Noted Reformers Views on
Present Day Tendencies
A leading Alliance business man,
ho talus a grcait deal of interest
in the welfare of the retail mer
chant and his relation to the great
mail order houses of the big cities,
has handed u the following article,
whlclh is an extract from an address
delivered by John B. Hammond, the
noted reformer and purity worker.
The connection of the 'big mall or
der houses, which are supported
anl kept up by business sent from
the small' towns and country, with
the white slave traffic, Is vividly
portrayed. This article Is well
wortlh reading.
"After viewing the social evil and
white slave conditions as we find
them in our country today, our r.ext
thought must be as to the causes
that are responsible for thee con
ditions. In fact we must establish
the cause before we can. decide on a
prevention or prescribe a remedy.
"A few years ago the retail mer
chant of 'the village and cross roads
was the commercial schoolmaster of
his neighborhood. It was here the
boys and girls from the farm, the
shops, the mine and' the homes,
with a naftural Inclination for a
commercial life, received their first
instructions in the rules of com
merce. The village general merchant,
hardware and implement dealer,
clothier, boot and hoe dealer, etc.,
were constantly looking for appren
tices and help to conduct their bus
iness from among the boys and
girl of their patrons. The imple
ment man selected a boy here who
showed a natural aptitude for ma
chinery, the grocer or general mer
chant selected another from an ad
joining farm, the dry goods dealer
selected a bright and clever girl and
as likewise dlkl the milliner and
dressmaker. As fast as boys and
girls could be spared from the farm,
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the shop, the mine or the home,
who desired to follow a commercial
life, they found a place In which to
receive practical lessons in the bus
iness they desired to follow.
"From these local stores they
were finally promoted to positions
cf trurt and importance In the larg
er cities, or became partners with
the local merchant he worked for,
or succeeded him. If the young
man entered life In the large city,
he dkl so with a valuable knowledge
of the arts of trade and the prin
ciples of honesty and square deal
ing Instilled into his very heart by
his friend, the retail merchant. His
character had been formed and de
veloped under the very eyes of par
ents and boyhood acquaintances.
"This class of recruit for the
great centers of population gradually
developed Into prince of finance,
Into merchant-kings, into the very
bulwarks of the city and nation.
This pure, clean blood; firmly es
tablished characters, from the coun
try, lias ever been the salvation of
the city.
"Theee village stores not only
furnished a rendy market for the
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produce- of the farm, hut thry nlaj
furnished a market for the surplus
' hoys and girl, with natural Inclina
tions for other than Uvea of agricul
ture, mechanics, etc. I saw many
boys, whem I can now recall, ad
mitted into the stores of n small
village t.f net, over 300 inhabitants.
I aw them behind tho counters day
after day; I saw them after they
had learned their commercial les
sons, with their characters estab
lished and their habits formed bid
ding their life-time friends goodbye,
before takl.ne lho.tr ricimrtnro ti o
jdUtant city to assume new and
greater responsibilities for which we
all knew thc-y were capable. We
were all anxious for euh boy's suc
cess, and he realized that the great
er his success the greater our pride
would be in him. In the little store
he vacated another promising boy
in the neighborhood takes his place.
He ever has tn mind the success of
the boy before him, which 13 an in
centive for htm to do his best.
"Today thl9 condition Is rapidly
changlrg, but we seem to be almost
unconscious of the change. The
little village and country Flore In
fast, disappearing, or sinking Into a
nonentity. In many sections the
buildings that once were the cen
ters of trade and activity are closed
and fast decaying. Annually thous
ands are either driven Into bank
ruptcy at less desirable occupation".
Many of those remaining are so lim
ited in their trade capacity 3 to
net require either hired help r ap
prentices. No lcarer is there any
envy or jealousy because some boy
has procured a pcsltion with a local
niertuant desired by many, as was
the ase a few years ago. Xo long
er is the local merchant watchin;;
fcr the most promising boy to' take
into his store, next. No longir is
the village or country ftore the cen
ter of social activity. No longer are
the stcrcfl the schools in Wh'ch were
founded great business characters.
Why this change?
"Let us lock for the cause. We
go to the. great centers of popula
tion and we find colossal fortunes
being accumulated through mam
moth retail concerns. We see the
crders for the farmers', mechanics'
and miners' needs a piled high on
these mall order 'des-ks. We see
the business that at one time made
the local merchant prosperous now
making the great, soulless corpora
tions more prosperous. That the
consumer may save a few cents on
some manufactured or Imported ar
ticle he has sacrificed dollars, by
trading through the mail in the
great city. He has not enly destroy
ed his local market for hU products,
but also destroyed the opportunities
for his beys nmd girls.
"Boys are born with natural In
clinations for commerce, transporta
tion, mechanics, agriculture and the
higher professions and their highest
succces lays In the path of their na
tural inclination. True, schools
have been established for the pur
pose of Instructing youth fjr these
various callings. These instructions
are all based on theory and b.t very
little cf the practical contained in
.hem. All the books in the world
on mechanics, committed to mem
cry, would not make a carpenter
nor an engineer. He must do the
aictual woik under a master. The
same thing can be caid of agricul
ture or any profession, and this
principle Is doubly true In the great
science of commerce. When the
farmer, the mechanic, tihe profession
al man, by his ac of patrontzinlg a
great retail corporation of a foreign
thus cripples or destroys the latter!'
he la robbing the boy or girl of ha
neighborhood, who wishes to follow
a commercial pursuit, of the privil
ege of acquiring the knowledge and
practice which these local institu
tions alone can afford. What Is thet
result ct ins en-anger ine Doy de
siring to follow a commercial pur
tiuit, takes a commercial courss in
some local school or correspondence,
school, and without any actual ex-
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lng people in a business way, and
without a character established, he
ia V once deprived of the Influence
nrd r strrlnt of home and friends
and finds himself In a great city
suit umled by strange is and the
r iy's alluring temptations. The
straistr'si face has no restraining
influence, and bis character Is not
sufficiently developed to assist him
In resisting temptation and he falls,
and becomes a victim to vicious hab
its. Instead of the success that a
strong, well developed manhood
would have insured we have a fail
ure and a menace to our Institu
tions. If he does not fall into evil
ways, at the beet, he becomes but a
cog In a great machine, and is lost
to the world. Again we find his
sister, being prepared by he same
Incompetent system of schooling, and
provided with a diploma, showing
her qualifications as a stenographer,
bookkeeper, short 'Story writer or
some other profession. Without that
practical experience, which should
have been afforded her through some
prcperoua local merchant, he en
ters the city and takes her place
with a great horde of other girls,
similarly inefficiently equipped, and
struggling for existence. She be
comes a victim for white slavers
and an early and dishonored grave.
"There are but two alternatives
for this dilemma. You must sup
port and maintain your local mer-
FLOOD IN DRY COUNTRY
Correspondent Writes cf Cloud
Burst In Mountains of Idaho,
Flooding Valley
MR. LIBBY'S SECOND LETTER
Welder, Idaho, July i6, HH.1.
Tclse had qul.'e a flood. Water
wi.t dewn a gulch and fprrnd over
twenty-five blocks- of the residence
section. Cellars were flooded, lawnut
ruined and skie walks covered' with
frcm two to 4x Inches of mud,
caused by a cloudburst In the moun
tains et the head of what is called
Hulls Oulch, which cnt a volume of
muddy water ix feet In height and
a liluk wide Into the c'ty at the
north end and spread over twenty
five- blocks, doing thousands of dol
lara worth of damage to the resi
dence property In that part of the
city. This happened Thursday the
21th. At the same time between
llolse and Welser, In what they call
the Willow Creek country, the
damage ia said to be over $150,000.
The water came down the canyon
twelve feet high, one ninn lost 30
nireis cf grain, another lost 40 acres
tf barley and 15 tons of hay In the
- tack, and his barn and wagom and
farm Implements. Another lost 7
hogs, 2 wagons, a new buggy, 20 tons
of rny and all of his crops. An
c iitr lcet 30 hogs and all farm ma
chinery and wagons and 70 acres of
a -::ilfu and ft 111 others all along the
valley suffered more or less. At
Wc'.ser we Just had a nice rain dur
ing the forenoon.
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ability. Dr. Ilcwtro-m, the ro lrlnR
veterinarian, any he 1 "abo.e the
average" ami commends the ap
pointment. WILL FEED CATTLE IN TEXAS
John Murphy writes frcm San
Juan. Texas, requiring that h
ncldrcfs for The Herald be changed
j . i ii
to that place from lakeside, Nebr.
He says: "Just got back frcm a
trip over to Mexico where I bought
a bunch of cattle which 1 am going
to put on feed down here. This
country Iws got the world bp-it for
raising crops. We have corn that
is going one hundred bushels to th
acre and alfalfa eight to ten tons,
besides we will get a winter crop."
chant, and through him provide an
opportunity for your boys and girls
who desire to follow a life of com
merce to get th preliminary train
ing and build their character at
home, or you may patronize the
large, soulles corporations, with
all their deceptive and fraudulent
advertising, of the great oJty, and
send your boys and glrlis desiring
commerce ns a profession, to them,
unprepared and unable to meet the
despeiate questions they must solve.
This U the one great cause of our
madern commercialized vice, and the
LsfIs cf white filavery. Every time
you write an order to a foreign mail
order house Instead of patronizing
your local merchant you are paving
the way for the ruin of some boy,
for the destruction of some girl.
This, I clap as the first great
cauin; cf molern commercialized vice
and white slavery.
"All Investigations into the cause
for commercialized vice lays a large
proportion of the blame at the door
of low wages; wages Insufficient to
sustain life. The grejit department
mail order houses are largely re
sponsible fcr this condition. As a
result we see the boys 'of ttw coun
try ddstriots robbed of their man
hood, the girls of their virtue, and
the city of its greatest resource,
the pure blood aad moral courage
of the country.
'The patronage of these mall or
der institutions in nothing more nor
les than llcentlng them to coin the
blood cf your boys and glrU into
dollars, and the few pennies you
may save In the original' purchase
's your share of this blood money.
Will you continue the partnership?"
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FAIN 3 SPECTACULAR
roiLB mmmmz- displays
rara3SEr FIREWORKS
Jl
m
Albert C. Reynolds to Jennie
Reynolds: NK4, Sty
XW4. Sty of 21-2852 1
Susan J. Holdrldge' to James
Keeltr: Ixt 8, blcck 4, Sec.
Co. addition, Alliance 1325
Kllzabeth A. Scrlbner to James
Butler: NWty 102551 200
Edwin. G. Kirk to M. C. Hub
bell, Lets 6 and 7, block 9,
original town, Alliance .... 1
George S. Miller to William
Haper, Let 1, bloc o. South ,
Alliance V)
Sophia Weinel to Peter Weln
el: Los 6 and 6, block 1,
Johnston 't addition. Alliance, 1
Uman B. Cornell to A. Die
bolt, Jr.. NWty 4-26-49 .... S300
Dierks' Lumber Company to
Oscar O'Dannon, tract 2, of
SEV4 35-25-48 275
Thomas S. Leith to Albeit Un
der wcod: NEV4 26-24-51 ... 4500
Guy O. Sprowls to Wlltlam Fo
ket: Lets 17 and 18, block
25, original town, Hemlng
ford 1400
Clare O. Marks to WllHam
King: Lot 3, block 1, sec. co.
addition, Alliance 600
Hattie Wheeler Johnson to
Mary A. Ward: Ixt 18. blk.
17, oris, town, Hemingford, 1000
C. A. Burlew. Exe.. to William
Wllken: NWty 9-27-49 4800
Lincoln Land Company to II.
T. Carey: Let 8, blork "E".
Sheridan addlt'on to Alli
ance 225
Kl tle A. Mackey Peabody to
Fannie Shanklln: NEi 34-24-49
1600
Wm. Roy ShankHn to Fannie
Shanklln: W4 21, SKty 28,
NWty 34,all in 24-49 1200
United States o Jeaper Jes
perten: Section 32-2-6-50 ..Patent
United States to Samuel J.
button: Ety SEty, NWty
SEVi. NEVi SW4 27-24-50. patent
United States to Henry Brus,
Iot 1. 2. 3. Sty NEVi , SE
'i. SEV4 NWty, Kty SWli.
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United States to Benjamin F.
Elaea. 7-25-61 Patent
United States to Stephen Dol
an. Wty NWV4. Wty SW'i.
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as at ate veterinarian to surccJ Dr.
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the position under appointment of
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graduate of the Indiana Veterin: ry
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