Show WAR ON MAIL ORDER HOUSES Small Dealers Are Fighting as They Say for Their Lives Chicago War has been declared on tho great catalogue houses of Chicago Chi-cago and other cities by tho 600000 retail re-tail merchants of tho west In one of the most striking economic movements this country ever has known tho small dealers are fighting as they say for their lives rite mammoth Institutions employing employ-ing thousands of workers doing their business entirely through tho mo ilium of their bulky catalogues spending spend-ing no money In tho communities whence they derive annually millions of dollars of patronage nro forcing Increasing numbers of homo merchants to tho wall and so their opponents claim are making commercial graveyards grave-yards of onto prosperous towns In this life and death struggle jobbers job-bers and manufacturers also arc Involved In-volved with the retail merchants |