| Show BANKS HURT BY MAIL ORDER HOUSES thel it Is only lately that bankers of the west have come to a realization that the mail order system of business has been a serious injury to them killing oil off the business of their towns taking out of circulation money that should hel help p swell the local bank deposits and otherwise interfering with town progress I 1 says the wichita price current the trouble has been with many bankers that they failed to consider t the h e b buying n grood goods away s from h 0 in e I 1 evil as anything of particular concern to them when farmer smith would bay a draft of fifty or a hundred bundred dollars to send to chicago the banker got his 10 cents exchange and thourl t he was that evich aroch ahead white while the fact remained that it lie he could keep the money from being sent from home that SI of the farm i er artor lor the banker might make a dollar or two of profit it was only when the c catalogue ata logue houses auses started la in to solicit deposits of the people of country towns and farming communities fiat the bankers took a tumble ble and only a small number of them have yet opened their eyes as they should then again many bankers have such an exalted idea of their position in the town goods to be had from the local merchants aye are not good enough for them themselves selves and families and set a bad ad example before the people by sen sending cling away themselves for what they desire in the way of staples and luxuries it would w be well for in every country town where here are banks to take this qa question estion up with the bankers and enlist their support in discouraging their pat patrons from sending money from the community banters are conservative and aro a ro not in making suggestions to their patrons a as s to what they should do nth belr money hut but in this matter it appears sufficiently important to ille i he exercise ot of what whal annu ence the banker can command Is to half of home patronage |
