The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1890-02-26
Merchants Organization.

On Thursday evening the merchants
of Butler, Mo-. met in the Commercial
Club Rooms and listened to the expla-
nation of Mr.. NJ. A. Hills, of the ad-
vantages offered by organizing under
the protective system represented by
1.-THE Merchants Retail Commercial
Agency of Chicago, H. The organl-
zation of the Butler. No., branch per-
fected and the following were elected
officers:
A.. l.. McBride-President.
r. G.. -Vice-President.
Pratt Wyatt-Secretary.
z. J. Jewett-Treasurer.
r. l.. Graves, II. V. PentZer. A. l..
Fox, E. A. Bennett, \. l.. Badgley-
Executive Board.
All the merchants present signed the
| constitution and bylaws, pledging their
honor as business men to maintain and
sustain each and every part thereof for
one year. A fine is provided US pen
atty for violation of the clause in such
constitution, which provides that no
member of the Butler, Mo-. branch of
''The Merchants Retail Commercial
Agency" shall give credit to person
who does not in some honorable man
ner adjust his indebtedness with anoth-
er member of 1.-The Merchants Retail
Commercial Agency" No person
shall be referred to the members of this
or any other branch as owing member
of THE Merchants Retail Commercial
Agency until such person has been
given full and fair opportunity to 60
to the merchant he owes and in some
way settle up his Indebtedness. This
system cannot work hardship on any
} person who is disposed to do the SQUARE
. thing. Any person, no matter how
poor, how unfortunate his circumstance:
, in life, IF HE is HONEST, he need have
no fear, because he can and will make
known his circumstances in such way
as will be satisfactory to the person hi
, | owes. No MERCHANT WILL EvET
| ShOH u "A IOcIS MAN W t1O 10 hoNES1
, but that class of persons, who do no
care for their promises to pay; who g
from one store to another, from on,
town to another, contracting a deb
wherever they can get the chance t.
open an account; who go it blind, neve
4 stopping to consider how they can pay
/ never trying to pay-paying their homes
! debts being the last thing they ever thin
Oft is to such persons that this syster
pays attention. 1t is no hardship to as
8 men to be honest in their deals with
= merchant who trusts them. Every farm
n er, every mechanic. every person in til
= community in which we reside who pay
his honest debts is interested in the sue
- cess of system which seeks to max
> those who can pay and won't pay. pa
o their honest debts, because it it is thoS
n who pay cash or pay their debts prompt
I. ly' who furnish the money which enable
-. the merchant to successfully conduct h
business and carry on his books that ella
of people styled slow yayers and ''de:
G beats" Every dollar lost by the me-
y chant by reason Of bad debts is Indirect
'o loaded onto the shoulders of those wi
% do pay, and any system that forces pa
ment by slow payers and s'dead BEATS
compels them to pay spot caah or secu
- for everything they purchase. unloa
n, the percentage from off the shoulders
MS the honost paying classes. A man cam
ID exist in this world aid pay nothing wit
az out proving direct burden on those wi
ed supply themselves with the necessities
1d life by honest purchase. The do-notiil
>! pay-nothing class are what this Agency
~ after. The merchants have no law f
SIS their protection: they must be 4 law TN
themselves by combination for the PIT