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Show How to Kill Your Town. Buy of peddlers as often and as much as possible. ' Denounce your merchants because : they make a profit on their goods. Glory in the downfall of any man who has done much to build up the I city. . , .Make- your town out a.. very bad place and stab it every chance you ret. eaK u,a people. ' Tell your merchant that you can buy goods a good deal cheaper in some, other town and charge them with extortion. ex-tortion. Keep every cent you can get and don't do anything of a public nature unless you can make something out of it directly. When you have anything to say of your town, say it in such way as to leave the impression that you have no faith in it. Patronize outside newspapers to the exclusion of your own, and then denounce de-nounce them for not being as large as the big city papers. If a stranger comes to town tell him everything is overdone, and predict a general crash of the town in the near future. Keep up a divided public sentiment and knife every man who disagrees with you on the best method of increasing in-creasing business. If you are a merchant, don't advertise adver-tise in the home papers; buy a rubber stamp and use it. It may save you a few dimes and make the paper look like it was published in a one-horse town. |