The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1873-09-12
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} .A GRANGER rnTKRvIHwED.

= A CORRESPONDENT ofthe New York
Bulletin having interviewed q "Gran-
ger, reports in this wiss ''s1o
The people Of the West have al
ways sighed for adirect trade'' with
something, and now the farmers are
determined to use the Oranges as a
means Of attaining their ambition. -
| had a conversation with very in
telligent farmer few days ago, on
the subject of direct dealing between
producers and consumers, which
interested me.
h "The fact of the matter Isl said
the farmer, tive producers are plum
dered both ways, and the only way
We can save ourselves is get rid Of
the thieves who rob US under our
very noses" qg
"Who do you mean by thieves I"
/ asked.
~ mean,n said the farmer, sthem
| iniddlemen who come in between pro-
ducer and consumer and make both
pay them profit; for what for
doing nothing in Gods world but
making transfer Of anything they
can get hold on from tho man who
makes or raises it to the man who
wants to eas or use itp
| ssBut,p | asked, "dont you con-
slider that the machinery of distribu-
ton is just as important to the welfare
of all classes as the means Of produc-
ton ~
My friend answered BY illustration.
"As soon as get my harvest in,
some fellow comes along to dicker for
| it. He is buying for some grain or
produce dealer in Chicago, may be,
and tries to make as good q spec as
possible by getting whatever ! have
that he wants as cheap as possible.
Well, suppose ! sell to him. He
makes d contract to pay me so much
for my stuff, and may be you don't
suppose he makes on i'll Well, the
people he buys for, they don't want
tho STUFF. All they want IL to make
something on ii by selling 1t again,
and 50 it goes, changing hands and
paying d profit every time, until by
1.-The time you get it in New York
evcry thirty cents worth Of stuff |
sold costs you dollar and halt.
/ Who gets the difference Why, the
| middlemen,"
nTrue,n said, tho niddlemon do
make profit BY merely handling
!. your produce, but not the difference
i, between what you get and what |
pay, however Transportation costs
! something
i Transportation !" said my friend,
with warmth. tsYcs, BY thunder |
transportation docs cost something,
and we mean to make the railroads
haul In their horns. We've stood
their impositiona long enough, and
| If we can't fix them one way we will
another. You mind what I say--the
Oranges mean business. But, as l
was saying, them rniddlemen have
us at double disadvantage. We
don't manufacture much out here,
and what we buy at the stores mostly
comes from the East. Well, before
we get IT, half a dozen profits are
added, and we have to pay them all.
And what fori Why, to support
them did middlemen. We mean
to root them out and deal direct with
producers for what we want. More
than that, we moan 10 sell direct, too;
and when We get things in good
working order there won't be no mid 7
dlemen making much out Of US. /"
i was about to remark to this ag~
ricultural Scion that in the economy
Of trade, no class Of men could long
exist who did not render some useful
| service 10 effecting exchange be-
ltween producers and consumers
| that no one pays for superHuous SER
vices, and that the ssmiddlemenD are
as necessary to both producers and
consumers as they are to zach other
but / saw that argument would 30
Iprofitless and did not care To waste
words III illustrating that very com~