Morris tribune., 1905-07-01
nUsT COOPERATE.
Sounty rIerchants and County News.
papers Should Pull Together.

F~PSAS 0nOubO EuI1 OgGLn0T.
Grant County Herald.
quite number of our exchanges
are running advertisements for an
eastern mail order house. The ques-
'lon has been raised. Does loyalty
W nome institutions demand refus-
ing space to such concerns? The
question is not difficult to answer.
IL nome merchants patronize the
advertising columns of the local
newspaper then there is no need of
selling space to foreign concerns
who compete with them; but if local
merchants regard advertising as a
charity proposition or claim it does
not pay and Withhold their patron
age, then newspaper is fair and
right IN selling its advertising space
to those who believe it is a good in,
Vertment and are willing to pay for
it.
Mail order houses appear to re-
gard this particular section of the
northwest promising field, and are
making greater effort than ever
before in reaching out for trade.
They send out attractive and catchy
catalogues, and are demanding space
IN the newspap srs. The Herald
refused space to such a concern
quite recently, and yet the price
offered was larger than our rate to
home merchants. Elbow Lake has
some good stores-but that fact
would not be learned from the ad
vestising columns of the Herald.
Merchants complain of slack trade,
and yet people eat and need just as
much as they used 20. Trade must
be going somewhere. This is a con-
dition and not theory.
This advertising question has
been freely discussed by leading
papers of the state. The observs
tions or conclusion of a tew are ap.
pended; prehaps there is some food
for thought in them. They are
worth reading anyhow:
Owatonna Journal: THE editor of
this paper has the statement from a
number of reputable business men
of this city who say that they stand
ready to duplicate any order that
any catalogue house may send to
this county. The editor has reason
to believe that these business men
mean just what they say, and that
they stand ready to do just what
they say that they will do
Mortified News: "If what the
Journal says is true why don't Owa'
tonna merchants advertise and let
the people know. From the appear
ance of the advertising columns of the
Owatouna papers one would be in
clined to the opinion that that place
is sort of flag station or a very
small town. If merchants want to
discourage mail or 'er houses they
should advertise in the local papers
and let the people know what they
have to sell and at what prices.
Fairmont Sentinel "The News
is right, The buying public only
asks to be shown. The catalogue
people are doing it. If the local
dealer doesn't do the same thing he
doesn't get the business. That's all"
St. Cloud JournalPress: A person
in a position to know informes the
Journal-Press that St. Cloud mer
chants are losing great amount of
business, thru failure to keep the
public informed as to price and the
bargains they have to offer. This is
especially true of the grocery busi-
ness. Enough groceries are sent to
St. Cloud from Minneapolis and St.
Paul retailers to support two good
first-class groceries in this city. The
amount of foreign made cigars smok-
ed iu st. Cloud would give employ
ment to great many cigar makers
in this city if the local manufactur-
ers made their brands as familiar to
the smokers as are several cigars
that have been made famous by
advertising, Sufficient tailor-made
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