The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-04-26
THURSDAY MORNING, SIS, :ApRIL 20
Division olTrade

DiVhSfOn OF Trade.
We are constantly hearing complaints
from country merchants, who are engaged in
ageneral trade, requiring to be kept on har 4
"little of everything" and not even SO
much of any one thing, that it is difficult,
and many times impossible to make up a
full assortment to suit their business in this
city. Our wholesale merchants are we'll
aware Of this fact, and many of them who
can supply ali orders in their particular de.
partments, frequently lose profitable and
prompt-paying customers, for no other rea.
son than that they are unable to purchase
their entire assortment in this market, and
prefer to make their bills all in one place.
There is, no doubt, plenty of capital invest
ed here in the jobbing business, were it pro.
perly diversified, to enable our merchants to
retain much Of the trade which now goes
elsewhere. But so long as our jobbers con.
tinue to do business on the country. store
principle, keeping little of everything and
not full assortment Of all, so long will they
be raising up customers for other and more
extended markets.
One of our prominent merchants remark
ed to US few days since, that "many of the
jobbers are encouraging and building up
trade in the surrounding country, by giving
long credits to customers with little or no
capital, and when by this kind Of indulgence
they became in some degree independent of
their eorly benefactors in trade, able TO pay
promptly and to obtain credit elsewhere, they
invariably tried their fortune in some foreign
market. Their apology, though it may not
always be pertinent, is nevertheless good
one-"we can't but ali we want here, and if
we have to goelsewhere for part, We might
as well buy the WHOLE" There has been a
marked improvement in our wholesale mar.
ket within the last two years, and there ap-
pears to be both willingness and deter
mination on the part of many of Our mer-
chants, so far as their particular branches
unobjectionabe, but really the most desirable
point for the trade of the Wabash valley and
other contiguous territory.
We have no design to say disparaging
word of our jo5bers or of the enterprise
they have ever manifested in bringing the
trade of Evansville to its present enviable
position, but we simply speak of the notori-
Gus fact that our trade needs to be more sys.
temotized, the capital invested more diuersi.
fled, and the different branches of bust ness
better classified.
The embarrassments and difficulties which
q merchant, who attempts to establish him.
self here in any one branch oftrade exclusive
ly,feels and suffers from the encroachments OF
jobbers ostensibly engaged in other branches
Of trade, are apparent to all, and exert very
deleterious influence in the expansion of our
jobbing market. The same principle applies
with equal force to many of our infan,
branches Of home manufacture. For in.
stance-a merchant tailor is made to strug-
gle for dear life to keep his head above wa.
ter, because almost every dry goods jobber in
town keeps ready made clothing, to sell a,
wholesale or retail, aud that too, of foreign
manufacture. The hat and cap manufacture,
is compelled to con6ne his business to lin.
tied retail, because almost every jobber and
shop keeper in town deals in hats and caps.
The druggists also have THAR matters minced
up in the same way by the grocery and dry
good merchants keeping Kathairon, Vermi.
fuge and Ratsbane. The boot and shoe Job.
bers are subject to the same Innovations
scarcely business house in town (prntine
Offices always excepted) but keeps brogans
and lady-sliPpers, and always the best in
town, from the noted Eastern mandatory oil
Timothy Solc-leather or Tom Spltback. Sc
on we might enumerate, but we have men.
toned enough to suffice our illustration. Our
merchants are much more familiar with the
situation CT our trade than we are, and know
much better how to apply the corrective. A:
they are to be the only sufferers by con.
tinuance Of this huckster trade, we shall
leave the remedy in their hands, only reserv
ing the right to occasionally protest in the
name of our growing city and its hes, inter
ests against such policy.
HYDRAULIC FoUNDRY.-We call attention
IN the ndvoytis omaot ~ III o.,:..:ll. H.