The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-03-02
SENTIMENT IN BUSINESS.
The Right Way to Help Baltimore.

SENTIMENT IN BUSINESS.
The Right Way to Help Baltimore.
"There is no sentiment in business
is one of the false proverbs which
constantly heard everywhere. On th
contrary, much of the worlds busines
Is based on sentiment. Everywher
men will 20 out of their way to hell
on business interests from sentimen
alone. Kinship Is not more real in III
effect upon business interests than sen
timent. Sometimes in the hurry o
life, in the struggle for success, dor
mant sentiment is not walked into &C
tivity, but when some great event stirs
s community or country, sentimen,
becomes an irresistible power.
The world stand- amazed at the ap
palling disaster which has come upon
Baltimore, and from every section. az
we'll as from Europe, have come offers
| loffinancial assistance. But Baltimore
with q full realization of the staggering
blow, knowing full well that with
$50, ,GOO, 900 of property burned, with
thousands of people out Of employ.
ment and the vast machinery of trade
built up during hundred years tenn
porarily destroyed approaching the
magnitude of the problem which 1T
faces, believes that 1t can meet the sit
uation without calling for outside con-
tributions from the millions whose
charity would prompt them to pour q
vast stream, of gifts into our city.
With every power, mental and physi-
cal, quickened witha grim determine
ton to conquer every obstacle, Balti-
more does not ask for aims, but it does
ask that the sentiment which has such
q strong power in ruling business inter-
ests shall make itself felt IN not per-
mitting her trade to be taken away be-
cause of the temporary inability to
promptly meet all requirements. The
merchants and the manufacturers
who, through many years of honor.
able dealings have built up q far-reach-
ing trade North and West as well as
South, have a right, in this time of
calamity, to ask their customers to be
little patient, and II the necessities of
their trade require the quick filling Of
orders elsewhere, to be ready to come
back to their Baltimore friends with
enlarged orders just as soon as our
people are prepared to handle them.
With the immense increase in the
wealth of the South by reason of high
price of cotton and the. subsequent
enormus expansion of trade through
out that section, the merchants of the
South could not only arrange to make
prompt payment to Baltimore mer-
chants Of every outstanding bill, even
if not technically due, and every dol
lar sent to Baltimore now in payment
Of accounts is worth q hundred dol
lars given in charity; but that section
could, by e generous realization of the
power Of sentiment in business, send
into this city volume Of business
which would 60 long way toward
helping our people to recoup their
losses. Every salesman from Bal
timore has q right 10 ask his custom
ers, and to ask those in his territory
who have not heretofore been his GUS
TONERS, for the most favorable consider.
alton and the largest orders.
When amid the wreck and ruin Of
war the South took up its overwhelm-
ing burdens, it had a right to ask for
every legitimate aid and consideration
that the business men Of America
could give its merchants, and Balti-
more, Identified by geographical lines
as we'll as by closer kin, did its full
share to the utmost of its ability in
helping the South to weather the
storm. Ever since then its money
has freely gone into the South for in
vestment in railroads, in industrial en-
terprises, in municipal securities, in
trade and in building operations.
The ties between Baltimore and the
South have yearly grown stronger,
and because the Manufacturers Record
il not local paper, but a Southern
paper-a paper that has for nearly q
quarter of q century sought to speak
for the whole South and not for Bal
timore alone, 1t can say to the South,
as no Baltimore paper could, that now
is the South's supreme opportunity to
show that with it's people at least SEN
timent does control business, and based
on that pour into this city such trade
as will tax the ability ofour merchants
to handle. Baltimore asks no charity,
but for the people of Baltimore, that
their losses may the more quickly be
recouped and that the thousands OF
men thrown out Of employment may
the sooner be saved from dire want,
the Manufacturers Record, the expo
nent of the whole South, does make
this plea to the south, as we'll as to
all other sections.