The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-12-09
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comfy seems to have entirely miscon-
pretended the meaning Of the article
written by us. He does not construe The
language Of thas article right at al. Bat
perhaps this is owing to the publishing
Of only part of it. lie says there was
rather an eZtravaganb communication
from a granger brother in your paper,
&" which (this is his own language had
better not been written Not 20 speak
Of his grammar, we will say that We
know nothing in that article that coald f
be at all odious to any body, to any pro +
fsssion or occupation
It was simply an appeal TO the farmers
brotherhood to throw of their sleep Of +
several years, to shake from them their
inertia, and go to work to save them
selves from insolvency, aud we might say +
poverty and ruin.
We dc not advise our grange brothers
TO rebel against other professions and oc-
equations. We do not ask them to say
TO this labor, this enterprise, this capital, +,
We have no use for you, get up and seek 7
new fields and pasturasi we can subscribe /
to a capital stock concern shat proposes
to divide to its holders 25 per cent: Sell
to thea at bare cost brother granger, at (
10 per cent and to outsiders at Is per
cent We de not teach them any such
stuff.
He pours out his wrath upon the
heads of the advocates Of the grange, /
store. and says it viii never do for such /
a thing to exist. 1t viii ruin the towns
and cities. Their streets viii be fenced
up, their lights put out, their inhab:-
tants viii move away with their capital
Of brains and money, and enterprise, and
letters, and thousands Of other accumu-
lations.s-
No, dear r. c., We do not wish to de-
rive the capital Of brains and money from
cur towns and cities, It would be a great
pity to do 50 even if we could You do
not want us to fence up the streets and
put out their lights by establishing
grange-storo in Our towns, bat 1t would
be nothing amiss in sparse neighboT-
hoods or settlements to combine and set
mp a store for cheap accommodation. 1t
strikes me very forcibIy that there ID an
Inconsistency III such a arrangement. II
the grapge-store is an injury at all, 1t
would be as much so in the country as
in the towns Now, let Us be reasoua-
Bile How viii the grange-store injure
the trade Of other stores If they pro
pose to not to sell to grangers at 10 per
cent, and to outsiders a5 fifteen per
cent above cost for cash, will It hurt the
trade of other merchants2 IF so how
If by having such au opposition it bring
all trade down TO a cash basis, who VIII
be hurt by It Who can be hurt by 1t +?
Not one. There Is no merchant, grang-
err or not granger, but what would be
glad, nay, oyeJoyed, at such an event
Such reform, such change, would not
fence up our streets and put out the
lights Of our towns, but on the contrary,
It would be the means OF building no
towns and country. It would be the f.
nancial salvation Of the merchant, the
,framer, and the mechanic. 1t would be
the happy era Of all professions, all
trades, all occupations would give ener-
gy to labor, and life to trade
You say it is our business to promote
our class to the level Of those classes
that heretofore got ahead of US" And
l ask you how we are to do it2 Are we
to accomplish this very much desired
end by sitting stin and letting the
"braius and money Of others, tell US
how? Nay, verify to use your own
phrase (though rather ugly) to the
devil with al such grangeusm." If We
are to wait for men not interested in oul
welfare to tell as how to get out Of our
dilemma Of indebtedness we viii never
getout of it-no never. If buying to
gether aud selling together does not helr
as out Of our pecuniary troubles what
will The poor farmer IN many instan-
ces has mortEaged his crops, his stock
and even his lands to buy bread and
meat for their families You may ask
why he does not grow his meat and
bread. L answer very plainly, because
he is indebted to his merchant who has
mortgage on his property and Is com
PEELED to raise cotton and such other
produce as VIII bring ready money, (fol
corn and meat will not SO as to lift tina
mortgage. We do not censure the mer
chant for doing as he does but only cal