Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1891-07-31

Around Newspaper Man.)
| You all know that there is not day in
the week but some local dealer in some O
your towns is selling goods under false
representation, and thereby not only dc
irauding the customer or buyer, but swindl
| ing--1 use the word adviscdly in all its
naked deformity-swindling your subscri
| bers, readers and foreign advertisers, whose
| advertisement you are carrying in YOU
columns. and whose interests l consider il
growing habit of some druggists, groccrs
and general merchants, both country anC
city, i'll palmlng off SUBSTITUTE for the
artic Gle asked for by the customer. [Grca
| applause.]
For instance customer asks his druggist
er Pills, Pears Soap, Scott's Emulsion, st
Food, DIR. Picrcc's Discovery and Favoritt
Prescription, German Syrup, Ayers pector.
al, Pearline, Diamond Dyes, Syrup ofFigs,
Enoch Morgans Sapolio, VOLTS Acme
IE5lacking Or. Prices Baking Powder and
Extracts, w. L. Douglas Shoes, Kinks
Cure Dr. Schneck's Syrup, TUFTS Pills,
Hostctter's Bitters, Sl0cums Emulsion.
Ely's Cream Balm, Sozodont, Pcrlna, DR..
Green's Nervura, Ponds Extract, Cnstoria,
Perry, Davis Pain Killer, Piso's Cure, Mrs.
Minslow,, S. S. S., Halls Hair Renewcr,
80 oHuGi, J'IlIlSOil NllutlN llC
Eminent. Railways Ready Relief, Lydia Il.
Plnkhan's Compound, Beecllams Pills,
kirk's Soap, DIR. Miles Ncrvinc, Mclin's
Food, DIR. Halls Catarrh Cure, Bakers Co
Goa, Imperial Granum, Ridges Food, Lea e.
perrin's Sauce, Epp's Cocoa Fairhunk' 5 San
Ia Claus Soap, Horsford's Acid Phosphate,
Browns Bronchial Trochcs, Hires Root
Beer, etc.
lie has seen these goods advertised in your
paper (Which has brought them c,lstomcrs)
telling of their virtues and what they will
do and cure; they are the very thing he
wants. but here the dealers get in their
work by the t, SUBSTITUTE racket they tell The
Sarsaparilla, Carriers Little Liver Pills,
Scots Emulsion. Morgan's Sapolio, St.
jacobs Oil, DR.. Piercc's Discovery, Syrur
of Figs. Pears Soap, DIR. Slocum's Emul.
sion, Pozzonis Powder, etc, but lie has
,our own make" or Eyeretts' sarsararilla,
sion, Artemus Wards sapolio, sandlass'
Oil, Dr.. Smiths Discovery, Barret's Soap,
Or. Whitcomb's Emulsion, Hazeltines
Cure, Fig Laxative Syrup or California Fig
Laxative, McKinneys Blacking, Millers
Shoes, Motifs Powder, etc., which are Just
as good and cost less, and the customer,
while he wanted Hoods, Cartcrs, Scots
persuaded against first intentions, to take
good-1or-nothing substitute that has no
merit, and costs little or nothing to make
that he never thought ot-never saw adver-
tised, and which the dealers make profit
of from 10 to 100 per cent more than he
would on the scientific, meritorions
articles avertised in yourpapers. applause
Is not this substitute scheme a robbery
OF the publisher, an insult to the unwary
buyer. as well as a tremendous injury to
the advertiser who is paying you perhaps
hundreds Of dollars to Introduce his goods
in your locality; and are you not in duty
bound to use your utmost endeavors to
prevent such petty swindling. applause J
You should, i'll my opinion, whenever
you find dealer resorting to this suBsTI-
IUTE fraud, expose and denounce him
through your editorial columns. thereby
protecting your own interest, and that Of
your subscribers and readers. (Applause)
In my opinion, it is time that the pub
fishers took hold of this matter in earnest
DEAD EARNEsT-and l would respectfully
suggest that before this association adjourns
Tremendous Applause7