Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-02-21
From the Monthly Trade Auction Journs
c. B. ROUSS LOGIC.
Pointers From the Great New York Mer-
chant Prince.

The Mckinley party, backt by Ben
edict Arnold German and his gang
and heded by the Sugar King, Have
meyer, hav succeeded in driving off
our trade with Europe. Great as our
country is, We hav no customers to
lose, and here ar One Hundred and
Fifty Millions ehopt off for the sake of
a little protection to the Sugar Trust,
and yet the vast majority voted to re-
bid this Chinese Wal of Protection,
shutting out thes great nations from
our products.
The duble width, atwood cashmere
sold for 81! cents under Mckinley,
we now qoteit at q cents, so that the
Racketer can sci a "dres pattern for
two dollars that the "old regular" can
OF sci for Thre. The cut in the Car
pets is almost as deep. It's estimated
that the savings to the customers OF
the United Stats vii be one hundred
and sixty-thre millions in thes woolens
alone, the vast bulk of which is in
favor of the midle and loer classes of
the cuntry, and yet, the peple of the
United States, who save this prodigius
sum, endorst the man who levied this
tribute upon the peple-McKinley is
his name. In 1896 his name vii be
mud. Billy Wilson deservs the cred
it of this, and the peple must and vii
thank him, and yet, in the last elec-
tion, the big majorities voted to sadie
themselvs with this terrific burden
which Wilson and Cleveland had OBJ
liberated.
We had an old-timer in Norwich,
Conn, Woisard, who had ben smasht
between the mills of eternal time.
He cum on here, we tore him to peces,
and we thaut we had bilt him up from
the ground ritely; we told him of our
methods, told him of the underbuy
and the undersel, and he swor he cud
|
and wud and did-but for single da.
He opend ther, slasht rite and left,
cut down to the DIX and the marc,
and | hear that his first days sales
amounted over thousand dollars. 1t
seemd to unbalance his level he'd, sum
of his CLERK told him he was throing
away his values, that he cud get duble
for them, and in an evil hour he con-
cluded that the "author of net spot
cash, % per cent" had made big
mistake, and that his advisors were
rite, so he relapst into the One and
Two and Three Hundred Per cent ;
then the letters which had previusly
containd larg chex almost evry da,
containd accts of mudy wether, hard
times, scarcity of mony, the potata
bug and al that kind Of foolishnes,
when al the time. it was the absence
of the system of 25 per cent, cash be-
fore delivery. We rote him about his
windo; the marvelus advertisement thes
sledghamers wud be to the public
from time to time we sent him lots Of
thes little DDS and ends. At last we
cud endure it no longer and sent a
cuple of stor boys, Timberlake and
Fauntleroy, mere boys, from our con-
Germ, with instructions to place the
concern on a proper basis and do bis
nes on the "Rouss System" Tha tore
the Silk and Cloak and what not from
the windows, and in one tina placed a
little tiket, "a sheets Of note paper
one oire-for one cent. That was al
in that twindo. The antediluvian laft
at this idea, sed that he had had that
Note Paper in his hous and never sold
a qire of it. He had askt five and
ten cents qire, but didn't sci any.
Just think, 900 per cent Al that
ther was in stock was swept ava with
in an hour, and hundred of other items
along with it, and the sales for the
first da run up to 800, from nothing,
Nor jaw-smashers wer put IN the
windo the next morning, and the sales
run up to $200-stil NOR of the dyn-
amite that smasht the public poket
book and the sales wer $300-agen
NOR of the irresistible temptations, and
the sales run up to $500, and the next
da $500.
This is what we mean by the Rouss
System-sel things cheap, and the
public vii find . out in da. Thei
is no mistake in our iron laws, when a
man follows them rite and to the letel
Civ the public prices tina canO'
APPROACH, much les match, and sucee'
vii cum before U ar aware of tin
: year, U vii not kno yorself In oul
!, cataIog ther ar hundreds, | mite say
thousands of thes little Jumps OF dyna
mite that vii choke yor stor from morn
ing until mite, and this Is the sum to
a D C,--.o,o tba uudar