Show MENACE TO ALL giant mail order concerns are arc sapping country of its wealth SMALLER TOWNS CRUSHED by assisting in the centralization of wealth patrons patron of these thee 1 try contribute to their own injury UX dw ly by skied alil ed C k I 1 lak everi ever real upon mif mifflan flon of collais find their wai from the towns villages and euial bisti I 1 ts ot of tho the coun try to ohp coffees ot of the he mall order houses la in thu cibit s and fco bo to the vi up building of tn in tho the centers of population Nati liall the sources bioni the he eions ate aie divide tindo dufft accordingly figures ear r tell a story than llian words ards here aie chich 1011 a story so BO stupendous that its tull full sig uIl leance cance cannot lie be grasped la in a mo luo inina but the moie incie sight of which aro are ane aae inspiring la in tho year 1905 two tao mall order houses located in chicado Clil Chic caio ajo did a bust built ness less agiou amounting abing in round numbers to 0 in ili the irhe keai 1904 abeso same game conceio ns did a busi business noss of about 62 a gain of 18 or nearly 20 30 per cent in a single year lo be 10 ing thus exhibited these figures lepie sent tho the sale bale last year of if one dollars woith of mei clinn dese toi foi evera ninn man woman und child la in the country by two catalogue lious houa a alone a nud and those from the same babine central point dozens moio of varying bl blo an and importance lance tire OM abing aklu all ver the i horn fora coast pie as a whole shall ho be buch G uch general pi I 1 it v i 1 4 ma ina exist cannot be retained if f the ali institutions of the ahead laigri and me ale to continue to be built up till ti bs contributions should hould be spent event at home horn the thousands thou Handa of sinal lei comin tin I 1 ties the need ol of tile hn foueti a delaper ate awil von upon l hah ill weirdie el faie ot of the ilia d 1 for t the lie up building and pi pit oresa itress of the smaller communities so sa that the wealth ot or the country may bo be bitted over tile the entire counti counte and not congested and in large larga amounts lit in a 6 amt few centers centera of populate population ion thoi ecot 0 I 1 ho in i n alio ito aa a away A ay from froin his own oin community money melch he might liao haie sanit at home bome pel pd ft fall fah to the home iner chant to tie be letai nod thero there tor the benefit ot of tile the ta Is injuring ills community anti thereby the peces tot foi lifis OM oin fatme prosperity in a large of 0 instance lie he Is in doing naoia than tills or unthinkingly lie ho is IF I 1 joint ills ilia own oun in of light alid tot roi at the iho expense of 0 ahli its olan coni com lia is contil buting to the capitalistic malch lie ho continuously ciles out are menacing tho the country the wall fidei gitnes dhert energies partia ultrix toward the people of I 1 the he Binal lei tock towns us and tile the agi agil I 1 cultural districts in ili hundreds ot 0 thousands of tho ohp howes homes of these the catalogue or the mall house hoube Is as as aa tile the home boma paper tho the man on the fat faun ili I 1 list leiu em sen bent t a icay largo large of eighty rail nill llona loll 1011 ot of dollars to two ot of these institutions in one alono alone in all eilt we ask purely for tile tho sake bake of the argument arRu ment thit that the farmer ot 01 the ies resident lesl deat ident of the small can saie it a few dol lis lais on oil sowe ot of his purchases or even PER 4 t it the man behind the plow last year yar contributed a large portion of the vast number of millions mill lont which found their way into the coffers coffer of the mall order hous the smaller comm unities to which it belonged and which were thus deprived of it suffered buffered accordingly to coast unit and bioni boidec to bonier A fact not known la Is that hund hundreds of Pon cerni the ilia countey which no now uio tile doing bubl bu biness nesa through the tha iti gult feado channels are avi awaiting altIng ony a 0 post law to unloose ellei aheady in ili ciany which would pio 1110 jett them thein into tho the mall order held field jn an I 1 this does not into account tile tha hundreds art anil ilia thousands of entirely new annil older concerns conc tiina eins which inevitably would into 0 ex under tinder such frit adir tho the tio chicago in it berred to immense buildings found theniel ves d for I 1 onni loom ono one of thon tho n ended not less than 31 1 and 1 pr I babil C rot foi a new boune I 1 ihal he lately br hag a se seti ired a new location and 10 1 lo vill expend at least J tot foi lot n lin im mense building am alt one vi ho will i HM t e ma eri c e t 11 I 1 ul lal ly on uns a iriel herome am fil parsed tint tho the I 1 alico of tilo tho mail older business la is to on birj ho central 0 of eniti Nt ftc ati cil law noi monh 0 I 1 aart art it le Is il elolia i it A vi li th b i dh artion will be figov ato n a belond barond glance it tho alc pe s i i han 0 a bec c n given aboda it la is dut due to ailin atif if lii i ever every patron of the mall mail ci deli bouso ahu il I 1 lucuil ewul c honestly hou estly ot of hirai billi belf telf I 1 li L fi mil fiill ill oil out COMO is to bo JO it if ti tic 0 nill nall colfi ba ness hhall continue to biml ni il e vc tp SK shildes waldi shiell have inard inar d a pio pic apas dining tho I list wi lial dottle it ts to use lemki lo 10 a topeat llo well inn I 1 argument of tho iha annil that they ajo aio alny ll ny adt enough elou 1 moie cheaply vilt im the he in ID the tha re bilar 0 I 1 tile 10 to leme laeb their af nor borr ir tho i ever to lt atno and institute ijo TP 9 s likey ic rf ahli nt tin bitt bun a proved over AO AD I 1 over alrin acia ac ia by jc htiu iak anti and minott cl nite con of cjase ms ii to the q idill j and ic go it eia lv a aill ail ill ty br 0 piper and nion i direct t method IL ia oly oily o ly to ask tte ire reliable 0 an of the ani smaller aller to show the evidence froin obeis cooks and a ai counts of tho the ham haim tho the mall r hd alt Is 1 doing their alk lr communities it Is a truth as old as the hills and i as ats certain as ab tile tha r dag and setting betting or of we the sun bun that nt no bolit gitry or section 0 of a coventry bax c i unless me lie poo that lie he could do so on all of thorn them can call lie ho afford to continue lo 10 his own community upon which his own oan pos pios perit the deiy calno of his lane lan le if he will able himself hini Helf tills this question and consider it soberly lind and dahly in alt all of its phases including tho the many which cannot lo be 10 touched upon within dic limits of a single article md think his hid answer must lie be that lie he cannot fhe of this countey lits his been clent to ove come the vailous adverse ad verse economic it iu fluentes fluen ces which hase haio existed luring during the of yeats li in which the mall or der business has accomplished its gi eanest si gioelli leverone I has been retting along pitty mell ell allo hil 0 the increasing now flow of bohu millions nill llona flom their source beurce in tile the land of tho coun conn tty to the already greal centeio of money lind and pol poi liar hap ald back lio or oe tho the exi knaller niler coni comro munt Us abo it has not y yet t a gibat the tha teft iiii hlll come with the alist pinch of haul baid times a condl all velch no country cun mer ever ivis hia been able abe to ot dt let ice lining aion intervals allm into i ea those COTO com 01 b ba f t botand the test teat willell which 1 rivo best pona ived and hus husbanded banded irli i em ireca JOHN S polte |