Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-14
Quality and Price.

yesterday, and now we propose 10
have q short season of converse with
our business men. Having told
what we know about wheat-raising,
we make bold to divulge what little
we know about quality and price in
the walks of trade. These two con-
siderations constitute the ruling ele-
ments in trade. With the people at
large, the quality and price of an ar
ticle of merchandise is the alpha and
omega of all their purchases, and
these poinis once determined, the
careful husbandman and wary house.
wife are not long in concentrating
balg gain. Quality and price is to the
buyer what profit and loss is to the
seller, and no intelligent person,
other than spendthrift or profigate.
will think of making purchase With
out due consideration of their rela-
tive bearing. Competition and the
the overriding of business are two
quite different things, and are never
COMPOUNDED by those who truly un-
derataud the laws that govern COM
mercial economy. In the true sense
of the term, competition is, what it
ever has been considered, the life of
all legitimate trade. 1t has been &C.
counted an axiom since the dawn of
the age of industry, that devotion to
ones calling coupled with business
integrity will not fail, in the long
run, of reasonable measure of sue
cess and honorable reward. So in
the various mercantile pursuits,
Just appreciation Of the wants of the
people, a consistency and persever-
ance unshaken by local adverses and
high moral conscientiousness to
temper and properly manage the
whole, may be relied upon as the
surest elements of success and con-
sequent prosperity and happiness.
| We trust that the extension of bust
ness in Olympia during the coming
Summer, will forever remove the
necessity to which our people have
heretofore been driven of sending
abroad for many things in the line of
domestic supplies. To advert, once
more, to the words placed at the
head of this article, let our mer-
chants remember that the quality
and prices of the goods which they
bring here and display in the marts
of trade are singularly potent either
of failure or success. The day has
gone past when our people, both
in town or county, are supposed to
be entirely devoid of either due
appreciation of their own wants, or
the requisite taste and good Judgment
necessary in the selection of durable
and fashionable goods. The sooner
our merchants and tradesmens cease
to ignore this fact, the better will it
be for them and the customers upon
whom they rely for business vitality.
Home dealers are doubtless looking
forward with desire to the time when
there will be an entire surcease of
the private importation of all such
commodities as they themselves os-
tensibly undertake to supply the peo-
pie. But we believe we are speak
ing the just and unqualified senti-
ment of the people when we say that
the advent of such a day is wholly
subject to the pleasure and will
of dealers and not to that of con-
sumers. We have no idea that bust
ness is going to be overdone, during
the Summer, IN the line OF drygoods,
hardware or groceries. The almost
constant stream of goods pouring
into our city by every train and
steamer would not at all warrant
such conclusion. We leave the Sc
quel to our merchants, reminding
them, once more, that a first-class
quality of goods, fair prices and af-
ability in showing will not fail them
in the time of need.
20 49,
A BROTHER of the man johnson,
now under sentence of death in
Portland, arrived, a few days ago,
from Belfast, Maine, to intercede for
the life of the doomed culprit. 1t
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