Smyrna times., 1871-09-06

HORACE GREELEY ON THE FRUIT SELLING
QUEsTION.-The Milford Mutual Frjen1 IF
Saturday, publishes letter from Horace
Greeley, relative to the choice cf traffic as
vocation by young men, Mr.. &. having been
asked for his opinion in the matter. He ad-
vlses young men to choose some other calling
than that of merchant, because there arc
more merchants than we need or can maintain
lie says: "A hundred farmers in middlinp
circumstances cannot well afford to pay three
or four. divers mercantile concerns for selling
and sending away their surplus produce and
supplying them with dry goods and groceries
seeds and implements, in return" He thinks
we ought :" to dispense at once with half tba
mercantile concerns, ultimately with at least
nall the residue. We want to increase pro
duction by making nineteen out Of eyerv
twenty able bodied men actual producers of
wealth; whereas not fifteen Of every two,,,,
are such. The business ought to be- copsol;.
dated like A. l. Stewart is doing it. notwitb.
standing 1t is said that that merchant has rnin.
ed the dry goods trade by mononolizinc i
Mr. Greeley says that thousand persons in
New ork now effect the exchanges that forty
years ago required from five to ten thousand
and consumers are better served at lo,rer
charges But our object in quoting from his
article IS to give his views about the sale of
fruit. He says:
=, have little farm thirty-ive miles from
lhe heaTt OF this CITY, whereon | grow choice
apples for sale. They bring me one yoar ,r;tb
another less than fftycents per bu.hcI. tboueh
am but two hours ride from one of ,ba
greatest markets IN Amcrica-probably one of
largest apple markets on the gloEe. Tfanv
Que would responSlbly contract to take for tho
next ten years all [ would grow At fffv rant'
per bushel, | should be glad to make The con-
tract YET those who consume these yerv an
pies IN TINS city pay at least thrice fifty cents
per Dushe! Tor them in the average, and thon.
sands habltually do without who wouId oL,dI,, .
nave men ~ price based upon that which |
Should bo glad to take But the exist,ng
machinery OF exchange and distribution i GO
lIIperftrt AMI vl"oH' that thousands of bu,h I
e'S oi W." "' -- moving within fifty miles of
ou! CiJ i'... tot uH Ter the trees or are fed to
swine, while those who should est them On
without apples, being unable to nav tho
prices at which they are held and retaied at
CITY stalls and groceries. Add u thousand m
tne NUMBER VINO now seek to live by buyinp
''N 'N'"OuiitIy duu selling them I'm the !
city and you would probably increase tho m sro ov.
erage city retail price rather than reduce if !
by and by, we shall, trust, have a better
system. Perhaps great stock company, rails.
ing or constructing the best storehouses for
1rult aud vegetables Of all kinds, will buv them
OF the growers so fast as they are fit to harvest
ana garner them in vast storehouses of a low |
UNIFORM temperature, until the moment shall
nave nave arrived Tor throwing them respectively |
It's laden carts to every citizens door each |
morning, profferlng him an assortment of its
seasonable products in small quantities at not
more than nifty pen, cent advance on their cost
by the car load or the boat when boupht ot tho
farmers; or the farmers may organize systems
OF proifering their products to the citizens at
thelr several doors at prices which will only .
assure them fair remuneration for their
labor; or the arrangement may differ radicaIlv
from either or both of these care not for
the means so that the end be honestly attain