The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1905-02-18
AGAINST MAIL ORDERS.
Country Merchants Fight Catalogue
Houses Through Local We kiies.

Country Merchants Fight Catalogue
Houses Through Local We kiies.
Cronin Brothers. owning genera!
store at Morris, ILL.,. a town between
three thousand and four thousand peo-
pie. publish large interesting ads In
the local newspaper. advocating buy
ing at home and offering 10 sell at
same prices az the large Chicago
houses. II freight. etc. he added. The
announcements are 80 large as 10
make their reproduction nm impossl.
blllty. In the paragraphs below. the
Qist of one Of them Is given without
display:
We propose to meet the nrices OF the
department stores or catalogue honses.
All we ask ia tl,nt You deal with MS
on the came basis that you deal with
catalogue houses. and give MS the same
amount of time to get the goods which
1t would require to get them from
them. Plank your money down when
YOU order the goods and we will meet
each npd every price they make and
furnish You the snme goods Mt the
same prices they offer you.
We will go further.
We don't ask you to tnke any goods
where mistakes are made in ordering.
| Well shoulder the mistakes. lf any Of
you have. ever had anything com"
wrong you know what n nice little job
it is to get 1t corrected. no matter how
willing the firm is to do so. 1t takes
correspondence. stamps and freight on
| tile goods to get them exchanged. TO
saw nothing OF the loss of time.
Some people prefer to buy away from
home because 1t sounds big to be able
TO say they ordered from Chicago. etc.
We know OF one party who is actually
paying more for goods bought away
from Morris than he could buy them
Of his dealer here. This kind of peo-
pie we can do nothing for. but the kind
who are making the dollar go Just ms
far ms they can. we cnn and will do
something for. Give us trial on the
proposition we make, II Won are one
of those who have been buying away
from home. Bring your catalogue with
you. II we fail to furnish the goods
without reasonable excuse don't give
us your confidence again. Try us once.
We don't fear the result. We are
residents of Morris. We are your
home merchants. We help pay taxes.
We have to live and consume some o.!
your products.
Is our proposition wrong?
The whole trouble about our people
about Morris liz the same with which
30 many communities are suffering.
That old slow-conch credit. Some OF
II SO slow we never get 1t. No mer-
chant can sell goods cheap on that
MAN, The dollar invested in goods TO-
day and sold for cash tomorrow can
he invested in more goods the follow
ing day and the same process OF sale
may be repeated, hut the dollar in
vested in goods to-day and sold on
credit tomorrow is tied up Just so long
as you don't get 1t back. and Its earn
ing capacity is stopped for the mer-
chant until he gets It back again. Can
YOU wonder why the catalogue house
Inns the advantage in price over most
of your home merchants? The cata'
logue house won't trust you; even de-
mands the money In advance with M
goods in sight. Your home merchant
| often trusts and often to his sorrow,
even though 100 per cent. sometimes
be his profit. Many times a seeming
profit of % per cent. on goods sold to
a good man turns out to be merely q
small Interest on the money invested
because of slow pay. Treat your home
merchant like you are compelled I"
treat your catalogue house md We
think you will get better results.