Show F PAYING aff FIDDLER 9 1 v G E ALL realize ill that a t i lien hen there is 13 cancin going on ii whether hether it bo be tho nev tangled tango or tho old faslli fashioned ond polka or waltz sonic some only one must pi tile fiddler wo we cinn cannot 0 t hae music iNith without out pacing rat ins for it nor cm can no 0 o hiie hane much of an tiling in t this world horld without pain pacing for it if we lie expect an ana person to do something tor for us us we a expect na natural to do something om ething in exchange for or such banors is we ne recene receive if we me accept fanor but evade enade the responsibility ot of making any ani returns for thorn them it will not be ba ions on before we ne discover that the unpaid for floors become curtailed we become provoked after the minors fivers have stopped and ac knowledge our own stupidity it Is generally too lite late when ahen we nc wake nahe up and then it is merely Tri crell tile he old story over ot of locking the door after the horse has been stolen many mally of us its in this community devote more or less of our time to tho the bilsing of produce or of raTI various OUst kinds we haie vegetables butter ega milk etc to sell we ile find it a convenience to sell boll such products in the local stores some rome of our business men bu buy up the small quantities as well nell as the larger lots and ship all together to the more central this facility for disposing of such articles la Is a great convenience to us if the local storekeepers did not bev our produce it would be difficult for us its to find ft a market in fact there thera would be no market for small quantities except at ruinous prices therefore we ine ire are favored to a ven extent bv the fact that our local storekeeper tore hepper stands read to bev from us this places us under certa certain ill 11 alj actions the local are entitled to some consideration from us its in return now HOW or us ITS appreciate AND AD ACI OX LEDGE THIS r act act nox lion man or of us its think dunk of this v vlen 1 en T ro 0 imie some cash cab to spend spends how dow makiv of us its consider that hit tit the local docil alore eppel is entitled to our trade and that xe wo are morilla bound to consider him ej the proper repository orv tor for our orders and the reinvent reini ent of our rids it is 13 regrettable regret tabe thit that th it mana man of us must prad plead guilty to an entire forgetful ne ness nes s of am feeling of obligation therefore wo re send seni our orders with tho the casi to the mill mail older houses to whom wo owe one we ze z enticed by cleverly written adert s ments and neatly worded descriptions of goods and merchandise so tm we ie deceive ours ourselves into believing them to be true 10 wa lo forget tie local storekeeper and his favors ws forget forge that he is a benefit to ti te e community ard to clery individual in the community we forget that he is affording an opportunity to dispose of 0 our r produce that he has his money in a stock of merchandise that lie he has selected because he believed we would need sic sach articles and colad wish to buy them at home biery r ery dollar T v e c send ann awa a from home to tl e mail order houses brin q us its closer to the limitations of clr local opportunities ei every eirv rv dollar doll ir diverted from local trade adds to the of our trade facil itle at home 0 0 that we ine irp are not onh permitting but xo we ire are i our local merchants to flose close up shop ind go out of business or to moie to some community y where their efforts v ill be more appi edited by our lack of appreciation we are urging our local storekeepers to restrict their extorts to carrying only the lines of merchandise that are the most prof profitable table for them and to cut out all goods that we can buy in the city we are actually inviting disaster im ua U annail A AM TO 10 A RL 1 I 17 TION OF TUB conditions V CIT IS I 1 S ll 11 LIT T US PLACE SONIE SOME limitation ON 0 OUR G aird FOR rissig ING conditions AND AD tik INTO lip lie can re pe whit the must be it if vi a fall to do our share toward supporting the lie establishments of our business men in town for the handwriting hand veltina is written plaint on the wall vall shall we ne read the Niri writing ting and profit b bv the message or shall we ie continue to dance merrily and foolishly on until the time shall come when we ne must paa pa 7 and how hoa shall we pay paya there will be only one way ay to pa pay and that rill ill be with much more than the profit we ne shall haie derived from our dealing with bilth the mail order houses house WE WILL AILL pai UI ESS WE WB AWAKEN TOIA TOA FULL SENSE OF OUR responsibilities AND AT ONCE we wish to dance but let us change tile the tune or the fiddler |