Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-01-18

ever past, / hope. In the times that tried
mems souls to do business.
Also the ingrates. We should put their
accounts in the waste basket, from where
they go to the hottest place in the stove.
because they refuse to settle their old
bills This will wipe them from the
memory and off the ledger Il includes
the man that lied you out of over half
OF a just bill, with whom you settled
in order to forget him. !.
The man in the retail grocery business
is preyed upon by the drones of every
class OF the human family, without pro-
lection. When will he be protected !?
What did he do to suffer all this injus-
tee? The giving of too liberal credit
is the offspring of greed. The giving of
a normal amount of credit is the child
of reason. The refusing of all credit is
similar to war without pardon.
There is one man that l must not
forget 1t is the honest man, whom you
find in all classes and in all chimes He
pays every cent he owes; he appreciates
the credit given him; he honors You
by speaking well of you and keeps on
trading with you, thereby showing the
confidence he has in you He is the
man that puts all the others in the shade,
and gives you confidence in mankind He
will, if given the place he deserves, be
put in power to safeguard even a groc-
er's interest. He is the pioneer that
gives life to the hope that there will be
a time when we can trust one another
without fear of losing without collect
| ing by law; when we have no more pri-
sons or prisoners; no police or court
house; neitherswars nor warriors; when
| we can give and take unlimited and
| justified credit to all of us.
William Donnelly of Detroit, Mimi.
was the next speaker. He said:
Mr.. President and Gentlemen: ''Or-
ganization" has been handed me for my
part, SO | have tried to get up short
story, and it is just as it appears to me
We must all begin at home Years ago
when boy, l called on the grocery trade
in the east. They had a retail dealers
association. It's head often said to the
statesmen calling daily, 1--WE are moi
properly organized; why don't you boys
help us out?" So it is here at Bismarck
We must all get together; merchants
clerks, statesmen and jobbers. All joir
hands and each express his methods OF
handling the consumer so that we car
come to some definite object and al
pull together The jobber knows how
to handle you because he is we'll organ
i lied and knows which way to turn tt
benefit all concerned. So the retailer
must first organize so that everyone il
the west are fully aware how to trea
/ the consumer, then we can feel satisfied
that we are organized. We must eacf
take up the catalogue houses, discus.
their way of doing business, often. DE-
not neglect your neighbor merchants
try to get them in line If you do no
succeed at first keep after them with al
untiring will. If we do not get ever,
merchant to help this year keep on ant
in time you will reap the benefit fol
those, who wish to fight their battle
single-handed
/ Will say Our work of organization i
telling on the catalogue houses and they
too, will be willing to get into our bant
wagon and rid this country of our Mr.
i Good Fellow who writes nice letters Il
1 our farmers and city customers to SEM
the cash in advance to them and to sci
i their produce to Mr.. Poor Fellow wht
will give them the cash. We do no
want your produce; it is cash we want
as we cannot spare our men to keel
i open accounts with our dear customers
4 Tor we are SO well organized we do no
4 keep books All our business is don
for cash. When you want trust go t.
tiiC WHO Is organ
4 lied. He needs your credit business
and will carry you without interest, bt,
he must pay interest to the jobber on al
past due accounts. Open your eyes. D,
not take the produce from those fellow
| who buy from catalogue houses; an,
say to them when they ask for credit
J, who have you been dealing WITH" No
one Of them will tell you who they bu
\. from. They do not want you to know
| that they buy from Messrs. Cashtin Ad
B. vance for there are not one of,thern j
Ave thousand who want you to knoy
J. from whom they buy
i All join together, boys, and seesif 20
u cannot do something towards this ey
as each year we are finding ourselve
.i cramped for cash which our trade j
!, sending away for No. inferior good.
u You should not buy one dollars wort
j Of goods from any jobber who will nc
) send regular salesman to your doc
i for his catalogue is being used by small
II er houses to make I'm a hook for va,