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Show ialt l:;e rnoPLE buy home goods. There lived in the town of Harmony seven broth- i rs, named John, Henry, Thomas, Peter, James, Walter and Edward. They were all engaged in "business. ;' ' . .-. John had a saw mill, shingle mill and a sash and kloor factory, and employed forty men. ; Ilenry was a merchant .who sold groceries,dry . goods, clothing, hardware all the multifold wares of a country store. lie had several clerks, and over ! his store kept several, tailors 'and dressmakers, employed, em-ployed, to meet the wants of the people. '" . Thomas had( a foundry, machine shops and agri-' agri-' cultural implement factory combined, and employed ! fifty men, ; ' . '; ;''.v' 'v Teter was a farmer, and stock-raiser with a big ' farm just outside the village. , ; ' : "- James had a tannery and' also a harness shop, fend boot and shoe making' establishment He employed em-ployed sixty men. . .' .' , . Walter had a brewery with a " beer garden at-. at-. ( iached and employed thirty men. In summer a concert con-cert was given every afternoon and evening. ; ; .Edward was a miller; he ground all the grain jttf.the region and kept, beside, a flour and feed Store. ' ' . ' ... ; .' : J. ';'f,;:-' V" ' .:-:. ''''' Each brother had 10,000 to start with; each had a good many outstanding accounts and neces- earily, were all more or less in debt. "' . , Each for his family and employees bought his but spent all his time in i his saloon drfakicg Milwaukee Mil-waukee beer. ' . -. The other brothers could not pay, their employees em-ployees and were attached. . . r ; Eastern merchants came and closed out Henry. John's daughter, the belle of the town, ran off and married the drummer from the department store. J In the meantime the brothers had become bmer enemies, each charged his misfortunes to the others ' and Peter so lost faith in both man iind God that one night 'when full of Milwaukee beer, he was-caught was-caught in the act of trying to set on fire the church; Now the brothers are scattered all over the country coun-try Each one determined never to settle in any . State where either of the others had gone - They have all become believers in that particular form of socfalism, which is the twin brother of anarchy; they are bringing up their children to believe that ours is the most unjust Government in the world, and it all originated when each one determined to steal a march by trading ' with the big department store at the expense of the home town. - J The , desire . to obtain,; goods a little cheaper drained the town of money, left unsold stocks on hand and caused every one in debt to fail, for with the shrinkage of the money volume, property values shrunk accordingly, but the debts grew, and grew, up to the point of final collapse. 1 . . In all the country round about where Harmony was once a prosperous place, the people tell what a "chance the early settlers of that town had, but that they would not patronize home industries and all failed." j V : .. 7 : , r; shoes of James, and John bought, beside, the belts tor his machinery. ' ; : , i , v : ' Each bonght his groceries and dry goods and Clothing from Henry. j : , In the same way all bought their vehicles from ; Thomas and had their horse-shoeing and repairing : done by him. . " 1;' i '. On Saturday afternoons they all with their fami-' fami-' lies went to the beer garden to sip beer and listen lo the music. ! f , Of course a'll bought their flour and grain from '(Edward. ' ; A-' ; - Naturally, too, Peter supplied all his brothers, their families and employees with vegetables, fruit, ' rggs, chickens, fresh and salted meats." ! All were prosperous. They were continually repairing re-pairing their, houses and barns and building new ores, and for this John supplied the lumber, shingles shin-gles and sash and doors. : ' Then John drew a large revenue through the sale 'pf lumber, sash doors and shingles to outside com-, com-, tnunities. , . . . 4; . In the same way Walter sold much beer to out-4- fide towns, and James had a good outside trade in hoots and shoes and leather. . ,They- were all prospering, but each had accounts .with all the others which were settled once a year. iWhen John got his returns from outside sales he ' nettled with his brothers. , ! 4 It was the same way with the others. When $1000 was paid by one brother it started on its way, ; ."went through the whole family and a part got back I to the brother that had set it going. There was general prosperity ; and .the best of jfeeling; on Thanksgiving and Christmas the rule was for all to meet atthe house of one or the other brother, have, a feast and exchange beliefs that ' jtiieirs was the happiest family in the world. But a railroad came to a town twenty-seven ' miles away and a syndicate erected and stocked an immense department tore at that point. . s The firm sent a commercial traveler to Harmony to solicit orders and he dropped circulars at each tloor with price-lists attached. - j Walter made some figures and found that he tould get barley laid down at his brewery 20 per cent cheaper than Peter could furnish it for. Peter .was angry when he saw Walter buying barley from outsiders and so built a little saloon and imported . and sold Milwaukee beer, which he sold at' the same ! price that Walter had been selling for. : . i. . Without sayjng anything to his brothers, John I bought supplies for his family and employees, groceries, gro-ceries, food, clothing, boots and shoes everything ttt the department store. , " . ; ' " Ilenry when he saw how things were going Duilt n butcher shop next his store and imported his meats from Elansas City, ne also had fresh vegetables vege-tables and fruit come in daily by fast freight from Arkansas and Texas. A ; ; ! ' : By close figuring it was found that for cash, sash nnd doors and agricultural implements could be laid Uown in Harmony 15 per cent cheaper than the peo-, peo-, jle hadrbeen paying' fjr them. - r ; . ; : ; , The result was that when the time for the annual an-nual settlements came around, not one of the broth-t broth-t rs could pay and each one reproached all the others for bringing the trouble about. . ' That was the beginning. Within three years all " 1 1 r. tr: .lorcaaid. attention, Jjlajrm |