Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1888-09-18

script, or previously agreed upon between the
parties.
along in that strait path with absolute and un-
!; ering fidelity and opend branches, each under
the charge and management of one of tho
brothers. Tha struck the hundred thousand
mark in eleven years, and now s50,ocoi
The story of Davis and Purcell is simply
repetition on still swifter scale, driving along
with greater eomercial speed under hier test
OF audacious enterprise What thes heroic
daredeyilS. thes plain and earnest leaders have
don, is nothing more than you may do. When
young candidates for fame aud ded Veterans
crusht in the craciSle of credit about to try it
ov6r again. ask 6f them how it is don the
answer is the four same, simple mercantile
mastodons that smash beyond recognition the
old regular with one hundred per cent, pay
when you please.
The masses tim,d with fear falter. but the e5
\ per center. conscious OF his underhold and in
side trak presses on and dreams never of Civ up.
No wonder. Tho ledger REGULAR Is slave TO
his detor and creditor, Unable either to collect
or paw lie crouciIcs in the swet box of fate
and hopelesIy awaits the inevitable. He is
simply lafing stok and game and food for tho
net spot cash leader who feeds and fatens upon
the misfortunes of tho misguided legions of
King Credit
This ritter is absolutely independent and has
no personal motiv in obtruding his advice,
save his revenge agcnst the credit demon, and
his sympathy with the numbered majority
who have been paralyzed by its pcstilential
touch. Your humble servant wud plead with
you to adopt the Rouss System of % per cent.
Like our conspicuous advocates VIC do not
even ask Won 10 buy of us, Out bny cheap and
sci close and scrape in the Omnipotent bullion
every time--that's all. The whole secret of
succcs lay in this very nutshell. Il is also tru
that we send out our monthlies inviting you to
open an account with us. but il is for U to crit
licaly compare and decide for yourself US otho
relativ merits of our sledghamers. and the reg
ular values on regular old-fashioned terms wher
domestics ar cut at. and bclo cost, and then
when you wade into other departments the
terrific tariff varies from ten to fifty per cent
What chance then thcs clever old tuners after
paying twenty-five per cent. and the aiding fifty
or one hundred? What chance hav thes ante
deluvians with the spot cash pioneers who
butcher both in buying and selling, who kno
TINT success lay not in piliuG on the profit, but
in scattering their teltalc advs. in every item
that passes arros their counters7
The age is advancing -s up. aud on. aud on.
l j nc ubN lOI llc Onc uluuINu per NShtcI hhn hhc
the monstrosities of Inspiration and divinity
gon by forever. The long timer cant sci his
goods for cash, the sharp shooters of the rebel
raclets hav swept the plateau. and he has two
alternatives-to change 10 the cash. or TOT quit.
He must keep HIS goods or choke them Into the
swetbox.
: The same two conditions confront the CASH
before-delivery champion, but he stands on n
Iofticr platform. He simply declares. "U
must pm the cash or shall keep my goods
Stript of tariff. his values require no argument,
and the vital question that confronts him is.
'' How can get thes corn and cob crnsheps
fast euufs" Some Of our advanced rip-snor-
ters order every day Davis. .Jones, Kohr,
: !. Pueblo Wax stff ased of thcs magnificent
leaders stands one who has at this riting nine
tec1, bills on the road-Barnweii shuck
II the nnthor of the Monthly AUCTION Trade
Journal had a spark Of conceit or resolution.
thes piercantiIc gIadiators wud have stript him
of it tong ago. Our splendid record has been
bcater agcn and agen by men whom VIC had
lifted from below zero. and catching the mag
, niGccnt Thrill and enthusiasm of success have
swept upwards and ouwards until tina stand
= hicr there, than do here. Many of these
pcnniless remnants of the great rebellion have
swept mp from AppOmattox 10 the apcx OF
fame among their native hills and noun
tains. Pluk is grand. but unless the system is
the true one amount OF perseverance or per-
sistence will avail, for King Credit claims and
tortures and at last kills ninety-four out of
every hundred And ut last. like Jonah and
Sampson and Balam. this unconditional mon
, stcr is simply mith-an once of cash and n
, pound Of pluk and he vanishes- He is n crea-
tion of the ways and customs of the barbnrik
ages OF the long ago. Cash down has utterly
obliterated him. The tender hearted who hav
not the curage to say no. and the slave of av-
arice anxious to get rich quick by unfair per-
, ceutage ar esy Victims but the leyel-headed
twenty give percentcrs laf to s6oru and deri4
: sion the tyrany and tyrant of thirty days and
four months stretching away out into eternal
time.
All me the ravagcs of this Internal MON
ster. With what merciess severity he swept
from hi and honored positions the great-harted
mercantile rnonarks and giants of the age just
gone by. But few years back along Broad
. way hung the signs, Lathrop, Luddington &
Co, Emory. Ivy [S Lee, Peake. opdycke q
: Co.. Halsted. Haines & Co.. Bates. Reed ds
Cooley. rated million and beyond. and all
personal friends Of your humble servant. The
credit whirlwind had passed over the great
gate city of the Atlantic. It wud remind you
!, of the sinking of the steamer Arctic in mid
ocean. Over the broad, dark bosom Of tho
watery waste there was nothing-not u soul TO
!, tel the story, not Il spar, not splinter. Tha
= were brave honest driving, self-Inade men.
; ful of FIRE. faith and ambition, but tha faut un
L der n rong system. and went down with the
. nety-four-barely six escaped. At the time
the metropolis was ringing with their great
records. ther was little band of cash sharp
shooters at 23l Church street, with les than
. one hundred dollars Of auction goods. After
the storm had past. that bunch Of audacious
: pIuk and insatiate ambition stood on Broad
way abov the million mark, wondering wher to
get the ground 10 build the landmark of tho
present age. and the age ahed. twenty stories,
- IOOx2C0.
CHARLES BROADWAY RoUss.
4 New York City.
Letter from the ex-Sheriff of