Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1886-01-12

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and Niblo and Lee and Wardlaw,
alongside Little Sandy, Precious
George and Maryl He leaves behind
him millions in money, pluck and
the nigh order of ability, and there is
little danger that the colossal con-
Germ will share the fate of its great,
world-renowned Tital rival, whose
ashes rest in the unknown. Claflin
and Stewart! My God! What vast
power and influence these perfect
masters welded over the destines of
more than million of meui Some
they built up into merchant princes,
others they drove, like chaff before
the hurricane, into oblivion or ann;-
hilstioul If you heard thunder
clap from the clear sky-some tnoon-
shine millionaire cailapse-a q merean-
tile Ward & Grant earthquake-pe-
riodical He'll Gate explosions of mer-
camille pirates and cut-throats, Ctaf-
Inns sharpshooters were there before
the smoke had lifted, and ha,l7 the
commercial burglar by the throat!
To any appeal for mercy from such
as these they were as deaf and as
dead as Julius Caesar. p 't HHiyIH'
The metal, force and ambition Jof
the successors will doubtless exhaust
their illimitable magazines of bullion,
credit and genius to match or surpass
the unprecedented attainments of
this magnificent mercantile soldier.
Will the Juniors name ever ring out
upon the world rs did that of his
ilIustrious father, who bas7ipassed
over the silent Jordan 20 that eternal
land of sunshine where Gamers
prints are never quoted, and King
Credit with his irreclaimable neSoti-
ables are unknown where the soul
thrilling eloqucnce of the peerless
Ingersoll or the gifted Henry Ward
Beecher, of that happy hunting
ground arc marshaling the skadowy
hosts TO battle with the unn,imGercd
lcgions of the Blue Grass Gods, and
where in that perpetual paradise the
mercantile lexicon of Dun-Wim2n
quotes according to mental calibrc
and integrity of heart, the politician
and the preacher, the lowly' US we'll
rs the lofty, the periodical compro-
miScr ut twenty-five on the dollar, as
well as he who fell, but paid the one
hundred L.. Where the advanced
pioneers of sience and thought, who
believed only in what they knew,
stood upon the higher level, above
drank down the Gulliver of the Pen
tateuch, along with his Joshuas,
Jonas and Samsons, away back in the
primeval, unknown in the barbaric
age, when Nature stood back awed
in the presence of Superstition, and
wis Whsrsc rfc them "a mtihhl;"l mtihe lost cause as well as
they who triumphed, will stand face
to face with the incomprehensible
omnipotent power that encircles space
and governs its countless millions of
worlds.
Far above the little wealth amassed
in the historic and precious past
your humble servant values the
souvenirs gathered in the big mo-
mentous struggle. The long. list of
generals won from the ranks of un-
limited time, the hosts of friends re-
claimed from the lost paths and
driven up to the front, the legion of
wavering talent who had the wisdom
to listen to our logic and the courage
to follow us, and the army of victims
of King Credit, who had given up,
but rallying under the talismanic
buglenote of the almighty dollar,
found themselves suddenly famous
the leaders and masters of their own
native hills.
The principles of which we were
the sole and successful advocates,
have burned themselves into the
business brains of these stirring
times, and all have learned that it is
not the safe and sure road to wealth
in demanding unfair percentage, When
sharp, keen, close cash competition
is sweeping the plateau with grape
and canister. They have learned,
too, that five per cent. profit, money
down, will outweigh fifteen, scattered
over the pages of the office sweat
book, rank and rotten with fraud, ras-
caIity and infamy.
From the crashes !pf November we
coin these matchless quotations for
the final struggles of 1885. Great
lines Of pu!verizers are omitted be-
cause they would be swept off before
| these figures met the eye of our
readers-numberiDg twelve hun
dred thousand strong!
The temptations of time sink into
insignifcance when placed IN COM
parison with the trip, hamm er force
of figures that first paralyzc, then
pulyerize the unfortunate whose high
hopes were blasted by big prices and
unfair profits under the shadow of
Credit. Buy for bullion at head
quarters or under the red Gag and
plant your Gatling guns at short
range with the very closest margin
of percentage. and it will be short
and marvellous story. a single trial.
no matter whether in person or by
order, the tell-taIe figures are pre-
ciseIy the same, will settle the ques-
ton with every intelligent who bat
ties for Ieadership-will decide that
| momentous problem as to whether
his chances are better under the