The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1872-09-12
CIRCULAR
To the Farmers Of Giles County.

We, the undersigned committee
duly appointed and acting in behalf
of the Wales Station Farmers Club
for the purpose herein set forth, beg
leave to cab your attention to the
following facts:
Formidable rings or combinations
have been formed in many depart
ments of business, which initiate
with powerful force and hurtful eff
feet against the farming interest Of
the country. These rings have be-
come so oppressive and bold as to
be intolerable, and so formidable as
not to be resisted by individual or
single-handed effort. Hurtful and
unnecessary determinations are
made against the producing class
in favor of trade las it is called },
which is unjust, and ought not to
be tolerated, and which we are able
to successfully resist if proper eff
fort is made. Professional efiguet is
such that a consumer cannot buy
wholesale quantity of goods at a
Wholesale price. A member of the
ring can buy smaller quantities at
the regular wholesale price. The
producer of grain and cotton cannot
store with the commission merchant
as cheap as the speculator. The
ring admits only those who can
give the password (trade) into full
fellowship and favor. The farmer
is kept back into the ''outer court"
and the elect only are admitted into
the sanctum sanctorum."
The time has arrived when we
should begin to act and assert our
We are being rapidly re-
duced to a servile condition. Our
responsibility, our self-preservation,
the welfare of our children and our
rights as freemen alike demand
that we should unite our strength
to resist all hostile combinations.
The farmers in the vicinity of
Wales Station, in view of the evils
inflicted upon the country by rings,
and fully conscious of their inabili-
ty to cope with these rings in their
and individual capacity,
have organized themselves into
club for tile purposes of mutual
protection and assistance. Conf
dent that the evils now threatening .
to undermine and ruin the farming
can be averted only by co
operation, we beg leave TO call the
of our brother farmers to
he Importance of at once fortjfying
themselves by uniting in clubs in
every district in the county. We
earnestly invoke your aid and CO.
operation in promoting our common
With this object in view, we cor
Tally invite all who feel an interest
a this matter to form clubs at once {
n the various districts of the coun- :
y, and to elect delegates to a farm
RS convention to be held in Pulas-
il on the 1st Monday in October.
Very important business will be
'rought before this convention. ]
The chief object will be to appoint l
y elect a committee, whose business =
will be to arrange a plan for 1
toring cotton and other produce, l.
aised by the clubs, IN Nashville or s
louisville at as low a rate as posi- t
lie. We think that the present c
harges for storage or commission {
unreasonable, and that by uniting i
ur strength we will be able to u
make a contract for storing produce !.
t rates far 6sIO10 present charges. +
The delegates TO this convention Il
Mould be properly accredited and o
ully authorized to act for each and r
very member of the clubs which +
hey represent in regard to storing a
reduce. .
We feel confident in saying that $,
the plan here indicated is acted
pom and adopted, thousands Of I
ollars may be annually saved by =
Of Giles county.
THos. B. WADE, Chairman, =
r. p. YANcY,
DANIEL 6. ANDERSON,
:. A. WILSON,
JAMES HORNE,
w. L. CATER,
JOHN PHILLfPs,
G. j. BoPKINs,
4. 5. WILSON.
S. c. JOHNSTON, Pres't
Is. F. HOPKINS, Scc'y pro tenn. =