The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-06

In presenting to the people of this city an
entirely new system of merchandise, we beg to
place before you few broad and indisputable
facts, which should be carefully considered by
every one. The many have too few; the few
too many. The people have been struggling for
years under the weighty burdens of the Credit
System, and the farmer, the backbone and
sinew of our country, has long been one of its
especial classes of victims. The Credit System
taxes every stroke of labor to satisfy its ex-
orbitant demands; every other bale of cotton
Is sacrificed to pay its claims. You ask how is
this? Listen Let us prove to every candid
mind by the following mathematical question
that we are keeping fully within the highway Of
reason and common sense; tlat what we claim
is an actual fact, though so few are as yet,
aware of it:
The public Is supplied with merchandise
through its home dealers, the home dealers are
supplied through the wholesale jobbers of the
North, and the wholesale jobbers are supplied
through the manufacturers. Having drawn
you forward along the avenues of commerce to
the fountain head, the very source of supply,
we beg you to follow us back again by the
Great Humbug Route, Time. The manu-
| facturer Sells his products to the wholesale
| jobber on 60 and 80 days time, and to protect
himself against losses by reason of failures
bad debts, etc, adds 10 per cent. to the original
| cost of these goods. This 10 per cent. the job
| Der is bound to pay and who in turn sells these
| same goods to our home merchants at 60 and
| 80 days time, lacking ON this 10 per cent again
| to secure himself from losses by reason of our
| home merchants failure to pay. Now our
! home merchants hand these same goods down
| to you, and to 20 per cent. which has already
| been added to the original cost of these goods
| he is compelled to add still another 10
| per cent. to protect himself against these
| selfsame losses. You all know your home
| merchants are completely wrapped up in the
! coils of the Credit System; that they credit
| thousands every year from whom they never
\ receive a penny. How could they stand this
| great loss year in and out without this 10 per
| cent. as an offset? Some people buy goods on
| time who never expect to pay for Them while
| others buy expecting to be aUle to do so, but
| who from one cause or another cannot do so.
Well, these merchants can't afford to lose it;
| there must be some shield, some safeguard,
some protection, or the field would be strewn
with wrecks caused by the ledger filed to over
| flowing with its Il o US" and ~ o Mes"
There must be way to avert the dangers of
credit, and this 10 per cent. answers, so far as
the merchant is concerned. 1t mas been put for
ward as the key which unlocks the problem, as
the bridge with which TO span the difficulty.
But that it is the proper solution most EN-
phaticaly deny II throws the entire burden
upon the peoples shoulders. You are taxed, as
it has been shown, 30 per cent. to main
tain and support a system from which you de-
rive no benefit at all Now if we take out the
jobber mentioned above, we relieve you of an
other 10 per cent, which is his profit alone,
which makes a total OF DO pr cent.
Think of it, But the greatest evil of this credit
system is that in buying from it you are daily
paying for those who n lever pay, and whether
you buy for cash on credit, the result Is the
same This fact is plain that no one who
thinks for a moment can doubt its truth Now,
we ask yOu candidy can you afford to do it in
days such as these when times are hard and
money scarce, when the rich cannot afford TO
waste their money and the poor must re Iuire
each dollar to do double duty: The Credit Sys-
TEN is a curse and will inevitably ruin those
who stick to II. We are here TO fight 1t down.
We have established agencies Oh all the larger
Northern markets with tie cash dollars
in hand. An efficient, wideawake corps Of 90
buyers scour the great mercantile helds in
search of genuine cash bargains,
buying direct from the manul acturer, knocking
out the middle men, buying in every way that
will enable us to place them before you at low
cash figur s. buying from bankrupt houses
from houses hard pressed, who throw out these
sacrifices in order 10 avert the storm, and IL Is
frequently the case that hundred dollars viii
buy twice its value, and we are prepared TO
ouote YOU figures that cannot be reached by
any house. With these thousands OF leaders
and specialties, which are the sole product OF
energy, brains, and the i've chSh dollar,
we shall make bold fight for right, depending
on the great advantages we possess. coupled
with system of small profits and quick sales
With an eye that never sleeps ana an energy
that never tires. shall march steadily
lIp 70 the front Cotton sells for dola s get
dollars or II and not merchandise from
system that eXactS SUCH enormous tous. Buy
yt,ur goods from a cash ~ stem where you will
get the benefit Of cash prices and save yourself
from 30 TO 100 per cent.
We are here u ell you goods, but whether
we ever sell you dollars worth or not get out
Of the Credit system Not by favor, but by
merit alone do we propose TO win.
Sow is the time 10 test our syAtem and prices
while the great closing cut sales are IN full
blast just now The power OF the cash dollar
may be seen to the best advantage. Coming
among you as strangers, we depend upon our
prices 70 make our business. BY The peoples
verdict we stand or fall
Among our daily arrivals we shall place be-
fore YOU some values that are positively beyond
the Whisper Of competition, comparison or
monopoly figures that will teach you ~ tne
silent logic on truth the difference between deal
lag With live and dead men. between the Cash
aud the Credit system, between the right and
the wrons way