Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-06-20
COMMUNICATION.

seeking to make the people of this
city it's victims. The purpose of
Trading Stamp Companies is to pay
dividends to it's stockholders. They
are usually outside concerns organized
to carry on a profitable business at
the expense of the trading public.
The trading stamp business is a
business in itself, buying merchandise
to be sold at profit. The profits are
derived in the purchase of the stamps
which are ultimately paid for by the
people who secure them.
Honorable merchants will have
nothing to do with them, because no
honorable merchant will attempt to
deceive his patrons into the belief that
he is giving away his profits. The
merchant who states that he is giving
away any portion of his profits is un-
fair to his patrons. Either he must
raise his prices or adopt some decep-
Jion to come out even.
The plea that the stamp is a dis
count shows that deception is prac-
ticed, for if discount is to be allow
ed for cash, discount can be allowed
and paid on every purchase. Th g
stamp is not for discount purposes,
but to support the trading stamp bust
ness. Money in the hands of the pur-
chaser is worth more than the stamp
of any company. If the cash discount
were the rule the trading stamp could
not and would not prevail.
Modern business methods call fol-
fairness in trade. There is nothing
liberal in giving people stamps which
they themselves pay for. The cost Of
the stamp does not fall upon the com.
lpany nor upon the merchant, but upon
the customer. The intention is to
have the public pay for stamps under
the pretense that they are gifts. Gifts
are few and far between. Even at
Christmas time everyone expects to
receive about as much in value from
others as he gives to others.
If merchant states that he loves
to give away any portion of his fair
margin of profit, let him give the cash
discount and the public know then
Just where they are at. Money is
currency in the hands of the buyer.
Trading stamps turn currency into
the hands of the Trading Stamp Com
pany.
Clean business methods are them
selves the best Inducements to trade.
Honesty is the best policy in all
things. Any merchant stating that
trading stamps are discount for cash
PAYMENT will also advertise what dis
count in cash they will allow for pay
ment in cash. So soon as this is done
there will be no demand for trading
stamps. Merchants selling for cash
exclusively have no reason even to
give cash discounts. A cash grocer,
for instance, doing nothing-but cash
business, has utterly no reason for
giving q discount off for cash. A dry
goods merchant doing an exclusively
cash business has no reason to give q
discount for cash. If merchants who
do nothing but cash business state
that trading stamps are discount for
cash payment, is this not an attempt
to mislead their patrons?
The great body of merchants in this
city who always have been fair to the
buying public and who intend to con-
tinue fair with them in their business
relations, protest and object to the
introduction of trading stamps, be
cause they are an abomination to trade
resulting in the raise of prices and
the increased price is the price which
patrons are compelled to meet. The
great body of reputable merchants in
this city have agreed not to use trad.
ing stamps for the reasons above out.
lined, believing that they will be
supported by the citizens in what they
believe to be a righteous undertaking
in the interests of fair dealing in trade
and honesty in business methods.
ANTI-TRADING STAMP MER.
CHANTS. Adv.
Try the coffee at the Columbia
Lunch Wagon. 6-5-tf-adV.