The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1911-01-20

would be glad TO refuse the catalogues
table room in my house. want my
/ fsmily to have all the finery and gew-
ghws we can afford, but | want them
to go to the home merchant to buy
1t, and not give their trade to some
one that has no other interest than to
take our money.
BY standing by our home merchants
we are standing by each other. and
by standing by each other, and by
standing by each other We will thrive
and prosper together. Is it 10 our in
terest to build up great houses in dis
tant cities. make the broad asser-
ton that while some things on the
surface may seem cheaper than the
prices of our home merchant, after
we have scrimped ourselves to get the
cash and paid freight and other
charges, and paid for things we do
not need because they seem cheap,
we are actually out of pocket; we are
simply gulled by the cormorants. II
we keep depressing and destroying
our home merchants, we will find af-
ter lifetime that our farms are in
an isolated region and have not in
creased in value as they would If we
had made a market at our very door.
/ know too well the selfis hness of
human nature to imagine for mo-
ment you would join in a crusade
against catalogue houses if it did not
appeal to your cupidity, When you
can make and save more money by
dealing with your own merchants than
the catalogue man you will buy at
home. 1t is fine thing to cut your
neighbours throat IL 1t puts money in
TO your pocket, bat when it comes to
cutting your own throat the induce
ment is not 80 tempting
Mary CHATS my wife, came to me
about Christmas time and said: "Tom,
l wish you would put money order
for So in this letter and mail it for me.
l want a new hat" So l took a few
dozen eggs and what butter we had
to town and sold them at Q cut rate
to the country merchant to get the
$s. II is true my wife made the but
ter. and thus in way was paying for
the hat, but she had not laid a single
egg and the overworked hens and
rooster, were the victim of q fiagrant
,aSnfidence game. And when the hat
came it was q caution to snakes. The
ribbons and flowers were not in har-
mony with my wife's complexion,
though she was mad enough when she
saw it to turn almost any color. Ifit
had come from home milliner it
would have been rejected at once but
the catalogue house had the $s and
there was no help for it. The whole
family agreed that it was money
thrown away. Even the dog barked
his dissent when he saw the thing and
was frightened into noisy protest.
OF course, this is only one instance,
but there are many others even more
distressing in their results.
/ know farmers who are always in
debt to their local merchants while
their cash has gone to the railroad
for freight bills and to the catalogue
houses for articles which do not rank
as either luxuries or necessities, but
simply as leg-pullers to gull the unso-
phisticated. How would you appreci-
ate selling your stock and products
on credit and the purchaser using his
money to buy similar articles i'm a
distant market for cash? Unless we
can stand together and refuse to build
up and develop this cormorant which
preys upon US we do not deserve to
have thriving towns for markets or
the advantages which always come
from being surrounded by business
community. We have it in our power
to help ourselves or to help the other
fellow. So far the other fellow seems
to have the advantage while we emu
late the role Of chumps with brilliant
sucsess.