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… Jewish department stores were dreamed of, Herbert Spencer, in his essay on "The Morals of Trade," said: "On all sides we have found the result of long personal experience to be the conviction that trade is…
… essentially corrupt. Men in different occupations and in different places have one and all ex- pressed to us the and belief that it is impossible to carry on trade with strict rectitude. Tricks innumerable…
…, lies acted or uttered, elaborately devised frauds are prevalent, many of them established as customs of the trade, not only established but defended." Again he quotes the Rev. Dr. R. Heber Newton, one…
… of New York's most distinguished of divines in the late seventies and the early sixties. Delivering an kddress on "Morals of Trade," he said: "Tricks in palm. leg off goods of inferior quality, of…
… Voliva, overseer of Zion, announces that the sky is • vast dome of solid material, from which the sun, moon nad stare are hung like chandeliers from • ceiling. The edges of the dome rest on a wall of ice…
… could issue so many insulting letters and stay in business. I had occasion during the last two or three years to publish the scur- rilous letters issued by this company, and when I receive complaints on…
… that score I merely write to the correspondents: "Don't pay any attention—nobody does to such letters from the James W. Houston Company." I am not going to waste first class print paper on a crowd like…
… jobbers prices. We have been in the jobbing busi- ness for 40 years, before you were ever heard of, and expect to still be at it by the time you have disappeared from the map. Your outfit makes on us the…
… in the side, not maliciously, of '''.fle; gently, just gently. Here is what Commissioner of Accounts David Hirshfield of New York has to say on the subject. Maybe it will have the effect of breaking…
… • really able man of an undesirable habit: "There 13 no doubt that Mr. Untermeyer has devoted a great deal of time to this Lockwood investigation and toe done some good work in spite of himself. a e On the…






