The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1915-11-26
Only Interest of Octopus is Farmer
Customers MOney---Mail Order
Houses Consumed With SelGshness.

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Malinformation is more hopeless than
nOninformadon. for error Is always
more hopeless than ignorance.
Ignorance is blank sheet on which
we may write. but error Is a scribhled
one from which we must first erase.
Ignorance IL cOntented to stand still
with her back to the truth. hut error
Is more presumptuous and proceeds in
the wrong direction Ignorance has no
light, but error has farther to 60 be
fore she can arrive at truth than has
ignorance.
So that these mail order traders may
not plead ignorance in extenuation Of
their offenSe We give below cate
gorical list OF things which the mail
order houses do not do. We trust they
will prove eye openers to the unwlse.
What Catalogue Houses Do Not Do.
The retail catalogue houses do not
buy the farmers produce
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They do not buy the farmers stock
and hogs.
They do not help to educate the
farmers children.
They do not pay any taxes in your
community.
They do not help support your
schools, churches and charitable insti.
tutiOnS
They do not encourage the farmers
boy or young men In small cities to
engage in business.
They DON'T Build Your Roads.
They do not help to build your roads
or care for your streets.
They do not sell you as good grade
If goods as you can buy In your own
lone town
They do not show you goods before
'ou pay for them.
They do not deliver promptly goods
hat you buy from them.
They do not advocate the building
p of country towns.
They do not oppose the centraliza.
on of business In the large cities.
They do not, IN return for the farm
r consumers trade the farmer who
uys their clothing. household goods.
arm implements. etc. = buy the farm.
r's butter. eggs. cheese. grain and
rood.
They do not buy your grain. butter.
heese and stock from pictures and
ay In advance the same as you do
They do not buy anything from the
armer or consumer from picture. |
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They do not spend dollar Of their
money With the farmer or consumer
They never spend n dollar with your
Dcai merchant
They do not furnish employment TO
single resident Of your community
They'll Not Give You Credit
They do not extend to y0u cre,lit. as
Oes the local merchant when yOu are
ard up,
They do not Sympathi7e with yOu at
time when Won nave sickness 10 your
amily
They do not synpathize with you
Vhen your wife or children are taken
rom you
They do not want to see your local
merchant prosper In business.
They do not do anything for any
Ody except themselves.
DOes the small ,.ity. town or village
yer ace dollar OF their money!
Like . Huge Octopus.
The above. 1t would seem. shows a
Ood and sufficient number Of reasons I
Vhy this mail order octopus should be
1T severely alone BY both the farmer
nd the residents OF small cities and
owns who have thonghtleSsly lent Il
heir patronage,
II Ia spreading ont over the land,
ally gaining In strength and magni.
nde and gradually but surely sappine
be lifeblOOd of the small communities.
educing property values. endangering
)cal investments and causing con.
ition Of chaos and misery everywhere
II is monster OF local destruction.
his retail catalogue house. and we re-
ret TO say that Its growth is entirely
ne to the susceptibility OF the farm:
rs and residents Of small towns who
atronize II extensively 70 their own
naDcial injury.
OOD THINGS TO EAT AT GISH's
restaurant: soft drinks and ica