The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-11-18

thousand streams Of trade in the county.
moving stock, staples, cereals, woods. and
other agricultural produce. Say to this
labor, this intelligence, this enterprise,
this capital, we have 10 use for you, get
up and seek new fields and pastures we
can subscribe to a capital stock concern
that proposes to divide to its holders 25
per cent. sell to them at bare cost brother
grangers at ten per cent. and to outsiders
fifteen, and whatever is needed we will
Lut down at our store house We will
buy cheap from ourselves and get rich
by saving IN purchases. Who is to buy
your produce when your town is decay
ed, its streets fenced up, its lights put
out, inhabitants moved away with their
capital of brains aud money and enter
prise and letters, and thousands Of other
precious accommodations. You VIII turn
to the stockholders who have taken caga
to- live at free cost in purchases for you,
and they will buy at free cost to them
selves your produce, with their accnmu-
lated capital, 'and viii cheaper you as
you have he lped to cheaper others, and
in your calamity, they will laugh, ard
when rich enough, and their childr rem
need travel and polish, they will run
away from uneducated and barlJarous
people who go back on the spirit, of the
age in business, social and ed acational
matters.
The grange is education. al, social. and
its economic polity is T.eform in private
and public matters, It has its business
consultations as mere consequences. But
thees have been thrown into it by inter
e'Jted parties, not few, and backed By
a talent that belongs to individual thr; It
I think of gain and public promip enc
this element of which have bee tall,
ing, as it is reasonably expected To cato
$he unwarX Oy the glitter of Is promises
to save outlay for unne oes. sarv articles
while they, or their friend fmark well
viii scure the bids, he Tor how els,
and a gigantic grasp IS laid en- us to bull
up a.monopefg, nRas lead of th ose VIII
will cry ldstily,. D own with monopoly /
while working lI21 beavers to secure til
pro FITS of one.
These ape Is are made to our homo
20 support stores, we are bound, fol
sootn' v hO binds my rights to spent
my earn lngs as l please, among my pei
soha1 friends, nd who ask NJ more pro
II on goods quail or better, who bu
run me- who are of kin to me, or my oil
acq ualnteneeso who have not grown sud
uen!y Flch' yerhaps are not rich but ar
oEnSumers and 1 say, to the devil wit
a. SUM rang eism. Our people are clos
enOusH' and trade shrewdly enough, a
IT, nov who set traps to catch meo
S LIS " are not so easily cajOled. W
plS .etiee many airs or graces, br
A. lone about trading. We are NJ
impletons some would have tn
d believe. As to town artihclallt.
GRANT, yes on matters of pervers
nd obdurate common sense. no. Th
result of the grange7store system II full
extended, teaches downright meanness.
4 falsely holds out asbase seduction, buy
10 per cent or cheaper above cost, an
5 contend for five hundrad per cent. o
: your productions.
= tits q fraud to arm our multitude
against the talent, the experience, an
the capitol of the world of trade an
- commerce. 1t cannot last IN bushes
form. Our business is to promote OF
: class to the level of those classes thi
heretofore got ahead of Us. We nee
books, newspapers, pamphlets, magazine
"a new spirit of inquiry infused IN
our mass, an honester social agreemei
: and intercourse, cultivation of head
hearts, and hands, and shat we esta
; lish among US, as other classes do, an
dividuaI circumspection for proteetio
for safety, and success in life. 1. Z.