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Show HOW TO KILL YOUR TOWN. Buy of peddlers a. oft.n and as much aa possible. possi-ble. Pcnounre vour merchants because they mak a protiton their goods. Make your town out a very bad place and .tab it every chance you get. Refuse to unite in any si Seme (or the betterment of the material interest of the people. Keep every cent you gt and don't do anything of a public nature unless you can make something ut ot it directly. Telfyour merchants that you can buy goods a good deal cheaper in some other town and charge them with extortion. If a stranger comes to your town tell him everything it overdone and predict a general crash in the town is the near future. When you have anything to say of your town, sa y it in such a way a. to leave the impression that you have no faith in it Patrontre outside newspaper, to the exclusion of your awn, and then denounce them for not being as large a. the city papers. If you are a merchant, don't advertise in the home papers; buy a rabber stamp aad use it, it may save you a few dimes and make the paper look like it was printed in a ene-horse town. I |