Middletown transcript., 1868-08-29
For the Mtddletoacn Transcript.

FARMERS, LOOK TO Your INTEREST,"
We see these words written everywhere,
placarded on posts, swinging in brazen
black letters from doors and trees, like
''Mishlers Herb Bittors," and the ' Uni
versal Pain Killer" Painted all over the
breadth of the country Phosphates, Phu-
inc, Poudrette, Complete Manures,
Guanos, until the vocabulary of outland-
ish names is exhausted.
" Farmers, Look to Your Interests. !" or
something equivalent, seeks to rivet the
gaze of those to whom 1t is addressed
brow beat as slow-coaches, denominated
as neutrality-suspicious., well do they
merit the titles. The idle structure, but
fertile brain of ingenuity levies tax for
his worked-out thoughts, and the farmer
pours an enormous interest into the laps
of the manufacturers, building up classical
fortunes, and swelling their incomes enor=
mously. Why is it? Because q disor=
ganized body is battling against an organ
lied band of agents and traders-one has
system, the other, none-one perpetuatcs
their theory by deeds and acts, the other
passively submits to the taxes they levy,
and believe their representations. The in
genuity on the one hand, embalmed by
gold, laughs at the credibility on the
other, that shivers in poverty. The one
harvest is sure, and gathered, the other,
IN embryo and subject to carelessness and
providential rulings Does the farmer want
to plant an orchard, II per Ct (if peach
trees) Of his money entering the pocket
OF an agent, who scrawls few lines to
l,n nm l., l.
lish a lawn, Or beautify q yard 100 per CT.
of his money is iilohed by an agent for
silvcr-maples or Norway fir Does he pur-
pose gettinga new article of machinery,
20 per ct. of his legat tenders are fqbhed
by an agent, subsidiary to the SO per ct.
realized, originally, by the manufacturer;
and take the aggregate of purchases, the
discount paid for foreign notes annually
given to agents, would suffice to remuner-
ate one of their own number for acting in
a general capacity as an agent for this
fraternity of spend thrifts.
'fis Death !-th' elixirs spilt-and lost the priao,
And in the folly of his life he dies.
1t is to the interest of the farmer to
make his purchases from the manufactures
himself, if possible, to encourage the artis
san and manufacturer in his immediate
neighborhood, to make as prompt pay-
ments at home as abroad, and use all hon
orable means to escape this moth by stop-
ping this per cent. leak and let the nancy
radiate around him.
A heavy dealer may wish to purchase,
say fifty tons of Phosphate, he applies to
the manufacturer, who meets your de-
mand, if you wish to sell again, ten per ct,
off, if for your own use he makes no de-
duction. One gentleman said to manu-
facturer, g If | go to the merchant, pro-
vided buy the same quantity of goods, |
can purchase as cheap as the man who buys
to retail, or in other branches of the busi-
ness. You, sir, make no deduction
because l am consumer. Why is
this? The reply was--'' we must protect
our agents, as most of our sales arc effect
ed in that manner" 1t is big item to
the large dealer, whereas to the small deal
er it is proportonately larger, because of
his INDECENT circumstances.
A case in point, recently, has become
comparatively we'll known; one or two
agents through charitable feelings (thought
perhaps, of more extensive sales) or real
spirit of accommodation, offered, and in
one or two cases did sell, without a mar
gin for profit. What was the result ?-an
pouneed on them like thun,
derbolt, threatening them with loss of agen-
cy if they dared to make further sales at
less than the stipulated prices The far
mer is compelled to pay the percentage
either to principal or agent.
They employ men to canvass the coun-
try with stencil tools and paint-pots, blur
fence-rails with letters, fill newspapers with
advertisements, engrave guano islands.
with their zenith blackened by fiocks Of
sea-birds, gilt nondescript characters. for
g Farmers to Look to their Interests.
Guaranteed to accomplish all they rem
resent, nine times out of ten you are wor-
riod out yourself in harrassing them to
come up to their guarantees. 4 percent
age paid largely in every quarter, paid bv
yourselves, from the original purchases ex-
ending to new implements, for this use
solely, down to the labor it commands TO
'ender it effective grinds the money from
your Golfers to fill their own and swell 9TH
rs rent-rolls
Look to your interests" and ORGANIZE
IN efficient and cf1ectual plan to prevent
he aggressive strides of those vampires
who are oxhausting the blood of the soil.
RANDOM.