| Show 4 the Th mail eMail order evil y if not long ago while in conversation with a prominent bromine nt citizen our thoughts were turned toward tf v 3 the mail order evil its i 4 causes and effects acts we saw no i f less than three citizens one af ter another send off large orders rs 1 for goods to certain business t A houses hi chica chicago go if these same saine citizens would stop and H investigate things more fully their eyes eye s might possibly be opy ened to the of the wrong they are doing their own town ands and their f fellow ellow ci citizens every tinie time you send your mone out of town for goods v 1 l you can buy at home you do the community you levein a grev ious IOUs wrong if every ona would keep their mone yin circulation f in ill their own town people would be better off where there are only on ay one or oi two stores there would soon be three or four i you will say you can call buy goods in ill chicago cheaper than you ran get the same articles here IL but when you take into confide con side fration the postage the money order the afie freight or express exy bezis you will find there is very i little difference differ once if any in thea the cost of the same articles and athe same class of goods one of the chief reasons our local stores can not sell as cheap as the big chicago houses is the lament able sable s e fact t that hat they 11 have ave f to 0 aar 41 ry so many I 1 a accounts from one years end to an another othor while tile the mail mai order houses do a strictly cash bus business iness i i in i ii fact in most moat cases y youa ou buy goods without knowing what you are getting and pay for them in advance now if a good citizen happens to bo be a little short of m money oney and nd lie he needs need something lie he goes to one one of the local me and gets get 9 whitt what lie he needs to tide him over his tight place on oil his promise to pay lat at some future time let the same man send in an order for a bill of goods to one of the idail order firms and ask for credit we doubt very much if lie he would even receive an answer to his lot let us all try and keep what money we can at home we je are sure if every citizen would patronize his home merchants we would all have more money at the present time mr air citizen when you feel like sending off that next order stop and think a little figure up the cost of getting the goods delivered Ji then go and consult your home merchant and you will see there will be very little difference in the price quality considered let us patronize our home industries dus tries |
