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T. L. PUUUKN, KL»rn>W RNll PROF
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your home merchant and you will
find but little difference in the cost.
But do not expect to buy on credit
at thia r «lured price. Iterausr the
Entered at the iMMloffice at Scio, home merchant, nor no other, can
afford to do a credit busineaw on thia i
Oregon aa second class matter.
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There ia and there ought to be a
MUBSt'RIFTtON, IN AtlVANITC
1.60 feeling of mutual regard and a
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willingness to deal fairly l>etween
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the merchant ami his customers. In
tn«- caw of the h<>me merchant and
AnvurruuNu katim
hi* customer, a mutual friendship
Isx-al advertising, per line
6c exists In selling your butter, eggs,
etc., you expect vour merchant to
Display advertising, pel inch
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pay you the liest prices the general
Display advertising. long time, ree
market will allow. Anri, aa a rule,
manager.
the merchant will do this. But how
Extended marriage or death notices
is it with the mail order houses'*
per line
3c
Will they buy your produce? Will
Special rates on long time display
they help build your road* help
advertising.
support your schools, churches, etc?
If you should have your home burn­
UVE AND LET UVE
ed. will the mail order people send
you five or ten dollars to assist you
It is a fact and it cannot lie dis- in rebuilding it? The home mer­
guiaed, the country store keeper, in chant has and will do the** thing»
a business way, is up against a and is an inwrrtant factor in your
serious proposition, these days. He community. When a charily fund
secs his business falling off, when it ia to tie raised, the home merchant
should be normal. He sees hie old is the first to hr railed upon and. be
customers in town occasionally. but it said to his honor, hr always re­
they buy *i>aringly. This condition sponds
The Tribune is well aware that
would not be »urprising except th«:
he finds his neighbor
merchant our home merchants have exacted
effected in the same manner. His good profits on their goods too
goods are of good quality and the
sale price is as low if not lower than
formerly.
Hence, he must seek
elsewhere than in his store or hi*
town for the reason
When he sees the rural mail car­
rier leaving town on his daily round
with his wagon filled high with
parcels post bundles, he has found
a part of the cause ami when he sees
a farm wagon heavily loaded with
various packages, taking the same
from the railroad depot to the
Farmers Union depot of delivery, he
has found about all the rest of the
cause.
But aa men cannot be blamed for
buying where they can buv cheapest
and sell where they cun obtain the
lw«st prices, it is difficult matter to
find a remedy or. in other words, to
pursuade eitixetm to patronise their
local merchanta. It seems to lie up
to the local merchant to find w»me
means to restore former normal
conditions.
It is thought that fully one-half
of the trade which («•long» to the
legitimate Scio territory, is supplied
by mail order houses and by Farmer»
Unions.
Of course all of thia
foreign trade is on an absolute cash
Imai#
There is no loss by l»ad ac­
counts in thia trade.
If our local
merchants would adopt the same
spot cash basis, there does not seem
any reason whv they could not sell
as cheaply. In fact, they will be
forced to do so if they continue in
business
Rut friends, is it good business to
starve out the home merchant? la
It a g'»«>d plan to force all business
to the larger cities and make cow
pastures of your country town?
What effect will It have on your
schools, your churches and the value
of your homea and farma? Instead
of moving forward on the march of
progreas. it will be a step backward.
The reault of thia patronage of
mail order houses and the activities
of the farmers unions, in making
itself felt in ail country towns,
merchants are being forced out of
business because with one-half the
country trade going to the larger
cities, there are too many country
merchanta to survive. Some of them
necessarily forced to the wall. Only
the strongest financially can con­
tinue in business. Now merchanta,
farmers and others, don't you be­
lieve that it would be a good plan
to try and get together in thia mat­
ter? Of course all want to buy
their house supplies as cheaply as
possible and expect to pay spot cash
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c«a»b> or to interfere with non-
<-ontral>and good» going («tween
neutral porta, whether or not the
ultimate destination ia Germany If
they do not intend a blockade, they
have a right toartxe only contral<an<l
destined for Germany, conditional
contndiand when intended fur Ger­
man militor* use. and the ship­
carrying such good» when more than
half the cargo is contraband
The allies wish to prevent goods
of any kind from going to or from
(•ermanv, either directly or indirect­
ly whether contraband or not. Un­
der the rules of Iduckade they could
prevent direct but not indirect trade
with < Germany in non craitrabend
unlcwi they could prove the actual
ultimate destination of g,»<d» to be
(n-rmany.
In order to gain the
sanction of th*-se rules, the allie»
now call their plan of cotnpaign a
blockade, but in order to gam
broader rights than this** rules per
mil. they in effect offer surrender
of *»mr rights which they might
exercise, namely condemnation of all
ships ami cargoes.
An embargo by the combim-d
neutral powers should prove effect­
ive in forcing the allies to bring'
live.
A PIECE OF DIPLO­
(treat Britain and France have
l>een maneuvered by the state de­
partment into a difficult poaitiaa in
maintaining their latest retaliatory
measures against Germany.
The
state department takes a firm stand
on international law with a view to
forcing the allies by moral pressure
to bring their naval warfare on
Germany into conformity with recog­
nised usage. If this pressure fails of
its purpose, the United States will
be in a strong position legally to re­
sort to retaliatory measures short of
hostilities.
Either the allies intend a blockade
or they do not. is the American posi­
tion
If they intend a blockade,
they have a right to confiscate ships
and cargoes which attempt to enter
or leave German porta, but they
have n« right to blockade neutral
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their procedure within international
law
It would throw them as com-
pletely on their own resource» aa
they **ek to throw (Germany and
Were the South American
Austria
eountriee to join in an embargo
large in some cases, He ha * to do Britain and France would lx* depend j
so in order to overcome the bad ent on Canada. Australia and India
debts he make*
With hi* business for grain, meal and horse* and would
on a cash I mui *. he would have no need to make practically all their ’
bad debts and. besides, he would own guns and ammunition them
They could not draw on
have the interest on the good debts »elves
as well. He would be able to t*> Rumis for grain and petroleum un
his wholesaler spot cash for hi* til they hail forced the DardanelliC
goods, consequently
would buy and Bosphorus. Their export trade
cheaper.
would lie terribly diminished at a
Whether you wish to or not Mr time when they need all their re
Home Merchant, you an* going to sources to prosecute the war. The
be compelled to »ell for rash only, dnmage they would suffer might
else go out of businewi in the near prove greater than that which they
future
You are getting but a intlict on Gsrmaay.
«mall |Mtrt of the cash trade anti all
The president could impose an,
of the credit, thus increasing your emliargo only by direct authority
bumness expense If you mark your from congress, which would need
goods up to meet this expense. you t<> hold a special session for that oc­
simply agravate the evil. You are casion. Roth Mr. Wilson and the
losing the choice part of your trade, leadera of congress wish to avoid an
extra session. For that a* well a>
which you can illy afford.
Think about the** things friends' for weightier reaaons resort to an
The conditions are here and must tie emliargo is likely to be seriously
met. The parcel» p<*t is here to considered only after all other means
stay. Likewise the rural mail car­ have failed. But it ia a weapon
rier. mail order houw* and farmers which can be used moat effectively
unions. There h no use to scold, if the allies prove obdurate. Ore­
for that only makes the other fellow gonian
laugh
Your only recourse is to
The i h <-g<>nian accusrs the demo­
meet the prices which is taking
crats
aa Imine the party of deficit.
trade from you. Nor «h<>uld you
The
Tribune
simply suggests that an
feel hurt Mr. Mail Order Farmer,
immense
war
debt was accumulated
if you are refused credit by your
during
from
'61
U> '<56 inclusive. up­
country merchant
on
which
the
country has paid
Thia article is written in all kind­
enough
interest
to pay the debt
ness for both farmers and merchants.
three
times.
At
the
same time. The
We are simply trying to mitigate
an evil which spell», if not ruin, Tribune ia not defending extrava-
great inconvenience to our country. gvnce on the |iart of the present
We must be willing to live and let administration.
MATIC MANEUVER
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THE SCIO TRIBUNE for
paying cash with your purchase
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