The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1898-03-02
THE CASH SYSTEM.
TaE BENEFITS TO BE DERIVED
FROM PAYING AS YOU GO.
There Is Economy in 1t, aud 1t Will
DO for Others What 1t Has Done
for This Albany Man.

for This Albany Man.
The leavening process which has been
going on in the business world since the
people of this country have begun to re
al u that dollars are worth more than
they used to DE is having the effect Of To-
ducing some persons and forcing others
t. adopt The cash system. The cash sys-
TEN may be said to be growing. The al
most indjscimina,e credit system which
was once in vogue in Albany aud
throughout this entire section is now a
thing of the past. Ten years ago every
merchant and dealer in town sold on
credit, and more business was done on
credit than for cash. It's perhaps still
true that more business is done on credi,
than for cash, but merchants and bust
ness men generally are more particular
about opening accounts or as to whom
they will have for credit customers.
We now have in Albany number of
business tOuses which adhere almost
strictly TO the cash system, and the indi-
cations are that the number will increase.
1t has been the experience of most of
our merchants, especially those who re
tail to the city trade, chat at the end of
the year they fnd the years profits still
on their books or in uncollected bills
This experience has very naturally had
its effect upon the conservative business
men Of the community generally and it
is not now an easy matter for persons
who will not pay promptly to get goods
on credit.
But there is another view of the cash
system which we desire to present.
Many persons Of moderate means and
limited income have found that there is
economy in the cash system when self
imposed and applied to their everyday af-
fairs and domestics. For instance, when
man goes to paying spot cash for his
beef, for his groceries and for everything
that he has to buy, he soon finds that be
gets more for his money than when he
Turs accounts. When he goes to the
butcher for instance, he not only gets
the ''ChOice cut bnt he often ge.s an
extra half pound thrown in, whereas if
he was running an account the extra
half pound would invariably be charged
Up to him. This may look like small
matter, and indeed it is a small matter,
bat when the transactions of a month
with the butcher, the grocer aud tOhers
with whom the hOusekesper has to
deal are taken into consideration they
amount to something. It's fact which
can be easily demonstrated in the do
mestic economy of any family that it
pays to buy for cash. 1t not only shuts
off lot of little leaks, but it naturally
has an economizing tendency.
We know good man in this town who
gets moderate salary and who has new
been high-fyer or extravagant liver
Tie is not even too proud to wear darned
socks and pantaloons that have been
half oled in the seat. And yet he found
it hard work to make "buckle and tongue
meet" and was always in debt until he
adopted the cash system IL resolved
to pay for what he git when he got it,
and to do without when he had no mon
ey with which to buy. He didn't wait
to have his credit refused, but imposed
the cash system upon himself. He kept
a strict account IF bis current expenses,
kept his wife supplied with enough cash
to pay for what she had t. buy, and at
the end of the first month he was pleased
with the experiment. At the end of
three months he was able to declare
dividend on his salary or lay up little
for a rainy day, and now he is out of
debt and feels like he is prospecting.
And what the cash system has done for
this man it will do for others. Try it
Albany Herald.