Show AROUND THE CIRCLE KEEP THE DOLLARS MOVING IN YOUR OWN COMMUNITY IT MAKES WEALTH FOR ALL Buy of the Man Who Will Buy of You and Your Dollar Will Come Back Again a Copyright by Alfred C ClarK As on tho western prairies In ploneor days the trappers camp flro kindled to pi opart his frugal meal or to warm him from the biting wind fanned Into renewed 1 vigor spread first on tho tiny blade of grass to neighboring hlndus anil thence to tho tangled masses all around until tho broad plains were ono vast sea of scathing flame destroying all before It so tho mall order business started In tho eastern cities on a small scale fanned by tho breeze of judicious advertising ad-vertising has spread until It now cov ors tho length and breadth of our land and threatens disaster to the smaller dealers everywhere Tho note of warning has been sounded 1 tho light Is visible In tho sky and yet apparently appar-ently oblivious to it all tho ones whoso safety Is being endangered heed not the alarm nor the signal of disaster The country merchant and tho farmer whose combined efforts can atom the tide of destruction that threatens to engulf them aro alone unconscious of the approaching devastation devas-tation that like a great sea of consuming con-suming flame Is threatening to engulf them The country merchant and the farmer farm-er tho simple honest dwellers In tho rural districts are tho victims this gigantic peril Is reaching out for to 1111 ltd rapacious maw Each year Its grasp becomes firmer Its power greater Only a few short years ago tho catalogue house was a thing unheard un-heard of today It stands as ono of Americas greatest Institutions And with great fortune comes great power pow-er so now tho mall order business may well be classed among tho powers of tho nation Its efforts aro already being felt at the national capital solves In this connection With tho rapid growth of the mall order busl are being established Those largo firms aro dally reaching out for now sections of trade What will be the result along this line With the growth of tho catalogue house comes tho death of tho rural mercantile trodo Let them onco destroy tho country merchant and tho markets of tho world will bo in the hands of a fow wealthy capitalists Their branch houses will appear In All tho country towns and tho farmer will no longer bo independent His friend tho country coun-try dealer who through competition was forced to pay the valuo of tho butter eggs etc will be a thing of tho past and In his place will appear the fat gloating face of tho capitalist In whoso benumbed conscience there Is no thought of pity whose breast contains instead of a heart a great lump of cold stony gold 1 whoso ono ambition Is to build up a greater fortune for-tune than the world has over Been and who cares naught for tho tears or trials woes or weeping of his victims so long as ho can squeeze a little moro of tho coveted glittering treasure from himAgain Again the dollar spent with the local dealer stays In tho community I whore It blesses the spender over andover and-over again The merchant pays It to tho butcher for moat tho butcher gets his bread of tho baker and therefore drops tho dollar Into tlife bakers till tho baker pays It to tho miller for flour and the latter buys his grain from tho farmer so tho dollar once moro jingles merrily In tho farmers trousers pocket But spend It with the mall order house and It Is gone novor to return It goes to build up tho great commercial Interests of Now York or Chicago Does It pay the farmer to send 1 his money to help beautify and build up these great cities Has ho not more Interest In beautifying and building up his own section of tho country If not ho should If a place Is good enough for a man to live hl and to make his money In it Is good enough for him to spend his money III Who helps build tho churches school houses streets bridges etc Docs tho mall order houso help Will they give a dollar to educate the farmers children or donate anything to support the farmers farm-ers widow or orphans Do they help to pay the taxes or add anything to P ° artq n PtK eF PBpaER Oto REfR f rtt Ee 1 5o rtib BAKER tit II 6 N 1 7 o01 f j Kt y s a Q fP k 1 1 P SttearaK A 2 ytt SecaE ° I 6 ttj 4 1 W p ttxooc I Mwn4 111 L fl fOnlYn S 1 IA MUeIM a aTRLOG j ti The Endless Chainit Keeps the Dollar at Koine Where It Belongs whero our laws aro made and unless a check is administered tho passage of the parcels post bill will mark ono of Its greatest triumphs Dut let us look at a fow of tho simple reasons why tho farmor should patronize the home dealer In tho first place their Interests are centered cen-tered In each other Every season of plenty on the farm means a prosperous prosper-ous year to the country merchant So In tho prosperity of tho farmer does the country merchant expect to gain The farmer finds therefore In tho country dealer a staunch and loyal friend and a defender of his Tights They pay taxes together live side by side tholr children play and 1 go to school together When tho crops are poor or misfortune comes to whom does tho farmer look Not to the mall order magnate but to his neighbor neigh-bor tho country merchant How often does tho mall order concern take any Interest In tho political questions ques-tions or legal measures beneficial to tho farmer Yet with their brightened bright-ened catalogue of pictured bargains they reach out an open hand for tho farmers hard earned dollar And does he get value received 1 Not often Tho first order he may but that Is only a bait The business Is not founded on principles It Is not bulldod on honorable methods Its mighty walls are erected on graft Tho goods aro shopworn or shoddy or perhaps many kinds of goods have defects so cunningly concealed that tho naked eye can scarcely see a difference dif-ference between these articles and those of a much higher grade You aro expected to send cash with tho order or havo It ready when tho goods arrive with tho big C O D mark on tho package Your crop failure fail-ure or shortage of money doesnt Interest In-terest tho mall order houso your credit with them Is good only so long as your pocket book Is filled Your order Is made out and you pay for goods you never saw put up and selected se-lected by men you do not know If these goods do not prove to bo worth tho money It tho shoes do not wear well or tho suit Is shoddy goods will the mall order firm make thorn good T Not often Yet tho loiiil dealer will do this lie knows his honesty Is his best drawing card 1 So much for tho advantage of dealing with honest men and not with gratters Still other Issues present them ness substations or branch houses bring comfort or necessary improvements Improve-ments In tho country places Then why should the farmer patronize them By actual test It has boon found that the same goods can bo procured pro-cured as cheaply It not at moro reasonable rea-sonable prices at homo Trade with your neighbor whoso Interests are your Interests whose hand Is always ready to assist you In time of trouble Patronize thoso who patronize you Uso tho flashy catalogue of the mall order house to help kindle tho kitchen fire and keep your money at homo where It will benefit you and your neighbors over and over again The farmers dollar earned by honost toll should not bo added to tho blood money of these great mall order corporations cor-porations The farmer must join the local merchant and the country editor In battling this groat peril that Is creeping creeping onward with great rapidity and unless theso forces are combined and their efforts prove increasing In-creasing tho day Is not far distant when the chanco will bo gone forever tho power will bo too groat to conquer con-quer IVEIl II SMITH |