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Show TRADE AT HOME-If HOME-If you believe in protecting home industries, put it into practice by purchasing your goods at home, when it can be done ns cheaply as elsewhere. Of course it is sometimes some-times necessary to send away, as the article wanted is not in the slock 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 the cash? Does the Chicago Chi-cago or St. Louis merchant take your butter, your eggs, your cabbage, j your cucumbers, your rags, your i old iron or your bones in exchange ! for wares? Hardly. Nothing but cold cash goes. Does either of ; these parties ever accommodate you j with credit? If so, which one? j lias it ever occurred to you that if j your home merchant were to close , his doors and you had to send to either of the above places for every j trifle you now run into a store and , buy a nickel's worth of, that, you ' might learn to use profane langu- j age? Supposing you were to ask 1 him for some article in slock and : he would tell you to go to Chicago; i where would you tell him to go? ; fi is wrong. Vou cannot get along ; i without him and he caiuiot get j along without, you. The benefit is ; ! mutual and ought to be so re- j I garded. Ex. i |