The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-07-14
The RIGHT KIND OF A FARMER.
We Wish Some Of Our People Would
do Likewise.


A Minnesota farmer, according to
Hardware Trade, of Minneapolis,
wrote the following pointed letter to a
Chicago catalogue house from which
he had received several circulars:
Gentlemen: | have your favor
dated April 20, 1905, relative to a
catalogue which you appear to think
was sent me by you some time ago,
and which you intimate that you
should be obliged to recall.
"Now, relating to this matter,
would say that | have never received
catalogue from your house. Some
time ago received letter from you
requesting me to send ID cents or an
order for 81 worth of goods, in con-
sideration. You also agreeded to
send the catalogue on approval, sub
ject to a ten days examination before
same should be accepted by me, or
paid for as above. This letter pro-
position of yours was evidently ouly a
bluff, because the catalogue has never
been sent me, and am therefore some
what surprised at the contents Of your
more recent favor, soliciting an order
from me.
PROFESSIONALLY, have never had any
cause to get the fact that had not re-
ceived your catalogue, because dc
not believe in buying my goods in
Chicago, distant some three hundred
miles from home. | can get my goods
within an hours drive of my farm
and enjoy the satisfaction of inspecting
these goods, which privilege is worth
more than the slight difference in cost
Furthermore, if l send to you fol
goods you expect the cash to accom-
pany the order, or you refuse to sent
the goods, and I am therefore paying
for goods that | have not had an op
portunity to see which to any SAM
man is rather an unbuSinessllk'
proposition.
Here at home am able to Obtain
goods from my home dealer on severa
months time, often without paymen
of cent of interest, which no cata
logue honse know of will do.
81 am satisfied that if our hom
dealers could do strictly cash bust
ness as you do, they could sell good
us cheap as any catalogue house OF
earth. We who are obliged at time
to ask for more or less credit woul'
certainly be very unreasonable to Civ
that portion of our trade only to on
merchants and send what cash we d.
have to concerns like yours, who ar
of no benefit whatever to our CON
munity. We should be willing, i
fact, to pay little more for what W
have to buy, when we must realize tia
the difference in the price is simpl
our just portion towards building u
our community and maintaining tt
thriving cities and towns that haH
made our life worth living, and mo-
decidedly increased the value of ov
farm lands.
Moreover, I certainly do not b.
lieve in contributing towards Il
establishment of more 'brusts.' v
certainly have trusts enough to col
tend with at the present time witho'
making any more, and we are simp
assisting to establish trust when v
persist in sendidg all the surplus ca:
of the country to you, doing it at II
expense of our own merchants al
therefore our own welfare.
Farmers who will stop to consid
this matter will realize that their hor
merchants will make to them maj
concessions in prices and otherwis
that will more than equalize any ben
!. fit that may be derived from patroni
. ing your house.
"You express regret at not havi1
received any orders from me, ant
have only to say that all fish do n
bite on sucker hooks"
Martin Brothers sells
for less.