Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1875-02-05
The Grange Question,

| Mr., EDITOR 81 am once more IN the
land of grangers and still live. This
time have but little TO say, owing to
the overwhelming arguments of Mr..
Boyden contained in recent issue OF
| the TINES, but allow me to say in regard
to the Bondville -four that it 'Cas brand
ed, and that Mr.. Hills reputation is still
above reproach, Mr. Boyden's remarks
TO the contrary, Notwithstanding. l
have yet to learn of a single instance
where the -four sold the grangers was
not branded, although there may be such
cases, (Which amounts to nothing one
way or the other.) Mr.. B. says that
their business is kept so private that no
one knows with whom they deal nor at
what prices they buy. Then why pub
lish them in the newspapers 7
Now do not entertain feelings other
wise than friendly toward Mr.. B., and |
wish to put flea in his ear, (for his own
benefit of course,) viz: | met drum
mer recently who said that Mr. B. had
offered to give an importing house in
Boston the trade of the Vt. state grange,
provided they would make out their
bills allowing him commission of 10
per cent, and further that on the invoice
of -four bought by the Woodstock grange,
that he received a commission of % per
cent. | merely mention these rumors
from the fact that if true it brings Mr..
Boyden down to the level of common
travelling tramp"
But to be serious, one mans money is
as good as another, and if it is necessary
for men to belong to grange to buy
goods at wholesale, times have greatly
changed since the grange movement.
Why not form clubs and buy your goods
and save the expense of a grange and
also the fees paid for admission to the
order.
Business men do not have any privacy
about business, hence my admission in
regard to the combination for protection
to their mutual interests That there is
a flavor of favoritism about grangerism
which excludes one and harbors the 9TH
er class of men no one can doubt, and so
far its tendency is to create dissention
among men, and it is impossible for one
class to olive and prosper " without the
aid of the other, hence there must event
ually be break one way or the other
Will the grangers use up their own
products or dispose of them through the
order, or will they compel us outsiders
to accept of them at their pleasure and
at their own prices
If it is political scheme "give us
hand )" if it is a scheme to make mon
ey keep it "mum," but if it is benevo-
lent one we are entitled to it without
money and without price, the rich the
poor, black and white all should have
equal right to its advantages.
One word in regard to its manner of
obtaining members. We are told by
authority in Iowa that if we can infu-
ence public opinion sufficiently that we
may control the railroad monopolies to
such an extent that low tariffs will adj
nit of landing our wheat in New York
and Boston markets for 55 and so cents
per bushel; we can sell it for $1.25 to
$3.50 and realize great profit and now
we are told in the east the very same
thing in regard to the low tariff, but we
are led to believe that we are to buy
wheat at the very low price of so or So
cents. Now if we should succeed in
procuring the tariff at such low figures,
we at the east or they at the west will be
very much disappointed. Which shall
it be- Is not that blowing all hot and
no cold, Mr.. Granger? Resp'y.
j MCBREEN.