The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-04-25
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We Are Distributors Of DRY Goods

We Are Distributors Of Dry Goods
on such a scale, as affords undoubt
ed advantages to consumers on
the one hand, and to the larg est
producers on the other.
1t is, of course, impossible for the
manufacturer and consumer to come
into contact and deal directly with
one another. In times gone by,
three sets of merchants stood be.
tween the buyer and the maker.
First-the importer or commission
merchant who sold to second-the
joGber or wholesale dealer, who in
turn sold TO third-the retail mer-
chant. This system of business
caused three profits TO be placed on
the goods before they reached the
consumer. Now all this is changed.
One profit takes the place of three,
and consumer and maker come as
nearly together as economic laws
permit and meet at our counters.
This great mart. with its system per.
fected by years of experience, trial
and growth, is not only necessity
and convenience to the people, but
is undoubtedly n money saving or
ganization on an extensive scale.
In no other way can the vast and
varied products of the times be prop.
erly and economically distributed,
except through such an agency.
The makers themselves, each produc.
ing but one class of goods and with.
out any organization for distribution,
would be utterly unable to distribute
their products, except at great disad,
vantage, and at high prices to buyers,
while the latter, compelled to 60 to
hundred sellers instead of one,
would be under even greater disad.
vantage, both as to labor and in the
payment of the higher prices. A
great retail store then, is the out
growth of legitimate demand, a
necessity of the times, and a striking
instance of the economic power of
systematic organization. Under no
other system would it be possible to
distribute the products of a thousand
makers 80 economically and we'll to
the millions waiting to receive them;
which millions secure said products
at prices made inevitably moderate
by the competition of the makers at
our counters; and the cost of hand
ling the goods from producer to
consumer is scarcely appreciate TO
each buyer. so vast is the volume of
business transacted by this great
economical organization.
But to attain the highest degree Of
efficiency, and to secure the best re-
suits to the public, the organization
must be on scale sufficient TO COM
mand the markets of the world in it's
lines of business; to watch all mar
kcts and to buy largely when prices
are low enough; to pay the cash
promptly for the entire product of a
mill, if necessary, which product
will be rapidly distributed among
thousands of buyers, each securing
just the quantity desired-say one
yard or twenty,-'at the advantage
obtained by the great organization,
plus the one small profit which is
small indeed to each individual
buyer.
We venture to claim that, in the
vast and varied field of Dry Goods,
we have established and built up jus,
such an organization as is here de
scribed and it is our aim. not alone
to make money, but to transact bus
mess on such broad basis and on
such q scale in our chosen line, that
the greatest good to the greatest
nuilber may result.
When requested we will cheerfully
forward samples of any material