Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1889-04-16
MISCELLANEOUS.
Charles Broadway Rouss' Sue
cessful Money-Making
Methods.

To people who will adopt our successful
money-making rules and ideas and run their
business on plans that we have found most ad-
yantageous with our other stores, We viii make
this offer (Which practically gives you the use
of half our capital without cent of charge,
and that you will stick to our proved system
and rules).
OUR OFFER.
We will advance you one-half the capital of
your business (the other half to be contributed
by you in cash) and charge you no interest nor
ask any share of the profits the only proyisos
which we make are that you will sell strictly
for cash, never over 25 per cent. profit and re-
NIT us as you take in the money every few
days Our idea is that remittances should
never fall below 10 per cent. of the indebted
ness per week.
AS we place at your command the services
of our fifty buyers (the best that money can
command) and our capital. brains and reputa-
tions charging you only per cent upon our
prime net cash, we are sure that You have no
objections TO giving us an indorsed note for
our half of the capital OF mortgage on your
property. drawing no interest and running for
one year. OF course this contract Will be re-
newed or enlarged, If we both agree, when the
year expires.
Bear in mind that we charge you no interest
and our profits depend entirely upon your sue
cess If you don't do n big business, We lose
money. hence our interest are inseparably
united, and this is the very best guarantee you
can possibly have that your interests In New
York wiz be closely watched.
We can only gain If you succeed There
fore, your success is the acme OF our aspira-
tiOns.
The cheaper you sell goods the more you
will dispose of. 1t follows that as a matter of
course 1t is to our interest to send you the
very cream of our auction purchases.
This is the case from an inter ested and even
selfish point of view; apart from that Il is ne
cessary to assure you that our pride and reputa-
tion are concerned In the. success Of q repre-.
rcnf of mr.
Advertise your connection with MS we VIII
even write you a letter To be pasted In your
windows. Get all the benefit possible from
your connection with ms
Tell the people that there Is no taxation Of
credit on your goods. Our profit Is per cent
and yours 20 per cent. Is all they have to pay
on goods bought of you. and that these goods
have not been bought in the regular credit
channels, but at sheriff. marshal and auction
sales of the bankrupt merchant or the crippled
concern. The goods are not hurt a bit you
know by passing through the hands of the
sheriff. "Clark's Cotton" Is the same whether
you buy it at the mill or in TopPing's auction
rooms
You have the good sense to appreciate all
this, and we know you will put it TO useful
purpose an advertisement.
OF course we would like to have personal
interview, but If you cannot spare the money
for The trip we shall not Insist upon it.
AS long IA you keep trading with us (and 70
trade with MS you are Obliged TO stick TO the
cash system) and send us your orders and re-
owe US certain large sum of money repre-
sented by the security. IL you should desire
at any time 10 end the connection, IL will only
be necessary to pay ms what you owe and
stop We have thousands of stores in opera
ton on this plan all over the United States,
and, without any exception. whatever, they
are making money rapidly. The system Is so
simple and so sensible that It must commend
itself TO all. There Is no community that is
not able to raise money If n sufficient induce-
ment is given For instance. suppose you Of
fer a man who has an account with your cred
it rival fine fur hat (Which we can furpish)
nt IS cents. which lie must pay S1.40 or 81 so
elsewhere for, do you not think he VIII ind =
way to buy of you? OF couree he will Again.
your neighbors sell spool cotton at or cents
a spool. while you cell them our Rouss' Mills
cotton at cents a spool. which cost you Is
cents u dozen. This cotton we authorize you
to guarantee in every way-to guarantee that
It will work on the machine along with Ciark's
and to be full 200 yards. We sell millions Of
dozens of it. and IL has merit. We simply
have reduced good spool cotton 70 its actual
value by making it ourselves, and for cash
This little incidence will serve 10 show how We
do business.
Everything we buy Is a bargain and below
its value; we simply add our per cent profit
TO the goods and scatter them among our rep
reseutatives who add 25 per cent. and retail
them for cash and pay us. thus keeping the
system in healthy activity
New York ? Here we have sheriff whose
twenty are kept busy every day superintend-
ing sales of merchandise of every description
daily. We buy wagon loads every day at
their sales they come in. are parcelied out 70
our stores. who in turn dispose of them cheap
for cash, and thus the process keeps moving
on continually. Now some figures:
We employ 400 men-50 buyers-Who watch
every sale. who are the best judges of values
money can hire With unlimited cash At their
back. is it strange that we should have the in
side track. or is 1t strange that having to buy
for cash in advance we should be in search OF
outlets for the enormous purchases
Our sales of ten million dollars yearly. yield
us profit Of five per cent or 100000. De
duct $3.50 Oc0 expenses and you see what q big
thing we make of It. We simply want you TO
run your email business on the same general
plan that we do our big one. Wis sell cheap
for cash. trust no one Your sales compared
what you sell Your success viii be m exact
proportion to the cioseness with which you ad-
here TO our rules.
On the preceding page VIC give you the un-
solicited remarks of some of our represents
tiyes written us in the regular course Of business
in the last week they tell the tale more eio-
oueutiy and more satisfactory than We can {:
there Won have the exact results What these
and hundreds of others have done, surely ou2nt
not 70 he beyond your capacity This = per
cent cash system will win everywhere- the
more accustomed town is TO high prices and
/ credit Che greater your Euccess viii be- The
whole thing depends upon whether you have
the observation-disclosures 70 see the value and ad-
vertisemeDt OF the low prices We send you
an article at six cents which would easily bring
ten. We advise you to sell IL 1t three ceDts.
the two cents difference is q ffty-cent adver-
| tisement which will make talk and bring half
a dozen other customers.
/ OF course we would give Jon the absolute
monopoly Of our goods. protecting you IN every
wny and the prestige and backing of this house
would be q part of your stock-in-trsde. 20 ad-
verfise most widely You could pulverize any
competition OF course. no one else could get
these same goods and could only bring against
you regular goods that any one can buy. but
| which has the heavy taxation of credit on them.
Yoar connection with rs Il tremendous Id
vantage and powerful lever. You would get
your share of the cream Of our auction pur-