Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1890-11-25
MISCELLANEOUS.
Monthly Auction Trade journal
for. November.

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The logic of these monihlics has swept the
range of master minds of the mercantile rank
and file sine the clos of the Stewart dynasty
1t has taut men that bottom figures wer heir
cards in the great game than friendship, favor
and long time It has ben shown that ther
was that merit in real values that led the ruf
diamond with his hundred dollar stock over the
aristocratic hundred per center to the mastery
of the place. In thes fOrteen years We have
planted thrifty men in the trax of old timers
who had been for years going to seed and To
rot. The terrific tyrauy and ROBBERY of the old
credit methods has been driven out aud the
modern popular plan of clos, clean profits for
the cash only has taken possession of the peple
The old barbarism is fast disappearing, aud
business on the true basis of coin is the iron
law and the sterling axiom of al great and sue
cesful merchants in this eventful and progresiv
age. Representative who liv up to the Letter of
the Rouss system match ther values for mony
down agenst the grinding, opresiv xtortion of
the long-winded antedeluvian who really can't
afford to sci for les than 100 per cent when he
scratches 1t down in the ledger never to cum
into lif ag N. Gor cud he max two prices
one for cash, the other for eternity; he wud
pose as u trickster and unreliable. When he
Gums within range of the Raqueter he is gon-
er and saltpctre won't cave him; the lawyer
must melt him down into pulp or coin and add
to this diminutiy capital the Crater levers of
piuk and resolution under the blak dag, I'm
derby aud Undersel, and there is no limit to the
possibilities that la bcGor him.
Stewards stupendousjbusiness was bit upon
the solid rok of undersel, whether he under
bnut or not; he wud undersel If his percentage
got down to 21G, but in the general average he
sold closer to our religion Give per cent. than
any merchant of his da. His genius and am
bitiOn went down into the grave with him; his
career was the gratest chapter in mercantile
history lcson to cvry man 5thos gaze is fist
upon success aud fame.
Yes, indeedi the marvellous records of our
distinguished Representatives hay awakened
from the lif long stupor and sluniher the old
hard timer who had many time wisht he wcr
ded; tina hav inspired him with mn curagc, and
thrild his blud with tue enthusiasm OF ambition
In days gon by lie had often sworn, cit cudn't
be dun" now he cud darc and do any and
evrything: like the graf skolars OF scienc and
invention who had torn from hcven her light
ming ond haruest it, he was rcdy at a moments
motifs to tackle the possible and impossible with
the same heroic unconcern. lie was bold
down into bnlion his saw and cider mills, has
melted his mulcteams and plows into redy cash
and into the bank ut any sacrifice he has flung
his mortgages aud ncgotiablcs along with the
internal swet book of eternal .inie. He is a
reconstructed mercantile record smasher OF the
modern and agresiv cast. Bvryone look and
points at hiul as the champion OF the pepIe.-
Popular and prosperous, his busy warerooms
ar always crowded, and his daily arrivals are
swept off the same da. He has no mellow hour
of retrospection TO look bak over the years of
mental misery as plaything of King Credit.
who cud smash him into nothing in a moment
Now, he is king, and Credit the toy that he
breaks and twirls as he plesos. He feels a self
confidence he never knu befor under system
that, If faithfully followed, vii always win
What folly then, for merchant TO charge his
goods upon book that viii never return them;
locking them in box which viii never open.
Even when the Ledger givs up the valu it has
lain ther a long time idle and useles whilst the
system OF the twenty-five per center turns ii
over eYryda, the bal rolling and getting biger
da after da. Ono hundred per cent is nothing
if can't get it from the ledger's treacherous
folds, but twenty-five per cent. is omufpotcnt
utractiY and ine1pensiv tickets in the windo ar
statesmen who never mis- fire, tel the truth and
hay not the beerkeger's odious and ominous
scent under the hard old brain tearing sistcna,
the veteran got welthier in the fictitious. but
weaker in that sterling stuff that rules the
world. The lottery chances of the offs bible the
genuin Raqueter viii not risk-it IS vvors than
WORTHLESS in the Red Flag shops or Hedquarters
1t is Of no valu to anyone xcept at a penuy-a
pound. The cash-befor-delivry champion un-
dersels becaus he has underbaut, the dry rot
victim has baut on time the regular stuff that
vii not bring the cash. five hav no represen-
tativ ther tina send to the clos cash concerns Of
| the large cities rather than pa the unfair xtor-
ton of the dfty-per center. The musical lin
gle and the rusle and busle Of the net spot cash
is inspiriting, but the ded siienc (lgith an oca-
siona1 yawn) of the dry rot concern is opresiy,
and nonotonous. One commands the admira-
ton and cash of the country; the time concern
| is simply an object of pity who's proprietor is
redy for the stream thrasher of reconstruction
he must jump or the credit wheels vii crush
him into everlasting pulp. and no one knows
this better than the man himself, even tho he
keeps on the Inevitable tenor of his wa.
Theirs no authority upon the vital isues Of
success or defeat in comercial circles possessing a
1.-THE of the xperienc and praetis Of the ritter Of
thes monthlies. This unanserabls logic IAN
dies al the varied fases Of economic questions
with sure tuch; with vast and xpensiv infor-
nation. and power Of analysis gathered in
the ashes of utter ruin and in tito lofty altitude
of achievement. r Presents facts not faIacies
or theories pointing ont as with tie finger Of
destiny the snort, sure, quik path over which
the victor must sweep if indeed ernest in his
dreams of triumf
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