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Show I Sucks Industrial Blood of Town. Man Who Buys Away From Homo Is a Leech. HOT BIIOT BY EDITOR WHITE Likens Moll Order Houbo Buyer to Chlnamnn Who Kcops No Jlonoy Hero. Tho following are a few thoughts from Editor White of tho Emporia (Kan.) Gazotto. So well put aro his remarks that no room Is left for criticism or Improvement: Im-provement: "The man who buys his goods of a mall order houso and expects his neigh bors in Emporia to buy goods of him, or buy labor of him, or to buy professional service of him Is economically a leech. He is sucking Industrial blood out of the town and gives nothing back. Ho sends his profits out of town llko a Chinaman, and has no moro right to a standing In tho community than a foreigner. Wo aro all neighbors Industrially in this town, and tho man who sends away for his goods is not ouu of us. Ho Is of another an-other industrial- system, and deserves no man's support In Emporia. Tho fact that this is economically wrong is recognized by tho mall order houses themselves. They protect their customers as thieves by offering to keep people from kuowing where tho goods wero purchased by having no "tugs" on them, Tbey say in their cntaloguo that no one knows whero thoy wcru bought. K it is proper to hldo tho plnco ot pur-chaso pur-chaso of any article, it is wrong to buy the article at that place. Only a man who steels is a man who Is nshnmcd to say whero he got anything ho has. There is such a thing as "tainted" dry goods, "tainted" groccrios nud "tainted" "taint-ed" furnlturo. All of such articles that are not purchased at homo, of men who befriend you, of men to whom you owe your living, are "tainted" because thoy como unfairly. If you want tho support of your follow townsmen, and want to accept it without & blush, buy at homo whenever possible." |