Show CREDIT AND DEAL the differences between a cash trade dud and the trade of a frontier country WO uld be almost incredible save to he ge who have observed or had ext devience Deri ence in both methods the one is dimple easy satisfactory the other risky varied and partly speculative at beet beat with the first accounts art are erA created aerated ted credit is given cash paid and the transaction to is at an end in the to is the currency credit is lengthy and settlement is sometimes deferred for years the farmer gets credit until bis bill crop matures the sheep man until his bis wool is marketed I 1 the one disposed to build pays in orders or due bills by arrangement with his local store and not infrequently these orders or due bills cancel many debts before they are presented at the count SM ore this sort of exchange has its ilo Is basis sisin io general confidence that redemption demp cl tion is certain when needed it is in not uncommon in fact c ci atom has bas made it universally understood that there are some lestric upon the purchasing power of these orders or due bills in any country where the replenishing of a stock is fa not net quite easy so in the early days a man with a twenty dollar order or due bill was waa limited as to the amount of factory nails sugar or other commodity for which the merchant bad paid close cash and upon which custom had determined the smallest kind of a margin of profit when the holder of such ouch an order presented it for fer redemption it was waa optional with the storekeeper whether he should receive it at all or what the merchandise given in exchange and if these MOM terms were not agreeable the one presenting the order bad his recourse against the one from whom he received it if the store was wai even owing the latter this limit of responsibility and character of the goods to be supplied was universally recognized to demand this or that or the otheron an order would have been resented as an interference with the business of the dealer even a due bill issued by the store itself no matter how made was subject to the same bustow cust it was wae meant to be redeemed in general genera I 1 merchandise chand iFe here and there a difficulty might arise but this was the rule and to insist on other than this would have affected such euch a man in his bis general deal and to have suggested suit on an order by way of com compelling lelling a storekeeper to accept that and pay in any special article would have been the he height of absurdity this class of orders are the conven lent jent currency of the territory particularly in the south where money if 16 not DOE yet a drug and for the sake of good feeling men giving pr or accepting them and storekeepers paying them should have consideration of all the surrounding circumstances avoiding selfishness and controversy as far as human nature will admit most moat dealers are anxious enough for trade sometimes too much so BO for their i own trade they accommodate beyond their ability for t bey too have to pay for what they buy As aa to sugar for instance cash Is ie now the rule the storekeeper cannot be said to carry it for profit but as a help and nd necessity for his bla general trade and for a bolder of a ten or two twe ty dollar order to demand the whole in ugar augar assumes almost the character char acter of an oia outrage anu and injury to the store which at best may be limited as aa to capital but which now under present may he cramped almost beyond endurance in a word the patience and accommodation wh ch cb have been so ao frequently urged in these columns and elsewhere should be exercised in fairness ful falness ness and justice in this maetter of credit and deal |