The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-10-16
After the Changers.

correspondent of the Atlanta Herald,
writing from Rome, Ga, over the signature of
''f5am McKrakin," gets after the Grangers in
the following unique style. We suspect that
Sam is a near relative of Bill Arp, judging
from his style of writing:
The Oranges are engaged in doin what we
bows used to think smart thing. They are
irwin 10 plump the middle man out. That
winds up the game quick. They say they are
fixin up to hold their cotton till it will bring
twenty-five cents pound This is what our
Grangers are goin' to fix up to hold their mules
for four hundred dollars apiece and their grain
i'm proportion. The Ohio Grangers are goin'
for bubble price for their bakon and flour.
The universal idea seems to be ITO buy cheap
s,nd sell deer" 1t reminds NE of speech
Mr. Fooshay made here about opinin our river
to Mobeel He said that corn. was worth fifty
cents here and dollar and half in Mobeel,
and if the river was open our folks could foat
their corn down there at a cost OF ten cents
bushel and sell it for one dollar and half.
At the same time the Mayor of Nobel was
maxim speech to the citizens of Nobel in
favor of opinin' the river to Rome, and he told
em that corn was only fifty cents bushel at
Rome, and if the river was opened they could
send their little STEAMBOATS, up there and buy
thousands of corn at fifty cents a bushel.
This thing may work out all right but some
times when I get to thinking about it, it makes
nv head swim. I hav' no doubt, however, that
Major Dem understands it. / axed MIR. Tom
Berry what he thought of the Changers move
ments, and he sed he was for anything that
would enable the farmers to pay him what they
owd him. MIR. Berry are nifty smart man.
I axed Clouds what he thought of the Oranges,
and he sed it was trick to run the poor man
out of the country; that the rich men was
goin' to club together and put up their money
and buy thousin plows from Brinly, at seven
dollars apiece, and the poor man would hav'
to buy 'em from Frank Air on credit at four
teen dollars. He sed tina, was the way it was
goin' to work.
I axd middle man what he thought of the
Grangers, and he sed the whole thing was
foundationed in falsehood; that the farmers
was made to beleeve M they had been imposed on
by the merchants and that the merchants all
cot rich by keepin' the farmers poor. He sed
that ninety-fve out of every hundred merchants
broke, and that most of the breakin' was ak
kasioned by the farmers not payin' their debts
akkordin to promise. He sed that the country
.peepul dident like the town peepnl because the
town gals dressed finer than the country gals.
1 axd him if he dident think that fine dressin
had sumthin to do with merchants breakin
He sed perhaps it did to sum extent, and that
all the trouble and develment in the world was
owing to one family trying to keep up or get
little ahead of their nabors.
Another middle man remarked that they was
goin to organise q society of changers" ~ That
commodities had to be changed and exchanged,
and since the foundations of the world middle
men had dun it, and that these grangers were
runnin again the order Of natur. he sea tthey e
some fellers' hands to go and buy their plows
and reapers and sewin' nasheens, and that fel-
ler would just step off with it to parts unknown
OR he would put it in bank, and the bank
would defalkate, Wallis Warren cum down to
AK me whether he ort to jipe 'em or not, and
told him to iine; that if it was good thing,
all right, and if it was bad thing he would
find it out by jinin' quickera than any other
way. I'm anxious to see the masheeh work.