The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1911-01-13

corporations ill-ftting and badly-wearing
garments, made in dingy tenement
houses or in unhealthful factories, under
the tyranny Of those who employ falter-
ing women and hollow-eyed child labor
to build colossal warehouses and gilt
tering palaces.
While we gladfully break lance for
such local merchants who cherish noble
ideals Of leading a sound and reputable
life as good citizens Of our section, never
theless we cannot refrain from sounding
a timely keynote of warning to these
unfair men in any business who drive
the local trade into despair by over
charging the public, for nothing de-
stroys the confidence in local business
methods more, as if one or the other
merchant overchages his customers.
Let all of our home merchants decide to
keep the watchfres of business in Che
Ian county forever burning by charging
only fair and just prices for their wares,
and thus keep the trade and the money
at home!
For the piano business, in particular,
we want to plead for justice. No glib
tongued, dude-like salesman who rep
resents big piano trust magnate from
far away can be trusted, as his boss is
drone who has to use extravagant meth
DDS to sell pianos in Chelan county.
Count the $40 per week Salesman's
travelling expenses and his peculiar ex-
: ploitations, and then ask yourselves if
the outsider or Micheps Music Store is
entitled to the home piano trade. do
not go to Seattle, Tacoma, nor to Port
land or San Francisco for piano sales;
hence, let the gluttons of San Francisco
do their business in San Francisco, and
let the certificate frauds from Seattle re-
frain from trying to humbug the people
in Chelan county, The fake certificate
liars and the smooth extortionists of the
various piano trusts have made hellish
vanity fair out of the piano business.
People have been robbed by the piano
sharks, and actually thanked these I'M
principled thieves for robbing them!
Humbug pianos are now standing in the
homes of some ladies who think that
their instruments are masterpieces Of
tone and construction!
We propose to end this Babel of piano
deception by unfurling our banner of
square dealing in our home county,
where we live and stay, and by promis-
, ing that we do not belong to the hys-
+ terical fakirs that must sell pianos, even
when they sacrifice their honor, if they
r ever had any, by doing so! We strive
r to maintain decent reputation by ask
| ing just and righteous proft-no more,
7 no less!
r We would rather see our nice, modern
structure a prey of flames or the wreck
: age of a flood than desecrate this temple
: of music by lowering our business stand
: ard or jeopardizing our fixed maxims of
: square dealings. Rather would I die in
, poorhouse and be honest than live in a
palace and be dishonest
r In order to give the broadcast public
' expression to our views as to clean
= methods in our line of business, we do
} hereby invite all OF our friends in Chelan
! county, of every town and country dis
| trict, the people of Wenatchee, Chelan,
: Leavenworth, Cashmere, Lakeside, Mon
S itor, Peshastin, Entiat, Malaga, and
: everywhere in this North Central section
t of Washington, to come and rejoice with
, US on the 10th day Of January, 1911, as
the formal day of opening of Micheps
} Music Store in Chelan county, the only
r music store in the county not in the
: hands of plutocratic and monopolizing
: piano trust, and also the only music store
4 owned by man and lady who are
! citizens and residents of Chelan county.
; This formal opening of our store means
combat, warfare against the piano
! trusts of the Pacific coast and, as far as
= we are concerned, our policy shall be
! mo quarter for the piano trust''; but
our methods Of battle must be clean and
= filled with character, not with the tricks
and the receptions of the certificate
| swindlers who have already fooled hun
dreds of our innocent people!
We want our men, women and child
rem to visit US on the 10th day of January,
1911, as this day marks the home rule
career of piano and general music store
of our county of Chelan, and teaches the
piano trusts the one vital lesson-that
Chelan county can forever do without
: the exploiting schemes of the outside
piano trusts, who have become menace
and nuisance in the eyes Of our awak
ening and vigilant public!
May the ever loyal spirit and the good
will of our population OF Chelan county
surround us, just as we wish that the
spirits of such giants of music as Mozart,
Beethoven, Rubinstein, List, Mendels-
sohn, Mascagni, may forever reverberate
thru the instruments that we sell-the
high-grade Baldwin and other pianos,
and the peerless Edison monographs
and records, besides all string instru-
ments, brass and reed instruments, sheet