The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-06-18
SALISBURY, TENN June l4th, rs
EUITORs BULLETIN:


thought woGld give you e small
| sketch from "BeIl County" or rather
! from this portion of the county. We
! are needing rain very much, but our
crops are looking we'll We have COM
menced harvesting our wheat, which is
very fine.
We have just gone through with
! heavy Odium of an election. There were
! three strong contestants for the county
/ site, and in the contest it was necessary
| for each to carry the yeemanry of the
| county, which was attempted TO be car
ried by heavy threats, such as "WhO
| feeds you 2 | must confess that it
had some weight. Now, Messrs. Editors,
| it has always been considered that
/ the man who shOves the bar-shear and
makes his living by tiIliug the earth is
/ the most independent man on earth, but
! it seems as If our meic chants have
/ raised up, Levithian like, and said to
/ the farmer, You cant live without me"
l happen to be no stranger to the mer>
| chants of our town. ] know them to be
clever gentlemen, but know when
! they CLAIM to have dom so much for the
| farmer, they have made themselves riol.
| The largest merchant in our town came
here about eighteen years ago with
! spike team, few hundred dollars and
| guOdy number of children brought ia
IRON the hills; and the most of the
! others were clerks up to the war; none
! of them were born with silver spoons in
| til cir mouths, so | think nay brother
/ farmers have not damaged them much. |
wish to say TO you, my brother farmers.
/ rise up in your might aud throw eff
| the scandal OF having TO be fed by any
merchant, let him be whom he may, wheth
| er bora with a golden spoon IN his mouth
! OF has made his rise from a spike team,
| or clerkship. Let US 70 to work and
| feed ourselves, and thus prove to the
| world and the rest of mankind that our
! occupation Is an independent one and
| and our calling an honorable one Rise
! up and throw off the shackleS; owe no
man anything; ASK NO MAN To feed you,
and you will be free and happy.
Respectfully,
a GRANGER
! We agree with our esteemed corre-
spondent tina the farmer should struggle
to become an independent man To be-
come, and remaian so, he must so work
and live as to tree himself from debt, and
nothing SO promo s this desirable end,
as making enough and surplus of the
provision crops, and becoming a cash
payer for all he may have to purchase.
He can then buy in the cheapest market
and sell in the dearest The more iude>
pendent the farmer becomes the better
it is, not only for himself, but fer all
with whom he may have any dealings.
| There is not, and never can be, any an
tagonism of real interests in the various
classes forming society. CID, 10 mercy
has made men mutually dependent upon
each other Like the diff rent members
of the body, they mutually sustain and
support each other. The agricultural
and manufacturing classes are both VII
tally dependent upon the mechanical ;
without whose fashioning hands, the raw
material of the first, could never have
been made, nor increased value given to
the same, by the latter To,the mechan-
ic the world is indebted for very large
share of the material comforts 1t enjoys.
Without mis- skilIfuI hands and ingen tive
genius, our wants would be DO better
supplied than those Of the savage; we
would never have heard CT manGfac~
turer; nor would the raw material, beyond
the provision crops, produced by the
honest labor Of him who tills the soil be
of much value to the world The mutual
dependence of man upon his brother, in
all that promotes convenience and com.
fort, is manifest, and is felt to such a
wide and all~pervading extent that no
single class of society can long suffer
without It's effect being felt by the whole.
WhosoeVer by industry and economy
betters his condition, in The legitimate
business Of any of the various callings Of
life, promotes the neral pr sperity, and
is deserving of praise. The farmer, tie
mechanic, the merchant, and the profess
siOnal man, are, and ever mnst be, mus
tually dependent upon each other; and
each are vitality int rested IN the pros
perity of the great weaIth-producing
class-the farmer His prosperity is The
prosperity of all, and the prosperity OF
all is his opportunity anI great aIvan-
tage. Live, AMI let live" IS the funda>
IN entail law OF prosperous society - Ed