The Kenosha telegraph and tribune. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1859-1860, 1860-04-12

considerable extent, that the abolition
of collection laws, would greatly en-
barrass merchants and other business
men in the matter of credit, especially
in making purchases ofgoods in eastern
cities. This is merely a delusion which
is likely to be dispelled before long.
The N. Y. Independent which is regard
ed as good authority in matters pertain
ing to the mercantile trade has the
following =
The very best security for the collec-
ton of debts is to have no legal sanction
for making them; leaving the payment
of debt to the simple conscience or sense
of honor or of interest of the debtor.
This is a growing opinion among the
merchants of this city.
Laws for the enforcement of the pay
ment of debts are a perfect delusion
They are only now paid where honesty
or interest sways men to do so.
The cost OF collecting debts from
debtors wavering in their dishonesty is
considerable.
More dependence is now placed than
| formerly on mems character for homes
ty and prudence combined than appar-
ent means hence the great success of
mercantile agencies, where informa-
ton is bought at large price.
We therefore incline to the opinion
that laws for the enforced payment OF
debts had better be dispensed with,
and creditors left to depend on their
own vigilance and shrewdness of judg-
ment in giving credit.
In connection with the foregoing, the
Independent states a matter, which it is
well for every western man, doing bust
ness with dealers in eastern cities to
understand. Books are opened in the
mercantile agency offices in New
York, not so much on the old plan, OF
keeping statement Of the pecuniary
responsibility of merchants and others.
who come to that city to make purchas-
es. These books are now kept more
especially for the purpose of giving in.
formation of the true moral worth of a
man /; petty meanness, dishonesty, in
temperance, &c, are posted on the
debtor side, while integrity, truthful
ness, sobriety, &c, are put to the credit
side. The Independent says =
Country merchants should bear in
mind that already many sets of books in
New York are daily posted up with their
regulations for responsibility, sobriety
industry, honesty and capacity.
The hundreds of clerks in the offices
of the mercantile agencies are wholly
employed in this task, and habits more
or less immoral, which weaken or des-
troy in their subjects any of the cardi-
nal virtues Of trade, are transmitted du-
ly by the daily post and recorded faith
fully in their books, to be given to the
creditor who is willing to pay for the
information.
| North BRITISH REVIEW, for February is re-
ceived. 1t contains an interesting paper on
MADAME Recamier" an article on Coast De.
| fences and Rife Corps, giving an interesting ac-
| count of the present defences on the English
Coast, and the training of the Volunteer Rife
Corps. Erasmus as satirist," "The silence OF
Scripture new field for the study of theolo-
gists and biblical readers An account of the
struggles and prosecutions of christianity in the
Empire of Austria An interesting article on
" Form and Color A paper on " Wesleyan
M ethodism," showing the rise and wonderful
spread of this evangelical denomination, particu-
larly in the United States and England "Cey
ion and the Singhalese," and Literary Notices
close the number
BLAcKwoOD for March, contains " Lord Ell.
gins Mission to China and Japan, :" " Norman
Sinclair; )" " Nelson and Caracciolo - " Betsey
Brown;" e Word about Tom Jones; - 1.-THE
Luck of Ladysmede," concluded The For
eign Connection of the House of Bull - " Vol
unteer Cavalry Movements p g The Anglo Gal
ician Budget"
These Reviews and Blackwood, furnish about
all the information that can be desired on all the
important questions of Science, Government,
Political Economy Geography g., all over the
world, The first numbers of the present vol
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