The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-03-19
THE FARMERS or COpPIE's
SC8VaE IlOtSI ct.f IIsWsNT

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| procured rs their representative men
statesmen and patriots like kewancc
Smith. the Independents of the Couple
school house club of jefferson county.
are moving upon the doctors. At Il To-
cent meeting of this club, held on the 1tll
inst. two whcrcascs and three rcsolu
lions of remarkable kind were adopted,
| to which we invite the attention OF all
men who are progressive and hold in de-
testaiion the darkness of the past.
| The first whereas declares that the far
ners OF the Copplc school house neigh.
borhood, have. during the last past two
years, failed in their crops. and have been
unable. IN consequence of this failure. 10
| meet the demands of the merchant Tor
goods sold them ON time. This, In 50
far as ii relates to crop failure, Is the state.
mcnt of fact. That this failure had re.
suited in the misfortune OF the merchant.
from whom the farmers bought iicil
| goods we did not know before but tho
| knowledge has awakened in Us n lively
sympathy for those merchants. whosC
condition, it seems TO us, must be even
more deplorablc than that Of their farmer
patrons.
The second whereas asserts that. dur
ing the last past year, the Couples schoo
| house farmers have been depressed Will
sickness. and Obliged to pay cNorbitant
| prices to doctors for medical aid. pay ing
'onc dollar for prescriptions which cost
them only twenty-five cents, aud then
| being pressed for the money when we
'werc least able to pay" The first calls Q
of complaint is the sickness which has
depressed the Copplc farmers {; and we
suggest that gentlemen who are so able
at rcsolvng--bcing OF llat class Of men
who believe the world may be millcnni-
umizei by rcsolutions-should lose no
time in launching resolution at sick
ness. II they can abolish the sickness
that dcprcsscs them, the Couples may
dispense entirely with the services of doc
tors. That the doctors who wait upon
our friends in the Couple settlement are
exorbtant in their charges we do not
doubt; but they might be able to work
for less wages il the policy of cash pay
mcnts were adopted by their patrons.
The first resolve is TO be more cali-
tious in their business affairs. II this reso-
luton is acted upon the financial troubles
of the Copies school house farmers will
vanish very rapidly. Middlemcn may be
cursed as they should be for their mani
fold shortcomings and their rcmorsclcs,
eXactions from farmers; but the cause of
the woes Of the great mass of the far
mers as of other men who earn
their bread in the sweat of their
faces is debts-dcbts usclessly contracted.
The second resolve Is TO "assist and
counsel each other in sickness and buy
'quinine and other medicines that we
| know how to use.' This l. all very
| well. Assistance and counsel in sickness
is what i. due from one nciShbor TO
another, but we do not understand the
| qunine and other medicine part of the
resolution. DO the Couples intend to
! aggregate their cash and buy quininc and
other medicines by the quantity
II so, will the quinlnc and
other medicines be deposited with
the treasurer OF the Copplc club, and
be paid out by him upon the order oi the
President and Secretary? Ifso, will iii,
Treasurer have any time for any othe
work. in u ncighborhood SO sickly n
Copple's! viii the club stay in session
to consider every application for medicine
that is made? II so, the crops IN that
ncighbOrhood will be greater failures IN
the coming season than they have ever
| been before. What We mean To say by
these questions Is, that the machinery
necessary to carry out the resolution viii
be complicated. The cost of running il
will be greater than the fees OF the doe
tors.
The third resolve is that "if W,
know of any recipe or medicine that Il
good, to make it known to each other
And further. that money made. is none,
| 'suNtu. ENCclltIit. MS - tuIly ny
out the idea of cooperation. No mid
dleman between the patient and TIN
drug store, is Il brilliant idea; but w
very much fear that deaths will be NOR,
numerous hereafter around Copple''
school house than neutrality-suspicious.
the members of the club do not neglect
ii they know any medicine that's good
to make it known to each other. Blu
, the last sentcncc of the resolution Is ii
best features, and is decidedly new. Tina
: money saved is money made, no one wi
: deny; and our word Tor it, if the Cor
r pie farmers follow this way OF none
/ making Tor a few years, they will be cl
ablcd to pay doctors very cNtortlonat
fees, and never be pressed for paymen
when they are least able TO pay.
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