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Show 1 f you believe in protect ing home industries, put it into practice by purchasing your goods at home, when it can be done us cheaply an elsewhere. Of course it is sometimes some-times necessary to send away, as the article wanted is not in the slock of tlie home merchant, but otherwise other-wise it is unfair to do so. Supposing Suppos-ing you do save a few cents by sending away, don't you al wsiys have to p;iy the cash? Do.-s the Chi -eng. Mir Si. Louis merchant take your builcr, your eggs, your cabb.ige, your cucumbers, your rugs, your I old iron or your bones in exchange 'for wans? Hardly. Nothing but I cold cash goes. Pocs either of I these parties ever accommodate you ! with credit? If so, which one? . Has it ever occurred to you that if ' your home merchant were to close i hi doors mid you had to send to 1 either of he above phi ecu for every trifle you now run into a store and buy a nickel's worth of, that you might learn to use profane hingu-iigi-? Supposing you were to ask him for some firtielt; in slock and !w would t'-il you to go to Chicago; where would you tell him to go? It is uroi.g. You cannot get along without him and he en i' not get along without you. The benelil is mutual and ought to be so re-.-irded. Kx. |