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Newspaper
Independence Enterprise
Location
Independence, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1920
Page
4
A patriotic appeal urges residents to support local business owners for town projects. The author contrasts home grown merchants with distant mail order buyers, arguing that local shopkeepers fund community efforts and pay taxes, sustaining schools, roads, and services.
The speaker argues that mail order houses rely on agricultural towns and farms rather than large cities. He notes farmers and small-town patrons fund these banks while large-city residents spend locally, harming home town merchants who feed the mail order system.
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