The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1875-06-17

EDITOR BossrER BANNER:-
Dear Sir: Believing you are
more idsati1sa With The Hns-
ba1dsy, a1d hes connected
with the .middls men" Of our
coaatry thau the most Of our
newspapers, and as w have no
omcial organ in North Louisi
ana to make our wants and
grievances known, will you be
SO kind as to give publication
to . few remarks for the bene-
fit Of the Grange, which I wish
to confine chiefly to the Shreve-
port Grange Association, whose
act in selecting . grange store
In order to get goods cheeper,
| openly and seriously object
ed to, and would not patronize
| It; for / considered it . wrong
move, though in the right df-
rection. In the first place, I
had friends, or those l consid.
cred friends, that I did not wish
to desert for the sake Of q few
dollars gain. In the second
place, | thought it bad policy
in having only one house to
trade at, and be subjected to
such goods as it would keep.
Thirdly, | thought it best to
encourage as many houses as
we could, that we might have
the more competition. But
when l find, after trading my
bottom dollar with those who
had favored me, which amount
would have saved me at least
seventy-five dollars by trading
at the Grange Store-and fur
nished double the cash to buy
the amount that I wished to
get credit for, I am told that
"you Changers have driven all
the cash trade to your Grange
house, which have made times
very tight with us, therefore
we will be compelled to ad-
vance our prices" Now, you
see, after making myself un-
popular with my brother Pa
irons, in order to keep faith
with the faithless, / find that l
an prescribed for being a
Granger, to the tune of twenty
nine Per cent at least, above
the cash prices of other houses
outside OF the Grange house.
Now, a word to my brother
Changers: If you are like N.Y.
self, too poor to trade for cash,
and compelled to ask for cred
it, ask for it with the under
standing that it is as much to
their interest to sell as it is to
yours to buy. Tell them that
you are q granger-spit it in
their faces-ssbe true to the
core )" # they don't like it, and
wish to make you pay for be-
ing q granger, bid them def
ance, march out in the broiling
sun, proudly mount your team
and drive your empty wagon
home; while they are sitting
in the shade under their avn
ings putting their Havanas, and
with their grimace saying, serv-
ed him right. Yes, 60 home !;
eat blackberries, roots and
herbs. Within three short
months we will be independent
of them; within that time we
we will see who will get the
poorer by it. / think we are in
the last ditch, and it stands US
in hand to bestir ourselves, for
we can no longer brook this
oppression, Look well to the
condition we are in! Was it
politics that did 1T Mott! it
was our friends in disguise
the fact can no longer be con-
cealed. We have titled the
land and by it made merchants
wealthy; we see them to-day
worth thousands who q few
years ago were worth nothing.
| Where did they get its Have
the products of our country
been equally dividedl Show
me the farmer that is not get
ting poorer and poorer every
year! II has been q one-sided
lgame-and as for economy.
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