The Ketchikan miner., 1909-03-20
Mail Order Business
 ys. Your Towns Good

We wonder if the men or womer who have contracted the mail order shopping habit have ever stopped tc think of the actual crime they are committing-of the dire and dreadful consequences of their act upon the community in which they reside; oi the evil effects which tend to seriously l injure their own children, their neigh bors and themselves.
 | If you have never thought upon the subject. it is time to do so. If you have never before realized what this habit-this pernicious habit-means to a community, you need but look about you now.
 You have personal pride in your community, and you point with pleas ure to its growth, but you have nc right to any credit for that growth ol mprovement-you have done all in your power to reduce real estate values, to reduce the amount of taxes collect ed, to reduce the number of teachers employed in your schools, and their salaries as well. You have prevented many young man and young woman from getting employment at home You have driven out of your town and community good workmen; you have striven diligently to keep down real estate values: you have reduced rents aud prevented the painting of houses and the general upkeep of the town. You have stolen from the charities, the hospitals, the poor of your town.
 You have no right to enjoy the soci ety of the community in which you reside; you are an interloper; the mire and mud on the wheels of pro- gress are a greater menace to your town than the yellow peril: you arc the Chinaman of your community -ht gets all the dollars out of a town he can and then takes them out of the country. So do you. II he emperils the country by cheap labor, you en- courage cheap labor and make monopo- ly possible by your support of it.
 There are so many other evils atten- dant upon that of sending money to mail order houses for articles which should be purchased at home that it would take a long time to enumerate them. Probably not the least of these is that ''sneakyn, dog-in the-inanger feeling of a mail order fiend must have from the methods he employs to keep his fellow townsmen from learning what he is doing.
 Ever notice that sort of downcast look the mail order bushwacker gets? It is especially noticeable when he goes into home store for something he has forgotten to send for or be- cause he wants credit. The mail ordel house wouldn't credit him for a cents worth of goods if he was starving.
 Don't you think now you had better deal at home?
 Wouldn't you feel better? Of course Nou WOulQ. Cu COulC lIGU HULL AOilt head up in the community in which you reside: you would be aiding in the upbuilding of your home interests . you would he man among men, a woman among women-an honored anG respected citizen.
 Inquire the price of goods of your merchant: show him your mail order catalogue and be confidential with him :: treat him as a man face to face: pay him cash as you pay the mail order houses, and our word for it, at the end of the year you would be better off: your town would be busier and better and you will enjoy tEe feeling of an honest citizen doing his duty. he able to look every man square in the face-no longer sneak, a traitol pr Chinaman. Mail Order Review.