Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1886-10-12
MISCELLANEOUS.
Buy only at Headquarters, or
under the Red Flag, for your
Success depends upon
your Purchases.

success dePenoS upon
your Purchases.
from the September Monthly Auction Trade
Journal of Chas. Broadway ROuss.l
In order to underbuy and under
sci YOU must deal with the Red Flag
man or at Headquarters.
The auction rooms are fed by the
triple-headed monstrosity of comerce,
Speculation, Credit and extravaganza
behind these phantoms lurk the
allies of destruction, Incidence, Igno-
rance and Blugras-hence the idiotic
CRY of hard times. The times and the
trade and the measure of success is
just as you choose to have tit de-
pends not upon the seasons, the cir
cumstances or the location (excepting
Away, the larger the field the greater
the results). Cash before delivery
settles all these outside isues, but
you must have the true valnes-the
genuine bargains-not the threadbare
dodge of '' selling out Mt cost" or
"giving goods away" these decep-
tive devices are annihilated by the
sledgehamers that no competition can
match; the true master must buy so
as to sell at about what his credit
competition pays in the regular way
the race will be quick and the story
short, for people who buy, intending
to pay, will not give twenty-five per
cent. for the questionable privilege
of little time, whilst they who never
paw rarely inquire the price.
No wonder that trade is dul and
bushes slow with these long-winded
antideluvians dead, doomed and
damned by crushing, cutting, con-
vincing cash figures that, like the
black FLAG of Forrest at Fort Pillow,
asking nor giving quarter, buries in
the furowed parallels and trenches the
heartles, hopeles, helples credit reg
ular.
The causes assigned for bushes de-
preston are various, dissimilar and
purile, and perfectly parallel with
apathy, Indifference and want of res
olution. Instead of harping about
over-production, surplus silver, boy
cots, strikes, speculation, tariff and
revenue; instead of wasting time dis
cusing issues that in no way concern
business, try one year upon the basis
of true yalues-money down. You
never heard the live, wide-awake,
progressive, aggressive, popular and
successful men of the hour discus
sing dead ideas entirely foreign 70
momentous questions of greater value
to every merchant whose hopes are
centered upon succes-Underbuy,
undersel for bullion.
How many men with ledgers filled
with worthless debts, safes loaded
with protested paper and unredeemed
promises, and crushed with debts
they can never pay, have gone down
where the broken heart beats no
more, but who, had it been whispered
in their ear that one solid, subtle,
but porewful word Cash, would have
ridden (the wayward and restles sons
of genius they were), rough shod
over competition and opposition even
as the Grecian Phalaux under Philip
of Macedon rode into the dust the
ignorant barbarians of the desert.
Many a man with a brilliant and
instructive mind has been ground
into powder in the contact with him
of lesser brains, but who knew where
to buy right and had the pluck tc
sell cheap, and for the Almighty Dol
lar alone.
Shattered in hopes and health
driven to despair by disaster, won
dering when the last day will come
looking for bread, walk these street:
every day, thousands who would have
been wealthy but for want of inclina.
ton, perception or tact in graspine
the chances we throw out to nearly 8
million merchants in the shape of 8
circular, whose logic is unanswerable
and whose prices no other house car
quote, and whose princely bargains
are checking the life out of those
iIong-windcd, ilIfated and rotten con
Germs that live and die in a day, like
the mushrooms of the dismal swamp
This paper deals in no uncertain
or equiyical pleading, but in the spiri
! of the most intense earnestnes anC
solicitude points out, with unerninl
certainty, the errors that lie in tn,
path over which you are now march
ing, even as it shows with the iDspi
ration of prophecy that quick, hard
but short road that leads to early anC
substantial triumph.
Upon the following pages we nam,
some figures that can be quoted b.
no house that sells on time (tlIa
house could not live long on the hart
lgrindstone of credit if it paid easl