The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-09-06
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 So i.gsai.sd is she sysssn of sivisg credif . this csanfzy, wxitss Kaas Fis3d izem England so fhe Ass4akfas, that gtad as tradesmen are so waive cash. they as ruls entxEt1in much les YeRard tor snch clients than for thoee who run up enormous bills of one, two and tAree yeaSs duEa-io In fact, the former are made to suffer Tor the short-or at leasf long-comines of the later.
 Why do yoa charge us 90 excrbit- antly tor a brouehamF r l asked our carTiaes-man the oeher day. "We pay weekly, and yet your prices are as hiRh as though you waited year for your
 Well, you sec" replied the man, i've caaf afford to discount. We've a sreaf many grand patrons, ss whom we are obliged to give bag credit, and we must ch.Ege cash customers high prices in order to be able to trust the others, bv whom we make lot of bad debts. it do % put the gentry out to be asked for money."
 Behold English retail business in . nutshell. Trades-people are so much under the influence of caste that thev ted honored by giving Lord Tom Noddv credit, with the possibility of fnever realix- ing penay, and wreak their living oa those who are too honest to order whst they cannot pay Tor. Cash patrons ase poor. miserable "vhite trash,' as the American slaves used to call those Cau. casians who were sufficiently degraged to work They may leave at any time for the north pole or the equator, and no one be the loser but Lord Tom Noddv is an established institution, dating from the time of William the Conouezor. His creditors have an abiding interest in his weanre. His movements are carefully .asched; his health ooacesns many families. If he be ordered to the norsk pole there is wailing and enashing ot teeth. Pray, how does he pacify his crsdisos! By ordering a superb outfit -rouing up more promises to nay.
 Pay my tailor" exclaimed a yoons swell the other day. "W'hy, do you know how I've paid him this year? By crdeTing more clothes. He twas as much pleased as though I'd handed him bank of England notes"
 We have had no such ruinous system of credit. With us, cash not blood. is the best fellow, and no one kesps up his head in society tor any length of time who cannot look his butcher and baker in the lace without fear and without re- proach. An American tradesman has DO more regard for the lord uf the White Elephant than for plain Iohn Sm:sh. What he wants is receipeed hill, and the bluest blood that ever flowed in human veins will not compensate him for the absence of pecuniay satisfaction. British uadesmen have themselves to thank for their rotten condition-never wore than now-and for the consequent establishment oi cooperative stores. Il rarely % to the stores that I do not lose my temper, and ache from head to foot from sanding and waiting until the peztectly indifferent young men ret ready to serve me. They cant help makinx me wait, because they are overworked. and cannot multiply their hands and teet. First. must write an order; then ] must wait until the cashier can set down the dem total" which Maufalina 90 feelingly abhored.. Thea I pay tlis dem total, aRer which am permitted to go in search of . superintendent, who gives the order to whomsoever is least engaged. This may mean six orders deep in advance Twill 1 take tke parcel with me" "Yes" .Have other orders to give9 It will be quite half an hour before the parcel is ready" So III wander upstairs and downstsirs, seeking what may devour in order to kill time and almost myself. finally appear laden with small packages, and afier waiting more than twenty minutes longer, obtain my spells. A gong is sounded. and in the course of five minutes a porter arrives.
 Do want a cab ?"
 "Yes."
 Shouldering my purchases, the porter sallies togth, halls . Sour-wheeler, literally bundles me into it, and 1 70 of to un- bundle on reaching home.