Canton Weekly Register

BUYING AT HOME
A Good Policy and Sound Principle-
The Common Interest of Fellow Citizens.

Centralia Democrat: If the money that is sent out of our city for goods that can be purchased in the city, was spent at home, can any one figure how much that would improve business in our own city and how much better a home we would have?

Did it ever occur to you, my friend, that you are a part of the city, just the same as the mayor and the city council and the business men? And that you have a duty to perform and obligations to fulfill to help build up the community of which you are a part, instead of dragging it back by sending the money you get away to help build up some other city in which you have no interest?

Did you never feel a little mean when you take a subscription list and hold all the merchants to subscribe for some charity or public purpose, and then go home and hunt through a catalogue of some foreign house to send an order for goods you might have bought from the merchants whose names are on the subscription list?

If you are a union man, did you ever feel a little squeamish when you fix a scale which required the merchant to pay higher prices for work he had done than if he had hired a non-union man, then send that money off to some catalogue house in the purchase of non-union goods just because you can get them cheaper-or think you can? If the business man would do as you do, the unions would boycott him. If the union men of Centralia would live up exactly to the spirit of their obligations, they would bring all the catalogues they have to the corner of Broadway and Locust and make a bonfire of them and will you tell me there would not be enough to make a good fire?