The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-04-28
Look Out for the Money
That Goes Out for a
" ak and Never
Comes Back Again

comes Back. Again
By J. R. HAMILTON
ooK out for the dollar that saxs. .1zz ;st ot ~,
"ot ana stroll DOZEN the road q little aDap,e 80.
. Look out for the dollar that oosens ifs ooodhv
VI your myers and says, "Ve 1ong I see uoal
But most of all look for that shrewd eyed dollar
1t qu1ey packs its grip takes the night train for
N"1sas N'iy or Chicago New York.
u "aoe @ arrest that dollar if it's last thing on
treasury. '10'l '0'-
"nen you Meet that dollar On State Street or Broad
% ask - 10 come back, it @Rihs at you with it's hat
the sae OF its head and says hy should oont to come
o"o" 20 Yos" little old jerkaater toon?"
When you tell it how badly you need at home;. it
fooks at you insolently and says
"Didm't give Yau vol1e 1ecevedg Didn't send vou
back some groceries chem got toavg Didn't saue yo
"ttte money on cook soVe and furniture? What
business IS II OF prefer ve Chicago nastead
OF oa0oy aosom therey Haven't you got the goods The
'0hat do yow oomt wh me9 0h gov like mig company do
yo~y We should haze thought of that before eoet
aa0ay"
This is good little fairy story, ladies' gentemen
"a fine Little fairy story for your children YOU
before to- Sleep For after the children who
are going to suffer every time your FRIEND dollar packs
it's little grip and goes away.
And there are tsco hundred and fifty millions these
dollars leaving their Home communities every year and
going up into the big cities to live.
on, you think you have raised Cain when you have
saved fifty cents cook stove toenty dollars
Neo YORK;
Well, you hare if that's any pleasure to YOU Nopp
haze raised particular Cuiu!
Here is what you have done, if you to know:
rs You heys DESTROYED the commun
h@Ts a5ysa n @
own You DESTROYED
Tx with back his city his
% Va 6s1s ss1
crowded fsee 9sSs On ee Stools
big the " pennies those
Yes you have been raising Cain all right No question:
about that And you'll know how much Cain you
have been raising until you take go
those great big cities where you sent your dollar
your children and the children hundreds of thousands
of others working paeaced and holloweed for and
eight dollars week. like the poor commercial slaves that
they because gov robbed them of uncertainties that
might haze been theirs in gour midst
with his rlghttul share of that two hundred and fifty
million dollars yoe boy might have chance to start
little factory out the edge Of this open up
little sore> He might have planned some real of
engineering He might have started little irrigation
pany Yes, there hundred things he might have
with his share Or your daughter married
other boy that did these things your big wholesome
community interest would have been held intact
DO you think the country is being robbed of it's boys
and girls because they at to COZ Do you think they
getting out because they qoan,t to get out?
No! Fen thousand times non They are being kicked
ont OF their communities by you delivered into
mercal slavery by the doarsy ou send away.
On, it's a wonderful thing, this peering cata-
rogue ana saving tWehty*e cents! But 1t is robbng these
United States OF every bit of Community interest they
had It's destroying every local Center just thoroughly
and effectively as if YOU put poison in the wells.
When you look into your big Metropolitan papers
Sunday and see celmn after column the stories of boys
and girls Who have been driven to the city and have paid
the ys price, how proud you must feel of being the real
of il all,
You never thought of that side Of it, did you? No. and
these big Mail Order Houses would gladly million
dollars cash # mo5ody else had thought ofit !
Remember this: America became great nation not
because became democracy but because already had
become nation of po,verf,z indviduaz communities
1t hasn't been so long ago when cargo of English tea
went into the Boston Harbor because had determined
to be community within ourselves.
1t is about time that a carload of Mail Order Cato-
loges went into the in order that may protect
Communities for ourselves.