Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1905-07-27
The Mail Order House.

doctor of commerce. 1t promises
much and guarantees nothing. Like
patent medicine, the directions are
always on the inside and you have
10 buy non-returnable package be.
fore you can find out what they are.
No mail order house helped to
build the little white school house in
your district or turnpike the road
past your door. No mail-order
house ever took you by the hand
when you we're in distress, and told
you to let that little account go until
after harvest next year. No mail
order house ever sold you vehicle
and then spent every cent OF its
profit right in the community where
you and your neighbors could get it
all back again. No mail-order house
ever showed its patent leather shoes
under your table and rejoiced with
you when you were glad, nor spoke
encouraging words to you in aff1ic-
ton, nor stood with uncovered head
beside the grave when your child
died.
No, the mail-order house is after
money. Every dollar it gets its
hands on will be Jerked out of your
neighborhood forever. The mail
order house may bear upon its face
the semblage of friendship, but no
human heart beats under its cloak OF
hypocricy. Sentiment to it is UNI
known. The whole institution is as
cold and bloodless as corpse.
All the mail-order houses in chris
tendon wouldn't increase the value
of your farm cent. They are para
sites to whom life is only possible as
long as they can suck blood out of
the communities, to the upbuilding
OF which they contribute nothing.
They create no local markets for the
products you have for sale. They
have no prope y in your community
which can be assessed to help bear
your bnrden of taxation.
Your local dealer needs neither
advocate nor defense. His methods
rests upon principles that have built
up in this country system of interal
commerce which is the marvel and
admiration OF the world. His busi-
ness is legitimate because its success
contributes to the general prosperity
Of the community that built it uI.
Your local dealer stands ready to
duplicate every offer SO seductively
set forth in the catalogue of mail
order houses and more. He will
trump the best trick the mail. order
house ever played if you will put
down spot cash and accept from
him class OF goods devoid of re-
spectacle ancestry and upon which
no reputable manufacturer will place
his name. He can sell cheap goods,
too, if you will buy them from him
with your eyes shut. He can meet
the best price ever made by a mail
order house if you will plank dowr
the money and accept what he give:
you without question and without re
course; but you must not expect hin
to be in his place of business every
day in the year ready and willing tt
make good any defect, ready anc
Wiling to stand back of every article
he sellsswith his own reputation ane
the warranty OF a responsible com
pany.
Honest, now, don't you really pa
yourself on the back when you spent
your money in such a way that il
supplying your own wants you he'll
build up the neighborhood in whicl
you live? OF course you do, an,
you act on that idea yourself, but th
trouble is you don't talk it enoug.
to your friends.
Stand by your local dealer as h
stands by you with his time, his ski
and his money. He helps build u
the community and he makes it
better place for you both to live
His own success depends on you
prosperity He has no use fc
mavericks = unbranded Junk. H
swears by the goods branded wit
the trademark. of the most skillfi
manufacturers on earth-goods til
like OF which no other generatio
ever saw, and he has an abidin
,a;th II, tho theory that the hest -,