I propose to meet the prices of the depa...

STATEMENT THAT IS VERY FAIR

I propose to meet the prices of the department stores or catalogue houses.

All I ask is that you deal with me on the same bisis that you deal with the catalogue house, and give me the same amount of time to get the goods which It would require to get them from them.

Plank your money down when you order the goods, and I will meet each and every price they make, and furnish you the same goods, or better ones, at the same prices they offer you.

I will go further. I won't ask you to take any goods where mistakes are made in ordering; I will shoulder the mistakes.

If any of you have ever had anything come wrong, you know what a nice job it is to have it corrected, no matter how willing the firm is to do so. It takes correspondence, stamps, and freight on the goods to get them exchanged, to say nothing of the loss of time.

Some people prefer to buy away from home because it sounds big to be able to say they ordered from Chicago, etc.

I know of one party who is actually paying more for goods bought away from Ypsilanti than he would be obliged to pay dealers here.

This kind of people I can do nothing for, but the kind who are making the dollars go just as far as they can, I can and will do something for.

Give me a trial on the proposition I make, if you are one of those who are buying away from home.

Bring your catalogue with you.

If I fail to furnish the goods without a reasonable excuse, don't give me your confidence again.

Try me once; I don't fear the result.

I am a resident of Ypsilanti, a home merchant, help pay taxes.

I have to live and consume your product. Is my proposition wrong?

The whole trouble with our people about Ypsilanti is the same with which so many communities are suffering- that old slow credit. Some of it is so slow that we never get it.

No merchant can sell goods cheap on that plan.

The dollar invested in goods today and sold for cash tomorrow can be invested In more goods the following day, and the same process of sale may be repeated, but the dollar invested in goods today and sold on credit tomorrow is tied up just as long as we do not get it back, and the earning capacity is stopped for the merchant until he gets it back again.

They wonder why the catalogue house has the advantage in price over most of our home merchants.

The catalogue houses won't trust you, even demanding the money in advance, with no goods in sight.

MARTIN DAWSON,

215 Congress St., Ypsilanti.