The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1906-07-05
GUARANTEE" OF
CATALOGUE HOUSES

Catalogue houses are becoming no
torious for handling frauds and adul
terations. Commissioner ". X. Slate
OF the pure food commission of Min
nesota, in their last bulletin undel
date. of February 3, 1906, In an officia
report gives an analysis OF some Of
Sears, Roebnck & Go. g goods, as fol
lows: -y--tstt lssas,1. s.sr : :
"Evaporated cream-Sample q Ii
evaporated milk" - T,s
"Wild cherry phosphate--Sample Ii
colored with coaltar dye" 1,-.. -. !,
Cheese qmperial brand )-Sample
contain borax."
Raspberry jelly Glover Leaf
brand sample Is glucose COM
pound artiicially colored and flaw
ored. "
All of the above are pronounced il.
legal by the state commissioners
Sears, Roebuck & Co. g prices are not
as low as their quality.
A lecturer holding high position
in state dairy commission, before a
meeting Of farmers, recently extolled
the merits of good separators, but
warned. his hearers against buying the
mail order grade because In nearly
every case they we're poorly made and
finally proved unsatisfactory and un
profitable. W.
This statement from one so well in
formed caused us to look into the
cream separator situation. One OF
Sears, Roebuck Il Co. . advertisements
reads:
1880 cream separator one months
free trial. $40. 80 Ia our price for this
wonderful, new improved, 1906, hand
cream separator. One-fourth the
price of others; warranted 20 years
will skim 1000 pounds OF milk per
hour; will skim twice as close, twice
as much, twice as easy, last twice as
long as any other hand separator made
regardless OF the price.
The separator described Is their
Dundee and no other kind Is nell
toned in their ad.
Turning to Sears q Roebuck Il Co'e.
big catalougue, page 496, No. lis, we
find that an order must be aeoompan-
led by cash in full-this is their free
trial. They say the Dundee will not
wear as well nor give as good service
as their higher priced machines. But
saying this they admit it's poor ar
ticle. Their book gives its capacity
az from $50 TO l75 pounds an hour
their ad says 1000.
A Minnesota merchant who discov-
cred the Misrepresentation asks II the
postal laws would not deny the mails
to such plain fraudulent statements.
Why, my friend, If the catalogue
houses we're made to tell the truth and
nothing but the truth they would soon
be out Of business. The wonder is
that the people will credit such ex-
travagant statements. That the more
intelligent do'not believe them is evil
denced by the fact that all these won.
derful, extrRvagant claims do not
bring the catalogue house sufficient
returns. In every one of their ads IL
a free couch offer, free set Of chairs,
piano, buggy, etc., at lesst 8 per cent
premium for business.
In very ingenious way they evade |
the stringent lottery legislation. and
about one-fourth of their advertising
space Is devoted to exploiting some
thing for nothing. In our opinion |
the Louisiana lottery In its best days
never exerted as harmful influence up
on the morals of the people, nor en-
speculation more than Scars,
Roebuck II Co. are doing today.
Talk about your slot machines, race
tracks, gambling bells, trading stamps
and mail order premiums-theIe is
only. step to divide one from the
other. The tendency is all in the
same direction and we defy anyone to
prove either as absolutely straight,
square, honorable or legitimate bust
ness.
We cannot argee with Barnum that
Tho naonIa like tn he humhuppad