The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1922-11-17

hardware business 10 the heads OF
twenty-five or more families who are
prospecting. he Is making room for
still more. The profits ON the mer-
chandise he sells go to paying salar-
iss. To charity, - the erecting of new
buildings. To the improving of streets
roads and schools His state and
county taxes amount to more than
So. 0Oo. besides his income tax. and
it is estimated that he pays salaries,
taxes and rents amounting to $685.
goo per annum.
Suppose our people had sent all |
the money that has passed through |
his hands TO catalog houses. what
would we have TO show for il? And
is lust one OF many men who
have made a success of merchandis-
ing in Hot Springs. And the great
er portion of their Success has
gone into the upbuilding of our city
and country.
This man has been directly con
nected with and largely responsible
for the erection of school. bank. store
and residence buildings at an aggre-
gate cost of nearly million dollars.
He has given back u the city and
country a service of far more value
than he has taken from it. and |
want to ask this question: Has IL
paid this community to do business
with this man, or would this country
have been better off had all this
money been sent TO catalog houses?
n Can You think of a merchant in your
4 town who has not given back to the
4 community as much or more than he
4 has taken from it? Ii you have such
a merchants, they are not the kind
IS that | am referring to. How would
d YOU like to have all the merchants in
d your town go out of business, there
by forcing you to buy all your farm
70 stoves, ranges, dry goods, clothing
/, shoes, groceries, etc, from the cata.
- log houses? Is it not fact that q
"a great many of our people use the 10
, cal merchants for convenience anC
IA buy staple articles from them anC
~ send away for the profit-bearins
n goods because they think they ar,
50 saving a few pennies? The truth o
NJ he whole matter is the people do no
!, think ahead, They are trying t,
saving few cents today at cost o
themselves, their families, and to tn
communities of many thousand dol
lars in the future.
-, This man that | have referred t.
a has begged the farmers to buy i'm
10 proved farm implements and to i'm
no prove their hogs, cattle and poultry
paint their houses, keep their wag
to raise their own feed and foo,
" store their cotton and obtain tn
raise more sheep and goats and les
:. dogs, and is now helping 10 establis
marketing place and cotton var,
so The farmers may have place
store their cotton and obtain tn
highest market prices for their pr,
:, ducts. Do you know of any catalo
" houses trying to help anybody exec
themselves?
~ What | want is for somebody [
- tell me why they send their none
40 to catalog houses for anything the
90 can buy at home. A person VIII
~, patronizes catalog houses is willin
Il to trust strangers with his none
,o and trust the strangers word, an
ho wait patiently for the goods to h
~, shipped One of these fellows wouI
nd not think of paying local merchan
In advance for anthing; neithe
would he take the local merchant
word, but to the contrary, he mus
see the articles and have the locs
nu merchants personal guarantee be
~ FORE he will buy it. and then, to ca
it all, will often ask the merchant
ed charge it for thirty or sixty day,
RS Some difference
az When crop failures come and yo
So are out of work, who do you go {
ch for help? Catalog houses? VIII
us buys your produce? Who buys you
IL pork, beef, corn and cotton? Cate
ne log houses? Who helps pay you
re preacher, and helps you build churc
~ and schoolhouses? Who helps pa
&c the taxes and who helps you or you
IN neighbor when in distress? Catalo
houses? They would laugh you
ne scorn If you should ask them for a,
ed sistance. Your local merchant. as
TO rule, has family of boys and CIR
'p- and his employees also have bo,
lg' and these boys and girls marry |
ar your community. Have you eve
Al seen any catalog house boys an
nd girls? Your boys and girls woul
cir remain single until they were as oil
tn as Methuselah If they had to wait Il
ID catalog houses to send them a con
ma In fan In