Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1894-09-12
September IL, 1894.
auction Trade JOurnai--Sep-
tember, 1894.

The statistix from the mercantile agen-
cies sho that for the year ending June
30th, Four Hundred and Seventy-hve
Millions hav ben lost, embracing Twenty
thre Thousand concerns. OF this num-
ber, eight we're bogus raketers, this is,
men who started in on our principle, and
wanderd off into "time concerns ;" that
is, tha tried to palm off regular goods as
sledghamers. OF thes eight out of over
thirty thousand conspicuous representa-
tvs of the "Rouss System" thre wer of
the corn.juice stripe-the balance wud
not silk to the % percent, but wanderd
ava off to 80, 70 and 100 percent.-not
the falt of the system, but the man.
Altho it has ben the most terrific of al
panic years since 1873, the great body
of men who faut under the "Rouss Sys
tenn" hav multiplied and magni6ed, hav
dubbed and trebled and quadrupled.-
Compare this with the old Credit System
with its awful calamities, in total of near
ly FIVE HUNDRED MILLIONS. The los of
the crops, the strikes, the drouth. the
mining troubles, the tariff and the Senate,
of cors, had much to do with it, but Z
may serch our cabinets of a million letters
and u vii not hear one single man COM
plain of "hard times" II simply goes to
sho that if man vii cut at 20 or % per
cent, the bullion vii cum up out Of the
very erth and rain down from Heven.-
In the midst of thes trubles, our great
harted % percenters state in the most en-
thusiastic terms that their bisnes has
dubbed and trebled and in sum instances
quadrupled.
U don't want anything better than to
Sc q machine in motion. When u Sc the
crowds trying to get into the Bee Hive,
U may bet yor dear life ther is sumthing
in ther for peple in thes close, terrific
times. When U can buy sumthing at 4
that the Old Regular ask 10 for, it vii
bring the peple ther, and the cry of thes
giant "cash befor delivery gladiators" is
not scarcity of mOny" or "hard times, u
but HAvN'T TINE TO EAT. Read agen
and agen the records on the last page and
the bottom lines of our paper-it is as
plain as the "Law of Det"-"He who
runs may read"
In the last decade ther hav stalkt into
. our concern, thousands of men hi up in
authority, unrivald in reputation, abuv
suspicion in integrity, just cum in to sc
the author of the first page, to swoT
thauts and xchange ideas, Just as | had
, in the long agone aproacht thos great
mercantile masters of masters, Stewart
and Clafin, from a little cuntry town
down in the Valley of Virginia, to lei
them kno what l knu, and hear from
them what tha had to say about the mys
teries Of mercantile succes-mine in the
thousands, theirs in the millions.
Stewards idea was ORIGINALLY will
the UNDERsEL. Claims was clos apli
/, cation with the UNERBUY. Stewards wa
the scraping in the cash Clafin's wa
the chalking it down on the Swet-bOok
i One reacht One Hundred Millions, th,
= other fifteen Millions. believed ther
S that ClaAin was the greater man, but th'
cash was the omnipOtent, invisible powe
: that yielded the gigantic results. The
: cuntry fellows who thaut tha knu it a
r simply wanted to have an insite into th'
short sure roads, that led to success, if the
J. wer any; the idea of the advertismen
' with the sale had never enterd thei
:, brains. 1t was their lifelong custom tt
make the most out of evry transaction
: whilst mine was the precise revers, II
make the sma est profit and the biggest ad
vertisement.
l have torn many of thes oldtimer
. into carpet rags, bilt them up, and mad
t successful bisnes men of them, ava up il
e the hundred thousands, and this, to me
is mater of NOR pride and congratula
ton. than al else | hav in the world. |
is easy enuf to make moDy, even in the
tite times; it is easy to rival and bea
s and smash competition into fine powde