The Portland daily press., 1865-07-01
BOOTS AND SHOES
ONCE MORE!
HAWKING and PEDDLING!
To THE RuADrns OF THE BAssoa DAILY

To THE READERS OF THE BApGoR DAILY
WHIG AND COURIER:
| 1t appears that the Communication OF tsP," and
the answer to the came, in tbs Boston Daily Adver-
tiser has called out article in the Bangor Daily
| Whig and Courier of May 3Ota from "A Merchant
of Bangor, who pitches into the Merchant Of Bos
ton" as follows.-sI wish to denounce some of his
statements and inform said Merchant that an arti-
Gle more heavily shaded NTH truth thGa 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
to in the letter of the Bangor correspondent, p.
viz, The regular and honorable Merchants o; Bos-
ton"
Now to begin with, as guessing seems to be the
order the day, allow tie .sBoston Merchant" 10
say that 4 should judge from the style ofrHIs Ban
gor Merchants communication that he is one of
the s'gners to the Bangor ci cular, and is Whole
sale Dealer, and VERY LIKELY Boot and Shoe
Dealer !For further particulars Book off OBJ
II So then his devotion the interests of the poos
defeacetess Retailers of Maine who, according 10
his ideas, get impceed upon by the 81 MI LIE VII
LAINs, sMAoKs A LITTLE of sef interest, and HIS
is snot 80 pure and dissnferested regard for tho
welfare of the retailers he would have US suppose
Now that the people and retailers of Maine have
taken hold of this matter, and the tide of csnsure
has turned rather strong. on the Bangor Singers,
tho I'M reliant of Boston c,n bear the doubt OF his
being regular and honorable without large
amount Of suffering. on the ground o. let those
laugh who win
The complaint about s.any quantity Of young
squitts, with which the country is flooded and who
generally sell goods on commission, J" and similar
statements, are the great staple ARGUMENTS of ALL
the articles written 10 justify the driving out
from Maine of everybody acith samples. Sensible
men are not 50 easily imposed stpon by ssYouEG
SQUIRTs," and UNI IL the Retailers cf Maine
ask protection by tao, there will be but little tRooF
that the Bangor Merchants assertion is correct,
that the retailers may be soindied and hunabugaed
s0ithoat mercy by the numerous soallywags and
bIoken-down merchants who cannot command a re-
spectacle situation at home" The Boston Mer.
chant has abetter opinion of the Retailers of Maize
than to suppose them to be such fats, ready to be
fooled by every body and anybody, as described by
the Bangor Merehatt;' land is it not an insult 10
the intelligence of The Betailers of Maine to insnu-
ate that they cannot take care Of themselves? Now
II such state of aff4irs GOULD EXIST, is not the
remedy 50 plain that whether the swindlers 10Th
samples were from Bangor or elsewhere would |
not The Retailers act under the simplest rules of
common sense TO refuse to buy or order of the
young tquiIts unless the could produce satisfac-
tory evidence that they represent responsible |
hsmses |
Finally, the faishing touch is put on to the whole
communication by the statement about sseounter-
jumpers who never understood the frat rudiments
of commercial transactions scith sORich the COUNTRY
IS INFESTED" Yes, you ignorant counter er-iumpersl
you HAVE worried a good, worthy, and gerry scise
"Bangor Merchant" into REGuLAR RUDIMRNTAL I
MUDDLE and he DON'T WANT the State Of Maine
ssissssa*ad NTH comIoerc cqI
inenss' unit IS tho a1nHers get their inspiration
and samples from Bangor, and tt en- its all right to
radtnaent i'sto anybody snoDDY SHOES or any other
kind Of property made noly unuer sanUrlon q rre
Hawkers and Peddlers Act, chap. A.
But suppose we change this subject, which may be
getting tiresome, to that is GLsCGys refreshing