Show There is one thing that the merchants mer merchants chants of any community community- do doand doand and that is to stop the dead beats t c and to stop them so effectually that f t they will be known and that they will be u unable able to secure credit at f any any- anyplace place in town This is not meant metOt to imply that the people who l c ask for credit are dead beats but there are dead beats beats who ask for credit and who intend never to pay pay their bill They have the opinion that the merchants favored by their patronage should bear the loss or that the other customers of the q houses should make up the sum by byan t J 0 an increased profit on the goods that they buy and for which the they 7 pay There is n ne no reason reason why wh y the 1 beat should be trusted and there ar arr are e r so to many why he should not that th the e 3 i people woo pay their bills would be f. f justified in refusing to trade at an anyplace any anyplace y place where these professionals ar are e carried on the books z |