Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1889-04-23


In the meanwhile our distinguisht and COM
spicueus Representatives scattered al over the
land. may as vel anser the enquiry in ther own
terse, blunt, laconie maner The little shop
tina started in had been enlarged and parti-
tions had been puld down, or streteht back,
and stories had been added, until the sans
desperate ALTERNATIVES had faced them-stop, or
on with the BALL The largest bildings wud
not suffice, and tina too hay had to buy and
bild- What the i've per cent. had irivon us to,
the twenty-five had dun for them. DaRed by
ther magnificent success, no time TO, stop and
think, tha ask themselves the Same ponderous
query what next"
Fine judges of human nature wud naturally
decide that it wud require great nerv aud recx-
less resolution to tackle the tiger of time and
that any commonplace Tyro wud do the clos,
quik. cash game, but past records show that
ninety-four of the hundred were inclined to be
liberal, accommodating and freharted, and
drifted unawares into the tifties befor tina wer
forty-recSed, helples, hopeles and old before
tina had reached the primo of life!
1t is then none tho less tru that ther came
from the ering wayward South, from the dis
banded, starving, ragged rebel army OF Leo,
one who had Termed In the ways and walks OF
mercantile life, nerer, shorter, eeier path
than the one adowu which in the crly years
and In the prime and after seasons of autumn,
genius and ambition had battered and shattered
its life energies-ther cane a successful mer-
chant, defeated soldier, and ruined man,
who's erly prime was lost, whose fortune was
in Confederate four per cents, overwhelmed
with dets, without dime, who proposed to
xii or cripple King Credit with the keen double
edged Damascus blade of Cash. Tue proud
miliOnaires who's honord names wer us good
as gold scarce took notice of the dabfake start
of the Lilipnt of net spot cash. Not until tia
felt the underto that was carrying them be.
lyond tile danger line; until tina felt their trado
slipping from them almost unawOres, but still
in volume and increasing, did tina awaken TO
the fact thut cash and not credit was King
That iredemNble Vegetables wud not buy tho
big bargains that fell from the red flag butcher
that clos quik profits in coin wud beat to
deth the IVORY, wear and tear of the dedly
ledger, and after while th0 lernt too that arm
In arm with the Gar of credit stalked the
frightful fantom of another monster who's un-
numbered victims walked broken hRrtcd ont
to Calvary aud Grecnwood-poorer than pov-
erty, 1t is called partnership. Born Of the
principle that three have more pluk than two,
and that two heds ar better than one, that elk
i capitalists putting up half million can smash
the tYro with his wheclbaro of live ratlera, who
is all the while curling along with savage i'm
tensity ON the inside trak. creeping swiftly,
surely up, overshading and finally burying in
the unown the million concern. Every man.
for himself; evry enterprise upon the merit OF
Its master mind-let the genius of brain add
backbone, go It alone, and avoid, "a the maris
ner, the hiden rox, the fatal upas of pards
Go ask PealSo and opdycke, Lathrop and
I.udington, Halstead and Haines, Emory, Ivey
and Lee. Ask thes magnificent mercantile
rnstcrs and thousand others, and tina win
tell you every time that II life's battles cud be
tant over qgen Il wpnld he upon tho solid and
square basis of i've per cent profit. cash down,
and no partners. We refer with undiaguisod
pride and pleasure to our representatives all
over the land, many of whom, like this ritter,
hav swept up from tho ashers of utter ruiut
buried under det, degradation and humiliation
that felt like oblivion, pursued by caiumny,
hate and fate. Yes. II thor Is one thing that
is inspiriting abov al others 1t is the picture Of
brain and ncrv, in magnificent defence OF dea-
tiny, march from the ded line 10 the top and
this is just what thes savage enthusiasts, burn
ing up with the sublime sacred spark OF am.
bition. hav don with their whitening. murder.
/ ~ANo
thirty times to the very muzle with bnlLon.-
We are justly proud of thes fellows of un-
danted resolution, of heroic pluk, and marvel
, ous curoge, who go for competition with the
ecstacy OF the eagle in his poisc and sweep and
: swoop upon the unconscious. unsuspecting
, prey, or getting down to the evry da parlans
''like hawk upon a June bug" Yes, some
crowd and choke and bury 'em others drive
r 'cm into the swetbOx. buy them ut 25 ON the .
' and put in harnes on duble duty at dollar q
] da. Bold down then, twenty-five per cent.
g cash befor delivery is success from the word
r go-hfty is defeat, utter and absolute almost
s before get fairly started, and agen and agen
we refer to our conspicuous and distinguished
> representatives rapidly fling up al the centrcG
. and cities of the Union. Rite them at once
$ and hear what tina hav to say of hs and our
! sistem. CHARLEs BROADWAY RoUss,
E New York City.