Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1886-06-29
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Considering the influence business
has been subject to for the last three
months, the marvel is that the de-
preston has not been far more severe
than it has proved to be. Labor
tnaHbles have been more threatening
than at any previous time in the rec
ord of these epidemics. They have
covered a wide area, have been attended
with more extreme demands, and
backed with bolder displays of force
and lawlesnes than ever before. Not
only have the strikers demanded large
advance of wages; but every means has
been employed to deprive employers
of remedy against submission'to these
demands. Compulsion has been at
tempted with little regard to law or
order, and anarchy has shown itself
to be the real object of one of the
working clases. Vastly more serious
in its ultimate effects has been the
widespread demand for eight hours
work with ten hours pay, with half
day on Saturday. This would mean
reduction of 25 per cent. in the
elective labor of the country, with n
corresponding curtailment, of the ma
tional product, comerce and future
accumulations of wealth; and1 if
generally adopted; couldynot possibly
fail to produce the most destructive
consequences that ever befel a pros7
porous nation. This sudden devel-
opment of fatal disease, at the; very
core of the producing masses was a
cause for alarm of the most serious
kind. The measure lof this danger
was quickly taken by those whom it
threatened; and that it did mot pro-
duce widespread panic, is due to the
calmness and sound Judgment of men
of business at large They saw at
once, that the demands of labor were
so irrational, absurd. and SO impossible
of acceptance, that the trouble, in,
their estimate, a merely temporary
one, which the otherwise satisfactory.
condition of business interests would
enable, them to ysurmOunt. The al,
most universal disposition of employ-i
ers was to resist the demands of The
strikers; and when they found that
the authorities were ready to protect
them in their rights of property and
freedom of action! their resolve on
this. point became fixed and resolute.
When this stage was reached, the
force of tire strike was broken and
law and order viii bury in a comon
grave the striker, the boycoter and
European Anarchist. I'm
Under the baner of bullion it is not
absolutely necessary that man should
be possessed of the highest order of
talent and mercantile accomplishment
One thing he must have in big full
force, an unwavering resolution to
stick to and fellow the grand, iron,
rule of quick, close, rapid profits on.
real values to the end, and to the
acme of human ambition. What
chance hav you with the genial, good.
natured, popular, liberal old timers
when you mark your goods at par with
their long winded figures on six months
time?, Unles you sci on the same
terms you have not the most remote
chances and your high priced wares
lay on your shelyes-Your remedy is
to rake the market with chain shot for
bullion to quote figures that no man
can match and this has been the re-
ligion of our concern, from Church
Street, ten years back, to 466 and
468, and viii be until the last hour of
life-The array of clever aristrocratic
swelhead monopolist viii be swept
like chat before the hurricane in the
struggle with the ronnd diamond whose
sledg CLEANERS pulyeriZe wherever they
fall and bury beyond resurrection or
redemption. -.r.
In the name of heaven what chance
is there for competition with the con-
concern, packed and jamed with
hungry customers fighting and begging
for the big, solid, real values for
money down? After the smoke had
curled away and the legal blood
hounds gone and the ledger sold to
the paper mil, ambition whispered
into the ears of the vanquished that
there was yet time and chance and
power like Napoleon at Marengo, 10
reverse the sad DEGREES of fate, hut
that he must arm himself to the teeth
with that invincible stuff called resolu-
ton, and never look back, but ever
forward, trusting the while in an un-
quivering nerve, sleeples eye and
restIes energy, with repeater known
as the almighty dollar! =
And when mediocrity wonders why
such marvellous results are attained so
quickly by men of the most ordinary
calibre the horse sense champion with
pride flushed with success points to
his unalternabIe rules that adorn his
crowded concern, !" Cash before De-
livery We Underbuy and we
Undersel." .".t' Close, quick, rapid.
sales" One price only" and to
the advertisements, matchles and final
Spins a penny apaper' Needles
the Backing one cent, and
Tape buttons and a hundred other