■w • e * i.. i' I V » • » r ' ‘M * a ‘ As.s li t- . p.t «. s* • • • .J6’ "A ♦ r * * S • - - % to •- A «• ff 41- * ‘ • •'* * t * a 3 T. L. PUUUKN, KL»rn>W RNll PROF of V» 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. basu II 26 There ia and there ought to be a MUBSt'RIFTtON, IN AtlVANITC 1.60 feeling of mutual regard and a AT KNtl or YKAR willingness to deal fairly l>etween MU MONTH* .76 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 I Oc 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 — • .*•*••* • • I JF-^ *' * /J * ê >* r 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 ï V * < i > -Lam* tessi 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 •«K < > 4 * them Try this same plan THE SCIO TRIBUNE for paying cash with your purchase ISSVM> MVUIÏ IHIRMHAY UY I •’ * ***/ • « a . * * * A- ' -, • • I t » • • . . • • ‘A . • , *• ■ •i’’ • f. e g • i 1 . 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