Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1894-01-09
Rouss Auction Trade journal.


Eighteen-ninety-t las gon into
history as one of the tufestand hard
est of al the pD5ie years for King
Credit. Concerns who haut and sold
on credit have felt the force of the
Mercantile Maelstrom and viii never
forget il. Many of thes landmark
hav hen obliterated and very fu will
ever agen risk the trecherus and per-
fidus Ledger. With our Represent
tativs it has hen years of glory rolled
out into one-it has proven the wis
dom of slashing down to the very DIX
when The public pocket-hook was hid
ava in dred suspicion. The real bar
gin stors hav dubbed Their business
the multitudinus ror. with scant
purses, wanted Their little money to by
ttUo for ONE if it cud be dun, and tina
knu that The master of the Modern
Methods wud cum nerer to that hi
water mark than Regulars who delt
on the pa-da plan. Thes solid
Twenty-percenters felt the force of
Their pulverizers placed befor the pub
lie in plain figurs and made no mis-
take in the impression thes nock-down
arguments wud make upon the vast
masses haunted by the hideous fan
tom of Want.
1t was great Lesson in the gratest
of al the panic years of the past-to
hear the very wall of the hundred
percent hardtimer, when just across
the street the little BEEHIVE Of the RAJ
Deter was crowded to the sidewalk
al da long. And this is the moral
if man is onest in his pretensions
and silks sacredIy to one price of
twenty or twenty-five percent, the
panix may cum and go, but the great
masses, who ar always trying to get
the most and the best for Their little
money, viii find him out in da, and
the closer lie cuts the firmer his hold
upon the public pocket-book. One
single trial of this intoxication of en-
thusiasm on the chesbord of bisnes
and not one in million wud ever
step backward into the barbaric hor-
ers of the internal Ledger.
A the RoUss SYSTEM requires is n
little hors-scns and integrity to folio to
the very letter the simple rules and
the iron laws, and He make a land
mark of him. And on the other
hand, il makes little DDS what the
caracter, capital and ability, under
the Ledger laws the grindstones of
credit vii grind into fine powder fif-
teen out of evrY sixteenl This is
coId-bluded statistix, and not the
revengfuI words of n former victim
of the autocrat of time--in the ashes
of degradation, humiliation and-but
only for da.
Here is our system, so plain and
simple that the merest tyro ma jump
into it and win--in n da If he is tru
TO the system.
Look around U, evrywher in evry-
da life, and Sc the devastations of the
credit monster. 1t aut not 10 take
long to settle this momentus isu that
means to U the victor or the victim.
With this ritter it is not alone The in
satiate desire to get even with the
BarbariC Brothers of Time and Part
nership-t wud be natural enuf,
even in a savage-but TO place a
sound system befor American mer-
chants in magnificent contrast to the
pernicious, ovcrtowcring evil which
enriches no one and impoverishes al
hut scant I af dozen out of evrv
hundred. want TO plant monuments
OF fame in the wild wastes of comon-
place. In the footsteps of Ties de-
fcted champions l want U 10 sc n
genuine representativ of the most
modern methods, with the cuntry for
miles and miles ded in low with him
and his sIedghqmers. Whcr yester-
da hung the red flag to-da l want q
10 look at savage twenty percenter
with his clutch upon the public
pocket-boOk, purely upon the basis
of merit alone. A week ago the sign
ITO Let" on prominent corner In
town who's peple had"gon TO seed"
chanting the thredbare sign song
lizard tines" now the agresiy and
progresiv record-smasher, behind his
thrOnged counters, was Illustrating
the perfect soliditv of cash down in
amazing contrast TO the wear and tear
and swear of the swetbook system.
want to show U. in the trax Of
generation after generation of first
elias mercantile timber that had ben
split and spInterd and shiverd 10y the
Ledger Leprosy, Their now stood
smother race of master minds, who's
offs. furniture was a simple mony-
drawer and who's religion was CASH
BEFoR DELIVERY.
ALI me! the hard life of mental
agony lodging yor creditors. doging
yor detors under that perfidius sys-
TEN that givs back but six out of one
hundred-and that other life of sun
slime, wier the specialties for Net
Spot Cash gladen both bycr and seller.
At twenty-five percent yor values
viii move, and move qiklY, and both
principal and profit ar in the cash
drawer-if u havn't the goods u hav
the mony-only he onest and fair and
SCARE with the pepIe-one price, and
that ROK-BoToM.
The silver agitation is forever
settled and no longer trubles our
peple. The tariff reform viii pas
into history as a relief to millions