The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1906-06-29

their trade to some one that has no
other interest than to take our
money. '1.S .,:. 4: .f...5 %$~@.>. i
by standing by our home mer-
chants we are standing by each
other, and by standing by. each
other we all thrive and prosper
together. :,
lis it to our interest to build up
great houses lin distant cities7 l |
make the broad assertion that while
some things on the surface may |
seem cheaper than the prices Of our
home merchant, after we have |
scrimped ourselves to get the cash
and paid freight and other charges,
and paid for things we do not need
because they seem cheap, we are
actually out of pocket; we are
simply gulled by the cormorants.
IF we keep depressing and de-
stroying our home merchants, we
will find after q life time that our
farms are in an isolated region and
have not increased in value as they
would if we had made a market at
our very door.
II know too we'll the selfishness
of human nature to imagine for a
moment you would join in crusade
against catalog houses if it did not
appeal to your cupidity. When you
can make and save more money by
dealing with your own merchants
than the catalog man you will buy
at home. It il a fine thing to cut
your neighbor's throat if it puts
money into our pocket, but when it
comes to cutting your own throat,
the inducement is not so tempting.
MARY (that's my wife, came to
me about Easter time and said,
Tom, wish you would put a
money order for $500 in this letter
and mail it for me, I want a new
hat So I took a few dozen eggs
and what butter we had to town
and sold them at a cut rate, to the
country merchant to get the SO. 90.
/ 1T is true my wife made the
butter, and thus in way was pay
ing for the hat, but she had not laid
single egg, and the overworked hens
and rooster, were the victim of a
fragrant confidence game.
"And when the hat came it was
caution to snakes. The ribbons and
flowers we're not in harmony with
my wife's complexion though she
was mad enough when she saw it to
turn almost any color. If it had
come from home milliner it would
have been rejected at once but the
catalog house had the So and there
was no help for it.
1.-The whole family agreed that it
was money thrown away.
''Even tie dog parked his dissent
when he saw the thing and was
frightened into noisy protest. Of
course this is only one instance, but
there are many others even more
distressing in their results.
II know farmers who are always
in Ok BIT to their local merchants
while their cash has gone t. The
railroad for freight bills and to the
catalog houses for articles which do
not rank as either luxuries or
necessities but simply as leg-pullers
to gull the unsophisticated.
Hoy would you appreciate SELL
ing your stock and products on
credit and the purchaser using his
money to buy similar articles III a
distant market for CASH.
"Unless we can stand together
and refuse to build up and develop
this cormorant which preys Upon
us we do not deserve to have thriv-
ing towns for markets or the ad-
vantages which always come from
being surrounded by a business
community. We have it in our
power to help ourselves or to help
the other fellow. SO far the other
fellow seems to have the advantage
while we emulate the role of
chumps with brilliant success. "