex-Congressman Isaac Ste
-1 phenson, of Marinette. The result
1 was accomplish 3d by the breaking up
■ of the opposition, which when the
i anti-Stephenson men realized that
1 they were beaten, returned to their
j former favorites, Ksch and Hatten.
I 'the final result was: Stephenson 54,
ij/sch 2'.i, Hatten 19, scattering
The ballot ended a deadlock exiat
ing since April 10. in that time a
daily ballot has been taken in the leg-
I islature in joint session and nearly 80
ballots were taken in the republican
i caucus. There were originally five
avowed candidates, but Congressman
! Cooper and ex-Speaker Lenroot with
drew a week ago.
The caucus nomination will be fol
: lowed by the formal election of Ste
! phenson in joint session to-day, as the
legislature is overwhelmingly repub
lican.
Isaac Stephenson, who was nomi
nated for United States senator to
succeed John C. Spooner, resigned, is
a wealthy lumberman and banker. He
was born in Frederickton, N. 8., June
18, 1829. He went to Bangor, Me., in
1840 and a year later moved to Wis
consin, where he worked ou a farm.
He afterwards bought a schooner
which he sailed between Milwaukee
and Escanaba and invested his sav
ings in timber lands.
NEW RECORDS.
They Were Made by the Submarine
Boats Octopus and Lake—Were
Under Water for 24 Hours.
Newport, R. 1. —-With all hands
well and contented, with a
bountiful supply of fresh air, and with j
records of submergence broken, the j
submarines Octopus and Lake rose to j
the surface of Narragansett Bay at 4
o'clock Thursday afternoon, ending a 1
test of 24 hours under water.
The Octopus rose first, and the i
members of the naval trial board j
crowded about her as the conning j
tower hatch flew open. The members
of the trial board at once went below ;
to see what conditions existed on i
board and also to test the air supply, j
It was computed that only one-forty- i
fifth of the air supply of the Octopus i
was exhausted, and if these figures \
are correct they tend to show that the
boat could remain submerged 4"i j
days, provided the food and fuel sup- !
ply was sufficient.
The Lake also stood the test well, j
although a leak was sprung in the su- i
perstructure. She pumped out twice,!
but what proportion of her air supply
was used up could not be learned.
REMARKABLE ACCIDENT.
A Freight Train Fell Into a Creek
from a Trestle Wrecked by an Ex
plosion—Three Men Killed.
Chattanooga. Tenn. Three men i
killed outright, three others fa-j
tally and two others badly in :
jured, the crashing of a Southern rail- j
way freight engine and 11 cars'
through a bridge into Chattanooga!
creek and the destruction of three j
residences and a pile driver nearby, |
were the results of a premature ex- j
plosion Thursday afternoon of a blast l
at the foot of Lookout Mountain on
the Stevenson extension. The bridge
was crushed by tons of rock just as a
freight train was going on the bridge.
Other pieces of rock, hurled more than j
400 yards, crashed through the pilot i
of a pile driver of the Nashville, Chat
tanooga & St. Louis railroad, killing
Shafer and Hydler, and damaged resi
dences on Lookout Mountain. Four
Greeks who were working on the lino
some distance away were struck with
flying rock.
Ruef Tells of Bribery.
San Francisco, Cal.—Abraham Ruei
on Thursday testiiied before the
grand jury. It is said he told the jury
that President. Calhoun, Assistant
President Mullalley, Chief Counsel
Ford and Assistant Counsel Abbott,
of the United Railways, paid $200,000
for a change ir its franchise; that
?(jl4>oo of th ! Ruef's "fee;" that
SOO,OOO we- ? Mayor Schmitz and
that th fining SBO,OOO was
handed to ihe 18 supervisors, 10 oi
inem receiving $4,000 each, another
getting SIO,OOO, and Chairman Galla
gher, of the finance committee, being
paid $]."),000.
Steamer Saxon Sank.
Duluth, Minn.—lt is reported hero
that the United States Steel
Corporation steamer Saxon struck a
rock while passing Caribou Island, op.
posite Michipicoten, Lake Superior,
and went to the bottom. The crew
was saved.
Dollar Wheat Again.
Chicago, 111. —Wheat prices on the
board of trade again crossed tl»
dollar mark Thursday on a sensation
al bulge which carried September uj
to $1.00% and December to $1.02. Al
..ame ti:::e July advanced to 99U.
WEEPS IN COURT.
ABRAHAM RUEF PLEADS GUILTY
OF THE CRIME OF EXTOR
TION.
HIS SENTENCE IS DEFERRED FOR
TWO WEEKS—VERY IMPRES
SIVE SCENE.
San Francisco, Cal. Abraham
Ruef, nervous and pallid, in Judge
Dunne's court on Wednesday pleaded
guilty to the crime of extortion, the
felony for which he was to have been
tried by the jury already selected. In
pleading guilty he made an impres
sive address to the judge, stating that
he had commenced his career in poli
tics with high ideals for himself and
for the city, but that conditions had
broken him down, and he now desired
only an opportunity to make repara
tion and restore his character before
the world.
As he concluded his address he fell
back into his chair, almost fainting,
and tears ran down his cheeks.
His health, he said, could not en
dure the strain of the trial which he
was facing, and the torture was be
yond the endurance of those who
were nearest and dearest to him.
Before Kuef arose his attorneys,
Henry Ach, Samuel Shortridge and
Frank Murphy, one by one, arose and
stated that, owing to a grave differ
ence of opinion with their client, each
of them must withdraw from the case.
Kuef in his address spoke with emo
tion of the fidelity of his counsel.
Judge Dunne made an -order setting
the case over two weeks for sentence.
Then Kuef arose and went out of the
court room with Detective Burns. The
two walked to the corner of Sacra
mento and Webber streets, where
they entered an automobile and drove
to the house on Fillmore street which
is ituef's prison.
While in consultation with his at
torneys just before noon Ruef fainted.
Though Abraham Ruef has formally
declared himself to be guilty of the
charge on which he was about to be
tried, he nevertheless proclaims his
innocence. He confesses that he is
guilty of having connived at corrup
tion in municipal affairs, but he de
nies, with all the emphasis a man in
his position can command, that he is
guilty of the cume of extortion
charged against him. He declares
that his sole motive in accusing him
self in open court was to save the
lives of those who are nearest and
dearest to him, his aged father and
mother, his maiden sister and a niece.
Ruef said: "I have made no con
fession. I know much. Some things
1 shall tell, some things I shall not '
tell. Whenever an innocent man has J
been forced into corruption against
his will, that man I shall protect.
Whenever a man, be he high or low,
has entered into corruption with his I
eyes open, that man 1 shall expose.
THE ENTERPRISE BANK CASE.
Trial of Men Involved Therein Will
Begin Shortly in the Federal
Court at Pittsburg.
Pittsburg, Pa. —Preparations were
completed on Wednesday for tak- !
ing up the litigation growing out of I
the wrecking of the Enterprise na
tional bank two years ago, which
caused a national sensation because
of the political significance of the
failure. The case will follow the
Shelby steel tube scandal case in the
United States district court and Ed
ward MacMillen, a former clerk, will
be tried first on a charge of conspir
acy to deceive the United States au
thorities. The other accused men are
Lemert S. Cook, real estate agent;
Forest B. Nichols, secretary to Will
iam H. Andrews, territorial delegate
in congress from New Mexico;
George L. Ralston, individual book
keeper; Thomas W. Harvey, paying
teller, and Charles Menzemer, a clerk.
When the Enterprise national bank
failed there was approximately sl,-
000,000 of state deposits in the bank.
For months after the failure sensa
tional reports of the part that politics
played in the wrecking of the batik
were circulated and President Roose
velt was asked in a letter to take a
hand in the probing. The cashier,
Leo Clark, committed suicide.
THE BROWNSVILLE AEEAIR.
Testimony Against Negro Soldiers Is
Given When the Inquiry Is
Resumed.
Washington, 1). C.—Direct testi
mony connecting negro soldiers with
the shooting affray at Brownsville,
Tex., on the night of August 13, 1906,
was given Wednesday in the investi
gation being conducted by the senate
committee on military affairs. Three
witnesses who had heretofore told
their stories on the stand in connec
tion with the investigations of the af
fray made by the war department and
by Assistant Attorney General Purdy,
at the request of President Roosevelt,
were on the stand. They were Mr.
and Mrs. George W. Rendall and Jose
Martinez. All of them on the night ol
the shooting occupied houses on Gar
rison road in Brownsville, directly op
posite the military post. All three
testified to seeing or hearing soldiers
leave the post during the shooting
and Martinez testified that he saw the
men shooting as they ran.
Twenty-one Awards for Bravery.
Pittsburg, Pa.—The Carnegie Hero
Fund Commission Wednesday night an
nounced 21 awards throughout the
country. Acts of bravery incident to
the Cornell university fire at Ithaca,
N. Y., and the steamer Larchmont dis
aster in Block Island Sound, February
11, 1900, are in the majority.
Made a New Record.
New York. —The world's record
milk production for a year by
a single cow has been broken by the j
Guernsey, Dolly Bloom, whose record I
for the year was 17,297 pounds.
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