The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-12-20
AN ALLEGORT.
Cuthbert Liberal.


leads by the town Buy Less. The
road that passes the Buy Cheap runs
through neighborhood in which
every citizen is engaged specially
persuading farmers. This neighbor-
hood is probably called Buy More.
The people Of this neighborhood
have smooth tongues and their ar .
guments are almost irresistible.
They say to farmers: you can not
raise wheat successfullyin this coun-
ty. You can buy your -four 25 per
cent. cheaper than you can raise it.
AS to meat Why a man is fool
to try to raise hogs here when he
can buy meat from our "trade
stores" at ten cents q pound. As
for sugar. Why you can't make
sugar fit to use. Your neighbor
would laugh at you if they we're to
visit you and you sweetened their
coffee with home made sugar Be-
side, you can buy syrup in the low
err counties at 80 cents gallon. 1t
is very troublesome to make syrup
and it is. terribly filthy work. Hay
and oats! Why they can raise ten
times as much Of these things in
Kentucky and Ohio as you can in
this county, and, of course, they
can sell them cheaper than you can
raise them here, especially if you
buy them through our "trade STORES"
Just think Of it, On land that will
grow ten bushels of oats you can
make 500 pounds Of seed cotton.
With the 500 pounds of cotton you
can buy 20 bushels of oats at our
"trade stores" And so these peo-
pie of the Buy More neighborhood
ply their arguments to every farmer
who takes the road leading by the
town Buy Cheap, in SO PLAUSIBLE
away that they invariably heed their
advice and patronize the trade stores
too largely and overload their teams
so that they never reach the port of
independence. But there are other
places on this road, moro dangerous
than the Buy More neighborhood.
There is. just beyond this neighbor-
hood, the most deceptive bog hole
in the world. It's impossible to see
it until you are mired too deep to
ever get out of it. Across its sur
face everything looks smooth and
firm, but more farmers have stuck
there than at any other place on the
road-and there they have stuck to
stay. When the farmer first drives
into it, his team boys but slightly
and he sees no danger, but thinks he
will pull through all right. The
further he goes the deeper he Dogs
and it is almost impossible to turn
around and drive back. This Sc
ductive quagmire is called by the
pleasing name Credit. There is
nothing In the name that tells of its
dangers and the surface looks so
smooth and firm that its dangers are
absolutely invisible. We have said
that it is almost impossible to turn
round and drive back out of this
quagmirc. The reason for this is
that, standing on either side of it
are two hideous monsters, who keep
guard to prevent any turning back.
Their names are Waive, Note and
Mortgage. 1t is impossible to drive
round them and they hold the farm
er to the Credit hole until he sinks.
There are many other dangerous
places over the route and the man
who travels it rarely ever reaches
the port of Independence. The Buy
Less road leads by thrifty neigh
borhood, where every citizen is a
friend to the farmer. The people
of this neighborhood are very plain
their dress and simple in their man
ners, but they are very happy and
have a word of cheer for the farmer
who passes that way. They give
him square meal'' if he is hungry
and load his wagon with provender
for his team. The name of this
is Home Raised Sup
plies. Another prosperous village
on this route is called Pay Cash
and here is found as happy lot of