The Portland daily press., 1870-11-11
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| Few enterprises bf cobseSiianee succeed
without erc6unteritg sneefs from doubling
and opposition from interested persons. Par
ticularly this is true where the enterprise is
an innovation, where it breaks out from old
channels; it then shocks the conservative ele-
ment. A not inconsiderable number even in
radical New England are armed with a coat of
mail against whatever proposes new means,
new measures, new methods, in fact whatever
is an INNOVATION. Yet for what good thing
we possess are we not indebted to innova-
tion Adam was an innovation, and the devil
set out to ruin him as soon as he heard of his
starting.in business.
Moses was an an-innovation and Pharaoh suf.
fered seven plaques before he would give up
his opposition to him, and through all time
since, every innovator has had his Pharaoh
and his devil. Yet what has not innovation
done? Glance at its operations in the do
mnion which intellect in our day exercises
over the elements of the material world. Has
it not spanned the belted globe, weighed its
mountains, and touched the stars? The light
nings smote the battlements of mans strong
towers, innovation stretched the electric rod,
fixed bayonet, and the agent of the fiery
wing futtered barmlessly at our feet. "Old
Ocean" poured round mans home its 'sMel-
ancholy waste"
Mans wake is on the deep,
His cloud is OH the sky'
| Distance stretched away with plain, and
hill, and vale; innovation conceived the loco
motive; intellect polished the shaft, adiustd
the wheel, the fire was kindled, and bark ! how
man thunders on his iron way! Time and
| space stayed the communication of thought,
| innovation conceives the electric rod, calls
| from their cloudy caves the thunders driven,
chains them with a slender wire, intr,sts
| them with the commission, And sends them
on their yiewless way.
"The Worlds broad zone has dwindled to
| line." Innovation is ever busy comforting
| practical benefits on society.
| As in scieEce so in mercantile business, in
novation is ever busy working new improve
| merits, new methods, new attractions; and
| while many of its changes are for the worse
| yet review of the courses of the few sue
| cessful merchants of modern times, would
show thai they unanimously belong to the
class OF innovatOrs. One of the most marked
Of the new ideas introduced into business in
our day is the Gone price" system, against
which as principle scarcely any one has an
| objection, but which nine out of ten of all
| buyers claim should be waived in THEIR PAR
| TICULAR CASES. Another new idea is
"Terms cash." the advantages of which all
grant, but a wonderfully large number dislike
to have applied to their individual purchases.
Another modern notion is "advertising."
We have before us very learned sermon
preached in London only thirty years since
ON "The sin and folly of advertising" and to-
day, in spite of the fact that the most extern
sive advertisers are from the highest rank in
business life, and are our most successful mer-
chants, yet the number is legion of those who
look askance at the store of the man who, to
use their expression, "Blows his own horn"
We have been led to those reflections by
conversation reported to us as had between one
OF our most respected citizens and leading
wholesale dealer in town.
Speaking Of some place an entrance to
which for him would an impossibillty, this
good man said, "Why would as soon think
of going to CoGIA HAssAN's"
To which answer was made, " Perhaps if
you took an hour to look over the CoGIA
HAssAN store and see the perfect system that
regulates every thing there, and remember
that your youngest child can go there and buy
any article at the same price that would be
paid by the shrewdest buyer, and that price
is as low or lower than the same article could
be found elsewhere if that buyer ran the whole
town over, perhaps you would not use
that expression again."
Now there are no doubt many others in
Portland to- day who because CoGIA HAssAN
advertises without STINT hires over fifty clerks,
and uses any and every measure to make his
name a household word, therefore there must
be some humbug about the place. To such
we simply say Take half hour, introduce
yourself to the proprietors or to the floor
walker, who will be happy to conductyou
through the various departments, and ex-
plain their methods of working, and you may
find it the most profitable time you have spent
in many day, at any rate you will be certain
to say you never saw such variety of goods
from the cheapest to the finest quality, in any
one store. a4-e