The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1861-03-07
For the Upton Advertiser. !

srsAllswere created equal
Aonor and fame from no condition rise
80 We'll your part, there all the honor lie -
Idisclain all intention Of preiudicins
one Glass Of community against another
~ iaf as merchants and AGENTS are nee
esssry in transacting business between
producers aud consumers, | am in favor
ct encouraging them and paying them
literally. Combination will enable farm
sfs to fill their true social position in
society, aud will bring them up in pro.
portion TO the benefit they are to com
ffiunity and the world
81 At Virginia Grove | do not think it
advisable to start a Farmers Store, but
would recommend buying twice year,
say spring and fall stock of dry goods,
groceries, boots and shoes, clothing, and
other neccssaries. Let each memb,r cf
the club make out full bill Of what be
wants to buy and all send together BY
some one appointed by the club to make
purchases or send to some reliable agent
to buy for them; by so doing, Is or 90
per cent. can be saved in buying grocer,
les, and in dry goods much more, besides
We can often get much better articles
than We now get at the stores Mer-
chants buy tlcir goods in order to make
the greatest profit on the capital invest.
ed, regardless of their value or service
to their customers.
by purchasing supplies once or twice
q year we can save the time of going to
town every few days to buy articles
which cost more to go after them than it
does to pay for them. We are often told
that the goods we buy are sold to US at
cost. A merchant. in reckoning the cost
OF his goods counts not only what h: pays
for them and the freight, but reckons in
his time, at perhaps $1,000 year, and
the rent of his store at, say $500 more,
and one or two clerks at 500 or $500
each per year, and large bin for Incl
dental expenses. You can now see how
a merchant can get rich by selling at cost,
but when you add 20 Or 30 per cent, to
this cost price, y' Il can see how merchant
princess can afford to build splendid man
slons and buy their wives $500 shawls,
and $1,000 dresses. Now by combina-
ten III buying We can save not only pay
ing for the merchants time, store rent,
clerk hire, and 20 or 80 per cent profit,
but, BY paying cash down we can save
per cent. that the merchant has to D "
for his credit; besides We can buy goods
that are made for service and not to
cheat. We can buy boots from the man
utacturer that have not in the place of
middle .ole a welt and scraps of leather,
or chips, or sawdust We can also save
the time of going to town every time We
want paper of pins or pound Of soda it
Is about as profitable to 90 to town for
every little article We want as it would be
TO 20 to mill every three or four days with
apcck Of corn or wheat for our bread If
there is no profit in selling goods why is
not the cost price marked plainly on
them instead Of their being marked with
hyeros lyphics that even a Chnamau
could not deciph.r
by combination we can save 10 buying
not only on our dry goods, groceries,
clothing, aud hardware, but also in buy.
ing our agricu tura implements We CAT,
send directly to the manufacturer and
buy our mowers, reapers, thre>hing
machines, seed drills, rollers, plows and
harroHs, aud save the time, expense and
profit Of the ag-nt aud team, as he peram
bulates the country to make sale of such
The inhabitants of towns
and cities could combine together and
buy Of farmers at wholesale prices, their
beef, pork, vegetables, and aeur, and
save the profit of the butcher and grocer.
Another benefit may BE- attained BY con-
bnatlon : that is in borrowing and lend.
ing money, n farmer, when he ha
money that he has no immediate use for,
deposits it with money lender or shav,r,
without interest, or at most at per cent
who lends it to farmers. at from 3 t.
per C Mt. month, Farmers. members
Of Virginia Grove Fartn,r Club, let Us
unite, not only in buying and selling, bat
in LEI ding money, as far "a we can in the
place of lending it to money shavers
The profit Of combination in selling:
We sell generally To merchants, who
buy for IA distant norkrt Now if the
buyers OF our proAuc" = rich in buying
and selling. it is clear that bv shipping
our "wn produce we can save what they
make Besides, by "A number going to
market together, we can load our produce
in a car and save unloading in Il ware
house and then loading 10 a car, as the
produce buyers generally have to do
by combination in selling our beef and
pork we can save the expense of stock
buyers continually traversing the coun-
try to hunt up our stock aud save al,o
their profits. We can also buy stock cat,
tie or hogs one Of another, and save the
profit of the speculator
A merchant sad to nae that, elf farm.
cr> bought their goods at wholesale they
would use enoug h more than they now
DO, to make the cost equal to " hat it now
is hav" only to say that that is their
privilege ii 1--we better, or to save more
money. or to take more time to inrroyp
their minds, or to save more fnr b.neyol
ent or charitable purposes til, ;heriah-
Of farmers to be elevated mentally moral
y, socially aud politically, equal to any
other class or profession, but this eau on
y b" attai"d by combination.
If We think it best to patronize our
'wn merchants by combining together
and patrnnzrng only those that viii sell
N fair terms We need not pas over
me fourth of the profits to them that W.
low do. One tenth part Of the nrr-
'han,, Of our country would be glad to