The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1910-05-28
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 anu luc peUple Sui-
rounding perhaps are not I'M the Gus
tom of patronizing the Chicago a;
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 a big
institution. It's 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 its stu
pendous catalogues. Any one with
out a dollar invested I'M 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, nybody
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 single dollar
of all the millions OF dollars their
drag-net brings from the world to
them, is expended in planting even
a shade tree to shield your chill
.dren from the 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 /,
to the manufacturers, and getting
goods for you then letting you
squirm II you don't like the goods
He contributes to your bank, tc
your court house, to your schoo
buildings and schools, to your roads
to your bridges and drains, to your
various enterprises, and he tries
to make living while doing it. He
Is the first to be called upon when 8
new church edisice is to be erect
ed. He comes to the front with
good money and labor and time whe
a public institution Is needed. HI
erects business blocks and improves
your city. He Is laboring for him
self, but his labors mean the devel
opment and the upbuilding Of ever!
legitimate thing in his county
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