Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1910-06-02
Mail Order Houses Have
No Interest in Our
Home Cities.
THEY DON'T BUILD
OUR COUNTY ROADS
Our Home Business Men
Are the Boys" Who
Come to the Front
For Wallowa.

Enterprise and the people sur
rounding perhaps are not in the Gus
tom of patronizing the Chicago al
Kansas City mail order houses. For
this, they are to be congratulated.
But if now and then an individual
sends money out of the commun-
ity, to the detriment of every insti-
tuition and individual of the COM
munity. it is lamentable.
The Chicago mail house is big
institution. Its object is to remove
from its path and obliterate every
merchant in Wallowa county. 1t has
but little capital actually invested,
as compared to the vast displays of
prices and merchandise in it's stu
2eldous catalogues. Any one with
out dollar invested in merchandise
can launch into the mail order busi-
ness. Simply by getting terms for
big job-lots from the manufacturers
of the country, and getting the mon
ey in advance from you, anybody
could build up tremendously luucra
tive business, and get rich. Thus
mail order houses do not pay the
taxes which their extensive volume
of business would indicate and should
compel.
By no means do mail order hous-
es pay any taxes for you. They do
not deposit in your banks. They
do not build court houses and city
halls for Enterprise. They never
spend a cent to make roads better
in Wallowa county. They do not
erect stone buildings here, and ad-
vance the growth of your beautiful
city and your great county. They
do not build nor maintain your pub
lie schools. They do not care wheth-
er you have schools for your blessed
little babies and your glorious youth
or not. They have no thought what
ever for you nor about you, except
as they can grab your money and
send you some ''stuff" for it. to
give the deal the appearance of a
legitimate business transaction. They
do not fly to you in your sorrow,
and willingly sacrifice time and
money and labor in your behalf, try
ing to console you for the loss you
have suffered. Not a single dollar
of all the millions of dollars their
drag-net brings from the world to
them, is expended in planting even
shade tree to shield your chill
dren from @he sun. Their goods are
usually the cheapest sort that can
be made and bought and sold as
bargains And when you send out
of your community ten dollars for
some of this cheap" stuff, the mail
order house figuratively gets Car
negie medal and you get it in the
neck about ten dollars worth.
Your Home Man.
But here is your home business
maxwell known to you. He can't
Skin you one day and run away
the next. You know where to find
him, if you are dissatisfied with the
goods he sells you. His whole pres
ent and future stand back of every
business deal he makes with you.
He can't dodge his taxes by simp-
ly taking your money, sending 1t
to the manufacturers, and getting
goods for you then letting you
.squirm If you don't like the goods.
He contributes to your bank, to
your court house, to your school
buildings and schools, to your roads,
to your bridges and drains, to your
various enterprises, and he tries
to make living while doing 1t. He
is the first TO be called upon, when. a
new church edi.ice Is to be erect
| ed. He comes to the front with
good money and labor and time when
public institution Is needed. He
eyects business blocks and improves
your city. He Is laboring for him
self, but his labors mean the devel-
opment and the upbuilding of every
legitimate thing in his county
And he is vastly entitled to your
trade.
The Old Plea.
The mail order house makes the
prduse claim that you can get
your money back on demand, If
you are not satisfied with the goods.
Try 1t, sometime. When reading
the mail order catalogue, you are
led to believe that the mail order
house is a wonderful elemoseaary in
stitution of some sort, fairly palpi-
tating with the joy of handing your
money back ON demand. But it