Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-10-20
DON'T BE FOOLED The Pine Bluff Retailers Pro- tective Association Is All
 Right. DECIDED BLESSING TO PEOPLE WHO WANT MORE GOODS
 FOR SAME MONEY. A Reasoning, intelligent Public Will Give Their Hearty Support to
 All Members.
OVER FIFTY FIRMS NOW IN.

Edl1or Graphic-rhe Pine BiGif Re- taiters Protective association recent Iy organized in this city IS a blessing both to the merchant and to the GUS toner.
 Under the cheap credit system so long in vogue, many losses were ne- oassarily incurred by the bCslncss men, credit being so easily secured 1t the stores, many people bought be- yona their means, and in some cases purchased goods with very little thought af eVer paying for them. The result was inevitable; the honest, up right, settle your just-debts portion of the community was forced to pay the losses sustained by the merchants consequent upen the cfedit-eyery bedy syst m rhls was simply self preservation On the merchants part. No man, company or firm can do a  loose credit business and continue in that business long in competition With houses whose losses from poor paF customers are nominal
 The membership roll Of the above association now includes the names of the prOprietors of nearly all the IeadInG trading places in Pine Bluff Each member IS furnished with weekly li&t of those persons who are 1 considered either slow, poor or bad gay by other members, and conse- qHent!y are placed iu correct position as to whether It would be good busi ness poIlcy to extend credit to par i ties whose names are continually ap bearing on the delinquent lists.
 Let it be Said right here that lots of good, honest people sometimes get in tight places ano find themselves unable to meet their obligations as 1 D omptly as they would like to; such persons have nothing to fear from members of this organization, pro- vided they explain their circumstan- ces satisfactorily
 The good people of Pine Bluff are not a set of fools every sane man and woman knows that connected With the ever-incroaslDg list of accounts on the profit and loss page there IS an l I Ia ] God, that there must be cores ponding increase i'll the price Of goods ] sold
 IS it not time then for au Of our ] citizens who pay their honest bllls to ! join hands Wllh the merchants who age going to reduce prices on all kinds ] of mcrchand,ee and show their appfe- ciati0n by making all of the1r pur- ! chases from members of the Protec- eive asoeiation2 There i3 no good ] qaIeoa @ky you should be saddled, charged with and forced tp nay the af.ettlea s1etts Of your psgabofs
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