The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-04-11
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Do you remember the sight unseen,
trade or swaps. Of boyheod. One Of ths
parties 70 the trHpsaction usually gp1
fhe srst Oft &t A. snd i y.sn''
usually TIE sne vho prcpossd tie deal,
was it? There's lot Of the same soy'
;,of sight unseen trading going on Today,
only nowadays it Is called buying BY
mail. 5'
Do you not feel like there 10 something
wrong when Q firm guarantees an 81. .o0
sewing machine for twenty years? What
does guarantee amount TO when you
DO not even know what company makes
the machine? What are you going to dc
in q few years when you send 70 the
city store Tor repairs for your crippled
orphan and receive the reply that il has
quit the sewing machine business OF
that the factory that made themschine
has failed? Will you sue Tor damages,
employing an attorney in Chicago OF
St.Louis to recover $11.00?-.
When you trade with me or any local
merchant you see the goods before you
pay for them and know precisely what
you are getting. When you buy from .
catalog house you Judge Of the quality
Of an article from the picture Of it, and
many Of you have been sorely dis
appointed when you received the goods.
When you trade with Us you have no
freight, express charges or boxes to pay
Tor, you get at home such quantity as
your needs require, you get the goods
when you need them, you get first class
goods at actual value, you see. the goods
before you pay for them. t
How many of you would think Of
buying a horse from catalog with =
cut of an aunimal with name underit?
Of course the catalog would say that the
horse was bright bay, weight 400 lb., t,
and so many hands high, free from
blemishes and offered at the cut price Of
$78. 96 because or a spot cash deal with
prominent stock farm. There is as much
reason in purchase of; that nature as
there is for you 70 buy carpet from q
certain catalog house at the cut price Of
% cents per yard in Chicago when yop
can get better grade from me for 80
cents per yard and see what you are
getting before you pay for it. This
money back if goods do not suit you,
looks good, but if list of those who
took what they did not want rather than
admit they had been swindled were
printed it would include every one who
does business with the catalog house.
No mail order house helped to build
the little red school house over on the
hill, or turnpiked the road past your
door. No mail order house ever took you
by the hand when you were in distress
and told you to let that little account
go until after harvest next year. No
mail order house ever sold you wagon
and spent every cent Of its profits right
in the .cummunity where you and your
neighbors could get i all BACK again:
No mail order house ever showed it's
patent leather shoes under your table
and rejoiced with you when you where
glad, or spoke encouraging words of
affection, or stood with uncovered head
beside the grave when your. children
died. i
No, the mail order house is after
money. Every dollar it gets its hand on
will be jerked out of Baraga County
forever. The mail order house may
bear upon its face the .senblance of
friendship, but no human heart beats
under its cloak of Hypocrisy. Semti-
ment to it is unknown. The Whole
institution s as cold and'bloodless as a
corpse. All the. mali 'drdet houses in
Christendom would. not increase the
value of your farm one cent. They are
parasites TO whom life is only possible
as long as they can suck the blood out
of the communities to the upbuilding Of
which they contribute nothing. They
create no local market for the product
you have for gale. They have no property
in our county (which can be assessed to
help bear our burdens of taxation
Your local dealer needs neither ad-
vocate nor defense. His methods rest
upon principales they have built up in
this. county system of internal com
merce which is the marvel and adj
imitation of the. world. His business is
legitimate becaus its success contributes
to the general prosperity OF the COM
munity that built it up. Il stand ready
TO duplicate every offer SO seductively
set forth in the catalpgs' Of mail order
houses, and more, will trump the best
trick the mail order house ever played
II you viii put down spot cash and accept
from me class Of goods devoid of
respectable ancestry, and upon which
no reputable manufacturer will place his
name. can sell cheap goods, too. If
yop win buy them from me with your
sSss shut. l a. hset the best idets
sser made By mair order house e you