The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1906-11-15
THE WEEKLY TELEGRAM.
BUY AT HOME.

Nothing is more opportune at this
season, the beginning Of the holiday
time Of the year, than a few
thoughts on patronizins home mer-
chants, and this, of course, leads the
mind at once to the mail order busl-
ness, which in some communities is
50 injurious to home merchants and
50 detrimental to all home interests,
since one home interest depends on
all other home Interests.
The mail order business is the
quack doctor Of commerce. 1t prom
ises much and guarantees nothing.
Like patent medicine lie diree-
tons are always on the inside and
one has to buy nan-returnable
package before one can ind out
what they are.
No mail order hoase helped to
build the little white school in the
district or turnpike Iae road past
ones door No mai orler house
took one by the hand when in dis
tress. No mail order douse ever
sold one goods and spent every cent
Of its profits in the immunity
where the people could ct it all
back again.
All the mail order houses in
Christendom would moi increase the
value Of ones properly and cent.
They are parasites TO whom life is.
only possible as long as they can
suck blood out of the communities,
to the upbuilding of which they
contribute nothing. They create no
local market for the products one
has for sale. They have no prop
erty in the county which can be as
sessed to help bear The burden Of
taxation.
The local dealer stands ready to
duplicate every offer so seductively
set forth in the catalogues of mail
order houses and more. He will
trump the best trick the mail order
house ever played if one will put
down spot cash and accept from him
a class of goods devoid Of respect
able ancestry, and upon which no
reputable manufacture will place
his name. He can sell cheap
goods, too, if one will buy them
fro nahim with ones ewes shut.
Honestly, now, don't YOU really
pat yourself on the back when YOU
spend your money in such way
that in supplying your own wants
YOU help build up the neishborhood
in whiehsou ive2 OF course YOU do.
and you act on that idea yourself,
but the trouble is y0S don't talk it
u TO- your friends
Stand bv the ocal or as he
stands By you witE h me. skill,
and his money. He, to build
up the community az makes it
abetter place for you b 10 i've.
His own success depends Oh your
prosperity. he has no use for
Understandable Junk. he
swears by the goods branded with
the trademark of the most skillful
manufacturers on earth Goods the
like of which no Other generation
ever say, and he has an abiding faith
IN the theory that the very best
articles in all the world today are
none too good for the major general
Of all industries-the american
citizen.
Any mail order proposition takes
the legitimate profits, which would
otherwise go to your dealer and
benefit you and your immunity.
and invests it in a way lHt does not
benefit YOU directly Or ad.rectly.
When YOU buy from our local
dealer and have his suar8ntee, his
reputation is at stake in our COM
munity and you can wal ght into
his place of business and now YOU
will get fair Treatment IMMEDIATE
consideration and Square deal.s
Not % with a mail ORR PROPOSE
lion where you have med your
name to an innocent looang agree
ment inwhich you are led % believe
everything is in your favor and the
other fellow takes all The risk or
where you pay your money n ad-
vance either to the shipper direct
or in trust with bank express or
freight agent. Always remember
one thing that the other iellow, "a
stranger to you, is looking out for
himself and in case You are dissatis-
fed and want your money back you
find out that there are Conditions