Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1913-01-11

the people of his community to have
more money to spend, thereby max
ing 1t possible for him to do a bet
ter and more profitable business.
This Is the basis Of what We have
to say on this subject. This Is the
outlining of the community condition.
In our large cities. and SO far az
it touches the manufacturer. In some
Of our Hmsllar cities We find insti-
buttons comnl,,ly known as mail-or-
der houses. concerns selling direct to
the consun as public. aud ,ney do
their business entirely through the
mails. One OF these immense con-
Germs in Cnicaso does business In al
most every ham,et and town and con
munity ano city in the entire United
States.
1t Is possible for this Chicago con-
Germ, that has uow grown until II
counts its millions by the dozens
upon dozens, 10 get Its business
largely because the community from
which they get 1t has been made
prosperous, or more prosperous. be-
cause Of the work and expense we
have enumerated at the beginning of
this article The more people have
prospere:. the more none, they have
TO spend, both at home and abroad.
Because the farmer raises seventy
bushels of corn where he formerly
raised sixty, this Chicago concern
steps in and derives the benefit. The
people are more intelligent than they
formerly were; the concern doing
business with the consumer by mail,
steps in and takes the advantage OF
this and reaps part Of tho bene-
fit.
True, this concern pays taxes In
Chicago, but it should be remember
ed that very, very large portion
of the goods they sell to the con-
sumner never sees Chicago, and no
one has ever paid one cent of taxes
on them. For instance, cream sep
wagons, farm machinery and
heavy articles Of all kinds and classes
are shipped direct from the factory
and no one pays any taxes on these
goods. They 60 into the community
into your community, II you please,
where you have paid your money for
the development and reap the bene-
lit of the work you have done.
We want the reader to notice,
low, that these concerns selling di.
rect to the consumer by mail, In no
way contribute to the welfare, orl
The building up, or developing Of the
They do not pay one
cent taxes, they pay no license, they
nothing, but are made
'ich because of the conditions which
rave been brought about by the
people Of your community.
1t Is principle of economics, and
n fact, in the lives of people gener-
lily, that the person who receives |
he benefit from any existing condi-
ion, should be made to contribute |
o the maintaining Of this benefit. |
We say to the gas company, the light
ng company, the street car comp
my, that we have built city or
! town, and ii you want to come in
md reap the benefit of this exist
ng condition that we have put our
money and our life's time into de.
clipping, you must contribute from
our income.
In many cities and towns, we re-
uire these concerns to report month.
Y, or semi-annually, or annually, to
'ur city councils, as to what their
ncome has been from our community
md then we require them to pay
certain percent of this income In.
O our public treasury. This Ia just
md right, but we allow the concern
elling direct to the consumer by
nail to come into the same city, the
anne town, the same community and
cap the benefits without being re-
Iuired to pay back one cent, not
me single penny toward the main
aiming of the community.
The Journal does not hesitate at
III in making the statement that this
s unjust, unfair, uneconomic, and
hat our Interstate commerce laws
hould be so amended that each
tate could have the power, and
through the state, each county could
ave the power to require these con-
erns to bear their share Of the bur-
len.
Continued next week)