Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-10-30
Anmuruns department.
AFTER THE CHANGERS.

A correspondent of the Atlanta Herald,
writing from Rome, Ga, over the signature Of
"Sam McKirkin," gets after the Grangers
in the following unique style. We suspect
that Sam is a near relative to Bill Arp judg-
ing from his style Of writing:
The Grangers are engaged in doing what
we boys used to think smart thing. They
are tryin to plump the middle man out. That
winds up the game quick. They say they
are 6xin 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 in proportion. The Ohio
Grangers are goin' for a bubble price for
their bakon and flour. The universal idea
seems to be "to buy cheap and sell deer" !"
1t reminds me of a speech Mr.. Fooshay made
here about opinin' our river to Nobel. He
said that corn was worth fifty cents here and
dollar and half in Nobel, and the river
was open our folks could float their corn down
there at the cost of ten cents a 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 them '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
sometimes when get to thinking about it, it
makes my head swim. I hav' no doubt,
however, that Major Dent understands it. I
axed Mr. Tom Berry what he thought of the
Grangers' movements, and he sed he was for
anything that would enable the farmers to
pay him what they owed him. Mr.. Berry are
a nifty smart man. I axed Clouds what
he thought of the Oranges, and he sed it was
a trick to run the poor man out Of the coun-
try; that the rich men was goin' to club to-
gether, put up their money and buy thousin
plows from Brinly, at seven dollars apiece,
and the poor men would hav' to buy 'em
from Frank Air on a credit at fourteen dol
lars. He sed that was the way it was goin' to
work.
axd middle man what he thought of the
Grangers, and he said the whole thing was
foundationed in falsehood =; that the farmers
was made to believe that they had been i'm
posed on by the merchants, and the merchants
all got rich by keepin' the farmers poor. He
sed that ninty-fve out of every hundred mer-
chants broke, and that most of the breakin'
was okkasioned by the farmers not payin'
their debts akkordin to promise He sed
that the country peepul dident like the town
peepul because the town gals dressed finer
than the country gals. axd him if he did
ent 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
some Of their nabors.
Another middle man remarked that they
was gon to organize society of "changers. J"
That commodities had to be changed, and
since the foundations of the world middle
men had dun it, and these grangers were run
min again the order of natur. He sed they
would raise a big pile of money and put it in
some fellers' hands to 60 and buy their plows
and reapers and sewin' masheens, and the Teller
would just step off with it to parts unknown
or he would put it in bank, and the bank
would defalkate. Wills Warren cum down
to ak me whether he ort to jine 'em or not, and
l told him to jne; that if it was good thing,
all right. and if it was bad thing he would
find out by jinin' quicker than any other way.
I'm anxious to see the machine work.