Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1894-04-03

marvellous strides from the ashes of
Church Street, proves that our repre-
sentatives and patrons hav marcht
ARREST and even ahed of US in swift
comercIal step. Wler we hay made
matches records tina hay simply
smashed them IN proportion we
claim for our magnificent mercantile
gladiators the same mesur of success
as tina accord us. OF cours, enYius
competition 50 many hard things of
the underholt and undercut-the un-
derbuy and understood the Racquet
er, but tina are filing the battles of the
masses and care never a continental
for the classes. Tha laf in derision at
the thredbarc scandal of the old Reg
ular g stolen goods as tina WELDON
the cheer of the crowd aud the crush
of the peple. Under the - Old wa .
tina had to run after the customer to
sci aud after to coIIect-under the
Cash-befor-delivery plan the custo-
mers in solid falanx ar after the
Twenty-Five percenter, leving him
little time TO eat and sleep.
The survivors of Picket's mortal
band. who storned and carried the
impregnable heights of Gettysburg,
claim now every soldier onestly be-
lievd that his last hour was at hand
Their seemed no chance of escape
rs it was, ten of every eleven fell.
In the mercantile Manassas, under
the baner of the Gear of Credit, saw
age statistic prove that fifteen out of
evry sixteen fal, scant hat dozen
out of an even hundred. This
smashes the record at the Southern
Waterloo, and even eclipses that of
Mcdonald, under the great Napoleon
at Wagram. Under the correct sys-
TEN thcr is no occasion to lose a sim
gle man out of hundred, unIes, in
deed, he deviates from the short.
strait paths that always comand and
demand success. PiIing on the profit
abuv the safe margin of % per cent.
is fatal blunder, and the pard with
q little money will cripl the enterprise
as certin as the capital buried in the
SWEET book. In thes monthlies, in
plain, blunt. simple language that a
CHILD ma read as he runs, ar pointed
out the short cuts to fame and for
tune, and the ritter, with pride that
is pardonable, boasts of an army of
successful mercantile masters that no
other concern can APPROACH. The
RoUss SYSTEM is TO start the yung be-
giner rite, so that lie ma achieve
success in the erly prime of life. The
teachers of the Ledger, ninety-four
out of hundred, cripple Their slsoIars
at the very start, smash them at 80,
again at 40, and at 80 tina are broken
down tramps, redy to pas in Their
everlasting chips; yes, 10 out of evry
l6l And tina cal our methods pecu-
liar. Why don't tina cal it clincber g?
precisely what it is, clinching the
bolts in the coin of King Credit; or,
better still, a ctUaizer, bold down in
tire splendid words-UrDERBY UN-
DERsEL, CASH.
We ar reconstructory as wei. We
pix up thes Ledger victims, pull them
to peces, and then bid them up into
solid, prosperous bushes men for in
stance ,STONER, of Ashvill, who swears
that he viii, inside of n single year,
rival or beat the record of North
CAROLINA DAVIS. It's hard to sa
what lofty attitudes this magnificent
Leder will climb.
WILSON, the father of the tariff bill,
is SAFE. Hevier work than that tho,
rite ahed, for U. The pension swim
die must be cut down from one hun
dred and'sixty milions to twenty-five.
Recall the army of foreign ministers
perfectly useless. Abolish the Army
and Navy. Diplomacy insted of
Krups. No Nation can afford to fool
with us. Great Britain has had enuf
of that and besi1e--as Thomas PAINE,
the author hero of the revolution,
with his printing pres in Washing
toms army at Valley Forge, rote,
''Betcr that Britain would sink in
the sea than that America should
miscary."
CHARLES BROADWAY RoUss,
$40, SOL & 553, Broadway, N. Y.