The Nevada County picayune., 1917-10-18
THE BUY AT HOME DEPARTMENT.
''GROSS ERROR TO ORDER BY MAIL"
PLAIN FACTS ABOUT TRADE.

Only Interest Of Octopus Is Farmer Customers Money--Growth Due to Suscepti ibility Of Persons In Small Communities = Mail Order Houses Consumed With Selfshness. [Copyrighted 1914. hy Thomas suilivan.l Error Is not Il fGut Of our knowl- edge, but mistake of our judgment 1t is almost as diL1icult t1 make man unearu his errors as hls Knowledge. Malinformation Is more hopeless than nonlDformauon. for error Is always more hopeless than ignorance
 Ignorance ts Il biauk shcet on which we may write, but error Is Il scrubbed one from which we must first erase.
 Ignorance k eonteuted to stand still with her back to thp truth, but error is more presumption. and proceeds in the wrong direction Ignorance has no light, but erfer has farther to go be fore she can affife at truth than has ignorance
 So that these mall order traders may not plead ignorance in eSteaaation of their odeuse W give below a cate Corical list Of thln9s which the mall order houses do u1t do. We trust they will prove eye openers to tue unwise. What Catalogue Houses Do Not Do. The retail catalogue houses do not buy the farmers produce
 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 of goods as you can buy in your own home town.
 They do not show you goods before you pay for them.
 They do not deliver promptly goods that you buy from them.
 They do not advocate the building up of country towns.
 They do not oppose the centraliss- ton of business in the large cities>
 They do not. in return for the farm CT consumers trade-the farmer who buys their clothing. household goods, farm imple etc.-buy the farm ers butter. eggs. cheese, grain and wood
 They do not buy your grain, butter, cheese and stock from pictures and pay in advance the same us you do. They do not buy anything from the farmer or consumer from a picture. They do net spend a dollar of their money with tht farmer ot consumer. They ne, er speua a GJllar with your local merchant
 They do no, mrui-l employ ment to sinplr resid"nr ot ,our community.
 They'il hot G,-e You Creott.
 They do uai .Al,..d Il io yee -r,elt. as does the l"eid uctchu.t Whet sou are hard up
 They do uot synlpathfLe with lon RI il IiIue " hen you have sickness in your family.
 They do not sympsthize with yep when your wife or children are taken from you.
 They do not want To see your local merchant prosper in business
 They do not do anything for any hody except themselves.
 Docs the small city. town or village ever see c dollar of their money7
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 The above. 1t would seem. shows a good and sufficient number of reasons th, this mall order octopus should be left severely alone by both the farmer and the resident. ot xmall cities and towns who have thougbtlessly leut il tneir patronage
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