The Forrest City times., 1888-01-21
ARE WHEEL AGENCIES \ SUCCESS,

could in St. Louis, after paying freight, by from twenty to thirty cents a barrel, and cheaper than the wheelers could have bought it at retail from forty to seventy-iive cents a barrel.-- White County Wheel.
 Report has reached us that the wheel agency at St. Louis. under the management of Col. Tom Andrews. has closed for lack of patronage, and the Colonel has returned home disgust ed with the scheme.-Arkansas Hub.
 Since the conception of this agency scheme the Beacon hat been of the opiuion that it would be of but little yaiue to the wheelers of Arkansas, or anybody else, unless, indeed, 1t should be the agent. We have be- Iieyed-and the first extract above bears out that belief-that those who have the money to pay for their sup niles can buy the same from their home merchants as cheaply as they can get them from any other source. This being the case, we have never been able to understand why the wheelers should desire an agency in some distant city, which requires con siderable time to dispose of their pro duce and deliver their supplies, and in the end save no money i3 the transae- tion.-Searcy Beacon.
 We have always doubted the practi- casility of the system above alluded in. for reasons obvious to most per sons who take 2 business view of a business question. Yet it was believed Inv it's projectors to be the best, and should have fair trial.
 In our opinion, competition as be- tween merchants anxious to increase a legitimate trade will best serve the pnrposes of the farmer in procuring supplies and selling his products. But, after all, experience is the great teacher in such matters, and i'll time the farmers interested in the project will be able to decide according to the practical result.
 Hon. K. B. CarlLee has accepted the St. Louis agency at salary of xl,ooo a year-according to reports. There is nothing like making living. Bro. CarlLee has done too much rustling not to take a good thing when offered, and if the wheelers are satlshed with footing the expense, all right. They are paying the money While the agents are reaping the bensits.-Des Are Citizen.
 We heartily indorse this train of thought, and ask our farmer friends to give the matter . thorough diagnosis before putting any more of their hard earned money into the coffers of agents and designing men.
 If our farmers tin reality will but stop moment and look about them they will readily see that the men .t the head of all these schemes to save the farmers money are designing men too lazy to work-have not farmed an acre of ground in years, and by making believe they are martyrs in the farmers cause generally get all the spare dimes and quarters there are in the country. They roll in luxury (when they are capable of judging what luxury isl and they laugh in their sleeves and truly say, What fools these mortals be- meaning the farm CTS.
 Take, for instance, the gentleman mentioned above by the Citizen-llon. R. B. CarlLee. Who is heY and what is he? To the best of our information he is simply would-be GREAT politi- elan. ofice-seeker and humbug. He used to edit(?l newspaper. He was one of the charter members of the wheel. If we are not mistaken he organized the first wheel. Now, there is point An editor organizing a party of farmers! Why did he take so active part in this organization? We answer, to serve his selfish whims, to get fat offices, etc, and he has been enjoying them. He is now enjoying tlse hard-earned money of the farmers. Fifteen hundred dollars year! Are there any farmers around here who make that much after their hands are paid off and their stock feed paid forf
 We believe the principles of the wheel, when left to the men who actually till the soil, are edifying-are good principles for farmers to adopt, etc, but when town farmers (?)-rather political tricksters--take a hand in them, they become corrupt, and what has been adopted as something for the good of the order becomes a stumbling block The reason of this, as stated above. is because these agents are liv- ing without labor upon the money of the farmer, who works early and late. It will only be question of time when our farmers will see this as plainly as we do.
 A word in this connection about the newspapers which boast of being wheel papers. We venture the assertion there is not one in Arkansas which Is run exclusively in the interest of the wheel but what does so for the money there is in it. There is an instance in the Paragould Press. For long time that paper has been debating portion of it's space to wheelerism. Its editoI last week announced that, owing to failure of wheelers to come up with the necessary lucre, that department ol his paper would be suspended. The National Wheel Enterprise, now pub lished at Little Rock, is no doubt pub lished in the interest of the wheel or account of the money there is in 1t Designing men join the wheel for the money there is in an office to which they believe they will be elected b, wheelers. Dissatisfied democrats and republicans have joined the wheel witf purely political and selfish designs They have endeavored to array the country people against the town people by preaching of rings, bosses, etc. They have done so because they have been defeated in their designs by the intelli gence of the county.