The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1874-03-13
Editorial Correspondence.
THE PUBLIC WEI @ HER AGAIN.

vote of SO to 10!
Our sweet tempered cotemporaTy Of the
Advance, ! notice, has strenuously OPP
posed the bill, II for no other reason q
infer from the absence of any assigned),
because the Examiner favored it; and
Merchant through the same mild man
nered sheet, speaks Of the editor of the
EXAMINER as one who, in championing
the bill, 'pretcnds to be the farmers
friend" Passing such objections and
insinuations, all and singular, as worthy
of their source, perhaps, though not of
further notice, point with conscious
pride to the substantial provisions of the
bill itself as an all sufficient refutation of
the envious and inalign. AS for those in.
terested fleeing the farmers, and who
opposed the bill on that account they are
referred, for consolation, to the Galveston
News and Waco Advance, in this the hour
of their common humiliation and discom,
future. But, to the bill itself:
First, then, we have, in the language
Of the bill, ''one or more Public Weigh
ers, at the discretion of the Governor"
to be appointed, not as now, by the
Mayor of city, with its cliques and
rings, SO often at variance with the inter-
ests of the producer, but by the Governor,
acting not for the brokers and factors
only, but for the producers as well. Ap-
pointed by this high functionary, the
Public Weigher acts under heavy bond,
$40, 900 instead of $1,000; and, under
such regulations and penalties for fraud
as renders it, as nearly as possible, GER
tainty that he Will, in all cases, do the
fair thing.
Secondly, we have, IN the re,
duetion from fifteen to ten cents
bale of cotton, weol aud hides, q
clear saving Of one-third of the fee here
tofore charged for weighing, an item,
which though small in the concrete,
amounts in the aggregate to certainly not
les, than 800, 900 year, which may be set
down to the credit of the producers as So
much clear gain through tIos operations
of the bill--a fact which, ratever 9TH
ers may say oft, Is, il littlcx ud in vindi-
cation of thes editor "~.s vays Mer-
chant pretends to be the farmers friend
AS for the objection that farmers are
compelled to patronize the Public
weigher, it, like the other objections, is
the veriest bosh. There is nothing of
the kind in the bill. The Public W eiehcr
stands squarely upon his own merits asa
disinterested agent, pledged under oath
and heavy bond to do the fair thing be-
tween buyer and producer. The office,
repeat, stands squarely upon - own
merits, the presumption be- t even
when the owner himseF present
he will prefer the e<SSj s...L<.s> = her, for
numerous reasons obNHElA3 intelli-
gent mind; and much iSMAazfhe have
this preference, when, yHG4lveston,
he cannot be present him. Far be it
from me to impute false weighing to the
merchants of Galveston, or of any other
city, as class; but that this iniquitous
thing is largely practiced the experience
of both producer and most merchants will
testify. The Public Weigher
Is, therefore, friend not only to pro-
lucers but to the honest merchant or
buyer as well, in the protection afforded |
TO both alike from the trick Of "big price
and short weights" AS case in point,
ny attention was called day or two ago |
10 an instance wherein an unsophisti- |
,ated countryman would have lost one
hundred pounds in lot of hides but for |
! timely suggestion from friend. AS a
whole the bill is undoubtedly great i'm
on the law as it now stands. |
The only question is as to whether the |
Public Weigher can stand so great re-
luction in the fee. In other words, |
whether SO great reduction will not
.ender the law imperative. Essentially |
good in itself and of itself, Independent
If the reduction in fee law |
10 salutary in other more important re-
pects, should not, as all will admit, be
in its practical operation for
he sake of few cents in the fec. As to
his, though, on general principles,
avoring reduction to the last cent, not
with the operation of the
aw, am not prepared to say whether
en- cents is enough or not. Some of the
riends Of the bill think it is not. The
senate, howeve-, to which highly honor
bile body the bill now goes, will, no
loubt, advise themselves properly and
AXE such action on this point as, in its
wisdom, according to the information obs
aimed, may be deemed best. J.W. ID.
Ex-President johnson has been
invited to attend the funeral of ex-
resident Fillmore, at Buffilo, on
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