The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-06-28
BOOTS AND SHOES
ONCE MORE!
HAWKING and PEDDLING!

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To THE READERS OF THE BANGOR DAILY
WING AND CoURIER:
1t appears that the communication Of "P, . and
the answer TO he same. in tho Boston Daily Adver
tiser has called out an article in the Bangor Daily
Whig and Courier of May 3ott, from "a Merchant
of Bangor" who pitches into the Merchant Of Bos
tom, as follows-sI wish 10 denounce some of his
stateme nts and inform said Merchant that an arti
Gle more hearily shaded aoith truth thaa his would
have greater effect upon the business community
in this vicinity. should judge from the style OF
this Boston Merchants communication, that he is
not one of that class Of Boston Merchants appealed
70 in the letter Of the Bangor correspondent, p.
viz, The regular and honorable Merchants OF Bos
ton." 4kANBEE
Now to begin with, as guessing seems to be the
order of the day, allow the "Boston Merchant to
say that Il should judge from the style ofTaIs Ban
gor Merchants communication, that no is one Of
the s'gners to the Bangor Gil cuar, and is Whoie-
sale Dealer, and VERY LIKELY q Boot and Shoe
Dealer. For further particulars Book off OBJ
Ifso then his devotion TO the interests of the poor
defencetess Retailers of Maine, who, aceordingto
his ideas, get mpcfed upon by the Sc MILE VII
LAIEs, sMAoKs A LITTLE of self inserest. and HIS
is not SO pure. and disiaterested regard for the
welfare of the retailers as he would have suppose
FtOttt
taken hold of this matter and the tide Of csnsurs
has turned rather strong. on the Bangor Singers,
the I'M rchant Of Boston, can bear the doubt Of his
being regular and honorable without large
amount Of suffering. on the ground oi tiet those
laugh who win.,5I eallo ssts31 hs3laJ sd5 10
The complaint about "any quantity of young
squirts, with which the country is flooded and who
generally sell goods on ce mmission, y snd similar
statements, are the great staple ARGUMENTS ofALn
the articles written to justify the driving out
from Maine OF everybody acith samples Sensible
men are not SO easily Imposed upon BY "YouEa
SQuIRTs," and UNTIL the Retailers Of Maine
ask protection By Ldsc there will be but little fRoor
that the Bangor Merchants assertion is correct,
that the retailers mag be saoindled and humbugged
soithoat mercy by the numerous scallywags and
broken-down MERCHANTS who cannot command a re-
spectacle situation at home" The s.Boston Mer.
chant has abetter opinion of the Retailers Of Maine
than to suppose Them to be such fats, ready to be
fooled by everybody and anybody, as described by
the Bangor Merc hart -and is it not an insult to
the Intelligence of the Betaers Of Maine to insinu-
ate tkatthey cannot take care Of themselves! Now
sucn state of faffairs GOULD EXIST, is not the
remedy so plain, that whether the swindlers so.th
samples were from Bangor or elsewhere, would
not The Reailers act under the simplest rules of
common sense. TO refuse to bug or order OF the
young squirts' unless they could produce satisfac-
tory evidence that they represent responsible
h,tses 81 n q = O n q n 81
Finally, the finishing touch is put on to the whole
communication by the statement about sicounter.
jumpers who never understood the frat rudimsnts
of commercial transactions seitk Uhich the counsry
Is frfestsd" !" Yes, you ignorant counter -iumpersl
YOU HAVE worried good, worthy, and very scise
FBangor MsrchantY into REGULAR RUDIMBNrAL
MIDDLE and he DON'T WANT the State of Maine
'infested with commercial transactions" or ''rudi.
ments," unlsss the sa.nnefs get their Inspiration
aad samples from Bangor and then it's all right to
s-adiment into anybody sHoDDY SHOES or any other
kind Of property made holy under sanction ef the
Hawkers and Peddlers Act, chap44 "A ~ IL
But suppose we change this subject, which may be
getting tiresomes to one that is alwavs retresh;nq