The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1895-09-19
DO THEY LIVE TOO HIGH?
What Several Merchants In Durham
Say Is the rlatter Now.
IDEALS ARE''TDO FLUSH.

And Accordingly an Attempt to
Fit in the Fashion Causes the
Bill Collector to Be Put Off
Until Tomorrow and Tomorrow
never comes.
The fact that Durham has
fallen away down as a tobacco
market is lamentably true. Cit
liens Of Durham have repeatedly
written articles on the subject, and
warehouse men dcplore the fact.
Accordingly while towns like
Wilson, Rocky Mount, Greenville,
Winston, Henderson, Oxford and
Roxboro are sustaining their mar
kets and thousands of dollars are
being paid each month for tobacco,
only hundreds in comparison are
being paid out in Durham-a
great difference now mnd five years
ago, when the breaks were 80 heavy
that double sales at four ware
houses would not sell what had
been brought to town. Where
there we're strings Of tobacco wag-
ons now only struggling ones are
seen and they not numerous
Most every one says the so-called
trust is responsible for it-but We
do not know-we only know
that the tobacco market, so far a:
Durham is concerned, is not what
it should be and not what it could
be if the proper business method:
to reclaim and regain the field
and the trade were introduced.
But the result Well, tie re
suit i, that as we have no cotton
market and no other market,
there is precious little money being
paid out, and consequently but
precious little circulating thesc
days. The man who would tax,
out roll Of bills three years age
land come back with a pocket full
Of greenbacks has not been seer
lately. lie has gone somewhere
else.
| The RECORDER was talking
with several business men th,
past week and their tale of wo,
was one that should be needed
This Is what one live business
man said: Il will tell you tn,
whole trouble. In aush times peo
pie here set a gait that meant h
expend all Of their income. HarC
times came and when there should
have been rigid econmoy it wa
not practiced. The small fellows
wanted TO keep up their show
wanted to appear 10 be well-to-dc
and the consequence is that the.
: have run in debt wherever thei
face would stand credit. ! coul,
show you names Of men on IN!
b books who owe me from twent,
10 thirty dollars and who wer
once considered good. The
kept coming until finally the.
could not pay my collector an'
then they switched of. The
: went 10 other firms and are play
ing the same game. One Of thes
days they will getto the end Q
/; their string and then | do NO
; know what they will do. If som
/; Of the supposedly well.to-do cit
> zens would 60 from store TO stor
! aud settle up, as they should bu
!: are doubtless unable 10 do, the
/; would find that several hundre'
/. dollars were necessary TO liqu
4 date"
5 And this merchant is but on
! one Of tue several who talked .
!. this strain. II is no disgrace I
! be poor, but il is not the squar
!. thing 10 keep running in del
when there il nothing in sigl
' and no way known to you of ho'
!. Or when you can pay for what 70
are buying. Hard times shoul
!, tc4ch a wholesome lesson, an
!, withtmany they have. Retrencl
!, ment and economy epracticcd !
! many homes-the old clothes hay
= h.an cleaned. the table has n,