Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1894-11-20
Rouss Auction TIads Journal

fortune.
Under the old swet book system,
the barbaric ages of long ago, it was
swet and swearit was agony and
turmoil, from year to year. In the
long hisnes life, ther wer two or thre
or four failurs. a compromise with
eyry. one. Occasionally. say six out
of hundred, commanded success at
the most terrific cost.
Out of this forty years, this ritter
wud like to claim just one out Of
evry nu beginner, to save the worry
and wear and tear and mental strain
thru thes long, dear, hard, precious
years. No, wnd not want one
year-a single da wud do for me as
wei as the aspirant of success. 1t the
place of this awful life, wud Civ
him a year of the enthusiasm and the
luY of labor that wud make the toll a
perfect plesur. At mite, he wud be
waiting for the morning the oldtimer
in the morning was waiting for mite
and in the mite was waiting for morn
ing. I wud revers things -insted of
awful humiliation, degradation and
disgrace of failure, I wud make him
so proud of his sueces, that he wud
not kno himself. To others later in
life, who had ben crusht in the awful
crucible of eternal time, wud sim-
ply tear him to peces and build him
up agen on the Rouss SYSTEM.
1t has astounded the level heded
merchants of the United States, it
has surprised the intellectual giants of
this age to Sc how a little comon hcrs
sense MKT up;n the mercantile sys-
TEN, has created such gigantic rev.
olution. Their ar hundreds of letters
pouring in from evry quarter of the
United States asking us to mention a
town wher we hav no Representative.
1t is almost impossible to name one.
The little felo with the Hundred
Dollar stock, is doing better bisnes
than the felo with Ten Thousand
Dollars. He slashes the old-timer
into mince-meat, cuts his prices in
two, and when people Sc how the
thing is dun, tina want to abolish the
old barbaric system, and jump into
the modern methods. That is the
agresiv, progresiY mony making
RoUss SYSTEM.
I hav stated that the hustler with
basket fuI of stuf did NOR bisnes
than the oldtimer. I recall the
xpresion-the oldtimer did the most
bisnes as mater of cors, simply
because lie chalkt it down on the
swethook, and the NOR of that infer
nal foolishnes he INDUCED in, the
wors off he was, the porer he got, da
in and out, year after year. ment
to sa, that the hustler with his wheel
baro of Auction Trash mad more
mony, that is, in clean, hard cash,
than the felo who carried stock a
hundred times greater. This is the
plain English of it, and this is the
aknoledgd result of the Raketer,
UNDER OUR MODERN METHODS.
In the larg auction sale of last
week wer many buyers from al over
the cuntry. Their was Mckinley
man who stood near our buyer Mar
tin, who baut lot of Knives, at Six
cents each, and several duplicates
wer sold. Martin turned to him and
sed, II viii sci u that same knife at
45 cents per dozen.' Well sir, /
vii take al o hav," but upon arriving
here, he found we had ten times NOR
than he cud use, even at the great
difference in price. The next was
a lot of Scissors sold for cents.
Martin sed, II will sci o thos at "a
cents a dozen. Their was a lot of
Files sold for 6 cents eacll-our price
was 80 cents per dozen.
tt simply goes to sho that the PEE
pie generally, ar not abrest of the
times. Tha hav not yet discovered
the great difference in values from
Mckinley to Wilson. Their wer
many other vast differences 225 to 100
percent between the auction price
tber aud ours, strange as it may
seem, and yet, strange to say, these
same fellows vii go back home and
vote for the Mckinley Tariff.
had always preacht the doctrin
that the poket-book was the real pulls
of the people. In that, I hav ben
mistaken; thes hi-tarifers ar per-
fectly wiling to be bIed, rather than
vote the Democratic tiket. If we
1lttQ auau EOuE entire StOCFNi NlOWll ab
that sale, we cud hav sold eYry item
on that fior-a cuple of hundred
thousand dollars, at least 10 per cent.
abuv our selling price.
1t is not alone tru of hardware,
hut of evry other dept. in our estab-
lishment. 1t only goes to sho what
the Wilson Tariff Bill vii do, when
they get it properly fixt and put in
motion. 1t is likely enuf that Will
son will be our next President, and
then thes h-tarifers vii hay to cum
down off their lofty roosts.
/ can't help but refer to the diff
erence between this old blatherskite,
Mckinley and patriotic Billy Wilson.
Under Mckinley o got Seven Slate
Pencils for one peny- under Billy
Wilson 9 get THIRTEEN and yet tlles
same damnd fools viii vote the Re
publican tiket in preference to the
Democratic. Is that plain English: /:
Taking a single item in fancy
goods-thermometers Under the
Republican Tarlf, the price was al
retail, at the very shortest margin
Eighteen cents. Under the : Wilson
Law our patrons can sci it on the
/ % per cent. plan at Eight cents
This is simply a sample in the line O
l-this clas of goods, and yet, the