The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1906-07-05

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avoiding medical expenses and the
purchase of barrels of Mrs. Wins
lows Soothing Syrup.
eff my farmer friends would unite
l would be glad to refuse the catalogs
table room in my house. l want my
family to have all the finery and gee
gaws we can afford, but l want them
to go to the home merchant to buy
them, and not give their trade to some
one that has no other interest than
to take our money.
"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.
SIS it to our interest to build up
great houses in distant cities? 1
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 act
ually out of pocket; we are simply
gulled by the comorants.
eff we keep depressing and destroy
ing our home merchants, we will
find after life time that our farms
are in an isolated region and have
not increased in value as they would
if we had made market at our very
door.
81 know too we'll the selfishness Of
human nature to imagine for
moment you would join in crusadea
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. 1t is fine thing to cut your
neighbours throat, if it puts money
into your pocket, but when it comes
to cutting your own throat, the in
ducement is not so tempting.
"Mary Chats my wife, came to me
about Easter time and said, Tom,
1 wish you would put money order
for $500 in this letter and mail it for
me, I want a new hat So 1 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 tee $780,
"It is true my wife made the but
ter, and thus in way was paying for
the hat, but she had not laid single
egg, and the overworked hens and
rooster, were the victim of fragrant
confidence game.
"And when the hat came it was a
caution to the snakes. The ribbons
and flowers were not in harmony with
my wife's completion 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..
"The whole family agreed that it
was money thrown away.
"Even the dog barked 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 debt to their local merchants while
their cash has gone to 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.
"How would you appreciate selling
your stock and products on credit
and the purchaser using his money
to buy similar articles in 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 thriving towns
for markets or the advantages which
always come from being surrounded
by 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 advan.
tage while we emulate the role of
chumps with brilliant success"
We suggest retailers and secreta-
ries of organizations secure the pub
LEGATION of this article in their home
papers.-Editor of Commercial Bull
letin and Northwest Trade.
Age Of Honesty.
"Will you sell me ride on your
communication ticket to Lovelyburg?"
asked the stranger on the suburban
train Of the regular passenger, whose
status is shown by the packages With
which he is surrounded.