The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1874-03-07

! immortal. Uut ihust be suffered to
choose i.s own time and means, and,
III tho meantime, he must cultivate
the pracs of pstience.
IcsnHrheArrp.
..utrchau..r in tie Advance, OF
the 4th INST, Is much opposed to the
proposed law for Il Public Weigher.
In his ironical thrust at the EXAM
NrR for It's advocacy OF this whole
some measure, he tells us he has seen
"as many farmers during this season
as the champion OF the bill Tor o Pub
lie Weigher,n and he has "not heard
the first one say he was in favor oil il !;
on the contrary they are all opposed
to,it." He may have seen many lar
mers who did not express themselves |;
ii otherwise, he has certainly selected
those he looked at, for / know several
farmers who are advocates OF the bill
! and who have, moreover, sufficient
| intelligence to see through, and sue
! cessiuily answer the parologism OF
this selisconstituted vlndicator of the
tanning interest.
! Now listen to "Merchant's" arga,
mcnt, the only one he pretend, 70
| evoke:
| HThere will be this season some So
900 bales OF cotton shipped from this
place--over halls, or $4,000 bales, is
sold here, The farmer can select now
an honest commission merchant, and
there are plenty such in Waco, to
| weigh his cotton, hides, eioe, and
there is no charge for weighing. I'm
der the bill, as proposed, sush and
every person who has a bale OF cot
| toa, lew hides, etc, has to employ
| the Public Weigher to weigh them
| and pay for the same under a heavy
penalty if he does not"
| Was there ever su;h miserable
attempt to dash dirt into the eyes oil
the poor tarmers-such sophlstical
effort TO hoodwipk and bamboozle
tie unsuspeeting laborer? Admit
there are honest weighers in Waco I;
! admit further for arguments
sake (Which is not the fact howeyeT
tlat there is no complaints OF discrep-
4 ancies between Waco weights and
| giu house weights. admit all this, and
| will 'Merchant' pretend to tell the
fitmer tnat he, the farmer, does not
pay for the weighing OF his cotton
| when IL u!umltelY arrives at o sea
| port. Forii,slance: Farmer n sells
"Merchart" dlve BAGS cotton at Sc
! per pound, aud weighs it for HIM, and
! charges nothing Tor weighing, now
does not "IIerchant" know tn 1t but
| for tlis cost cf transporting to Gal
| weston, sanpling and weighing at
that port, he could have pad farmer
A from ten to ten and half cents,
here tor the same cotton?
II "Merc hant' be q real merchant.
he knows that upon the same pfinci-
pie that every kind OF tariff or tax
put ON his goods enters INTO ours,
constitutes o part of the original cost,
| and is no loss TO him, but ultimately
| paid back to him by tho consumer OF
his goods. So every tax imposed on
cotton Gncludlng that of ,weighlng)
from the time it leaves the gin house
till it arrives at Liverpool, comes out
fthe producer, the farmer, and not
ont Of the buyer; and this is so,
whether the cotton be sold ON the
farm, ut Waco, or elsewhere.
submit, then, 10 my brother
farmers. that II III safer and bctlcE, Tor
us TO have q bonded and sworn
Public Weigher, when it viii be at
tended with no additional cost to us.
We shall then be relieved from the
mercenary and merolless discretion OF
the bribed weighing agents OF com
mercial and specuiating rings,
whether in Galveston, Waco or else
where, who have doubtless, in many
instances, fattened upon spoils which
were the proceeds OF our honest toll.
FARMER.