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Show A RANK INJUSTICE. Tho frequent appearance of large numbers of catalogues sent out by such firms as Walker Hros., the Uoston Store, Z. C. M. I., and Auerback's, of Salt Lake City, Mandcl's, The Fair, Montgomery Ward & Co., of Chicago, and various other of the large department depart-ment stores, brings to mind the rank Injustice too many citizens In every town and small city in the country continually practice upon their home merchants and Logan Is certainly not an exception In this respect. Persons who receive these immense catalogues grab them cagorly, quickly work up their Imagination to a point where they believe they can save an Immense amount of money by dealing direct with these department stores and promptly lire oil a $7 money order for a $15 (V) suit of clothes, $2.25 for an $8 (V) silk skirt, and $15 for a $30 sideboardnot side-boardnot to mention $1.37 for a pair of $0 (V) patent leather shoes and a $1.75 telescope thrown In. Thc goods come, plus great freight or expense charges-arc charges-arc unsatisfactory two-thirds of the time, but because it involves consider able trouble and a very strong effort to get the cosh back in hand, the goods are kept. The victim swears under iris breath for a few days, and then makes a fool of himself again. - Thus the merchant at home who contributes contri-butes to all the institutions of the community, pays his taxes and Improves Im-proves his property, is placed in unjust competition and left to hustle for trade and eke out a hard-earned existence. Ten-to-one if the purchaser from the city store had gone to his home merchant mer-chant he would have found asgoqd bargains and by bvrying of him would have helped place the merchant In a position to give him better bargains in the future, besides keeping at home the money that otherwise goes entirely entire-ly away from a community never to return. The home merchant, also, Is Invariably a genial sort of fellow glad to rectify any mistake, and to make satisfactory any and all purchases. That the home merchant Is a victim of the city department stores and the ccrdulousness of the people, does nojt warrant the belief that theliome merchant mer-chant himself is not responsible to a certain extent for this state of affairs. In fact he is responsible, and to a large extent. If the homo merchant by, proper and Judicious advertising kept before the public the bargains lie has to offer, there is just reason to believe that buyers of foreign firms would sec tho advantage of trading at home, and would do so; but In this progressive progres-sive age of hustle and advertising schemes, people Judge, and rightly, too, that firms who do not adveitlse have nothing to offer, consequently they go elsewhere. However there Is a class of people who seem Jo think they must go to "the city" for anything and everything every-thing they warrt, on the assumption that they can not secuie at home the things thei desire. This Is certainly a mistake and we believe In Justice to home meichants it should not be practiced. |