The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-05-11
PURCHASE AT HOME
The Existing Evil of Buying
From Mail Order Houses.
HOME MERCHANT PROTECTS YOU
III You Will Ask For Prices on SO to
$50 Order You Will Find This True.
Try it and Be Convinced.


Try it and Be Convinced.
Our attention has been called from
various sources to the fact that a large
number of farmers and others are
adopting the plan of sending to the
catalogue houses for their necessary
supplies. The conception that goods
can be secured cheaper by this plan is
not only u false one, but it is also a fac,
that money is actually lost in the long
run. When you buy goods from the
| catalogue houses you do not know what
you are getting; you run the risk of
not getting what YOU want: in most
cases you are compelled to buy large
amounts in order to get the cheap
rates, and by the time you pay the
freig bit and when You consider the de-
ter,oration to which the goods are sub
ject on account of being kept so long
before usage. you have not made any
money. Not only this but every blow
struck at home industries is blow to
your own interests. Strike Denison
nd the other towns of the county with
all their varied industries from the
map and your real estate will be worth
ABOUT IS much as it was in the sixties.
Yet, you are helping to bring ABOUT
this condition every time you buy OF
the catalogue houses. How much do
Chicago firms contribute toward public
enterprises in your community? How
much are they taxed to support public
works in your county? How much do
they contribute toward the erection of
churches and libraries? Do they give
anything for Fourth of July celebra-
tions' or street fairs? Do they make
any effort to induce new railroads to
come through your county, to estah-
lish new factories at your doors, or to
bring about the establishment of vari-
GUS other industries which will in
crease the value of your property?
These are pertinent questions, bu,
you should put them to yourself the
next time you order anything from a
catalogue house.
An exchange speaking of this matter
says:
About the catalogue houses. Con-
tinue to trade with them; boycott the
local merchant at every turn and you
will soon change a great consuming
army into producing one. just count
the jewellers in small towns and figure
the result or effect of such change.
Again. Once you have succeeded in
'throttling" the local or home dealers,
what have you done? Simply turned
the ''store keeping" of the country over
to g. few merchant princes" who will
stretch your leg till its tendons squeak
like man drakers' torn from the
earth. This was done in the case of
the local butchers. They were starved
out. Meat could be purchased cheap
err from the big packers; and when
nearly every local butcher was acting
as an agent for Swift or Armour the
price of meat for your table was hitch
ed to balloon and the price of your fat
hog or fat steer hit the to-boggan-an
now you are paying three dollars
apiece to hire lobbyists and lawyers 10
fight the meat trust the monster you
built while you were fixing" the local
butcher. AND, mind you, this only in
yolyed one line. Turn over all the
lines that make up what is Included in
the term general merchandise and