The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1889-01-10
MERCHANTS ORGANIZATION.

Recently the merchants of Ro-
chelle, ILL.,, met and organized under
the protective system represented
by "The Merchants Retail Com
mercial Agency of Chicago, ILL.,"
All the merchants present signed
the constitution and bylaws, pledg-
ing their honor as business men to
maintain and sustain each and every
proof thereof for one year. A fine
Is provided rs q penalty for viola
ton of the clause in such constitu-
ton which provides that no member
of the Rochelle Branch of "The
Merchants Retail Commercial
Agency" shall give credit to per-
son who does not in some honorable
manner adjust his Indebtedness with
another member of "The Merchants
Retail Commercial Agency" No
person shall be reported to the
members of this or any other branch
as not entitled to credit, until such
person has been given q full and
fair opportunity to 60 to the mer-
chant he owes and in some way set
tie up his Indebtedness. This sys-
tenn cannot work hardship on any
person who is disposed to do the
square thing. Any person, no mat
ter how poor, how unfortunate his
circumstances in life if he is honest,
he need have no fear, because he
can and will make known his circum-
stances in such a way as will be
satisfactory to the person he owes.
No merchant will ever crowd poor
man who is honest; but that class
of persons who do not care for their
promises to pay; who go from one
store to another, from one town to
another, contracting debt wher-
ever they can get the chance to open
an account, never stopping to con-
slider how they can pay never try
ing to pay-paying their honest
debts being the last thing they
ever think of - it is to such
persons that this system pays atten-
ton. 1t is no hardship to ask men
to be honest in their deals with
merchant who trusts them. Every
farmer, every mechanic, every per-
son in the community in which we
reside who pays his honest debts, as
interested in the success Of q system
which seeks to make those who can
pay, and won't pay, pay their honest
debts, because it is those who pay
cash or pay their debts promptly who
furnish the money which enables the
merchant to successfully conduct his
business and carry on the books
that class of people styled slow pay
ers and "dead beats" Every dol
lar lost by the merchant by reason
of bad debts is indirectly loaded on
to the shoulders of those who do
pay, and any system that forces
payment by slow payers and ''dead
BEATS" or compels them to pay
spot cash or secure for everything
they purchase, unloads the percent
age from off the shoulders of the
honest paying classes. The do
nothing, pay-nothing class are what
this Agency is after. The mer-
chants have no law for their protec-
ton; they must be law unto them
selves by combination for the pro-
lection of each other. They owe it
not only to themselves, but to their
cash paying, prompt paying GUS
toners, to combine together and
drive to settlement or cash that class
of persons which infest every COM
munity, whs do nothing, live well and
contribute nothing. This system is
being adopted by all the leading
merchants throughout the west. 1t
deals honorably with both debtor
and creditor and should have the
support, not only Of merchants, but
honest consumers.
Pay up. Settle up or pay cash is
the motto of this branch and of the
Agency Rochelle Paper, Ill.