The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-02-04
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particular kind of clothes they ma
wish may not be on the shelves @
the stores, and so long as people sen
away on the mail order plan for Ger
tain lines, nobody can afford to carr
stock. The man who wants to bu
something, no matter whether it b
a pair of socks or piano, or to bull,
and furnish house, should patroniz
the home dealer and thus give hin
sufficient volume of business to en-
able him to carry such stock as il
needed, and in this way the prices
II excessive can be reduced by tn,
law of competition without injurini
anybody. s-.
Premium Upon Dishonesty
The honest man and the dishonest
man do not meet in business upon the
same level under the present system
the rogue having the advantage
For example, A is an honest, indust-
rious farmer and raises the very best
potatoes he can. is a lazy unprin-
cipled fellow and raises potatoes of a
poorer quality, and lives better than
ATall summer, because he buys free
ly on time and in the fall owes large
account at the store. The manager
OF S.ie store is uneasy, and deter
mines to get something collected
from as soon as possible, while A,
who has been frugal, does not owe
so much. The dealer learns that B
has potatoes, and he urges him to
sell them and pay up. B brings in
load Of his inferior stuff, poor at
best, and poorly graded, and tries to
sell 1t to the shipper, and it is re-
fused on account of quality. He
takes the load to the store and offers
to turn 1t in on account, and the man
ager invites him to sell it to the po-
tato dealer and bring him the money
The rogue tells him they are not
buying today, or have no cars T.,
some other lie, and that unless he can
turn them in to the store on his ac-
count he will have to haul them back
home, and the result is the store
takes the Inferior stuff at the price
of good produce that day.
A comes along Offering to sell a
good quality at the same price, and
is refused on some pretext or other.
the real reason being that he isl
known to be an honest man, and that 1
he will find some way to pay his ac-
count without taking his produce.
The people about town telephone for
potatoes to be sent them for use,
and they get bad lot of potatoes,
though they read in the local papers
that we produce the best potatoes in
the world. Thus the house keeper
concludes that either the editor is a
liar or the merchant is sending her
Inferior goods and she discredits
them both. The rogue has paid his
bill, after fashion. the honest man
is discouraged at being Disseminated
against, and the merchant took bad
pay for his account. All of it is
wrong, and all are the victims of a
bad system.
ScOudrels Among Farmers
The farmer who sees his nieghbor
sacking up all kinds of potatoes,
clods and cobble stones and selling
to the merchant at top prices on ac-1
count, studies the causes leading up
to this easy success, and the next
year he buys freely on account, and
in the fall is Indifferent to the re- !
quests of the merchant for settle
ment, and now the merchant finds {
that he has two bad customers to deal
with instead of one as last year. The
same thing may be carried out with
other products besides those men, '
toned, and is carried on to the detri-
ment of all the customers of the store
that does such business.
The Butter Swindle
When the state enacted law to :
compel butter makers to label their i.
butter, 1t did much to protect the ?
persons who produce good article, .
but it did not prohibit the scoundrel
rom fleeing somebody who had con- :.
idence in him.
Butter commands better price in =
winter than in the, summer, and a
many people, who want the best but
er they can get, engage their butter =
If certain brand the year around, =
It say, % cents pound, that being :,
IN average price between 18 cents =
n summer and IS in winter. The :,
gets line of customers :,
o take C's butter regularly, and he :,
agrees some day in spring that he q
will take butter of c for the year at =
IS. cents a pound. makes lots of =
'utter the year around, and yet as y
odd weather comes on and at the Z,
ime that butter is worth 80 cents, :,
lie does not bring in so much. Fin y
lily, when the price reaches 35 cents, :,
learly all the cows 60 dry, and the q
olks who have been paying the ad- y
'anced price in hot weather, have to =
20 around the corner and buy C's
utter from some other dealer to
Vhom he is delivering the bulk of his
roduct at good price while he is
aking just little each week to the 4,
Merchant he agreed to sell his whole ~
nnual output to. One of our hotels a. 4,
hat engaged the product of a dairy h.
or the year, paid the average price w
or 1t all summer, and then in the !
all, could not get enough to amount r.
\ anything, and discovered the same of
KID of butter in, plenty on the w
MET at Shelley. The hotel is w
aging the winter price for butter or
nd takingS what they can get. ar
Now, we DO not mean that all but 10
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