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Show Be Loyal to Home Institutions Keep Money at Home. Every Dollar You Send Away Never Returns, But Helps Build Up Some Other Town While You acd Your Own City Suffers. A matter which is rapidly becoming a question of no little Importance to oar community, is the growing trade and aggressiveness ag-gressiveness of certain catalogue or mail order bouses in tbe east and elsewhere. This habit of sending east for merchandise merchan-dise and having a package come either by mail or express, is growing and will per haps continue to grow until people have fully weighed the question tn their bwn minds and discovered for themselves t'-at really those eastern houses arenot it benefit bene-fit to our community. To True Catalogue Cdstomki. Kindly consider these questions. 1st Do these catalogue homes offer to pay cash or exebango goods for your wheat, oats, potatpes, butter, eggs and bay? 2nd How much do tbey pay for 'cat tie, sheep, hogs and horses f, o. b. cars at our depot? 8d How much tax do they pay to support our schools and educate our children, for improving roads and bridges brid-ges and support of tbo poor of the country, coun-try, for the expenses of running the business busi-ness of tbe town, county and state? 4th On what pago Is tbelr offer to contribute con-tribute money to the church or other associations? as-sociations? Sth What line of credit do they extend ex-tend to you when your crops aro poor and money gone whpn through illness aud mlsfortuno you are not able to send cash with your order for groceries, clothing, cloth-ing, farm tools, stoves and ranges, etc.? Oth Where is their offer to contribute tn your entertainment next year? What did tboy do last year? 7th In short will tbey do anything to produce a market for your products, and thereby keep up tho value of your estate? es-tate? Will they do anything for social, church, schools or government' support, with any returns except tbe goods you buy? 8th When your neighbor lost a horse or cow, who was first appealed to for help? The catalogue house? Nit. Oth When ydur neighbor lost his house or barn by fire, to whom did he look for help? The catalogue bouse, I guess. Now, kind friends, think this over carefully, then call on your local dealers deal-ers where you can sec toe goods beforo you buy them and by comparison of prl-'cos prl-'cos and quality you will see that you can do as well or better at homo, and you will keep tbo money at homo, thereby helping to build up your local town. A UlTUES. Wo heartily indorse tho senllmcuts ex pressed by "citizen" In the above article and call attention to one point of this vital subject tbat has been overlooked. "The disloyal spirit manifested by many of our citizens toward tbelr "home" town and "home" institutions by giving their support to towns within a stone's throw of our fair city." Tbo residents of Garland North are today nskinc for an I extension of the electric light system to help Improve that part of tho city. Will tbey In turn cease to putroniso tranclcnt butcher wagons and trado with our home butcher? Will they cease to hitch up and drlvo through our city to disinterested disinteres-ted burgs below to lay In their supplies and sco our homo merchants idle? Will they support a paper published two miles from their town that never has a word of praise for our city when their own paper is dilllgently tolling night and day to build up our own town? Thcsenro vital questions tbat are applicable ap-plicable to every citizen of Garland. If you want to sco your town grow support your homo institutions. Do not take your money toother places and theu ask credltof your homo merchant. All these things should bo considered and every citizen of our town should have uppermost upper-most in his or her mind that glorious principal of union and first of all, "Patronize "Pat-ronize Homo Industry. |