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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
June 8 
" HOW’S TRADE?” 
Nobody has asked us for our opinion 
on the financial and business situation ; 
therefore we don’t suppose that it will 
be necessary for the President and his 
Cabinet to leave Washington to reply to 
it on the stump. We believe that the 
bottom has been reached, and that this 
country is on the eve of a great rise in 
prosperity. Trade is good only when 
money circulates freely, not only in 
towns and cities, but between country 
and town. At present, business is wait¬ 
ing for farmers to buy goods. The town 
cannot live on its own trade ; it stag¬ 
nates unless country orders are forth¬ 
coming. For the past three years, these 
country orders have been greatly di¬ 
minished. That is why trade has been 
dull. There are many farmers to-day 
who need certain articles. They have 
$100 or more in cash that they could 
spend without compromising themselves. 
This money has not been earning much 
of late. They have simply held on to it 
in a vague hope that times will change. 
Now times will not change until that 
money begins to flow into the channels 
of trade. Let the farmers begin to buy 
what they need, and trade will at once 
pick up. 
See that millwheel standing idle in 
r,he dried-up stream ? There isn’t water 
enough to turn it, and as a consequence, 
the machinery stands still, the hands 
are idle, and over a dozen farmers are 
unable to get their grist ground. It is a 
far-reaching disaster. But there comes 
a thunder shower up among the hills. 
The rain falls in little drops. The dry 
earth absorbs them, but soon the little 
brooks and rivulets begin to flow. They 
are of little consequence, but the first 
you know they join forces, get larger 
and larger, until in one big volume they 
rush along against that millwheel and 
turn it ’round and ’round. Up starts 
the machinery, the men come back to 
work, the farmers bring their grists, 
and the whole business of the neighbor¬ 
hood quickens up. Now it’s just so with 
the farmer and his money. If, during 
the month of June, 1,000,000 farmers 
would each spend $100 in cash for needed 
goods, do you know what would happen? 
Confidence would be restored! Mills 
would start up, and workmen would be 
happy ! Money would come tumbling 
out of banks and vaults into circulation, 
and the cash would come back to the 
farmer in increased prices, and in a bet¬ 
ter demand for his crops. That $100,- 
000,000 would strike against the wheel 
of trade, and around it would go, carry¬ 
ing the entire country with it! Of 
course, there will be some who * say, 
“Why don’t the townspeople take their 
money out of the banks and buy more 
food, etc., thus making better prices for 
farm products?” There are many an¬ 
swers to that which we haven’t space to 
review at this time. We only say that 
in our opinion, the quickest way to re¬ 
store confidence to business and start 
a permanent “boom” in trade, is to 
pour orders into the town from the 
country. 
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Now, we don’t charg-e anything for 
these valuable ideas. We don t expect 
to be called to Washington for consulta¬ 
tion. We trust that we have enough 
patriotism to enable us to give these 
ideas away. We have faith to believe, 
too, that there are at least 1,000,000 peo¬ 
ple in this country who stand ready to 
spend a part of that $100 right away. For 
example, we’ll guarantee that there ai’e 
lots of folks who will hand over 50 cents 
far The R. N.-Y. for the rest of this year ! 
There are some of them right in your 
neighborhood ! But some of them may 
say, “Pooh ! If I give 50 cents to those 
fellows, the money won’t go into circu¬ 
lation ! How will that help trade? Now, 
let’s see about that! At least 48 cents 
of your half dollar will be paid out fox- 
labor, paper, printing and other publish 
ing expenses. There are 19 hands in our 
office who depend on The R. N.-Y. alone 
for their living. To figure in all their 
families, there are 47 people who are 
housed, fed and clothed out of the dol¬ 
lars paid for The R. N.-Y. Besides that, 
including paper men, artists, engravers, 
writers, etc., over 150 persons are partly 
supported in this way. Your 50 cents, 
therefore, will go to buy bread, meat, 
vegetables, clothing, fruit, fuel, etc., for 
nearly 200 people. It will all come back 
to you sooner or later in the money that 
is paid for your wheat, corn, pork, but¬ 
ter, potatoes, or what not. Now. that’s 
the way to look at it. Put 1 , 000,000 50- 
cent pieces into circulation through The 
R. N.-Y., and we shall all feel the effect 
of it. We think enough of our ability to 
imagine that we can do just as much 
good with this money as anybody can ; 
at any rate, we are perfectly willing to 
try it. Now, then, we are going to ask 
you as a special favor, to put this article 
in the hands of some man who does not 
now take The R. N.-Y. The following 
note is addressed to him : 
Dear Sir : I think that you will agree with the 
proposition that if 1,000,000 farmers would each 
spend $100 during the month of June, the trade of 
the country would at once improve. We all desire 
such an improvement—you with the rest of us. 
Now this result can only be reached through 
cooperation. We must all work together. A man 
of your enterprise and intelligence would be in¬ 
sulted if left out of the original million who are to 
start prosperity. We, therefore, confidently ask 
you to begin this great work by paying 50 cents 
for The R. N.-Y. to be sent to your address until 
January 1, 1896. This will be but half of one per 
cent of your quota. We have no suggestions to 
make as to the remaining 99*4 per cent. 
Yours truly, 
The Rural New-Yorker. 
P. S.—As to the value of our paper, we refer to 
any reader. If you find it unsatisfactory, we 
stand ready at any time to return your money. 
R. N.-Y. 
Now if you will let some neighbor read 
that, you will do us a great favor. You 
notice that we haven’t said anything 
about the mower, rake and cash to be 
given away on June 15. We shall never 
have another px-emium contest at this 
season. It doesn’t pay. That’s all the 
more reason why you have a big chance 
to win one of those pi-emiums. 
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Just one thing more about the spend¬ 
ing of that $100,000,000. We aim to make 
the advertising columns of The R. N.-Y. 
a hopeful feature of the paper. Almost 
alone among agricultural papers, we 
make a warfare against humbugs and 
frauds. We try to give you clean men 
to deal with. When we reject a “shaky” 
advertisement, it is just like throwing 
money away, for these people have 
plenty of money to spend. Taking the 
case as it stands, we think that we are 
justified in asking you when you patron¬ 
ize any of our advex-tisers, to make it 
clear to them where you saw the adver¬ 
tisement. You understand why this will 
help us? These advertisers keep ti-ack 
of their lettex-s. and when a man writes, 
“ I saw your ad. in The R. N.-Y., a paper 
that 1 have great confidence in,” of 
course we get ci-edit for it. That is the 
only way these men can know that an 
advertisement pays them. It won’t hurt 
you to do this. Our standing on the ad¬ 
vertising question is known all through 
the trade, and evei-ybody knows that we 
will protect our patrons wherever pos¬ 
sible. Therefore, it will be a good thing 
all around if, when you spend that $100, 
you will make it clear to the advertiser 
that you are a friend of The R. N.-Y. 
We shall honor that fx-iendship—you 
may be sure ! 
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