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Show TRADE AT HOME. If yon believe in proteeling 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 some- times necessary to send away, as the article wanted is not in the slock of the home merchant, but otherwise other-wise il is unfair to do so. Supposing Suppos-ing you do Have a few cents by sending away, don't you always have lo pay the cash? Does the Chicago Chi-cago or St. Louis merchant take your butter, your eggs, your cabbage, your cucumbers, your rags, your old iron or your bones in exchange: to for wares? Hardly- Nothing but cold cash goes. Does either of these parties ever accommodate you with credit? Tf so, which one? Has it ever occurred to you lh.it if your home merchant were to elose his doors and you bad Lo send to either of the above places for every D'il'e you now run into a store and buy a nickiTs worth of, that you might learn to use profane language? langu-age? Supposing you were to ask : him for some article in stock and lie would tell you to go to Chicago; where would you tell him to go? It is wrong. You cannot get along I without' him and he cannot get along without yon. The benefit, is m u I u a 1 a n d ought to be so re -garded. Kk. |