The Arizona champion., 1890-11-15
TRICKS OF TRADES.
A CITY DEALER WHO HAS SOME SEtt
 SI5LE VIEWS.
fhs Farmer Who Hid Stone i'm ths FS1ece May Have Been No More Distoncst Than Soms Hthsr
 People,
NhicagN Herald.l

! A little thing occurred the other day Ihst set me thinking, remarked Water street merchant to the reporter. We buy considerable wool, and in one of our consig nments the other day we noticed q numbeI of teeces that were unusually heaTT. investigation showed that con cealed within each one was a good sized stone We reported the matter back to the country merchant from whom we had received the. wool, and hs waa able to identify the farmer who had sold it to him. That farme7 was arrested and on the evidence of one of our hired men was found guilty of attempting fraud and was fined Se5 and . the cost Now, of course the farmer had no business to put those stones in the FooL The stones were of no benefit to the wool, and the whole purpose was ts make it weigh heavier
 ANOTHER VIEW.
 But have often thought si1ce 0 the stheY end of the matter Suppose that iarmer had gone into store in his town md bought piece of cluth The mer- ;hant had purchased it in Chicago for all wool, and therefore, of course, sold it to he farmer for the same Then supposs Le farmer, alter getting home, had dis covered that the cloth was cotton nix, what could he Have done about t? Would he have had the mer- :nant arrested? Would he have had any re ircss7 Certainly not And ret the proportoh 5f stone weight in tl.a wagon load of wool ne sold 10 the mer chant may have been ID greater than the proportion of cotton in the cloth the mer- thaRt soId him. The stone did the wool DO good, nor did the cotton do the cloth any good Both would ha been better If ali wool The stone and the cotton were put in on purpose to cheat. One was as bad as the other.
 That little incident set me to tninkirG very strongly that adulterat;on is fraud. be continued A little cotton in all wool cloth is likely to deceive even tba Imartest. Beech horse chestnut and will low leaves ground up with tea would foot for pepper, and yet it may be largely composed of linseed meal, mustard husk, wheat four, pea -four, sago, rice hour or yawdust These things are put into the pepper to cheat Us, and how can hep ourselves? Even the mustard wnch the farmer buys may be partly made of wheat flour grown on his own farm, colorcd with yellow ochre. and slarpened with cayenne pepper and ginger. This pepper may be made of ground rice, turmeric and the mustard husk, and colored with red lead, and tho ginger may be made of sago meal, iaplUca, ground rice, and plaster of aris. These things the farmer buys at the grocery for genuine, and he is de rauded just the same as he tried to defraud some body else by putting stones in his wo1l, only he was arrested and lined, and other fellows aIn {:
 IF THE TRUTH WERE KNOWN.
 q shouldn't be surprised, if the truth were Known. that flat farmer had been Imposed upon by cotton al wool cloth or willow leaf tea or someth ng of that kind. and. disco ering the fraud, had determintd to have revenge. One decep tioI usually brings on several more. Or. perhaps, the farmer was mad at the cotfeo Maybe he had been buying ground conee and on find ng that he was being swindled at that made up h;s mind to buy safe in future by taking his coffee only ln the berry Then if be got home some night and his sharp wife picked up sOme of the coffee Eerr eS and. cutting shcm, found that they were chicory, cut put of the root by machine made for that purpose, 1 don't blame him if he got mad and went out to the barn anl hid some stones in the wool.
 "Aduiter4tion is fraud, and it should uet be permitted except the manufacturer stamps the character of the artic.e on the pa kage, Ttere is DO ob. .ection to cotton in wooden cloth. if the article be labeled md sold for cotton mix. Nor is there any ob, ,;ection to chicory in coffee, if people know it is there. and are willing to buy It We should have some strict laws in this country against swindling adultera. sion, and heavy penalties for their viola tion. If a ran capt be punished for chopping coffee berries out of chicory farmer shouldn't be fined for putting Itones in his wool.
 LAWS ABROAD.
 SOver in England they have gooc law, Cader whi Il governrr ent anaiysts gre ep|oihted in nearly every town, and 1t is their duty ou application to analyze for small fee any article the purity of which is suspected He is required to make a record of this analySis. end to take all precautions against justice to either seller or buyer. In Germany the inspection service IS thorough and search. Ing, and when a merchant is caught hand Jng impure goods he must either tell where. he purchased them or have h.f ahop closed up.
 We need some such laws ib th;s codn- try. he added "and until ws get them and punish alike ali who commit adulter ation 1 shall fee, little guilty for having been so severe ln the farmer who in- creased the weigt: of his wool with COL