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Show TRADE AT HOME. If you believe in protecting home industries, put it into practice by purchasing your goods at home, when ft can be done as cheaply as elsewhere. Of course it is sometimes some-times necessary to Bend away, as the article wanted is not in the stock of the 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 always have to pay tbe 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 for wares? Hardly. Nothing but cold cash goes. Docs either of 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 his doors and you had to send to cither of the above places 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 stock and he would tell you to go to Chicago; where would you tell him to go? It is wrong. You cannot get along w i thou t him and he ca n n ot ge t along without you. The benefit is mutual and ought to be so regarded. re-garded. Ex. |