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Show CIAJJ STATIJSASS9C1AI12S WHERE DO YOU BUY? Do you buy your goods of your home dealer or of some far-away catalogue house, which in nicely worded letters and voluminous catalogues cat-alogues offers apparently great bargains? bar-gains? Now when the next catalogue comes from your mail order house, draw up an easy chair and read it carefully and permit us to mention some things they omit. For instance see if you can find any reference in the:T catalogue to their paying cash or exchanging goods for wheat, oats, corn, beans, butter, eggs and hay. How much do they pay for cattle, sheep, hogs, f. o. b. your depot? How much tax will they pay to support your school? and educate your children? How much for improving im-proving your roads and bridges, for supporting the poor of the county, for the general expenses of running the. business of the township, county and State? On what page dD they .offer to contribute money to the church? What line of cred t will 'they extend to you when your cropf are poor and money gone or, .through illness, or misfortune, you 'are not able to send cash w'.th order?" or-der?" Is there any offer to o.urlb ute to your entertainment next year? In fact, will they do anyli'rjj tr provide a market for what you have to sell and thereby keep up the val ue of your home? Will they do anything any-thing whatever for social, church, school or Government support, or do they simply take your dollars ouit of file community with no returns re-turns whatever except the goods yoj buy? Give this matter your careful iin-r:errd!ced iin-r:errd!ced through, then call or yo tr local dealer, where you can ser the good? before you buy and make ccmpar:sr.-t r? prices and qualities You will find that you can do as well or better at home and you keep your money at home and you hel; to build up your local town, anr in case anything sho.ild by some means turn out to be not just ex actly what you wanted your local dealer is there to set tilings right and fnake he deal satisfactory with yen. |