Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1890-12-09
MISCELLANEOUS.
Rouss Auction Trade journal
for December.

the vast diferenc between the markets of cities
which get their merchandis from the great me-
tropolis itself; tina no tha can buy here as low
and perhaps lower than thes second hand job
bers of other cities. In the changing quota
tions of the vast Hedquarter mast of America,
the aim of every successful merchant is to get at
first COST or better still under tho red flag, hello
that prime cost; often the butcher in the slaw-
ter pens gets even better prices than the I'M
porters give, but often les. The field is almost
ilimitable and requires the cash. the nerv, the
xpcrienc of great judgment and the level bed.
This concern has faut its battles and won its
victories outside of the combinations and mo-
nopolies, and on the pages of this journal will
be found in evry department real valus ten aud
twenty per cent. below the private circulars of
thes welthy hi-tarifers. AS Stewart swept the
great markets, from Manchester to Calcutta,
SO VIC hav, not content with the vast oppOrtu-
mites for bargains here for the hard cash. sent
our buyers abroad to penetrate every market
of the earth and, Mckinley or no Mckinley
place before our people values that no house
can match, or if tina can, tina viii not.
Under the odious Republican maladministra-
tion we name certain articles at 81 that can't
be produced at our protected mills under $l.2O,
and U may rely upon it that the merchant,
who's fixt gaze is ever fastened upon big re-
suits, will buy wher lie can get the specialtics
whether made in China or ireland. when he
may place it before his pcple twenty per cent.
less than his Republican swcll-head can
buy it at the mil; and this percentage be-
tween the keen levehed and the slave of mo-
nopoly and Mckinley, is the dividing line be-
tween success and oblivion, for the peplc who
F,- e.,
what race, creed or politics the champion of
the masses belong so long as he has the real
valus that silenc the whisper of competition in
whatever shape, and thes real valus must
hav. in order TO get ther Iriik.
Al the modern prosperous and popular mer-
chants al over the land deal rite here in the
| metropolis of the Western World or ut the mil
For them who viii trade at second and third
rate markets on ther fnvoritc terms ther are
| many percentages between the mil and him
self that he mite save. and Ghe los of this very
leverage renders him conspicuous advertise
ment for the twenty y-fve-percenter who simply
names the price, raps up the package and
scrapes in the solid stuff.
In thedays gon by the aristocratic, stifneked,
old Regular, with his regular valus on eternal
time, was full and final authority in the
mercantile circles and centres, but as the iron
hors drov the mule team and stage coach into
oblivion, the masses, and the clusses as wei,
laf the hundred percenter to ridicule when the
raqueter with his thunderboIts shake mp the
slumbering natives.
The ledger victim who think he sells only to
good trade at 50 per cent. profit chalk it down
on the drembook, whenc 4 will htvcr resurect;
but the agresiv representativ of the cash-be-
fOr-dclivery system sweeps into his money
| drawer 25 per cent, and the other twenty-five
per cent. he scatters among his peple one
loses principle and profit; the other increases
his pile, and popularity drives him beyond the
great records.
An old ripsnorter of the age gon by traded
his land for stock of goods got his goods on
the fatal ledger; red our monty and visited
one of our representatives. He gathered one
thousand somcwher-the ritter insinuated that
he had gotten it from the bank with a crobar.
but lie good-humoredy evadcd the question:
He offered his services to the raqueter for one
week fire, to SC the racket work. He told me
in that time not a single person askt for credit,
nor deviation in price; insted of waring ont,
the crowd was always tber, the daily arrival of
goods from headquarters kept the Buying put-
lie continually on the run aud jump and pitch.
In month he had forgotten the land and the
leger, and he is determined enthusiast of the
most agresiy and progresiY cast. In sum fu-
tur monthly in the near by we shal print this
years work under the Fouss system, along
with lifetime record under the merciles tyr
any of ledger barbarism.
Most men hold on TO the land and ledger.
the sawmil, und Vegetables until the inevita-
bic crowds them beyond oblivion line One
out of a dozen perhaps, the felo of brains and
backbone viii fead aritc the eloquent Lessons Of
the living age. and history viii record his mar
velous march from the ashes 20 fhe top.
The faded coat may cover brave heart, and
modest face often conceals that undaunted
resolution that desperation always inspires,
and when such combinations tackle the net
spot cash U ma bet yor dear life upon record
riyaling tfe Robinson Boys, the North Carolina
Thunderbolt, or the Liliput Of Church Street,
stok $50, rent one dollar da-even his great
lutenants dru the same modest salary.
The peple hav kid the hi-tarif and buried its
authors; tha bav spoken in thunder tones ther
opinion of monopoly and rokbofom. The in
famous eoneOctors of the diabolicaI monstros-
ities vii soon be forgotten. Peple vii not buy
thes articles of xtortion and prices must tum-
BiS- E4eFft tAStt9 OtAtt l'cfpfFts sSusiEsf
odius and intolerabIe laws were absolutely nc
ccssary to obliterate the rekles, rotcn. grand
old party. Tha ar gon-now for the Cleveland
tariff; then free trade Tarif opreses the graf
majority; it must and viii be abolished before
1900. The pensions as vel.
The foundation stores Of our suces rRef not
alone undcrbuy, but undersel. The old uu-
successful methods had impoverished or ruined
the best mercantile talents Of the ages gon by;
hardly dozen of the last generation survived
the inevitable dry rot; every nu enterprise
opend up with cash and credit capital. ran
the sam terrific gentlet-a little while tina Eer
forgotten, say the huge truk lod Of ledgers at
Prebse's paper mil-one cent a pound-Was al
that recorded ther short, hard struggle against
fate. Under Toping's red dag first met the
uuanserable logic OF hard cash, having baut
bargains II was esq enuf to comaud the sam
subtle sfuf If we sold chep. We baut and sold
the cam das turned our capital eYr5 da st 5 per