Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1890-12-09

month OF yeAr unleBS SPECIFIED on tho Malu-
script, or previously agreed upon between the
parties,
cent,-one hundred percentages in month in
cash contrasting strangely with the old regular
who got ten per cent. but one during the samo
time-his was lockt up in the drem book, ours
was in the Ninth National. 1t was not hardto
see far ahcd in thcs prolific battleaelds; it was
not the clever profits but the quik sales. Al
the situation demanded was to follow the iron
law with persistent pluk that amounted to
plesur-a devotion that was absolute idolatry.
1t was simply heroic walk over.
Down in Church street Eve cald it our iron
front it was simply hen coop. 10 by 60 feet,
two fors) one da in our erly history pointed
to Opie. the great crowd in our liliputian stor-
room-hiust have been twenty buyers filing
and tuging for the bargains, the whole stock
was les than two thousand then-we entered
goods al mite, and when morning came itlookt
like the clean sweep of hurricane VIC had
hardly hundred left. After the dalito
throat scratcher, opio simply sed; "Yor heroic
i've per cent is q clincher, and always brings
the cash" In nutshell that was the secret
lover that led us from oblivion to fame. Our
conspicuous aud successful methods wer cop-
led BY hundreds by the waside, many fel, aud
but handful crept up into prominenc. Tho
five per cent. was a fatal barrier tina hung out
for the ten, and keen cash competition crippled
and kid them. Tha scattered circulars but did
not hav the values, Their wcr other causes
While the real net spot original stood at the big
wheel the first in the erly morn and the last at
mite, Sundays, holidays and evry da, the couu-
terfcit spent most of his time ut the races, tho
theatres, the faro and ON long vacations. When
tha got bRk the wheel had stopt and ther trade
gon. Want of attention, APPLICATION and en-
ergy had crippled 1t, but the teu and often af-
teen per cent. had ruined it. The ledcr was
having good time when he Bhud have been
battling for great records.
Yes, the G. o. P. is doomed ded and damned.
The peple viii forget aud forgive a little of tho
Quay aud Wauamakcr, but when tina fool with
yor pocket book look out for savage mock
downs.
As in politix so in mercantile life. He who
has most to ofer for the coin is the popular
man. The level he'd cutting upon the margin
of five per cent viii surely crowd beyond tho
ded line that loug7timer who sold on thirty
days and four months but demanded OF tho
buyer that ztta percentage that are lost on tho
long windcd. This is scf-cyideut axiom
that vii hold until the comercial world closes
its dream book and delivers for cash at five per
cent. or even les Tho minutcst margins for
the eloquent coin viii rol up the vast aggregates
whilst the credit lines at whatever percentage
simply bury the victim.
"what are you going to do about it, scd
Mckinley, he deiIbci atcly felt for the Amer
lean pocket. There was no uncertain reply on
November 4th. as tina snuff him ont like a can
die and settled the G. o. p. forever!
felt the necessity Of biz Inducements under tho
hard laws of monoy-down. II welthy compc-
tition quoted an item on 60 days, We wcr bound
to beat 1t under the rigid spot cash and we did,
and 1t was the very last word to our young be-
ginners on the cash befof delivery plan that
tha shud mark one price ON ther real values,
always belo any competition.
Oftlmes in the last fifteen years our repre-
sentative rote, "tho great shop across the wa
has NOR stok in his windo than ! hay in my
stor." answered, "thc peple that lt,ok IN tho
windo 10 not want to bay the entire stolS, but
ar after som ethlng in ther at rok bottom; put
the teltalb tickets on your values and they'll
swarm In with the cash. Another year after
telling of the sheriff aud lawyers, he scdi II
own the big shop now, and do the trade of tho
town" All, me, how such words as thcs burn
| into the quik and throb Of ambition; aud in
thcs transitions from poverty to fame, there is
in the extacy of reality aud imagination, alife
time every year.
He matcht his pluk aud thauts ngeBstihe old
established uristocrncy Of one hundred per cent.
| and swept him ont into the unowu.
The cold bluded statistx of the last decade
has settled the subject of credit beyond que5s
ton, and the staggering results shud sober cvry
enthusiast who stands te-da facing fate. Out
of evry hundred sineboards ON the worlds
great hiwa, five only remain abuY the ded lev
el, and thcs wer al net spot cash champions; in
the same time. Of eyry bundled iiho sold only
for the monen down, but six hav perisht aud
of thes four wer rascals by birth. instinct aud
education, leving only two fair failureS out OF
one hundred. aud blu gras was the god OF tho
| two unfortuuates.
Yes, indeed, the facinaton Of the throat
scratching, brain firing stuf is tut cuut in COM
mcrcial story, but thousand times wOrs that
dedier destructiv, clast in the calender of Grim
as credit. Next to US stands Ere Trade France,
heroic In her humiliation Incompatible In her
present ascendencY, matches in her rok bot
tom values, we must match and beat her; VIC
must bury tho odious hi tarifers. aud under
Cleveland in 90, obliterate the titan lodes thes
Infamous idiots hav placed upon the pcple-
Like the French, our pcple en- masse want 1hcr
values as near the prime cost as possible, and
tina viii hav em after %, If NOT bcfor; and in
1000 the tariff, like the hangman's rope, vii be
simply barbarie monsJosity of the cvcniful
past.
An old Winchester paper Of 1s45-near nifty
years ago-was handed me yesterday. Tho
tarif was then 10 per cent. When the Demo-
Gratis came into power agen in 1884 It was 42,
and Cleveland advocated reform, driving it
bak to 20. Itnow stands 81. 1t must be re-
peald, If not in 'o1, it vii be In 1892. The life
of the 6. o. P. hangs on its repeal, anz
even tina. nor saltpetre will ever rcsurect it,
The peple vii stand taxation for revenue, but
the terrific tariff robs evryone and goes down tho
rapacious nav Of the political pirates, tho
bounty jumpers and monstrous monopoly
Yes, touch the principles ot the peple, and tina
viii grunt awhile, but tap ther Pocketbook and
tha ar wideawake and elear-heded inAtanter.-
Inthe brief sketch Of the Mckinley bill every
one is inclined TO take advantage Of it and Pill
ing on the atrocious profit, and we warn our
representative that the people vii not forget
them who, in this crisis, pounded them, and
tina vii remember the Raqneser Who stuk to
them at the twenty-five per cent margins on
the fair and the square.