Show HITS AT MAIL ORDER ODDER HOUSES in his annual address before the iowa retail merchants association Asso cation at dubuque last week president J H schaefer took a decided stand against the mail order houses which he naturally holds are a positive and growing menace to iowa business houses and it is just as aa true of every state as iowa these houses he declared are taking much business out of the state while they fail to pay a single dollar in taxes into the state among other things mr schaefer said As I 1 see it there are two wo most important duties for our association to take up the coming year I 1 feel we should tax the mail order and other houses who are annually sending worth of merchandise into our state and not paying paving one penny taxes for the privilege of doing this amount of business I 1 feel that this is a great injustice as the these goods are delivered over our streets by transfer corn panics wearing out the payment which we have laid never giving one cent to the up building of churches or public institutions of any kind no attention is paid to the education of our children simply grabbing the dollar out of our state without paying one dollar for the privilege if this work was take intelligently by each state in the union I 1 am sure we could change this method of doing business to accomplish this and other legislative matter I 1 feel that the association asso cation should be active in in the iowa business council which was established in des moines last year the council comprising all the retail organizations of the state working upon this one proposition and the building up of this council are in my opinion the two important things to accomplish the coming year |