The farmers' vindicator., 1874-09-18
SECRETARIES OF ORANGES.

!. sECRETARIES OF ORANGES.
MAJ. WALL: / have been readinj
the VINDIcAToR of September IL, il
which !. find communication from
w. @. b., and one from One Secre
tary," which / was glad to see, espe
cially the latter. But w. G. B. wa,
slightly mistaken (unintentionally
presume), when he said "The rner
chant borrows money at 25 per cent, }
that is if he means all, for / can cite
him to cases near here, where the mer.
chant got money at 10 per cent, from
a farmer at that, and a farmer goes
and pays from II to d per cent. per
month for money. Now, these mer-
chants charge from 40 to so per cent.
on their goods, making the farmer,
who pays about 25 per cent. for money,
pay about 100 per cent. on the goods
he buys, when if he had bought from
the general purchasing agent, they
would have cost him about 27d per
cent; that is, a saving Of a about 72a
per cent. Nowlthis is the way things
are grinding tds drive farmers into
slavery if they are not already there.
But because we try to extricate our
selves from this downward road to
poverty and utter ruin, it creates a
great bawl among the merchants, rail
readers, and some would-be party
leaders. They sometimes remind me
of the thief who the detectives were
about to overtake, and he cried out
catch the rascal, in order to escape the
doom himself he SO justly merited.
As for "One Secretary" want to
shake hands with him. Yes, up to the
elbow at that, and then treat him to
dinner of new beans, yam potatoes,
butter-milk and butter Gas that is the
best we farmers can afford up here).
i would have appreciated "a Year
Old Patrons" willingness to relieve
the present secretaries from duty after
this year (whose salaries are thanky), /
If it had been from a faithful dis.
charge of duty, instead of incompe-
tency to fill the office, as he intimated
by saying they were chosen with an
eye to penmanship (leaying the infer
ence that they had no other qualifca-
Lion). Now,I think every secretary
in the State will agree with me when
say that he has more to do, when he
discharges his duty, than all of the
other officers, for in many cases, and
many times, the secretary had to
make out orders for supplies for the
and go to the depot and ship /;
heir cotton Gone or two bales at a
,ime), and then go back to the depot
o receive and receipt for the same,
md to divide out if ordered in bulk.
% he may s apart about two or
hree days II zach week during the /
winter to wait on somebody who wants q
good secretary and knows all about i
ii their duties. And after all this, /
{ mistake occurs he is marked by l
Dme as unfit for the office. Oh, who q
'ould not have that lucrative office of
scretary in Subordinate Grangel Il
Maj. Wall, | want to hear from :
very secretary in the State. They
nght to exchange ideas, for it would
nprove and instruct them very much
! discharge of their many RESPONSE
ilities. Ie-.d
Would it not be wise for each Sub
,dinate Grange to appoint some one
their number as regular CORES.
)ndent to the VINDIcAToR. 1t -
ould be a means by which it would "
I'D its way to more families, knowing
I'd seeing that they are more closely
with it. 1t would be a
ore uniform, system of work, by !,
wing a uniform system of cores -
'ndence in addition to what we now a.
i've. has
Give us your opinion, Major Wall, yc
the subject. l wait patiently to tn
ar from every secretary in the State. ne ne
ease tell us something about your m
range; and if you will all sign your ho
lie name, will dc the same. But tn
fore | close, / want to tell the farm a., au
what potatoes to raise for early use, To-
} Haytian Yam; they are six or co co
,ht weeks earlier, and are now three 0'
four inches thick, where other pota-
3 on the same ground are doing no
od, this year at least. / consider
sm fine potato. :
ANOTHER SECRETARY. n
YGtobttshd Co., Sept. II, 1874.