Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-02-11
D. A. MoNFoRT. CIR. MONFORT.
MOnfort & Co.,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL GR0CERS,
No. 8 East Third St., St. Paul.

FEBRUARY IL, 1881.
We have taken the liberty during the last
few days of publishing lot Of harmless ab.
surditiss under our head lines in this paper, In
the hope, az the public has probably been
aware, of attracting a little attention to the
space we expect hereafter to occupy for adver-
| Using purposes.
Fully approaching the value and convenience
| OF newspapers az means of communication
aware that much printers Ink is used In vain
| in that direction, and that Thousands of adj
vertisements fail entirely in accomplishing
| their object, simply because they are not read
The old adags says that Gan work and no
play makes Jack dull boy" but all play and
no work would probably make him something
still worse We expect to have good deal to
say to the people of st. Paul during the com.
ing year, and II they will do US the honor to
read our advertisements we shall sndeavor not
| to bore them too much, either by surfeit Of
quips and quirks on the one hand, or too long
and dry business announcemc nts on the other,
but shall try to strike that golden mean of
work and play which will make us all good
natured and everybody happy
Mr.. Wagstaff will still be occasionally heard
| from, but we trust that he will not intrude so
often as to become nuisance
At the present time we have something seri.
| Gus to say upon subject in which every man,
woman and child in this city, and In the whole
country, has a direct personal interest, viz:
The adulteration Of food: The general public
probably have no adequate conception Of the
extent to which the adulterating Of even the
commonest necessaries of life is carried on.
There are few articles which pass through
the cooks hands which are not counterfeited
| in some way or another, and in many cases the
authorizations are made with materials which
are very deeterious to health, if not in time
actually fatal to life. The practice is 80 gen.
eral that the greatest care is necessary to OBJ
tain pure manufactured goods of any descrip-
| ton, and even the articles used for adultera.
ting are themselves adulterated. and the evil
| has no limit just where to lay the blame for
this evil is hard to determine. The great com.
petition in trade has led manufacturers to fall
| in prices; and to do this they must sell impure
| materials. In England and other European
countries, severe laws are in force against
adulterating. Many of the States of the On.
ion have similar laws, but they are generally a
dead letter, and ahpnt the only safety to the
consumer lies in the intelligence and honesty
| intelligence because 1t is notorious fact that
| there are more ignorant persons engaged in
| the retail grocery trade than in any other line
of merchandising. 1t seems to be popular
| belief that no previous mercantile or other
education is necessary in order to become a
successful grocer, and If man with no previ-
Gus business experience whatever comes into
possession Of few hundred dollars and makes
| up his mind to engage IN trade, the chances
are as nine to one that he will open little
grocery store. Now we do not wish to say one
word against small dealers, as such, for VIC
know that some of them are honest, hard
| working men, who understand their business,
ha ing served a regular apprenticeship with
| respectable houess, but we refer to that class
| who have taken up the business hap hazard,
and who, however honest they may be, have
| not the business experience and knowledge
which will enable them to know whether the
goods in which they deal are pure or not.
There is another class of grocers, and there
| are some Of them in this city, who have edu-
| cation and experience enough, but who are
| dishonest, and who habitaally and systemati-
| cally depend for large per centage of their
profits, on light weights, short measure and
| and when detected ought to be severely pun.
| ished. Our advice to housekeepers is as fol-
lows: Buy the best you can get, even if the
price is little more In the end such goods
will be cheaper than the inferior qualities at a
lower price. Take every precaution to see that
| the goods you get are as represented. Weigh
| everything you receive, whether from the gro
Ger, the butcher, or the baker: You will lind
that the cost of pair Of scales will be saved
| several times over the first year, and no honest
dealer will object to having his goods re-
| weighed, for honest errors are sometimes lia-
BILE to be made even in the most carefully con-
| Quoted establishments. Pay your bills prompt
ly, and, as far as possible, buy entirely for
cash. By following these directions, you will
save yourselves money. Guard your families
against slow poisons, and eventually deal with
honest men rather than rogues. This article
has already spun out SO long that we will only
add that our own business principles are pref
ty well defined by what we have already said.
We shall not knowingly deal in inferior goods
of any description. We will guarantee our
prices to be at all times as low as the same
quality of goods can be obtained for at any
place west of Chicago, and will at any time
cheerfully take back and refund the money for
any article which does not prove to be pre-
cisely as represented. We claim to be square
men, and mean to do business on square prin-
ciples, and shall endeavor to merit the conf
dence of all who may favor US with their GUS
tom. MoNFoRT & Co.