Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-11-04

same size as the one my father
used to read from in old Missouri.
But as / come a little nearer, +
notice that 1t is not bound just
exactly like that old book. AS |
come a little nearer still, 1t
doesn't look quite familiar and |
lean over to read the title. Sears
Roebuck the farmers Bible.
The call to the Far Country.
DO you know, friends. that this
call to the far country meant that
last year the mail order houses OF
Chicago sold two hundred and
forty-eight million dollars worth
of goods. Every dollar Of II came
from outside the city Of Chicago.
for Chicago people do not trade
with the mail order houses.
Every dollar of it came from the
till of some local merchant in
some little town like yours. It
would have taken twelve thou
sand four hundred dollars worth
Iof business each to have done
what the mail order houses OF
Chicago did last year. and we are
taking our money from our own
town, from the till of our neigh
Dor and friend, who pays taxes
and helps to support our schools
and churches to dump into
Chicago, to build up i new class
of millionaires. IL we give the
mail order boys q few more years.
they will push old john d. Rookie
feller and young j. Pierpont
Morgan both off the shelf. Dick
Sears, a Minnesota boy, founder
and president Of the Sears Il Roe
buck company, made more money
than he knew what to do with;
retired from the firm; built him q
beautiful mansion on Lake Michi-
gan; died last year worth twenty
six millions of dollars. Mont
gomery Ward died the richest
man in the state of Illinois.
julius Rosenwald, now president
of the s-Roebuck Co, paid
last year an income tax on a
million three hundred and ten
thousand dollars the biggest in
come tax of any man In the city
of Chicago, the second richest
city in the Nation. Thus we
take our money from our friend
and neighbor and from our town
dump it into Chicago to build up
a new class Of millionaires to
build marble palaces and gildeG
yachts and to marry their daug-
ters to dukes and dukelets and
counts and no counts of Europe.
You who have read Hugo's
wonderful story, the toilers of the
Sea, will remember how Gilliatt,
the hero Of the story, in attempt
ing to take the machinery from
the vessel wrecked between the
rocks, at last ran out of food and
i in order to subsist, climbed down
the rocks into a dark cavern to
hunt for shell-fish. One day
while hunting for food, waist
deep in water, he felt a very
Shiny serpent around his body.
Then a second, a third, fourth
and fifth, a sixth, seventh one
his legs were tied together =
one arm to his side - one
hand was free in which he
held a knife. He knew that he
was in the grasp of a devil-fish,
the monster of the sea and that
there was but one vital spot to
strike the head of the monster.
He waited for the moment while
his life blood was being sucked
away he struck the vital spot
and the devil fish fell dead at his
feet. Down there in the dark
cavern beneath the den Of the
devil fish he found it's victims,
the bones of men and animals.
So the mail order system has
reached its tentacles into the re-
motest corners of this nation,
sucking the life's blood from
thousands of little towns and
f a