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Show H Will Salt Lalco Papers Answer? H Editor Ilanner: In reading tho Dcse- H ret Nuw sand other local papers of late H among thi multiplicity of reading njnt- H tcr In thoml lmve;rcadvvltli pleasure H' " ' and interest the appeal from tho Ghara- H bcr of Commerce and other sources ask- H ing the people to p' ivnlzo and sustain H homo industries fuuln particular they H ask the local merchants to purchase H these goods and display them before H their custumcrs. Thi r 'hint, Is right H nnd proper and us a du . r I bavo dono HB no with all my might, but T should like H nil explanation, .In if) soon as tho Hhi merchants do all they can to get tho H public to ueo homo mndo articles the H inanufactiiror seems to discover that tho H market Is opened and trnilo Is good and H liu says to himself "I'll just raisa the B rico n my goods and fnako n 111110 H more money." Now I may bo wrong In Hl my judgment but 1 think these Arms M"v.r- i, bavo got through tho orst of tho hold HhU times nnd now why not keep their for- H mcr price, nt lenet for n shor; tlmo un HJj til tho local man has aclirt ijo to get well under way ulth his trade, HM Now I epeak nsono knswing. About HlH n week ago a gentleman gavo mo a call HBk in the interest of a homemade article HflB and "requested me to buy. I made n S purchase at wholesale and when the HB goods arrhd along with them enmo n HlH A circular from tho manufacturer In Salt HVAn Lako stating that he had raised bis pri- HVB ces nway aboe the prlco Iliad pur- HVB chased at. Now will some on'b explain P and let us know why. Is it because we HVAff expect to become a stato, or on account H of the tariff, or what? ff H I.elil, Mar; 13, 1801. |