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Show r ' . B ' We are in receipt of a communication urg-1 urg-1 ' jng the country papers and merchants to stand H j together in tho contest for business against the H J mail order houses, now that the parcels post law H ig in effect. This is all right ip most towns and H , will no doubt be followed in thousands' of places, -r but in those places there is no newspaper so in-H in-H , tensely jealously and of such limited vision as to H F oppose, ridicule or speak slightingly of every sug-H sug-H I gestion of its competitor, if it has one. If he If, fight against the evils of the parcels s post and the H inroads that it will make upon the business of. the r individual merchant is to be successful, it will take united and heroic effort. This paper, from H the moment the law was passed, has looked upon H t it as a menace to the small towns and a measure H calculated to benefit the big cities, and we have H not yet found any sufficient reason for changing Hp our views, notwithstanding some of the learned H, , philosophy of some of our big city bretheren. Hj 'However, without any doubt, mucn can be done H by proper, united effort to. prevent no little of W the";damage that naturally will result to the small - communities .unless.sb,me"actiql!be taken to pre-. |