The Neshoba Democrat., 1921-12-15
RICHARDSON HOPS ON EDITOR
GETS A LITTLE PERSONAL IN
ANSWER TO EDITORIAL
Says Mail Order House Once
Helped A Fellow.

In an editorial in the Democrat OF
I the 1st Dec. the Editor fays me un-
mercefully for the stand | take in
v regard to Mail Order Houses. He
cuffs me about, tramples on me. calls
Il me q traiter, small pumpkins etc
4 In order that the readers of the
n Democrat may not be misled by the
N editorial breeze. | shall try to make
a my contention more plain. The ed.
itor says | seem to be welded to
mail order houses. | am not and
4 regret that conditions are such that
r 1t is ever necessary to patronize
Il them. am not even welded to the
- Democrat even though | am an old
N subscriber ami appreciate the influ
!. enee for good county paper might
4 WELD, where the editor stands, for
justice Individual privileges, econo-
my and thrift, as against greed and
u proiteering, graft and plumber
l even carry my views to the eX-
treme OF claiming IL right to drop
my subscription to the county paper
at any time should see fiji anu sub
scribe for u paper in Chicago or
New York without feeling myself
traitor.
Does the editor realize that mail
order houses are sending merchan-
disc into seventy-tive per cent OF the
homes in Neshoba county? Does
the editor realize that 80 per cent OF
I the readers OF the Democrat trade
n more or less in Chicago and New
York and | venture the assertion
continue their right to spend their
money where they please or not
spend it atall ii they soplease. There
is a reason for this and neither / nor
the editor are responsible for the CON
dition that brings this about. There
Is a priG.g4ple involved here that is
too sacred for me TO invade ~ right
that is too apparant for me to ques-
tion. | donut mean to boost mail
order houses nor do mean to fight
our merchants. claim every mer-
chant in Philadelphia as a personal
friend and am sure there is not one
who would question my right to
buy elsw here or even ask me for my
trade should | see it to my interest
otherwise. | am not. lighting our
merchants because we need them,
they ave necessity, we must have
them, but they are all human and
during the recent world war graft
and profteering because 50 common
that 1t almost bscame second nature
with some, not only the merchants
but the farmers, the blacksniths,
the carpenters and in every walk OF
life. Men We'd with each other to
least value and it still crops out
here and there then the remedy is
the mall order house, Parcel Post
and Rural Delivery. | will welcome
4 the day. when every man will be
willing to give every other man IL
. square deal, grant him equal privi-
I leges With himself then the mali or
4 der houses will gradually fade away
; into the past and lose their place in
our economic life
The editor says the merchants pay
u heavy tax part OF which goes TO
keep up schools but does not men
tion the fact that the farmer also
pays a heavy tax more than he is
able toln tact, part OF which goes
into the school funds. SO that ar
gumenJ is disposed of.
The editor says mali order houses
are not represented on our tax rolls.
mo neither is Simmons Hard ware
Co. still thousands of dollars worth
oI their high class tools and cutlery
find II market here each year. Does
one have right here and the other
not? B. r. Avery & sons also are
not on our tax rolls and their
.tneir way to every farm ia the coun-
ty must we discriminate against one
in favor OF the Other? The William
H. Moore Dry Goods Go. pay no tax
into our treasury still our merchants
place Oh their shelves thousands OF
uOllars worth OF this goods yearly.
The big Touring mills ia the Middle
West ship carloads upon carloads of
flour To our town yet pay no tax
into our treasury. Every issue OF
the Democrat is printed on paper
made by u concern that pays no tax
in the county. Should we boycott
every concern not tax payer IN
Neshoba county and see what the
Democrat and It's illustrious editor
viii look like within two months.
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