Show STAND BY HOME MERCHANTS m the reaper loses a subscriber occasionally casio nally we lost one last week he called in and stated that lie did not like our attitude on oil the eastern mail order house question he said we were fighting the catalogue houses and boosting our local sharks he declared ile he saved 50 per cent on everything he purchased from eastern castern tone concerns erns and lie he believed in ili buying where he could get the lowest pi ices fees we well ll 11 the reaper will ill continue to right fight the foreign mail order concerns we propose to stand by local institutions it if as our late subscriber declared our local ineich merchants mei chants ants charging har ging 50 per cent more for merchandise than the eastern houses we would have nothing to say dut but we do not believe that statement to bo be a true one the reaper editor made inquires inquirer among the local merchants last week as to how they could compare prices with eastern concerns every one informed us that if any person will make out an order for goods selected from a catalogue for any amount from 3 5 up and accept the he same identical goods from a local merchant and pay the cash the home dealer will make the same price or a cheaper one and be satisfied if on the other hand any buyer will make out an all order to any local store for a certain class of goods amounting to 5 or more with cash down doin payment the local dealers guarantee prices that no eastern house can cut under the above is a matter of dollars and cents direct there is the other matter of money that is distributed in the community I 1 tome home mercantile institutions are the business backbone of the town drive them out and other business interests begin to decline and sooner or later your town will become a has been with no market for farm produce no labor for mechanics or public improvements and conveniences farm land enill ft ill depreciate in value and it if the thing is kept up the entire busl business of the country will become centralized in a few large cities completely controlled oled and dominated by a few trust syndic syndicates ates patronize home institutions in every reasonable way and promote local industry and prosperity is the rea pers slogan and it if that must stand between this paper and our late subscriber we must say so long richfield reaper |