Red Wing sentinel. [volume] (Red Wing, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1861, 1859-02-26
70, the'sentinol.
"UNION STORES.s,

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MIR. EDITOR I'm the last number of the
Red Wing r publican q new light appears on
the financial horizon which promises fair to
eclipse all the theorising luminaries which
have heretofore appeared, blazed for season
and disappeared like meteor leaving the
financial world in greater darkness for thei:
having shone. "At one fell swoop" all the
'cigning systems Of trade and commerce are
Ieveled in the dust and on their ruins is to
be erected an old exploded system. impracti-
cable here and Improbable anywhere, as .
great and never falling panacea for al our
financial and commercial affections. Isay the
system proposed is exploded, for have the
best reason for knowing that it has failed in
nine out of every ten trials and every reas-
oning mind must see at once that even If the
plan SO earnestly recommended could be
carried out no advantage could possibly &C.,
crue to any one but the agents, who in fact
are simply merchants doing business ." bor-
rowed capital. But Mr.. Snow thinks differ.
emily, and let us look little 10 the reasons
he gives F" for the faith that is in him. He
first proposes to dispense with intermedi-
ate or middle men, and follows up his prop.
osition by cnumerating the following persons
as necessary to the establishing O: one county
Union Store: LIST. Agent in New York :;
I'd. United State Central organization Of in
d, tinate numbers and Of unknown aud un-
responsible members 3D.. Agent in the
country 18th. Managing committee to legis-
late and control the agents 5th. One thous-
and stock holders to furnish tho funds and
regulate and control the committee. Thus
by his own showing we see that g interme-
diate or middle men, are dispensed with with
a vengeance. Under the present system Of
trade, the country merchant and the import.
er are all that necessarily add to the cost Of
goods: by passing them through their hands
no middle men are required or often used,
cor is the numbers engaged in managing one
business the worst feature Of the proposed
SYSTEM The success of an Union Store
must necessarily depend wholly upon the en-
ergy, tact, honesty and financial ability Of the
agents employed. This fact Mr.: Snow ad-
mits, and how, after this admission can he
ask men to place their money, their produce
and above all their credit beyond their con-
troll and in the hands Of an irresponsible
agent who has no incentive to action or hon.
csty save paltry salery Of perhaps six humid
red dollars per year. All faith must be
placed in the agents word. The farmer has
only the agents word for it, that he receives
the market price for his produce, or that he
!. pays only the stipulated price for his goods
in fact the agents word must be taken 70,
his own honesty he is the only witness ir
court, for if the "Union'' system has SC
mary advantages over the present one, al
competitor ,snst fly from it as from thu
glance Of destiny, and the agents say so viii
alone regulate the markets. Mr.. s. draws
, fine pen-pictare Of an imaginary farmer will
an imaginary bag Of potatoes on his shoulder
an imaginary quarter Of beef in his hand
peddi;ng from door to door and from store t.
shop begging some generous dealer to take
his produce off his hands, but begging ii
vain. Does he icean by ibis to assume thai
an Union Store agent will buy what there is
no market for? And that othel dealers WI
not buy what there is market for? Can
an Union Store afford to pay more for pro-
duce than they sell it for? If they do they
certainly must do large business to keep
up their capital stock. If they can do business
successfully on this principle they are a good
institution, and every family should have one.
Prove it and Cobb shall be ousted, Snow
shall be instated and the United States
II Treasury shall hereafter be conducted on the
Union Store principle. Give us "Confsr.
: nation strong as Holy Writ. or at leas,
something more likely to be taken as evil
dence, than your day dreams or moon-struck
theories, and we will all DO union men,
Unless you can do this you had better larry
lat Jericho, until your financial beard be
grown, ere you again attempt commercial
revolution. QUEEN SABE.
), Red Wing, Feb. 25th, 1859. >.
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The Work GOES BRAvELY ON.-We arc
: credibly informed that there is being quite
revival Of religion in Pine Islands. Som.
ninety have already been converted to tn,
faith, and prospects are that number NOR,