The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1906-01-11
HARD KNOCKS FOR
MAIL ORDER HOUSE

MAIL UkUkh nUuNk
Why the Home Merchant Should
Have All Your Trade. Some
Very Pertinent Facts to Read
and Think About.
The following is from a recent ad
dress by J. J. Ryan, Secretary of
the Minnesota Grocers AS. ociation:
Why the farmer should allow bis
home market to 60 to decay is
beyond comprehension; because be
neveS sold or'never will sell dol
lars worth raised on a farm to a
catalog house. Farm produce, gen
orally, is sold to home market.
THE farmer who sends his money
away TO enrich other communities
in preference to his own, doesn t
realize the burdens he would have to
carry in supporting his churches.
educating his children and paving
taxes to keep up public institutions
if the business men were not there
to assist him. Every business in
stitution that he drives, or keeps
out of his town, adds to his burden
in the way of additional contri-
buttons for private institutions and
addition al taxes for public institu
tions and depreciation in the value
of his farm and what it produces.
II his clergyman calls on him for SO
in addition to his usual contribution
because the business man can no
longer afford to contribute the
catalog house pay it for him? Ii thu
tax collector calls on him for on adj
ditional $50 to educate the chiidren
ppport the poor and pay public ex-.
penses that was formerly paid by
business men whom he helped to
bankrupt by buying from these
catalog houses. will these cataog
houses pay it for him?''
The country merchant sells clean
legitimately made. guaran teed line
of goods, manufactured by we'll
known houses, under modern con-
ditions, bought from reliable Min
nesota jobbers who buy enormous
quantities. To compete with them
the catalog houses with hundreds
of thousands of dollars of advertis-
ng and store expenses every year,
must 90 into the cheapest market 10
The world to buy. 1t has been proven
chat the cigars cigarettes and tobac-
20 that some of them offer at a
,argain; are the product of che Gus
,idor. and the gutter-butts ofscigars
igaretts and discarded guilds of
1bacco made over. Much of the
heap coffee they advertise, is reked
1t of the debris and ashes of burned
lildings, and glazed with harmful
pcoctions. The clothing they often
IL is made in the so callcd i'sweat
tops" that we hear so much of In
DOR troubles. In all the large
ties are sections where large fam
IS live in single room where they
t, drink, work and sleep, and all
them together make less than a
liar a day. The Chicago Board of
9alth reported that contagious
leases and death turks ir these
rmentS.
rle groceries they sell are illegal
d filled with preservatives and
ring, and causes much of the
zach troubles we hear so much
70 prove what say is true, sub
t one OF the reports of the Min
s. ia Dairy and rood commission
), who has made an analysis,
lich is a follows:
COMMISSIONER SLATER S REPORT.
Current jelly-Sears, Roebuck &
J., Chicago-Clover leaf brand
boratory No I'll. Illegal. Sam
els a glucose compound, and is
t labeled DIS required by law.
Current jelly-Sears, Roebuck &
J., Chicago-Clover leaf brand.
sboratory No. go. Illegal. Sam
} is a glucose compound and not
)eled as required by law.
Chocolate-Laboratory No SO