Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-01-18
NVENIlON ADJOURNS
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North Dakota that they are enjoyed
and overlooking with good fellowship
and that being true, of course there
isn't apt to be any delay of that kind
/ am firm believer in organization
and in associations and this is the
only way by which we can get the
greatest good out of any line or out OF
any calling. Ia
I believe that all engaged in trade
in the different lines of industry
should join in an association and
ought to organize. do not mean by
that that they ought to organize fol
the purpose of impeding or hindering
trade or for the purpose of destroying
competition, but for the purpose of in
creasing trade and for the purpose OF
stimulating competition. BY your
meetings here, at your annual meet.
ings or wherever you may meet, you
can mingle with the different mer-
chants throughout the state. There
you are able to gain the experience of
those engaged in different lines. Not
only that but it enables you to also
present to the legislature your views
upon legislation. The merchants
ought to be the best qualified for that
purpose. They ought to be best quail
fed to suggest laws and remedies
which would be beneficial to the asso-
citation and to the members of the
association, and if such laws are
needed, and if they are passed, they
will be beneficial to the people of this
state.
I believe that the greatest menace
to the welfare and prosperity Of the
local merchant is the catalogue house
or the catalogue houses in the large
cities. The local merchant con.
tributes to the welfare of the com
munity in which he resides. He pays
his taxes and supports the state and
the village or. city where he lives
He is the builder of that locality and
he is one Of ourselves. He endures
with us the privations and incon
;veniences of our rural villages and
believe in justice and in right as he
ought to receive the business anG
trade in his line in the vicinity where
he resides; while the proprietor O.
the catalogue house, or the stock
holder resides in some eastern metro
polls. If he pays any taxes 1t goes tx
build up and support a place in which
the rural customer has no special in
terest. And on account of the profit:
the business that these catalogue
houses obtain throughout the rura
districts. the proprietors and stock
holders are able to live in luxury
This is an evil in many different ways
j do not know whether the retail mer
chant is to blame for this or not, but
1T is a proposition that is staring the
retail merchants of this state anG
nearly every other agricultural state
in the face, and something ought to be
done to remedy it. ~ 0.
I do not believe that it avails the
local retail dealer anything to use
some of the advertisements that we
frequently see in newspapers CRITICS
ing catalogue houses because in that
way you bring to the notice Of the
public the catalogue house, and you
give them that for which they are
looking, namely, advertising.
believe that you ought to present
to your customers, and to your people
the merits Of your goods. I believe
in legitimate advertising, showing to
the people what you have to offer and
4 by a proper system of advertising in
newspapers and in other ways, bring
ing to the notice Of the public the
qualities Of your goods. believe
that the retail dealer right here In
Bismarck or anywhere else in the
state of North Dakota is capable OF
competing with the catalogue houses
upon the same quality of goods. II
is the volume of business that counts