Graham guardian., 1909-08-06

spent more money than gO0Q guar
anteed engine would cost laid down
from the local dealer, he becomes
disgusted and tells his neighbors
that gasoline engines are no good.
The real reason for the failure of
the engine to do its work lies in the
fact that the mail order house lied
in its description given in its beau,
tifully illustrated catalogue, and in.
stead of being three-horse power il
was two and a half, and maybe only
two-horse power.
The same thing occurs to the in,
dividual who sends away for his
shoes, his clothes and for apparel
for his wife and children. The
goods he receives is not up to the
kind described in the catalogue and
he has been deceived.
The farmer or any other individ-
ual who sends away for machinery
or merchandise of any kind, takes q
big risk. In nearly every instance
he finds that he has been buncoed
and also that he has no redress
He cannot make the dealer or job.
ber in Chicago take the goods back
He is up against loss which should
teach him lesson.
One thing our people should
think of when ordering merchandise
of any kind away from home, is
that every dollar sent to Kansas
City, Chicago, st. Louis, or any
other outside point, is lost forever
and that their money is benefittine
some other city, yet that money is
earned here, and should be spent
here.
The reason why the Gila Valley
farmer gets high price for his hay
and other farm products is because
the enterprising local merchant
creates the market and the price fol
him. The mail order house which
receives his money for inferior
goods which he selects out of it!
catalogue, does not and would no
help him to sell his farm products
neither does it or would it create /;
market for him to dispose of wha
he has to sell at a profit. The mai
order house is looking for suckers
and is not in business to help anyone
but its firm members or stockhold
ers, and these mail order houses are
paying large dividends from the
money received from the easy
ones" among the farmers and Other
hard working people of this com
munity and other places.
Another thing our people shoulc
bear in mind whenever they are
tempted by the low prices quoted
in the catalogues of mail ordel
houses, and that is, what are tn,
conditions under which the EN-
ployees of these places work? Ii
nine cases out of ten, their EN-
ployees are the poorest paid anC
work the longest number of hour
each day. They treat them as 4
they were slaves or menials of thu
lowest order. For being five min
utes late in the morning, cause(
probably by being up all night will
a sick father, mother, brother o
sister, they are docked a who'll
hours time in their wages, and com
PEELED to work the balance of tn
hour for which they are not paid.
The mean and despicable method
used by these mail order houses to
ward their employees is know
everywhere, and has been the caus
of disastrous strikes in Chicago an
other cities.
| On the other hand, the employee
in the stores of Stafford and othe
valley towns receive higher wage
, and have a shorter workday an
. better working conditions all aroun
than the same class of employees
the stores of Chicago, st. Louis an
, other large cities. Mechanics al
also better paid for a shorter worl
, day.
The people of the Gila Vale
J should try and realize these col
y ditions as they exist here and