Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1891-01-13
MlscELLANEous.
Monthly Auction Trade journal
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andwhilst Who'll armies haY gon down in the
blud and carnage of credit thsr haT ben res
cued legionsI standing on the doth trap, who
listend to tho logic, heded the warnings and
foloWd the footsteps of the ritter.
1890 was prOlihcin big results to that elias
Who cut clos. sold quik aud delivered for the
mony down. 1t has ben hard, tut struggle for
the big percenter who bet on Mckinley and
scratch it down on the trecherous pages of
the ledger.
The grand old yer has seen thousands Of
merchants who. in the dredful past has been
tortured in credits releutIes yruclble, join the
Racquet rank, aim low, fire qulk aud often, for
the almity dollar. Tha hnv found the welth OF
reputation, popularity and prosperity increas
da after do whilst the book of time got hevier
yer in and out, crushing the very life out of
thousands of its helples and hopeless victims.
The hundred per-ccnter has felt the terrific
fore of tho Rouss representative and has sworn
that from January 1891, he vii undet by aud
undersel, Under no circumstances-pot for
one thousand. per cent. viii he imperiI his life
in the lottery of the book OF fate. Ha.has do
termined to beat the Racket daredevil at his
own game and sci at twenty per cent cash OIL
the nail!
bNO III .uGiOI IWO TOuuS
stretch out-oue to heven, the other TO hel, to
boro the siug-song of piety.
The corn aud cobcrushcrs of the Mercantile
Lexicon ar Brains, Bakbond and; Bullion, but
the pulverlsers ar uuderby and rndereei. This
is the religion of the Racketer as he whirls on
and never look bak.
AS we hay often stated our prices change
from da to dH, under The rules of the conner
cial slawter pens-tha ar coined by smuglers.
land-pirate aud thievs-by the queer and crafty
befor the failure, aud by al who must hay
mony as tina go crashing thru the auction ma
chimes, the prolific harvest fold for al who hay
the pluk to buy, the nerV TO wade in and the
cash to plank down. $50
Wher, then, is the old Regular with his reg
ular STUFF, at regular prices ON eternal time /?
al records viii be beten. STEWART aud CLAF-
LIN stand at the top. but Their maryerous alti-
tudes viii be rivald and collapsed sum da Our
own sweep from the ashes TO the top and our
jump from six story wooden places to irouSf
granite and brik of twelve stories will be for.
gotten in the agresiv march of the futur chill
dTeu;of genius aud ambition, hiding monu-
meuts over-towering our own 81 stories; and
in the after ages of the great future. what7
In our marches from the oblivion line ther
often Ia in the path great credit concerns that
contested the field and often tainted the lilipu-
tian sharpshooters with the epithct of "scor-
pions of comerce, and "smuglers;" but un-
daunted we prest on and won, just as many of
our distinguish Representative enjoy the ad-
ycrtisencnt from envlons but impotent eompe-
tition "stolen goods" Invariably crowding the
rebel beehive of cash befor delivry.
The tyrany and dry rot of the credit system
has been the great barrier to mercantile enthu-
siasts who wer born merchants, possessing all
the qualities that comand suces-rsaye oncEths
had attained prominenc aud prosperity. it was
this same overshadowing and overwhelming
curse that stript them of the sinews of fnauce
and stined the pulse of ambition, drying the
master into the humiliation and depreciation OF
oblivion.
Al the while the plain mater OF fact cham
pion who had the resolution to follow the iron
lawf and the sure short cuts 70 fame. felt the
fore of the almity. dollar at evry jump, the
musical melody of the omplpoient coin ipspird
him whitman ambition he had never felt befor,
and he laft at competition Units thrcdbarc
pleading of favor; friendship and one hundred
per cent,
Their wer many paths to the top, and many
NOR that led out into the unown. but thru most
al thes intricate lines the champion rambled
and struggled and often struggled or persist in
the dedIy gauntlet Of credit If he survived.
his cash was gon aud the hi hopes of ambition
turned into unayaillng regrets; barely cue of a
hundred hav ever the moral curage TO face
fate in the last battles of life; of thes wor Macy.
Ridley. Bloomingdales and the ritter of thes
monthlies. Even after tina had emerged from
the ashes, adTersIty otood square 10 the path.
and SANDER barking ana bowling in thee flank
and rear, and curage inspired by desperation
was the torlorn hope. The lo4t batlefelds wer
forgotonin the splendors of comercial achieY-
meuts that came in the after years. In the
feasts that followed. SANDER was always con-
spicuous in the profusion of lite sycofantic praIs
aud its diabolical yels of aplaus. i, -, .
Among the hosts of the detected Ier many
superior to the survivors and the Yictors. but
oblivion seemed NOR welcom than the terrific
tusle With overwhelming ods, besides what is
Their left OF brains and backbone after the un-
fortunate has ben ground aud crushed between
the grindstones Of credit?
I've seen boys from the pillow in the coTnHeId
jump into { town with hamper basket OF
bargains for cash drive to the wal and fasten
him Their, the Autoe1at with Thousands on his
shelvs. NOR thousands on his ledger, and Rtil
many NOR thousands on other ledgers asenst
him-and between the twenty-five per center
and King Credit the generous old-amer was
smash into pulp.
Is thcr no IesOn then In thes eyryda pictures
of the rise, furnish. fal and burial of human
greatness7 Canot the yung champions just
entering the storm swept ateha of comefce
avoid thes pitfalls and dctbtrapa thas 6estroy
the great and sn1a1, the lefty and the loWIy al
most IN da. I, -.
Tie remedy Il aefe sndsimpls and
undersel. each befor delivery. It bauishes the
brain fever ard the hartake, and bring back
ageu tho apetite for sleep and food, and
changes the shade into the brite sunshine
Employ no one to handle yor cash--irs q
terrific temptation to even an honest man, tite
up, 70 borrow. Intending to replace it when his
lux wud change, 'sum other da." he gets
liter and liter da after da. and the sheriff and
the legal bulldogs unravel the mystery.
The rich old-fashiond towns wher Credit was
King and the tariff ranged from 100 to 200 per
cent upon eternal time. wer conspicuous har-
vest fields for the Rebel Raqueter With his
25 per cent cash-befor-delive4y. The old stiff
neker sold his buttons at twenty-five eents q
dozen, the spot cash fellow cold the same thing
at % cents gross, eTrgthiug in proportion.
The old town turned into hornets Best. Tha
o,a SO nod har,s rs,i,FL and r,tfred fr,ter ftfs