The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-03-03
BUSINESS.
What an Old Tradesman Thinks
OF the Outlook.

what is the outlook in yOur lile of
business Tor spring trader" asked a
b.ZOoiue OF a leading dry goods drummer
just III from an extended tour yes,erd.y.
Il think 1t is very good indeed. / START
alb out the 18th OF last month and have
travelled through Kansas, Texas, aud Mis-
souri, During the first part OF my trip
did not mske expenses out since about the
LIST of this month have found a steadily
incre sing demand and recently lay sales
have been quite large. la tact am on my
way 10 81. Louis now TO prepare for a re-
turn tip with one of the fullest and most
complete sample lots | have ever carried,
and expec; to make larger sales than 1
ever did any 5. ason In nv thirty years tx
perience."
"What is it makes YOU so confident?"
"Weil there are numerous reasons and
facts gathered from my observation. / am
no politician, but you know l am a repub-
[, lican ard OF course, when / say THAI this
| being presid, ntial year and one in which
| the political complexion of The administra-
ton Is entirely changed, has had much 10
do with reEd ring traue dull, there are those
who Will not b. lIeve IL, bui i assure you il
is a TACT. Add to this the SEVERITY
OF the winter, the numerous heavy failures
In the east and tine consequent precautions
OF bankers and cspit slisIs to prevent loss
Aid cuTtail loans, and YOU have sufficient
re SO. 5 Gr the terrible depressioDs IN wes:-
ern ir &c, but when you {. ke into Consider
a'lon The number Of EIIii5 aud factories |
which have been forced % close down be- |
cause OF thu unjust dem. nds made upon |
them, II is only To- te wondered at that /
even the west has escaped a general bank. |
rupIcy.
That is exactly why many persons pre-
dict there viii tie no ch1Dgs for the better
soon. bow Is II You are 80 sangulue OF a
steady and rapid revival OF trade.
We'll, IS | told you, have had thirty
ye'rs experience In my business, and have,
OF course, passed through some severe cri-
sis In that time. But the present one CON-
ta'ns within itself an element OF recupera-
ton L have never known before. In TACT
even in good times / have in ali that
time D.ver known such d state OF affairs 10
exist. Throughout my entire dis riot have
not hali q Zen bills remaining over un-
collected. Ali have been paid cash down,
and the merchants, almost without excep-
lion, are entirely free from debt. Pur-
chasss, as n ruiz, having been Tor The Iast
we've months small, and for cash, this :
leav,s them in the b ST possible shape, and
with unimpsired credit. But this Is not
all; Nearly every one OF them
have exhausted their stocks, and
are In No condition TO meet the demands of j
anything like a Eesvy trade wiIhOu, max !
ing large purchases, and best of all lhey {
are Dot only able TO do SD Oh credit, but {
with very lew exceptions they can do So
or cash, as the hard times his caused
hem as | said, 10 ecOnomize and husband I
heir resources, and they have the proceeds '
)f their former stock in cash." $
"But what makes you think that there I
s going 10 be a demand that will compel c
he purchase of pew stocks now?" c
First; farmers and other consumers Z
laye exercised the same rigid economy as B
he merchants, and have made the old do /
Is long as possible, and are compelled to 7
enew. Second; the crops Of last year b
Eere among the largest ana best ever pro- y
Iuced, and b,c,use of low prices, business
tsgnation and unfasorabie weather,Eot one
ouIth of them have been moved or dis {
,Osed OF, and with The coming of spring q
hey must 90 to market and must supply (
he farmers needs Tor merchandise. IL a
GEMS 10 Inc these reasons ought 10 be
nough TO convince any One, bul outside of
hem all, have the assurance OF my Gus
omers beforehand that they desire spring
locks, and as have said, my sales in the
lst lew d.'ys have exceeded that OF any e
revious spiing iOr years, aud / lhiDk' you e
nay safety tell the readers of the BAzoo |,
Tor L see that you are alter an item) that 5;
ne year 1885 pr III ises 10 be o0e of steady b
nd permanent business, progress end pros h.
eriIy, and that hard times will gradually II
lsspPesr not soon To return unless brought II
bout by The downright wicked folly of the Il
eople themse.v.s. 81