The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-11-21
ALL ABOUT THAT MARKET.

+ ALL ABOUT THAT MARKET.
EDITOR NEWS: There has been so
: much said of late about a market in
1 our young city, and some of the rea-
0 sons given for the establishment OF
= such market are SD out OF place and
, next thing to untrue, that feel it a
2 duty for some one to set some of the
] intelligent gentlemen right, and with
your PERMISSION l will to some extent
make the attempt, not that / am op-
, posed to the market, but that it may
not be established on false reasonings.
/ In the first place. it is not a new
thing. The very same thing was petit
toned tor six months ago by ono of
the grocerymen of our town, and urg-
ed as necessity, alike for the pro-
Queer and consumer, more as . regu-
latOr for the market than anything
else. AS it is now a portion of the
time we have produce enough on the
market for q town ten times the size of
ours, and a portion of the time one
may visit every place of business in
the town and can't get what he wants
for dinner. There are times, also,
when the grocers throw away half the
produce they buy, and other times they
have nothing I'm that line to sell, and
all for want of some kind of balance
wheel in the market. The plan sug-
gested by your grocer think a good
One-that was to give the producers
say two days in each week to sell their
! market produce at some place or places
to be designated by your city council.
Then everybody knows when and
where to go for such things as they
need ia that line. And aside from this
allow no peddling on the streets, and
your grOeers will soon learn what they
can sell betweeR market days, and can
better tell what they can afford to give
for it, and not have 1Ir. somebody
come and sell him half Load of poCa-
toes at $l.25 per bushei and then go
and peddie the other half to his Gus
toners at 81 per bushel, which occurs
ten times where Mr.. farmers story in
the Ledger occurs once.
belive we need an established mar
ket for the benefit of all and not Gas
Mr.. farmer would have us belieVe) be-
cause every man that handles produce
and meats in the city iE q svindler.
Farmer tells as they bring their dress
ed hogs to town and sell them for three
dollars per hundred to Mr.. butcher,
and Mr.. butcher sells it to consumer
ut from six to ten cents per pound
But Mr.. farmer is very careful not to
say a word about the one fourth of
every hog the butchers sell being sold
pound, and almost as much more that |
goes into the rendering kettle to be |
sold at what it will bring as lard or
grease. And further, the butchers tell
me they have not paid less than four
cents per pound, and from that to five,
this season for dressed hogs.
Farmer also tells us potato story
how the grocers buy their potatoes at |
one dollar per bushei and has them |
drive to a hotel and unload tAeaa to |
the hotel keeper at one dollar and 4
twenty-five cents per bushel, and new!
er says word about how many pOta-
toes Mr.. grocer had sold to hotel keep
er for seventy-flve cents per bushel |
that he had paid farmer one dollar for. |
Neither does he say word about the |
hundreds of bushels of potatoes, and |
pounds of other produce the grocer |
hauls away from his store that had
spoiled on his hands, that he had paid |
round price for and lost it, because |
farmer sold him all he could for all he |
could get and then peddled the balance /
to tho grocer's customers, from house
to house, for just what they were dis
posed to give him.
But as have no fears of a market
being established in our intelligent
city for the reason suggested by farm
er, will say no more about it.
But 1 will, with your permission,
say few words about trade and fault
finding: As we understand the prin-
ciples of business in this country, it is
every mans privilege to choose for
himself what branch of industry he
desires to make his living by, and as
long rs he deals honestly in Il Iegiti-
mate business he is deserving of some
little respect. And as the principle of
supply and demand always has and al
ways will govern the price in the main
| think it would be the means of a
much better feeling if a certain class
would stop so much prating and
about high and low prices,
and swindling. AS we have said, this
Is a free country. If there is more
money in selling groceries, dry goods,
or anything else than there is in pro-
-lucing, just quietly quit the one and
go at the other, and follow that which
pays the best. Remembering at the
same time that six hours is the average .
time put in by the producer and fifteen
hours the average time of the business
mani. In justice to the business man,
ask yourself on what basis you set
your prices for your prOdnce-whether
It be by what it cost yOu or whether it
he by what you can get (the former
would be right but the latter Is the
rule.) If you bring load of melons
TO town. or anything else, and find
none in the market, do you ask what ,
you can getr What would you say of
a business man that would do you the
same way? The trouble is there is q
growing disposition on the part of too
many to find fault with their neigh
bOrs for something that they them
selves are all the time doing, and for
which the natural laws of business are
Yours,
FARMER'S FRIEND.
PoRK.-Gra ffenstein has cut and
I,acked two hundrad and Fl ftv ho0s in