Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-02-18
Cambridgeport Farmers club,
Feb. Z.

10 Farmers 10 discard the services of all
middle men?
1 l.. 0. PowERs.- Middle men is APP
piled to that class of men that invest in
the farmers produce, in stock of manu-
facturers, with intent to make money
himself, and we must treat him as such.
Now there is no more need of middle
men than there is of toll from my
house to my barn, The middle men
stand in the way of success to the hard
working farmer. They buy our crops
at reduced price and sell for all they
can get. There is large class of this
kind of men, This general smashup
in business is due to them. There
should be no tax between the two
laboring classes of people but the
greatest tax is paid into the pockets of
the middle men. He aims to make
something out of everything he deals in.
In union there is strength; then let the
farmers unite and protect themselves
from this greatest of all evils.
FRANK RoGERs- contend that the
farmer can dispense with the middle
men. They eat up the farmer and the
consumer; our country is too poor to
support men without labor Middle
men adulterate the articles they deal in.
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still in consequence of middle men.
There is Just as much work to do as
there ever was. The farmer should
know the laws which he lives under.
The farmer and manufacturer are too
far apart in consequence of these middle
men, The mechanic is at work all the
time to improve machinery for the farm
err; it is right that be should belong to
the grange. The farmer has been OPP
pressed and down trodden until he must
resist in some way; must club together
and do away with the middle men, An
honest man will get an honest living.
Of all the evils that there is, none are so
bad as the man that will buy of one and
sell to another at an increase of price.
ID. F. CUsHNG.-I look at this sub
ject in different light from the gentle
men preceding me- Without the middle
men we should be laboring under great
err difficulties than has been mentioned.
He makes home market for whatever
we have to dispose Of, and the farmers
generally do better to sell their stock
and produce at their own door. The
grange is assuming to do businss for the
farmer that he should be capable of
doing himself They can't rule any
market, the market will rule them. They
are sold second or third class article,
but many of them think it is all right
because they save few cents. Is it not
an advantage to the farmer to have the
middle men buy his stock and wool as
they always do? | want to see more
middle men, then times will be better.
The dizziness of times is not caused by
middle men, but for want of them, and
it is these same middle men who some of
the farmers are SO ready to denounce,
that make market for their produce
If the middle men all go to farming,
who will there be left to buy the pro-
duce? Show me any man, farmer or any
other occupation that is not after money.
The middle men have the hardest place,
are the hardest workers and as a general
thing are the smartest men in the coun-
try. No other class are doing much; the
middle men are doing all the business
there is done to-day. The farmers can
not do all their buying and selling;
there must be men that make that their
business and give their whole attention
| to it.
FRANK SCoF1ELD.-I consider manu-
facturers middle men. They are GER
trinity not consumers. Any one that
buys and sells is middle man, and even
the farmers themselves many times do
that, so they are middle men all men
engaged in trade of any description are
middle men. How can we do without
them There must be some center.
The merchant must have some place
where he can buy the goods he deals in.
A. A. WYMAN.-Farmers are the
ones to speak here tonight. am not
a granger, | am not middle man. |
believe we as farmers should take high
er ground and should not be governed
by middle men. would not discourage
an honest merchant We believe it
great stretch of common sense to
claim a manufacturer a middle man.
honor any manufacturer, but they
are in no sense middle men. | believe
in varied occupations, but in this
short life one can hardly master a
single profession We cannot support
SO many agents. We buy a moving
machine for $4,000 that it costs only
$40 or $50 to produce would buy di-
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