The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1847-05-27

Neither the farmer nor the manufacturer
has ony right to lay aside their legitimate bu-
siness and become spectators.
do not mean that they have no moral right
but that if they do 50, they will violate laws
which am sorry to say many of them obey
more rinidly than they do moral laws, the
laws of legitimate business, and yet it is done
nv both. The one who buys, not to supply
the actual demand of his factory, but in ODE
dienee to principles of buying when he can
Inv best. The other when he seeks not
merely for fair and remunerating, but Tor eX-
brilliant prices. In small way it is wise
maxim, chat he who buys thing, not because
he wants it, but because it is cheap, is apt to
find in the end that it is dear at any PRICE
If it does not apply to the large operations OF
man of business it must be very strange AT
all events. both farmers and manufacturers
NAV be assured that we live in times when 1t
NAV be safely avcrred that he will thrive best
who best understands the theory of the MINI
BILE ninepence.
The farmer will feel skittish at the idea Of
aloDtinc such an arrangement, so completely
at variance with the usual mode in which he
disposes of his other farm products, but he
must remember that his hay, grain, butter,
cheese, &c. are consumed everywhere and by
everybody, and therefore, he may we'll 40
his own marketing. But wool is commodl-
ty used only by the manufacturer, and both
are so situated that they can not come togeth-
or at the right time, if at all hence the ne
cessity of a third man between them, whose
business it should be to do for each what
neither can do so well themselves
Perhaps a sound and searching analysis OF
this subject would show that it would be much
for the interest ofthe community if all business
was carried on upon this principle; under
better state of security such would be the case.
The merchant is of necessity Spectator he
runs risks although in theory he only regula-
ties the exchanges between the producer and
consumer This occupation Is lottery, IN
which some draw prizes, few magnificent
ones. The great majority, however, only ac-
cumulate sorrow and disappointment at least
such is the melancholy testimony of the com
mercial statistics of every metropolis of bust
ness.
You may say to me that you deal directly
with the manufacturer, and therefore the
plan proposed will not affect you l answer
YOU and other flock masters who are IN the
same situation, the manufacturers with whom
YOU deal are all honorable men; )" neverthe-
less these men who are consuming their five
or ten hundred thousand pounds of wool an
nually, would not be troubled even with your
insignificant clip of eight hundred or thou
sand pounds, if they were not gamers by it.
Nevertheless they would much rather pur-
chase even your superior clips of the com
mission agent lie will be better pleased
and you gamer by the change.
You may have been fortunate-are well
pleased with the prices the manufacturer has
paid you; still there are large growers Of wool
who tell me quite different story, and will
not send their wool to the manufacturer di-
rect under any circumstances. Besides, you
may not think me very Aattering, but could
convince you, if chose, that manufacturers
sometimes boast of the bargains they have
made. Every where | hear the farmers com
planning of the unfairness and illiberality of
the manufacturer can it be explained, then,
how it is that by some he is deemed worthy of
unlimited confidence, ond by others com
1.ln;r,cd Of for his want of liberalty2
Farmers will not like to be told they are
not competent to sell their own wool it is
nevertheless the experience of business men
that unless they are constantly in the market
they had far better consign their wool to sell
to an experienced and competent agent, than
than to undertake to be their own statesmen
Yours, respectfully, j. B. Norr.