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Show cbanta, I think they will receive o moat hearty support aa customers. Why la It that ahoea at Delta ai Hinckley are marked from $4. no ti.C0 when the Identical ahoea can I boil Klit at llolden or Scljilo for fri $.1.00 to $3.60. la It because you ps mora freight? No, that can't be the reaaon, wh you consider that llolden freights in I lea by team. It la because the pro Ita are much higher and In name cas unreasonable, ranging on many art cles from 40 to 100 per rent. I thin I will almoMt be safe In saying an a erage of 50 per cent. Can thla be I the aplrlt of fairness to the farmer c a get-rlch-qulck achemeT Why ahoul the merchant put f0 renta out of ever ft. 50 lliut he reeelvea Into hla ow pocket? At that rate the country ca aupport one merchant for every tw farmera and other laborera. We don need quite that muny merchant. Why la It that ahovels can be bough for 80 centa on the "Kant fide" an from 90c to $1.00 on the "Went Side. Sack on the West Side, 10 to I centa, on the k'ast Sido, 7 to 10 centi and ao on down the lint on an lunu merable tUt of giNMla. In fact, I kno of no exception. Where the Wen Hide prlcea can compete with tho on the Kaat Hide, ,1a the buyer belnj treated fairly? la it any wonder tha when this condition prevalla. we mual resort to the mall order business u. let what we consider Justice? I, and I believe other, would be (lad to pay local dealer a little mor 'or good than to aend away for them, nit when the odd are aa great aa hey sometimes are, one muat buy a loea the merchant, "where he can get he beat deal." Another reaaon why It would be bet-er bet-er to buy at home la that you can aee vhat you are getting, and do not have o wait, but we can better afford to talt a little for moat thlnga than pay xorbltant prlcea for them. I have bought, inen'a hose through he mall order houses for 13 centa per air that would outwear any that I ver bought at home at prlcea from 1.1 o 60 centa, an average price about 30 enta. Shirt for GO centa thut would oat from 7.i centa to $1.25 at home. hoes for $3 that could not be repla.-d repla.-d at home for tea than 1 4. .10. Hand-lercblef Hand-lercblef for 15 centa that would coat lie 25 centa bere. Doea It pay to tend away? Thla lower price la not nly on the article named, but an nnumerable Hat of thlnga can be men-loned. men-loned. Yet, merchant aometlmea feel that v are In duty bound to hand over to hem thoe few centa and aometlme lollara, that we can aave by doing ii r bualneaa eUewhere. la not the lollar that I ran aave on a pair of hoe a by Bending away going to do he community Juat aa much good aa f that l were In the hand of the nerchanta. Yea, In my opinion, more, ran ipend It to Improve my farm, to uy fine bred atock to put on the arm, or In many other way which rill help to rata the value of my eighbor'a land a well a my own. There aeema to be an Idea that If ou aend away for good a you are aend ig your money out of the country, ut If you patronlxe the home mer-hant. mer-hant. It la kept at home. Yet the terchant aend a hla money out of the Dim try the aame aa the mall-order tan. All he keep la the difference ptween what be pays and what he celvea. If a number of farmera nd away for a carload of potatoea nd aave aeveral hundred dollar tereby, that-aeveral hundred dollar 111 be apent In the community the ime aa If the merchant had bought ie potatoea. Tha only difference It lat it la apent by a number of farm-a farm-a Instead of the mercnant. Kvery up-to-date merchant who , keepa full atock and a wide variety of good, who buya for caah and Bella for , cuah ao that the paying cuatomer doea , not have to pay the loea of the dead beat, who keepa track of tha market t and buya In large enough lota to get the ndvantage of low freight rate, can make hla prlcea o low that very few of hla cuatomera will patronlxe mail order houaea, for nearly every cuatomer la quite willing to pay a little more to the local merchant. Hut when a merchant, through lack of capital, cannot keen a aufflclent atock or la not a good buyer, or thru bad management baa heavy loaaoa, h cannot expect that the farmera will cheerfully pay exccaalve prlcea almply by demanding that he "patronize the home merchant." The farmer haa not ao much money to attend that he doea It for purely acntlmrntal reaaona. Lower prlcea mean a larger volume of bualneaa, a quicker turn-over of merchandise and a larger balance for the merchant In the bank at the end of tht year. A WKHT E1DK FA KM Kit. MAIL ORDER BUSINESS VS. HOME TRADE. t Koine time ago I noticed In the col- t iiiuns of the Chronicle a complaint from aome of the merchant against f the people for patronizing the "mall irdefluuaeB In preferenee to local . dealers. Several week ago, when the Utah Hjeclal train waa at Delta, it was suggested by one of the speaker that should always patronize our home merchants. To this I ay amen, on j. condition that' they, In tin n, give a fair deal to their customer, which, I . am sorry to say, la not always the case. When the merchant la unreasonable with prlcea on hi good and offers to . the farmer for bla produce prices that are abomlnabla and little better than nothing, then there I something wrong, and It la time for the buyer " to look elsewhere tor a fair deal, aa aometlmea It aeema impossible to get them at home. Yet the cry la con- 0 tlnually: "Patronize your merchanta!" d Let ua change It for once and aay, "Merchanta, be FAIR to your custom- 1 era." This, of courae, applies more " particularly to aome merchanta than n other. If a few queatlon could be ' answered aatlafactorily by the mer- b |