The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1874-03-10
CONCERN
g. AND WEIGH.

A Marlii us Galveston News
OF the 9TH, sgn experience as
shippers nHugh a period of
three yes the discrepancy be>
tween NJ, reston weights is
very sma us to infer that
| there is Ol.-. uiscrepancy. All right,
Mr.. Shipper, this admission will do for
the present; but he further says, with
candor that is perfectly refreshing, that
''certain gins hold out to a pound, and
certain others invariably fall off from ten
to twenty pounds" Those farmers whose
weights tau off at so even u rate must
have reduced the failing eff process to
ONO Of the exact sciences Oh those ter
rible farmers, how fearfully corrupt they
must be, when omtjared to the immacus
late 'AIarlin shipper" And why does
this easily victimized and iaRocent ship
per persist in handling the cotton from
the gin whose weights will CLOSE ~ 1t
seems to us that desire to build up per-
fectly square business upon the part of
the "Marlin Shipper" would deprive GER
tain gins-whose weights lose-from the
inestimable advantage of his skilfull
handling of that crop at least. We were
prepared to hear of the perfect accord be-
tweea the "1Iarlin" weights and those of
Galveston. We grant that without dis
pute. This is q little like Cooper's hunt
crs cabin in the lake, sit is too quiet for
absolute safety" to the planter; but we
now come to the las paragraph of "Mar-
lin," and we get the kernel of the
, whole dispute, and the secret of
, his whole trouble with the EXAMINER,
which we give entire, aud in his own ex-
, act language. All this unfortunate par
, agraph. Our farmer friends will have
but little difficulty placing" "Marlin:'
'The ExAMIsEg may possibly represent
the feelings OF some who imagine that change
is reform, but we believe the people at large
prefer that the factors and brokers in Calves
= ton should select weighers as heretofore,
A rather than have tie Governor to appoint a
wegher. We have Coke, now, it is true, bul
+ We did have Davis for leng time, and we
3 may have nearly as bad Governor again,
Heaven forbid y a1d we know 100, well in
. this district the character of his appointments
to feel willing to risk even faint pessibioility
ofhaving repetition of them.
MARLIN
You may safely assert that the ExAMr-
NEE represents the feelings OF vast mas
iority of the people who raise cotton,
! when she asserts that the planters cot
ton should be weighed by responsible
bonded officer, whose Official acts will b,
scanned jealously by every friend of til,
farmer. Row we cone to the cream o.
the idea OF "AIarlinn Our Marin frienc
, may think Coke rs bad Governor as wa,
Davis, but We don't, and It would be
foul slander upon them, to say That the
farmers did. All! Coke's appointment.
. | in that district don't suit "Marlin;" thai
: is what has soured his grapes. Poor Coke
, poor unfortunate Governor; he has Of
; Tended shipper, and blundered in max
ing appointments in that district. If W,
|. are not very much mistaken, "Marlin'
, (the correspondent, not the town, )woule
have preferred Davis to Coke, as Cover
5 nor, hence his care for the shippers IN
tercsts and his carelessness as regards tht
) farmer. Try again, Mr.. MARLIN
IOommanicated.]