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Show If you believe in protecting home industries, put it into practice by purchasing your goods at home, when it can be done as cheaply as elsewhere. Of course it is sometimes some-times necessary lit send away, as the article wa uted is not i n the stock of the home merchant, but otherwise other-wise it is unfair to do so. Suppos-' ing you do save a few cents by sending away, don't you always have to p:iy the cash ? Does IhcCln-cago IhcCln-cago or St. Louis merchant lake your butter, your eggs, your cubbage, your encumbers, your rags, your old iron or your bones in exchange for w:ues? Hardly. Nothing but cold casii goes. Does either of these parties ever accommodate you with credil ? If so, which one? lias it ever occurred to you that if your home merchant were to close his doors and vmi had to send to either of the above plnees for every trifle you now run into a store and buy a nickel's worth of. that you might learn to use profane language? langu-age? Supposing you were to ask him for some article in slock and he would tell you to go to Chicago; where would you It'll him to go? It is wrong. You cannot get along without him and he can not get along without you. The bcni fit is mutual and ought to be so regarded. re-garded. Ex. |