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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 3, 1908)
Ml LU. L JV 1 n patronizing your home industries you build up your home town. They are the backbone of any town. Be loyal to them. They are loyal to you. ml Y 1 KTHE The Western Newspaper Union WHOLESALE PAPER DEALERS 126 No. 14th St Lincoln, NcbrasKa 20th Century Blend Goffoo 20c A POUND ROASTED AND PACKED BY H.P.LAUCO.,Lincoln LINCOLN FLOUR MILLS 4 H. O. BARBER & SONS Why use outside Flour when we make as good Flour as money can buy, and when you buy our Flour your money stays here to help build up your county and town. When you want that big-white-loaf kind, ask for this brand: LIBERTY FLOUR Patronize Your Home Jobbers Tilton & Phelps Furniture Co. Wholesale Furniture LINCOLN, NEB. In patronizing your State jobbers you help build up your home interests. Think it over. NO GOODS SOLD AT RETAIL Meadow Gold Butter BEATRICE CREAMERY COMPANY Lincoln, Nebraska Yotos Lumber ft Coal Company Lumber and Building Material of all kinds and quantity. iV-st Hard and Soft Coal. The best way to curtail the mail order buine?: to fell the best good at live-and-let-live prices and that is what you get when you trad? with the Yaita Lumber and Coal Co. Let us figure with you. REMEMBER WE SELL COAL CURTIS (BAMLfTT COMPANY Manufacturers of SASH, DOORS, MOULDINGS AND INTERIOR FINISH Lincoln. Nebraska ASSETS OVEB $2,600,000 in Farm Mortgages THE OLD LINE BANKERS LIFE Lincoln, Nebraska Dierks Lumber oriel Goal Co. MANUFACTURERS OF YELLOW RI1NE AND OAK LUMBER Wholesale and Retail. All our lumber sheds are under cocer. Largest stock of lumber in Nebraska. We are altoays trilling to meet any and all competition, stock and our customers tcho haoe traded tcith us for years, are our best reccommendations. Our LET US FM G U R E WITH YOU HOW, ARE YOU TREATING THEM f AIR? Now. la all fair dealing, is it right to ask your local merchant to take your rfu?s, butter, beans and potatoes, vhich are all perishable articles, in ex change tor his goods, then send your cash money out of town to parties who do not help to pay the taxes, or hich would not lend you a dollar or lei you have any goods if you did not have the money to send? How many farms have been paid for by your merchants advancing both the goods necessary to keep life in the body and cash to meet that dreaded interest ou the mortgage? I ask some of our merchants if any of their customers ever asked them to name quantity prices on goods, and the reply was the same, that they ha J no chance to figure. Is tHs fair? Would you like it under the same conditions? Would you trust your merchant in the same way he trusts ou? I am afraid he would have a poor how for a living if he had to be trusted. The most of the goods I haTe seen come from these houses could not be sold by your merchant at prices those Louses get. simply for the reason that o could compare the goods with others of the same kind which were n.uch better for the price asked and our judgment would rather pay more for an article you could see woulJ give you more value. You will find your merchant ready and willing to figure with you for rpot cash in quantity even if you do owe him a bill past due and you are not ready to meet it- The trouble with almost ail of us is that we lack moral courage to come out and face things which we think will be unpleasant. TO THE LADIES YOUR HOME BANKS 3 6 I i I Dear Madam: We note that you have received a shipment of Soap Club goods. Did you ever consider that the so-called Soap Concerns and Mail Or der Houses do not pay any taxes into our city or county treasury with, which our schools are maintained, streets and bridges built? Do you consider that they do not contribute to our churches and charitable institutions, or our poor? When you need money for Uie use or improvement of your city do you solicit from Soap Club Concerns or Mail Order Houses? "Xo." You call on your home merchants. Your husband, father or brother is employed by some merchant or manu facturer of your city. Then why should you injure the business of cur city and take away his employ ment by ordering goods from these concerns? We believe and hope you have more interest in your home town than you have in Soap Club Concerns. We know those who are thus en gaged. We know who furnish, em ployment to members of your family. We also know you can buy your goods as cheap or cheaper at home, "qual ity and quantity considered." Give this serious thought and help build up your home town and her trade and thereby help yourself and the city by giving this trade to your home merchants. A Don't fienJ your money to mail order houses to deposit. Your Home Hanks are the only safe places g to keep it and they will pay you as good interest as g can be had, and then you run no risk as in such cases g as the "Cash Buyers Union", failure and the "Peoples a? Mail Order Bank" .of St. Louis. The home banks will grant you favors, the mail order houses never do. g WHAT GOVERNOR FOLK SAYS Governor Folk's address to the re ml merchants of Missouri at their convention was the feature of the ses-' cion. Tne governor said: "We are proud of our splendid cities, and we want them to increase in wealth and population and va also want our country towns to grow. We srrsh the city merchants to build up. but we also desire the country mer chants to prosper. I do not believe fp the mail-order citizen. If a place is good enough for a man to live in and to make his money in, it is good enough for him to spend his money in "Xo merchant can succeed without advertising in 'one way or another. Patronize your town papers, build iaetu up and they will build the town up and build you up increased trade and greater opportunities. Do not be afraid that business is going to be hurt by the recent exposures of wrongdoing in the commercial world. Xo man who is doing an honest busi ness can be injured by the light. AP. business will be better for the cleans ing process it is going through and for the stamping out of evil." HOME TRADING CHEAPEST Xever send away for goods you can buy at home. Every time you send a dollar to a Mail Order House that dollar, as far as you and your community are concerned, is practic ally out of circulation. Tour home merchant is the- one who helps to keep up your schools, your churches and your town. He is the one who de serves your trade and not some cat alogue house in Chicago. Buying your goods away from home you deal with strangers. Buy from printed description. Send money in advance. Wait for goods and fret. Fay freight and charges, complain of errors. Always pay full regular prices. Support city stores. Always pay spot cash in advance. Buying here at home you Deal with neighbors. Buy with goods before you. Pay when you get the goods. Work and make money. Get goods delivered free. Return goods if not right. Build up your home store. Kelp build up your home town by j spending your money at home. If you want a faror you do not go to the city store to ask for it. What Nail Order Houses Will Rot Do The Mail Order business is the quack doctor of commerce. It prom ises much and guarantees nothing. Lake patent medicine the directions are always on the outside and you have to buy a non-returnable package before you can find out what they are. Xo Mail Order House - helped to build the little white school house in your district or turnpike the road just past your door. No Mail Order House ever took you by the hand when yon were in distress and told you to let that little account go until after har vest next year. Xo Mail Order House ever sold you a vehicle and spent every cent of its profits right in the community where you and your neigh bors could get it all back again. Mail Order House ever shoved its tatent leather Shoes under your table and rejoiced with you when yon were glad, nor spoke encouraging words of affliction, nor stood with un covered head beside the graves when your children died. Xo, the Mail Order House is after money. Every dollar it gets its hands on will be jerked out of your neigh borhood forever. The Mail Order House may bear upon its face the semblance of friendship, bnt no hu man heart beats under its cloak of hypocrisy. Sentiment to it is un known. The whole institution is as cold and bloodless as a corpse. All the Mail Order Houses in Chris tendom would not increase the value of your farm a cent They are para sites to whom life is only possible as 1 long as they can rack blood oat of the communities, to tne upbuilding of which they contribute nothing. They create no local market for the prod ucts you nave for sale. They have to property in your county which cam be assessed to help bear yoor bardrt. of taxation. Year local dealer need neither ad vocate nor defense. His method rest upon principles that have built up Is this country a system of Internal ceta tuerce which is the marvel and admi ration of the world. His business legitimate because Us saccesa eoetrife i.ies to the general prosperity of tnr community that built it spw Honestly, now, don't yoa really pat yourself on the back when you speed your money in such a way that in supplying yoor own wants yon hefa build np the neighborhood in which yen live? Of coarse you do, and yen act on that Idea, yourself, bat the trouble is you dont talk It enough to your friends. Stand by yoor local dealer as be stands by yon with his time. hi skill and his money. He helps to build a? the community and he makes it a better place for you bofh to Bve. His own success depends upon year pros perity. He has no use for mavericks nnbranded junk. He swears hy th goods branded with the trademark of the most skilled manufacturers on earth goods the like of stick aw other generation ever saw, and he na an abiding faith in the theory that Che best vehielea la the world today ar ncne too good for that major general of an the industries The America citizen.