The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-10-08

stead of being knaVcS-thats all. Now
dye see what I'm driviu' at? Put a
man like you OF me in a position where
we've got the confidence of everybody
every bOdy, Understandable say.
when the time comes TO get away with
"a few hundred thousand, dye think
they'd get us? But To do that thing a
mans got to make a reputation an il
takes years 10 make it,
Dawson ne said. a. he drew his
chair nearer. it'll be ten years atOTu
your old man gets out. I'm goin' to sit
down an wait for him, | got about
sixteen thousand saved out o that last
thing-the one / went up for-an I'm
goin' to wait. AN in the meantime I'm
Soin 10 put YOU ia place where you
can build up a reputation an gel the
confidence of the community, an when
the old man gets out, if We can't light
out o. here with six figures you can
count me out. that's all, There's just
one place i'm the whole world we can
go then and be safe
And that place. said the younger
man.
SutcIine drew his head down and
whispered i'm his ear. The younger man
smote The table with his hand Great
Scott" he exclaimed, with a note of
intense ddmira ton in his voice. Great
that"
First and foremost. Dawson" said
the former, lis there anything agin
YOU: N0thin' 10 live down, Is there
anythin that you been mixed UP in?'
Nothing at al" said Dawson. The
old man kept me out of il until
How about educatione" interrupted
Sutcliffe.
Pretty fair" said the other. ITS
A. F.t.
do an right
Then. by George" exclaimed SUIT
cliffe. its DONE
Nov, John Dawson. sit down and
listen 10 me. This is most particular
business. Back here across the river
is this here town Of Monroe. Town?
Say, it's a city, or pretty near il. /
know that town from one end TO the
other, and the devil of it all is. the
town knows me. There's more money
an more business in that town for its
size than there is IN any other town in
the United States. Now, I'll tell you
what Pm goin to do. I'm goin' 20 stake
YOU to the tune of about five hundred
to start with. You will go and drop
down on that town from nowhere in
particular. You're gOin' TO start up
a small hardware business in a vacant
store at No. fl Main street. No matter
why. / know what I'm about, an ]
know just how to work it, l know who
owns the store but you'H find out that
for yourself You rent that store for a
year and pay him cash three months
in advance. You inquire around an
pick out good cheap hOardin' place,
suited 90 q man without any money 10
spare. HOull 90 TO a man whose name
you'll know when YOU get there. Don't
pay cent of money except 20 tho own
er of the store an your landlady. Ev-
erything else you get in that town you
want to Set on credit
How'll ! work that queried the
younger man.
I'm comm to that, young fellow.
There's Just one man there who doesn't
dare to refuse TO do me a good turn. [
did him one-but that's another story.
That's the cashier of the First Nation
al You give him this note. Wait a
minute"
He took out 4 sheet of paper and
wrote. He tossed the paper upon the
table. II read:
Van Slyck-The man who hands you
this IS an honest man. When he needs
references, give them 20 him. Yours,
40. s56x
"Thatu Ak il. Deposit your money
in his bank. And then
But what's the use Of asking credit
if have the money" protested Daw-
son.
"COufound il. can't YOU see that the
only way 10 get g standing in place
is 10 ask credit? The man that pays
cash can't get any credit You order
a small bill of goods ON thirty days, an
on the last day, neither sooner or
later, YOU pay for ON. You give your
note for $50 you borrow and when it's
due. no. a day sooner or later. pay il
back. That's the start The time
twenty thousand on the name you've
got. The more money ynu borrow. the