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Show WHERE DO YOU BUY? Do you buy your goods of your home dealer or of some faraway far-away catalogue house, which in nicely worded letters and voluminous volumin-ous catalogues offers apparently gTeat bargains? Now when the next catalogue comes from your mail order house, draw up an easy chair and read it carefully and permit us to mention some things they omit . For instance, see if you can find any reference in their catalogue to their paying cash or exchanging goods for wheat, oats, corn, beans, butter, eggsi and hay. How much do they pay for cattle, cat-tle, sheep, hogs, f.o.b. your depot? How much tax will they pay to support your schools and educate your children? How much for improving your roads and bridges, for supporting the poor of the county, for the general expenses of, running the business of the township, county and state? On what page do they offer to contribute con-tribute toi the church? What line of credit will they extend to you when your crops are poor and money gone or, through illness or misfortune, you are not able to send cash with order? Is there any offer to contribute to your entertainment next year? In fact, will they do anything1 to provide a market for what you have to sell and thereby keep up the value of your home? Will they do anything whatever for social, church, school or government support, or do they simply take your dollars out of the community with no returns whatever except the goods you buy? Give this matter your careful, unprejudiced thought, then call on your local dealer, where you can see the goods before you buy, and make comparison of prices and qualities. You will find that you can do as well or better at home and you keep your money at home and you help to build up your own town, and in case anything any-thing should by some means turn out to be not just exactly what you wanted, your local dealer is there to set things right and make the deal satisfactory with you. o |