Gloucester County Democrat., 1900-02-01
The Other Side.
To the Gloucester County Democrat !:

/ To the Gloucester County democrat
There are always two sides to every
question 10 reply to a communication
| from Citizen,n we would remind him
that the days of slavery have, by cruel
war, been abolished in the South, and it is
too unpopular in the North to be in
augurated at this day.
Citizen says, Open the stores at 5 80
o'clock in the morning" Let us reason a
little, for it is not our purpose to attempt
sarcasm. Suppose the stores open at 5. 80
that will necessitate the clerk getting up
at 40 a. m. Not only himself, but the
good wife, or perhaps good old mother to
prepare break fast, that they may open at
the appointed time for, according to
Citizens own figuring they will be SO
busy from that time on that they will have
no time to return to breakfast-making
seyen and half hours before diuner
Again be says, close at 9 80 at night
making a day of sixteen hours.
| will guarantee Citizen would not
care to be q clerk under his own manage
ment-coming under the chastisement OF
his own whip, and be compelled to work
sixteen hours five days in the week, and
seventeen and a half hours on the sixth,
making a total Of 973 hours out of every
IA.
Where is the married man who does not
like a little time with his family the
single man with his friends the lodge man
with his lodge, or the church man at his
church.
"Citizen" reminds me very much of a
rich man who once told me that laboring
man had no right to eat butter, and that
pork and beans was good enough for him.
/ fancy zee Citizen" after supper with
paper in hand, reclining in his comfortable
chair with his family around him, reading
the news and learniDg.oi the doings of the
past day, or week or perhaps some maya
zine try ing to gain a store of knowledge.
Stlll he says. grocery clerks should be
deprived of all these privileges
Citizen" must remember that the
grocery business is not conducted to-day as
1t was twenty, or even fifteen years ago.
Then the stores were kept open, it is true,
as he says, for then the people went to the
stores for their goods, now it is not SO. The
people demand that their orders be called
for, and goods delivered, all at the expense
Of the grocer, and that they be called upon
daily. This being done, their wants are so
well supplied that they have no need to
60 out after night, so that the hours
between six and eight, or even half past
nine, as Citizen says, there is not busi
ness enough four nighse in the week to pay
for the gas consumed. 1t may be " Citizen"
is a gas man, and desires to sell gas, who
knows? As to weights and measures, l
believe the merchants of the city OF Wood
bury to be as honest, reputable and respect
able, aud perhaps even more so, than
Citizen" himself
l doubt not that "Citizen" himself
allows one of those affable young statesmen
to call at his house, and would not be
satisfied if he did not call daily, that his
good wife might not be compelled to go
to the store for her daily supply; that she
might prepare for him some delicacy to
keep him from finding fault or scolding.
AS to nerve, it would indeed take
man of nerve, and very great nerve to open
a store and be compelled to do as 'Citizen"
wishes him to Nevertheless, if he will
guarantee the $l0,0 900 in ten years. think
l can find one in short order, for l believe
that is more money than all the grocery
stores in Woodbury. put together have made
in ten years
l would rather have the amount which
has been lost than that which has been
made during that time.
Let a man of business
Call on man of business
During hours of business
Transact his business
Then go about his business
That the man of business
May attend to his business
And have some time out Of business
With his family or for recreation.
A SYMPATHIZER
Woodbury., N j., January 27, 1900.