The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-01-12
TRADING At HOME
An Old Subject Pertinently Discussee
for the Benefit of Those Who
Send Away.

Aberdeen News, The News re-
Gently received the following CONF
munication from a farmer friend;
We notice an article from some-
where about sending Oft for goods to
mail order concerns. The writer OF,
this sent for a heater-the best the
firm bad i'm their catalogue; and it
was a fine and good one. All it cost
was $685. so, and here they would cost.
S45. Now why a farmer should not.
save that difference of Sl7 we can
not see. There are a number OF
farmers in this vicinity who have
sent for $500 worth or more and made
good money vt it. Now va ho is to
blame?
The News this morning received
through the mail, from an Aberdeen
professional man. who is not interest
ed, from a personal standpoint, in
the sale o. amy article OF merchant
disc the following clipping which
effectually answers the question of
the News farmer friend:
When your catalogue comes from
the mail order house wait until you
II SSO bOu1O OCAOlO UllC WIdUe
Ter, then wait until after supper,
when the chores are done. draw an
easy chair to the table where the
light win shine full on the pages,
put on your glasses, that no bargain
may escape your eye, and settle down
for an hour OF quiet enjoyment.
What a wonderful book it is, to be
sure-wonderful for what it does not
contain. as we'll as for what it does.
we miss some things we would be
glad to see. Where is their offers to
pay cash or exchange goods for your
wheat. oats, corn, sheep and hogs
"free OIL board'. How much tax will
they pay fol- improving roads and
bridges, for the support of the poor,
the expenses of the town, county
and state? On what page is their
|Offer to contribute money or services
in the establishment and malnten-
ance OF a church or Sunday school
for the moral tone Of your COM
munity? What line of credit will
they extend to you when your credit
is poor, your money gone, when
Through illness or misfortune you
are not able to send leash order''
for your groceries, clothing. farm
tools and crockery? Where is their
offer to contribute to your entertain
ment next Fourth of July.
In what department do they ex-
plain to you the increasing value Of
your farm as a result of trading will
them?
u you find the queries Satisfactorily
answered. bring the answers in and
most merchants will go to farming
and let the town go to grass. Under
such conditions no towns are needed
further than to furnish a railroad
station, an express office and a case
for rural mail carrier-all of which
may be covered with one roof.
If the home merchant could avold
all the expenses mentioned in the
above clipping, which he cheeriully
contributes because it helps to buil6
up the country in which he has cas-,
his lot, he, too, probably, could affore
to sill his goods at mail order prices.
In fact, the News is not so sure
THAI. quality for quality, and guam.
tity for quantity, he does not do Sc
now. Did the neighbor Of the farmer
friend referred to ever try kuying s1(
worth Of goods from his home mer.
chant at one time. all for cash? Mex,
time let him see what the home
merchant can do for him in tina,
line before sending his money out Of
the. country, never to return.