Pueblo chieftain., 1922-02-04
Messages From
the People

Editor Pueblo Chieftain:
OF late there has been complaint
lamong certain craftmen that some
OF the business men OF Pueblo were
giving workmen In other towns work
that should be given to workmen III
Pueblo, which was about the same as
giving It to a mail order" house. Al
n meeting of the manufacturers last
summer Ex-Governor Adams address
ed the members. and in his remarks he
roasted the farmers for patronizinE
the mail order houses. The writer OF
this article Is a farmer and has a mail
order catalogue End has bought goods
from the mail order house. but on near
lly every order got ''stung" The writer
would like to call the gentleman'a at
tention to the fact that the farmer
is not the only one that patronizes the
mail order house. Pueblo has fioHr.
mill that turns out fine grade OF
flour; the writer has been using 1t
since tho mill was built: go among the
grocery stores and in most of them
you will find Pueblo made flour. But
In many of them YOU will find flour
made in mills at Denver. Longmont.
Ft. Collins and down the valley as lar
cast as Great Bend, Kan, your grocer
is patronizing mail order house when
he sends his money away fot flour
ana COulQ get just as ROOu an III eANiS
made in Pueblo" Pueblo has n pack
ing house that turns out fIne products
1t employs many men and pays them
thousands of dollars every year. ana
II also pays the farmers OF this valley
hundreds of thousands for fat hogs and
cattle. Take another walk among the
grocery stores and you Will see somc
products OF tho Pueblo packing house:
and in many OF them you will finu
products from packing houses in kan
sas City, Omaha and Chicago. Your
grocer is patroniz!ng another mail or
dor house. Does It matter who gets
the order.~ ~MontsomeryWard or Ar
mour: they both have business houses
in Kansas City. Pueblo has a paint fac
tory and the writer has used Pueblo
made" paint and found 1t good: but
being a farmer and not a painter OF
course he is not Il judge of paint: go
TO the hardware stores and lumber
yards of your city. you may find some
Pueblo made paint, but You Will
find paint made in Denver. st. Louis
and other cities. Your lumber dealer
and hardware dealer arc patronizing
mail order house. An overall factory
was located in your city sonic timo ago.
they turned out fine goods. tho writer
OF this article wore several pair ana
found them good Some of your NOR
chants patronized the factory and some
did not; and the factory went out or
business for want of patronage
Ono of the largest business houses In
tho city is doing something the writer
thinks is worse than ratronizinE
mail order house: that big establish
mcnt-on Main street is handling goods
made by a nation that tried 10 destroy
the United States. that killed seventy
thousand of our noble young men and
made cripples OF three hundred thou
sand more. that house is handling
goods with tho brand made in Ger
many" Is II any wonder that so many
OF our young men who responded to
Uncle Sans call and went to France
are Idle today. Are roe manufacturers
and workmen OF Pueblo getting
square deal? The writer thinks not by
n mill sito or d site either.
NINELAND FARMER
BY W. A. GOODMAN.