PAYING'GASH.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13110, 8 May 1908, Page 9

PAYING'GASH.

TO THE EDITOR OF "THE JUIKSS."

Sir.—YotiT irt.iicle untlcT the above heading vns very acccpta.blc-, and I tliiink it ie t3io duty of all leaders of p-eopk, ibotih. from tho pulpit aJid the l > rces, to urgo hoarers and readers to kKK-ip wi'tili'iin tlicdr moans, and pay tJioir j'U&t dcibts regularly. To> help tho tradespeople to ea.ve mak'ijiig t>ad dol>t6, I would advise thorn to niia.ko it part of tihiedr bu&ineee to ccc ho\\ thdr circuits receive their income, viz., 'by w«ok3.y, monihly, or quarterly paymeinite, and to dye credit as it is for the bonefit of iheir customers, as Tvell as tJiemseJves, not to give long credit. If they allow clients who cot their eitipe-nds or e«.la.rLes iiiointEly to get two. three, or four monfu!i:» 'behind 4 lioiv can they expect to rccedve full payment for goods emipipliod after many nicinrths' credit? TL'iie many tr3deti])eop'le do not look intOj as I lia.vo had thoxie.a.nds of poimda put isa my hand to collect l fronn tihcii.r clients, vivo Jiavo been pa«d as above, and these accounts have been oninfT FoiT moh'tihs, e.rkl &otne for years.

I have, in peymojit, rcooived po&td«tcd <'l!O(](Ut i s" 3.nd email piaymemts of a few shulivngti, a.nd no end oP promisee whiicJi vrer© niado to be brokeji ovw amd over agia-ioi, and mamy of the tradcspeoiple have htad to write off tlhe accounts oe bad dei>te. All t'hifi. would -be stopped if tho tradespeople -wore more particular, and MWiM save a lot of worry and their goriaig through tho Bankruiptciy Court. —Yours, etc. 4 AN OliD DEBT CGLMDOTOR.