Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1911-07-06


Beiviaere street and Massachusetts
avenue offers $l75 funeral for SIS.
Besides supplying everything that
Graham supplies he assures bereaved
families that they viii be cared for
by directors who are men OF their
own religious denominations A
more aggressive advertising unlertak-
er is Poe. l474 Washington street
Vie denounces the high cost OF dy-
ing in scathing terms and challenges
the funeral trust to show one in
stance Of a funeral they have con-
Quoted at a just price within the
past / o years No wonder the clergy.
the magazines and the newspapers"
he continues. "are at last beginning
to cry that the high cost OF dying
must STOP The system of robbing the
living for the sake of the dead must
cease" Poe gives a magnificent SIS
casket for $40 and a complete SITS
funeral for SIS, a saving of 500.
So far as a mourning public can
discover with the naked eye these
un1ertakers are applying depart
ment store methods to their grew
some business II that were true
there would be no complaint but It
IS the installment furniture and
credit clothing houses that those
wideawake undertakers emulate
They only pretend to sell collins
cheap and conduct funerals at half
trust prices. Local undertakers
probably get heir caskets from the
same source, but whether thew do or
do not has nothing to do with this
story The point ! make is that
when a sorrowing member of dead
mans family goes TO the undertaken
be she the grieving widow or heart
broken daughter or sad son--thq
same trimming process Is applied.
In such circumstances the victims
are easier to defraud than II the
comfort of a home or new clothing
were involved. and the cruelty is in
tensified a thousand times
IF woman who desires to give
her husband a decent burial but must
think OF the amount Of money IT Is
going to cost. ATTEMPTS to take adj
vantage of the bargain price adver-
tised, she is at once made ashamed
OF herself Before arrangements are
completed she is persuaded to pay
more than any legitimate under
taker would charge her without the
+ feeling that her loved one Is going
to receive what she contracts to pay
for. and. as matter Of fact, she
seldom receives anything like fair
deal
Now. says c. NJ Peck in News
paperdom. the Lord knows that in a
case Of life and death-or with less
provocation-I would not hesitate
TO put powder into a safe OF indulge
in any kind OF pleasant assassination.
1t would be a pleasure TO apply a
few feet OF gas pipe TO man with
money In a dark alley. I would cast
scruples to the four winds II neces-
sitv urged e., and be rs dishonest as
hell II II was good policy; but l can
not conceive myself sinking TO the
miserable depths of depravity al
ready reached by the average under
taker
The champion mean men Of the
world must hand their medals over
to these vultures, and the devil
must devise some new and fearful
punishment for them In the hereaf-
ter
or all the despicable and contemp-
tible businesses under the sun-of all
the downright scurrihty practiced on
this earth-of all the downright lam
entable debasement have ever
heard of-of all the outrageous, de-
composed skullduggery recorded in
business annals-of all the shameful
and abject vileness that has ever
been brought to my attentlon-the
usual methods OF the average under
taker eclipse anything ever perpetrat-
er.