Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-11-16


No! If you want new set of harness I
you can bring your catalogue with you |
to the home dealer and he will be glad |
to figure with you and save you from |
81 to So a set. Then here you can ex-
anime the goods, have changes made II
you like, and your money will stay at
home and do this community some
good.
The Way They Do 1t.
The mail order house will take a
well-knOwn brand of shotgun, say
the Smith Hammerless, and offer it at
$25. This gun they describe with a
few lines and send a small cut or pic
ture of it.
Next page they will use large cut
of their own brand of gun, and what
they do not say about this gun is not
worth saying. This wonderful gun
they price at 1887, and according to
description this gun is worth great
deal more.
The reader orders the 1887 gun, on
which the supply house makes a profit
of so per cent while if he had ordered
the $25 gun they would not have made
per cent. But listing well-known
brand at cheap price establishes con-
fidence and helps them gain their point
| to sell their own brand at a big profit
1t would set city people wild if these
supply houses actually had values with
style and quality They would not need
to leave their own large cities to sell
at the prices they quote, as the city
people would go wild over the bar
gains. But with style and value lack
| ing they dare not show their goods in
the city where the prospective GUS
toner would have the opportunity for
comparison, but by cleverly worded
and exaggerated description they make
the country people believe they are
Offering more desirable wares than the
country merchant keeps at a less
price, and having no opportunity for
comparison before buying, many peo-
pie are actually duped.
Bats of Leaders.
We know it is fact that many ar
ticles are priced in these catalogues
cheaper than you can find them in
your home stores. Have you ever
thought of the reason why that is? 1t
is not because he cannot get these
goods and sell them to you at just as
low prices, but it is because he is
afraid to- sell you articles that have no
merit and because you can reach him
daily and expect him to make it good.
You expect to get goods of satisfac-
tory quality or he may lose your trade.
He is your personal friend and is afraid
to sell you goods he cannot recon-
mend. If he had never seen you nor
expected to, and is several hundred
miles away and could get the money
ton.
Remember we don't want to say that
you can't get good goods from these
concerns, for we know that you can,
but these better grades cost you as
much and more than they do at home,
with the exception of a few bats and
leaders.
There is still one more thing to bear
in mind and which we think a serious
one. Surprising the mail order houses
could sell goods cheaper and every
body would order their goods from
them-the loN1l stores would soon be
no more and you would then be oblig
ed to send for everything. Remember
store cannot be kept up with the
small purchases if the money is sent
away for the big things. You have then
succeeded in running your home trade
. and you have helped to build up ar
4 enormous corporation in some far
? away city. Your home consumption
, and market would decrease, the value
$ of your farms and houses would be
4 come less valuable, for you we'll know
/ if town goes back the value of it ant
5 it's surroundings decrease. Sending
: your money away you get nothing bu
the goods; spending it at home i
: will come back to you in better towns
a better stores, better schools, bette
d churches and better social advan
: tages.
d Home Industries.
e Is not the building up of your small
y town more to you than the building VI
r of some faraway city? Is it not fac
h that if our town had 10000 population
instead of 1000 it would be better TO
us all? Would there not be mucl
G more employment; would not thes
u people consume more products an
t, consequently make better market
t would not the small homes with on
e lot be doubled in value and every farr
Vt within a radius of ten miles be wort
l. $40 to $50 an acre more? Therefore