The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1891-05-07
FARMER AND PLANTER.
BUY FoR CASH.
A Single Text which Contains n Whole
Sermon on Success,

Sermon on Success.
If there is one well-deincd and gem
erally-understood principle in the Or
CARNATIONS of farmers during the past
quarter of century, it is that they
must be, by organization, able to buy
what they want at the lowest possible
price. If, on the other hand, there is
one feature of the farmers method of
doing business cropping out of the
methods of the previous twenty-five
years, and which has to his detriment
in a great measure followed him until
to-day, it is that by which he ran an an
nual account and was compelled to fore
go the boon he expected by combining
with his fellow farmers both in buying
and selling. In other words, he has
sold for cash and bought on credit; but
he has not sold until he was compelled
to do so by his creditor, and then was
under the necessity of selling for what
he could get, and to pay for what he had
bought at the price or prices his creditor
chose to charge him. This may not be
your. case, reader, but it is the case of
great many of the farmers of the west
ern and southern country, and, if we
are not mistaken, of the vast majority
of them; and sooner or later, a remedy
for many of the existing ills against
which we cry SO loudly, will be found
in getting back to first principles, and
revising our methods of doing business
by buying in the cheapest and selling in
the dearest market
1t is the ready money that does this.
It is imnaterial what we call money. or
how scarce or abundant it may be flor
our present reasoning). He who has
plenty of that which is wanted will find
an exchange for it, whilst he who has
but little is beggar. The latter may
be able to get goods on credit, but even
if so he will pay for them vastly higher
price than the man who has produce to
sell and does not very much care
whether he sells or not.
1t is very true that vast number of
our western, southwestern and south
ern] farmers have been subjected to sea-
sons of drought, of spoliation in insects
and other natural causes over which they
had no control. We are not speaking
of these, nor is our argument intended
in any way to refer to their case or con-
dition. We are treating OF those who
are in normal circumstances, men who
own farms, who work them intelli-
gently and pursue their work assidu-
ously from one season to another,
who get into slip-shod way of doing
business by running accounts and buy
ing on credit, and then when their stock
or crops are sold find that they owe
more than they can pay, and are there
fore and thereafter under the ban of
creditors, and compelled to stay there.
Is the condition of the latter any worse
than the former? Has the one to beg
credit any more than the other, or to
pay higher prices? On the contrary is
it not the latter class of men who fol-
low the credit system with persistent
regularity, and then proclaim in season
and out of season that they are being
robbed? Robbed, Of course they are.
and at both ends of the line at that, for
they buy in the dearest and sell in the
cheapest market all the time, and ever
will do until they call halt and revo-
lutionize their methods and practices.
tbs the ready money does it." was
the motto of one of the most enterpris-
ing and successful men we ever knew.
and the man who expects to buy on
credit, even on short time, anything he
needs, may just as well make up his
mind that he is gradually working for
the condition and the end where credit
does him up. If the grange had one
single and distinctive feature that stood
out boldly and eminently before all
others, it was the cash system; and to
its credit be it said that it taught
many the lesson of cash, self
reliance, se1f-support and no credit.
If the latter organizations, as
the wheel, alliance. F. NJ. B. A., league
or by whatever name it may be called,
has any more distinctive feature we do
not know it; and yet, if there is peo-
pie on earth who buy more of what
they need on credit than the farmer we
do not know where to find them. Buy
for cash and sell for cash, and, if it be
| possible, never in the current run of
business allow any one to tempt you to
do otherwise. Then you will get fair
value for what you sell and paw the
same for what you buy.-Rural World.