Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-01-22

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six dollars. This article would cost |
US, in the house of the wholesale deal |
er, for example, $3.50. BY paying cash
l would make two per cent additional
and for quantity q agreeing to take,
say 1000 Of this particular thing) | a
would obtain a discount of say five |
per cent.
This is how would figure it out:
Cost of article ..........................s2 .s2.0
Cash discount at per cent. .05
Quantity discount at per cent. t.121s
discounts ..-...............-.....172 .11z
Vet cost .,'-'....................... z.5zHs
Selling price to YOU. $500
Our profit ss.e71s
You can see for yourself that when
I was making such profits it was but
natural that l should deem it proper
to spend the money on trips to Europe
and up the Nile, etc. Of course,
had plenty of money to spend. Even
way back when the concern was in
its infancy always made big money.
And it made no difference what the
financial barometer said about the
money market. | was not bothered by
bank failures nor by financial stringen-
cies. did not have to borrow any
money. Of course not. You fur
nished it.
Good gracious, if you had fur
nished your local merchants with the
cash you sent to me, in advance, they
would all be millionaires, now, in
stead Of plodding along trying to make
both ends meet
Take it, for instance, that you sent
me an order for lot of things includ-
ing hardware. Did you ever wonder
why the hatchets and hammers and
other tools broke SO easily or would
not keep an edge? Did you wonder
why the locks became broken and out
of order? Did you wonder why moth
ing would work just as it should?
Your dealer in your own town buys
goods that he feels sure viii give
service and be satisfactory. II not
You can make him give you a dupli-
cate that will fill the bill But he
is different proposition. He has to
be right there in his store to meet you
face to face while my concern is
long ways of.
In groceries, too. 1t was my GUS
tom TO buy up what we call Job lots"
of any merchandise whatever If a
merchant went broke and went into
bankruptcy used to bid on his stock.
! would buy it, for cash. for all the
way from fifteen cents to forty or fifty
cents on the dollar. He always want
| ed cash and was willing to sacrifice
| his goods at any price. Then I would
take this stuff and parcel it out. All
| was fish that came to my net l would
| offer some old junk that he had kept
On his shelves for many years. as spe-
cial hstrgains, and would quote descrip-
| tions as though the stuff were new,
| and yet make price that sounded
! low. l would call an article valued
at" say SIS, and price it at $3.50 1t
would have cost us about half dollar
or perhaps less.
Cases of tomatoes, corn, fruit and
other canned goods were my speciality.
Many and many time have | dug up
from the cellar or from the back OF
the shelves of some old merchant
whoI-l / bought out for cash at very
small price, lot of old cans. bulged
out, and rusted and looking as if they
had been there for years. And they
had, probably. | would set q boy to
work. cleaning and polishing these
CAM and then | would paste new la
belr on them. Sometimes there were
no labels and then could have a lol
or fun deciding what labels to put on
them. There were many surprises in
/ store for those who bought such stuff
at a "bargain." l would paste new
labels on such cans as could not tel
the contents of, and ship them out Il
our customers.
Sugar, that had become wet, ant
which I had to break up with an ak
salt the same, prunes full of worms
corn meal alive with reaches, sal
fish strong enough to float ship
-four and crackers filled with vermin-
yes, l bought all sorts of stuff ant
sold it at great profit.
And clothing-there's where / made
some of my greatest profits, for tht
clothing l sold, in a majority of in
stances, was made by half-grown Jew
fish girls and boys in what are know
to the trade as 'sweatshops."
The vest / sold as part Of you
suit was probably cut by a sweating
young Jew from Russia, who canno
speak more than half dozen words
of our language. He cuts them out il
lots, pile of cloth foot deep and HI
cuts them with big knife that look
more like a straw or hay knife-th'
kind you use to cut hay out of stacl
with. It's the same way with tn,
coats and trousers.
Then these pieces of cloth are sewet
together by perspiring young Jew
: esses. They get a few cents for sew
ing a vest. Another gets few pen
MES for putting in the pockets. An
other gets similar amount for sew
ing on collar, etc. All this work i
done by the dozen. So many cent
per dozen.
The coatmakers are generally men
but some shops have women becaus
they are cheaper. Most of the work i
done right there in the shop so al
inspector can watch the poor sweat
ing men and girls at work and kee
them speeded up. The poor slave
who sew the garments sold hav
never placed hand on well-dresse'
man nor worn well-fitting carmen
themselves.
It's the same with the cloaks an
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