Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1893-09-12
R0uss Auction Trade Journal


We may now soon feel sure of a
decided tumble in many OF the ieding
articles of busfDes traffic. Not alone
on the vast bulk of imports. but of
home manufactures, who's giant mo-
nopolics hav ben specially protected
by the government.
1t was one of the folys of the past
Administration that tina squeezed the
consumer-the vast millions-and
enriched the very fu, who wer aIredy
rich and prosperous. The impend-
ing tariff reform has already scared
thes fayoritc darlings of duty that
was welni probibitory, and their
steep, stiff prices are weakening, pre-
| para1ory to the final celaps of the
Mckinley Outrage, which pincies
with unsparing severity the great ma
jority who's life depends upon their
daily work. The army of over loaded
importers who hear the rumhIing of
the approaching thunder and feel that
the litening vii split and smash, ar
aIredy trying TO unload to save Their
bacon. The Who'll country is tired of
rekles and diaboiical waste of public
money and demand reform. The
people bliev that Cleveland is onest,
means bushes and viii push tile work
of economy in al the avenues of dis
bursment. Wise and able legislation
vii command confidence from this an
rest. anxiety and fear of the financial
world. When the chat is thrasht
from the wheat the pension bill viii
drop to twenty-five millions. The
silver dollar, whether it costs fifty
cents an ounce or dollar, viii always
buy as much as gold dollar. The
: taxes to maintain the army and navy
should be Obliterated; we have no
need of either of them. The battles
of the present and coming ages will
: he faut by balets insted of bulets-on
the peaceful fields of diplomacy and
arbitration, by brains instead of
Krupps. Monarky and Barbarism ar
: fast passing into the eternal past, and
the brite lite and Silence of progress
already illuminate the civilized world.
Wel-You ramble from your subject
Wei, yes; ono in while. A felo
who dns the mercantile thinking of
half a million people, who has reyo-
lutionized the business system of the
[ nation, who has galvanized into life a
) vast army of successful and prosper
Gus men cut of the ded lumber of
, comouplace, man who gets but a
: dollar a da, sleeps eight ours and eats
t three meals, naturally enuf needs a
little fresh air.
Evryone knos wei enuf that Their ar
f other barbaric monsters than Part
/ ship and king credit, and on battle
] fields other than the comercial arena /:
, politiX, religion, capital, labor. The
, condition of the u. S. Treasury is
pitiable-on the verge of crisis
/ 1t anto be braut to that pitch of pros
. peritY wher its two-percent bonds wd
sci for a premium-and in twenty
! yers her bonds Cancelled and obliter-
ated-doing its business on the Net
Spot Cash. Religion too is always
getting out of fix-many of its brite
lites turning in TO political Dulles
sending thousands into unown lands
simply for a canibal potpie, and
worst of al, mission men from China
and the lands of Mahomet to convert
us to idolatry! Reform, reconstruct
ton, the lite insted of the dark the
rite and not the rong. 1t can, it
must and will be. What driveI and
, nonsens to talk of mystery" luk''
and ''the lord" when it is simply un-
dersel-the two triphamers mean
success. One wins because its the
rite and sure wa-the other fails for
want of that solid stuff that whirIs the
great wheels within the crater wheels
of progress. Their was no lux or
mystery about the desperate dabrak-
err of Church street. King Cred
it had driven him to the ded-
line and left him ruined rex with
out name. Yes, we had a name
it was por dear CharIey's-a minor
then, tho he had the he'd and brain of
Man-Charles H. B. Rouss). The
hole enterprise seemed buried be-
meath a mountain of milstones in the
shape of Diet of Fifty thousand
that that bundle of clIivalrus tho pull
verified pink ment to pa, sum da, if
he livd and be did for S. Tier
wer many paths leding from that des-
Olate, uninviting field, drerier than
the old cornfield, sno ne-deep / took
the near, short, esy cut of clos profits
for the money down. 1t took for
teen ycars-with the los of one
whose life was worth to me NOR THAN
AL THE WORLD.
From the very jump we markt our
sIedghamers in plain figurs that stopt
eyry hycr who had any money at al,
and we sold out many times in sim
gle Ga; of cours the stock was small,
les than $40, but increast evry da-
Clyne (peace to his ashes) Iivd in the
I slaWter pens and the fun was kept up
al da long and at mite we pakt and
shipt. The parting word with evry
patron was Il gained U by thes adj
vestisiDg bargins and / want you to
do the same and it will treble and
quadrupl yor trade. AL promist. some
lakt the nerve to''giv' EN- ava as tina
sed, but many stuk to ther word and
hav long sine BEGUN Janus and pros
! perus. The first Letter came from Tren-
ton, n. j. I'hcs wer his words-''I
did as U told me; pat box of enveI-
opes in my window and marked them
I2cents pack and pile of note paper
at cents quire, and the best nee
dies in the world for one cent a paper.
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