Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1899-09-15
SOMETHING FOR MERCHANTS
TO READ.


We are proud Of stanford display on
the Ith Of July, proud Of her metropol-
itan manners. especially proud OF your
enterprise aud paper. The mammoth
edition OF Sep. sth l. "corkcr." The
casual remark Of prominent citizen
Of stanford that her merchants DO not
command the patronage OF Lincoln's
farmers that should be "a matter of
course, coupled with the foreign adver-
tisemeuts conspicuous Ia your regular
issues A. well as the strictly business
issue Of l. pages. suggests that domon-
STATIONS and advertisements may not
indicate 81 much stanford volume of
trade as her efforts to establish it,
The questions naturally arise, Are
her merchants aud Liucoln's farmers
In rapport? Do they appreciate mutual
dependencies and which are vastly
greater? Where is a merchant without
customers? I'm the soup" which is
greater necessity? Can a merchant
prosper unless his customers prosper:
High prices for all merchandise favor
the merchant so long as his customers
buy literally, but how can patronage
continue without corresponding profit
In the vacations OF the customers and
consumers?
When farmers and factory hands
the principal patrons-prosper, the
merchant nourishes. Their interests
are 80 interworen that they swim or
sink together.
Combines, corporations and tariffs
have made alarming advances in prices
OF nearly every item of merchandise
without any conditions contributing, In
the remotest degree, to a corresponding
advance OF any farm or brow sweating
product.
The above trinity has It's grip on the
consumers Threats aud is throtling the
customers. What merchant who phil
osophicaily contemplates the situation
fails to see that countenance OF these
cormorants promises ultimate and early
reduction to a store room and stock
without hope of purchasers? What
merchant so dense that he will not bur-
ry TO the succor OF his customers on
whose interests aud success his own
depends?
J In this advanced age OF religiou
; evolution all routes lead TO bliss, but
there Is only one trunk-line running
J excursion trains to commercial saliva.
ton. All other routes that advertise
! are but branch lines, which are opera
} ted solely as feeders TO the trunk-liue-
the republican party-which created
: and fosters this Trinity-the common
enemy of retail merchants and theil
customers-side shows to the republican
! circus. Fictitious prices prevail fol
cattle because of immense Western
5 crops and iDsnfiiciency OF stock TO con
sume-the growers only market prom
Y ising remuneration.
5 Taxes are increasing regularly an,
$ rapidly. Our Spanish conquests ant
b. expensive army missionary work IL
a evangelizing obstinate and refractor.
e subjects promise stupendous addition
Z TO current expenses OF government
n alarming multiplication of pension list
i aud the perpetual blessing ~ of Ma
z tional debt warranted TO assure coming
d generations all the distress our mos
e cordial enemies can wish. The demon
n alization OF business incident TO presi-
4 dental campaigns is at hand.
d Promoters q Of publication in polit
o zeal methods are pointed to history
d PRONUNCIATION OF the counterpart O
e presidential campaign of '96 to that o
Q 80 and the absurdity Of their vagarie;
h We are confronted with the pltlfu
n spectacle of two disappointed candl
is dates sulkiug and whining about trick
O cry, force and fraud ia the manner the
b were placed on the shelf, and a dar
h horse aspirant for that convention
q Endorsement campaigning the Stat
@ with prayer to the authorities Z
II poultice his sore with reputation an
is withdrawal of its choice.
The democratic party should have a
eleemosynary annex TO it's museum {
n freaks, in which to coddle its mossbac
n baruacles, scraped from its TANKS
Then II will escape the humiliation c
i,s annara nnuatad han ioiarias no poi N