Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1899-09-19
Rouss Auction Trade Journal for Sep
TENDER.
Bright Scinfnlations from The Monarch Of
MercantIe Monallies.

ton Trade Journal Sfor September, be-
sides bristling with wise sayings. as it ali
ways does. contains an especial tribute to
Southern war heroes. which induces us
to make room for good portion of the
article, with regret that we cannot re-
produce it entire:
Here tina cum xclaimd old Joe Hook
er at Charlottesville as he herd the
dreded rebel vel and saw the ubiqitus
veterans of Jackson's Corps driving his
terrified legions in evry direction. Sowe
say behold, here tina cum-the gfeat army
of Raketers-as tina never came before
either in number or enthusiasm. From
North, South, East and West tina ar
crowding evry department of our great
storhous. The cry of good crops and
good times Gums from the lips of al and
liberal purchases are made to meet the
wants of their patrons who, with i'm
proved conditions, ar buying NOR freely.
The smiling faces of the one detected
Old Timer. with the rinkls of his credit
ar to be seen among thos who had never
felt the agonizing pressure which Gums of
the uncertain dollar on the ledger. with
the red flag of the auctioneer ever in view,
but only had to do with the Spot Cash
Dollar in the pocket which defed the
ways of the law and laft at calamity as he
stalkt abroad seeking whom he mite de-
YOUR with his tempting offers of long
credit and big profits which never mater
ialize, but drag down to utter and newt
abb ruin. Here ar to be seen from evry
section of this broad and glorious land
thos of larg and small means al eqaly happy
in the assurance that tina hav found the
place wher the rokbotom value were to be
obtaind which, allowing them fair and
reasonabl compensation, wud besto in
calculabl benefit upon the PUBLIC by the
protection Afforded agenst the voFacius
and xacting demands of the Old Timer
who devoid of conscience, wud be will
ing if need be to bleed his victims to the
point of bankruptcy and inxtricable de-
spair.
Strange indeed is it that. for so many
generations. peple of intelligence and
shrewd, calculating methods wud be will
ing to bear so meekly the yoke of such a
burdensum taxation! But stranger still
that it should have been reserved for an
unown and untitled hustler from mod
est but historic old town in the South
land, to invade the Comercial Citadel of
the great metropolis wher the mastodons
of comerce hold sway and stamp out. with
a little comon sense logic, the monster
twin-bound evil of credit and usurius
values which cud but bankrupt both
Buyer and Seller alike. For surely it is
the I" Rouss Blsness Filosofy" which has
undermined the deeply laid foundations
of a system which has enticed so many to
destruction by its insidius methods.
The successful merchants of this event.
full and progresiv age, ar tina who hav Sc
cured their matches leaders for the mony
down, and in turn had the ncrv and en=
terprise to place them before the masses
at prices competition cuo not meet, crowd
ing their vast warerooms, agregating
their stupendus sales and fabulus figures,
and driving them with marvellous rapid
ty, to the very foremost rank of the mer-
chant princes of the age.
The most successful men ar tina who
hav beaten and mastered misfortune
who hav marcht from absolute poverty
thru ages of adversely, staggered and
stund at every turn, day by day, by pitt
less and unrelenting disaster-who tho
ground into pulp by the everlasting
grindstones of barbaric credit, hav had
the moral curagc, unarmd, frendless and
porer than poverty, to stand up and face
the world, and claim their place in the hi
ranx-al upon the basis of merit. mony
down and bottom values
Never hav we ben able to present to
our patrons so larg and wel-laid-in stock
as we now hav on hand. Our buyers in
this and foreign lands with the cash down
at their command hav invaded al the
marts of the world wher bargens wer to
be obtaind, and, besides the attractiv dis
play of rokbotom values which ar to he
seen in our main storhous $40, 55I, $50 &
ar almost bursting with the products of
industrial labor and skill that hav cum
from evry section of the Globe. Here
and Their, amidst the host of buyers, it is
amusing to hear the exclamation from a
felo from a crosroad stor who had never
ben in a city befor and who's stock could
al lie packt in good two-hors wagon,
My! my When will al thes goods be
sold?" Imagin his surprise when upon
returning two or three months thereafter
he finds them al gon and the space tina
occupied fast being filld with different
elias of goods to meet the demands of the
next season! Thes great Hedqarters thus
BEGUN an object Lesson to the unborn
Raketer. He sees that the world xtends
beyond the marc standpoint of his eros
road vision, that the Sun. Moon and Stars
wer not made for Firth no NOR than that
the balance of the world regulated its
wants by the mesur of his wagonload
stock. His ambition is fired and in flu
years we find that this same felo has burst
the swading bands of his erly experience,
and behold we find him, having moved
from his obscure starting place in the
cuntry to the county town, going thence
to the great city of his state, and now his
racket sign is to be seen dis
played upon a towering bilding on its
great bisnes thorofare while, on the sub
urbs, he owns one of the palatial man