HOME TRADE NOTES
LITTLE GLEAMINGS THAT POINT
MANY MORALS FOR ALL.
A NEW TEN COMMANDMENTS
Carefully Revised by the Catalogue
Houses —Mail-Order Houses and
Pure Foods —The Local
Dealer.
The ten commandments as revised
to fit the mail order catalogue house
plan:
First —You shall sell your farm
products for cash whenever you can,
hut not to us; we do not buy from
you.
Second —You shall believe our
■statements and buy all you need
from us because we want to be good
to you, although we are not person
ally acquainted with you.
Third —You shall send the money
in advance to give us the chance to
get the goods from the factory with
your money; meanwhile you will
have to wait patiently a few weeks
because that is our business method.
Fourth —You shall ap*-ly to your
nearest city to aid you in building
good roads so you may conveniently
get the goods from the depot which
you buy from us, for we do not build
country roads.
Fifth —You shall buy church bells
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Send the lifeline of home trade to your local merchants. When you do
•30 you are not only helping him, but you help your community and yourself.
If you permit the competition of the mail-order houses to engulf him, his de
struction means the destruction of your town and your interests. Keep your
dollars at home.
and interior fixtures from us and for
ward the money in advance, for that
is our business method, and you shall
collect from the business men in
your vicinity as much money as you
-can for the benefit of your churches.
Although we get more money from
you than they do, still it is against
our rules to donate money for build
ing country churches.
Sixth —You shall buy your tools
from us and be your own mechanic,
.in' order to drive the mechanics from
your vicinity, for we wish It so.
Seventh —You shall induce your
neighbor to buy everything from us,
as we have room for more money—
the less money there is left in your
community the sooner we can put
your local merchants out of business
and charge you any price we please.
Eighth—You shall look often upon
•the beautiful pictures in our cata
logue, so your wishes will increase,
although you are not in immediate
need of the goods, otherwise you
might have some money left to buy
necessary goods of your local mer
chants.
Ninth—You shall have the mechan
ics who repair the goods you buy
from us book the bill so you can send
4he money for his labor to us for new
:2joods, otherwise he will not notice
our influence.
Tenth —You shall, In case of acci
dent, sickness or need, appty to your
'local dealers for aid and credit, as
-we do not know you.
The secret of how it has been that
•some of the eastern mall order houses
-which have done business in Montana
•and elsewhere were able to undersell
aocal merchants on some lines of gro
ceries has been revealed. The revela
tion has come about through the oper
ation of the national pure food law.
One of the big mail order concerns,
which has done a great business in
Montana, makes the announcement
that it has closed its grocery depart
ment, giving in a circular its reason
for doing so "because its maintenance
has been made impracticable by the
pure food laws just passed by con
gress."
If that is not an acknowledgment
that the consumers have been fur
bished with adulterated food stuila
when they ordered groceries, then the
English language Is not understand
able. Isy selling the stuff that has
been put under the ban because of its
impurity, the mail order concerns
have been able to undersell the local
merchants living hundreds of miles
away from the great centers of Aip
plv.
In carrying on this trade in impure
goods, the mail order houses have
done the greatest injury to the con
sumer. While the local merchant has
lost some trade, he has had at least
a part of the business of the ranch
man and miner in his vicinity, but
the consumer, who has been caught
by the "cheap" prices offered, has
not got what he has been paying for
by a long way, and there is no way
for him to get even.
As it has proved with the groceries
sent out by the eastern mail order
<• H if* with the other lines
they work oft in ..wuiana. The sad
dles an harness offered at phenom
enally low nrices, the buggies and
wagons, at pritvs which seem almost
like giving the vehicles away, the
kitchen utensils which are priced in
the voluminous catalogues at figures
that indicate the local merchants are
highway robbers, the dry goods that
are offered at such infinitesimal cost
as to compel the ordinary woman to
believe the mail order man is a public
benefactor, all of these eastern mail
order house offerings are on a par
with the proved quality of the gro
ceries they have been selling—fraudu
lent and put out to sell and not for
service. The confession on the gro-
ceries should make the eastern mail
order house patrons think before they
send off another order for "cheap
goods."—Helena Record.
Your local dealer stands ready to
duplicate every offer so seductively
set forth in the catalogues of mail or
der houses and more, says an ex
change. He will trump the best trick
the mail order house ever played if
you will put down the spot cash and
accept from him a class of goods de
void of respectable ancestry, and upon
which no reputable manufacturer will
place his name. He can sell cheap
goods, too, if you will buy them from
him with your eyes shut. He can meet
the best price ever made by a mail or
der house if you will plank down the
money and accept what he gives you
without question and without recourse
—but you must not expect him to be
in his place of business every day in
the year ready and willing to furnish
expert help when you are in trouble,
ready and willing to stand back of ev
erything he sells with his own reputa
tion and the warranty of a responsi
ble company.
Honest, now, don't you really pat
yourself on the back when you spend
your money in such a way that in sup
plying your own wants you help build
up the neighborhood in which you
live? Of course you do, and you act
on that idea yourself, but the trouble
is that you don't talk it enough to
your friends. —Streator (111.) Press.
Home Trade Hints.
A dollar spent at home stays around
home and may return to you after a
few days.
If you want to make your own town
prosperous you will spend your money
in your own town in preference to
some bigger burg a long way off.
The way to start a wagon out of the
mire is for all the horses to pull to
gether. One way to pull together Is
for everybody to patronize home indus
tries whenever possible.
Money in circulation around the
town you live in is much better for
your interests than the same money
In circulation in a city hundreds of
miles away. Your dollar is lonesome
in a big city, but It has friends around
home and is therefore more useful.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 2c, 1907.
THE VERDICT
In the Case of Mayor
Schmitz Is Guilty.
FIRST CONVICTION
In t!ie Campaign Against Municipal
Grafters in San francisco that
Began Several Months Ago.
San Francisco, Cal.—Mayor Eugene
E. Schmitz was Thursday night
found guilty of extorting money from
keepers of French restaurants in this
city. This is the first formal convic
tion in the anti-graft campaign in
augurated several months ago Abe
Ruef, who was indicted for similar of
fenses, pleaded guilty to the charges
and appeared as a witness against
Schmitz.
When the verdict was announced
Schmitz sat unmoved with his hand
to his chin. He apparently did not
understand and asked Attorney Bar
rett: "What Is it?"
"Guilty," said Barrett.
Schmitz's hand dropped to the
table, but he showed 110 other signs
of emotion.
The jury was out an hour and 35
minutes. They elected Charles E.
Capp foreman and at once proceeded
to an Informal, verbal ballot. This
stood 11 for conviction, Juror Burns,
a shoemaker, casting the dissenting
vote. Then the 12 men began a dis
cussion which lasted nearly an hour.
At the end of that time the first
formal ballot was lt lt was writ
ten and was unanimous for convic
tion.
Judge Dunne announced that judg
ment would be pronounced June 27.
Motions regarding the case will be
entertained 011 that date.
The mayor was a prisoner last
night, but will apply for bail pending
an appeal when court convenes to-day.
Even before Judge Dunne reached
the synagogue, hurried thither by an
automobile when the jury was ready
to report, nearly a thousand men had
gathered in Bush street and were
'lamoring at the doors. As Judge
Dunne entered by a rear way th«
crowd surged into the building from
in front.
When Foreman Capp said "Guilty,"
the silence was broken in a hundred
places at once. A long drawn "Ah!"
went through the crowd. Then,
"Good," cried a voice in a far corner.
Rudolph Spreckels, whose wealth
made possible the whole bribe graft
prosecution, was walking swiftly
down the right aisle as the sentence
fell from the foreman's lips. He sank
into a nearby seat as though arrested
by some sharp command.
All over the house people were
jumping up now, and some of them
turned to the strangers at their el
bows and thrust out their hands in
the enthusiasm of a long looked for
moment, and said: "Shake."
Pullman Co. Denies Law's Validity.
Washington, D. C. —An answer
questioning the constitutionality of a
part of the railroad rate law was filed
with the inter-state commerce com
mission by George S. Loftus, of St.
Paul, involving sleeping car rates.
The complaint alleged that the Pull
man company exacted unreasonable
charges and urged the commission to
compel the company, under the re
cently enacted railroad rate law, to
reduce by an order the fares charged
by the company. The company's an
swer insists that the charges are just
and denies the authority of the com
mission to issue the order demanded
by Loftus.
Found One of the 11 Victims.
Norfolk, Va. —The body of Cox
swain Robert H. Dodson, of the
battleship Minnesota's launch which
with its 11 occupants went to the bot
tom of Hampton Roads Tuesday
night, was found floating in the roads
Thursday and last night reports were
circulated, but almost immediately
denied, that the other bodies had
been recovered. It now seems to be
accepted in naval circles that the
launch was run down by a coal barge
shortly after the boat carrying the 11
men left Discovery Landing.
A Black Hand Outrage.
Washington, Pa. What is be
lieved to be a Black Hand out
rage occurred early Thursday at the
home of James Kefover, a farmer of
Zollarsville, near here, when a glycer
ine bomb exploded, partially wreck
ing the building and tearing a large
hole in the ground. Nobody was in
jured. Last week Kefover received
a letter from an alleged Black Hand
society demanding SI,OOO to prevent
the destruction of his property.
Longshoremen's Strike Failed.
New York. —The longshoremen's
union at a meeting Thursday night
declared off the general strike of the
longshoremen in this city. Tho strik
ers will return to work at the wage
rate received before the strike began.
A Fatal Collapse.
Canonsburg, Pa. —Two men were
fatally injured and 400 min
ers were imprisoned in the Manifold
mine, near here, for three hours
Thursday by the collapsing of an en
gine house roof which broke the air
compressor connections.
Floods in Western Pennsylvania.
Pittsburg, Pa. —Heavy rains during
the last Isli hours have caused
considerable monetary damage
throughout western Pennsylvania.
Small streams overflowed their
banks, inundating the lowlands.
NEARS ITS DISSOLUTION
RUSSIA'S PARLIAMENT LIKELY TO
BE ENDED FOR DISOBEY
ING PREMIER'S ORDER.
Hs Demands that 55 Members of the
Duma be Suspended for Plotting
to Overthrow Government.
St. Petersburg, Russia. —The disso
lution of the lower house of the Rus
sian parliament appears to be a
question of only a tow hours, or at
most of a day or two.
With only 100 opposing votes the
lower house last night rejected Pre
mier Stolypln's ultimatum for the im
mediate suspension of 55 deputies for
membership in the social democratic
party and referred the subject to a
committee. Although the committee
has been instructed to report this
evening, it is known in advance that
the decision on the main question will
be ad/erse, and that the duma will
accept the recommendation.
In order to keep strictly within the
legal limits, the committee may rec
ommend the suspension of 16 leaders
011 condition that the government dis
close the evidence against them, but
there is not the slightest expectation
on either side that this will save the
situation.
Premier Stoiypin demanded that
the lower house of parliament exclude
from the house all the members of
the social democratic faction, number
ing 55, and sanction tho arrest of 10
of their leaders 011 the charge of en
tering into a conspiracy to overthrow
the government and establish a dem
ocratic republic. The premier an
nounced that unless the house imme
diately yielded parliament would be
dissolved.
Simultaneously with the delivery of
the government's ultimatum squads
<.f police took possession of the lodg
ings of all social democrat deputies
and seized their papers, evidently
prepared to make arrests so soon as
tho decision of the house became
known.
The session of the St. Petersburg
committee of the social democrats
was attended by a large number of
the accused deputies. The committee
is discussing a proposal to proclaim
a general strike in the capital. This
meeting is being held in secret, the
police having occupied the headquar
ters of the party. Remembering tho
fiasco of the strike called after the
dissolution of the last duma, the com
mittee is hesitating to adopt this
measure, altht ugh delegates from the
workmen in all quarters of the city
report that, the conditions are ripe for
a successful Industrial strike and that
there is a possibility of extending the
movement to the railroads centering
in St. Petersburg.
POUND AT LAST.
Launch that Was Lost in Hampton
Roads with 11 Men of the Navy on
Board Is Located.
Norfolk, Va. —After many hours
of weary dragging of the waters
of Hampton Koads in a systematic
searcli by the navy for the bodies of
the II victims of the sinking of the
battleship Minnesota's launch on
Tuesday morning, a grappling party
last night located the launch and
bodies of the men in eight fathoms of
water off the Ripraps.
The diver who went down to ex
amine the launch reported that the
heads and arms of three men were
protruding from beneath the canvas
covering, the men having made a des
perate fight for life.
All day long the search had been
kept up in the vicinity of the course
likely to have been taken by the party
011 its return from Discovery Pier at
the exposition grounds to the warship
lying at anchor in the roads.
Washington, I). C. —Official no
tice of the finding of the battleship
Minnesota's ill-fated launch, which
went to the bottom of Hampton Koads
with 11 occupants on Tuesday morn
ing, was received by the navy depart
ment last night in a message from the
commander of the Atlantic fleet. The
dispatch says the launch was grappled
by the dragging party and that the
launch was expected to be raised last
night. Several bodies were found,
but "on account of the confined
space" the number could not be
counted.
REVIEW Of TRADE.
Conditions are Not Satisfactory Be
cause of Bad Weather.
New York.—R. G. Dun & Co.'s
Weekly Review of Trade Says:
Despite some improvement, weath
er conditions have continued adverse
for retail trade at most points, and
business is only stimulated by bar
gain sales. Prospects for fall distri
bution are brighter because of the
better crop reports, and manufactur
ers receive liberal orders for next sea
son. Current conditions, however, are
not satisfactory, and mercantile col
lections are below normal, except in
sections where country storekeepers
have been enabled to make prompt
settlements.
Record-breaking production of pig
iron without causing accumulation is
ample evidence of unprecedented ac
tivity in the steel industry. Imple
ment makers buy bars regardless of
reports that crops are smaller, and
tho congestion at pipe and sheet mills
is not relieved.
A Labor Law Is Knocked Out.
Albany, X. Y. —The court of ap
peals in a d -cision rendered Fri
day declared the law recently passed
by the legislature which prohibits tho
employment o.' women in factories bo
fore ti a. 111. and after 9 p. m.to bo
unconstitutional.
A Famous Agreement Is Abrogated.
Now York. —The agreement be
tween the Harriman interests
and the Rock Island Co. entered into
in 1904, for the alternate control of
the Chicago & Alt.<ll railroad has been
abrogated by mutual consent.
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