Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-09-03

"Rowdies, rascals, thieves are
some of the applications applied to
the Baltimore commission merchants
in late issues of the Weekly Review.
published Mt Onancock. The charges
IRE grave ones and with no evidence
in our possession to prove them. we
decline to accept the invitation of
the editor OF the Review, Ito stand
up, and assist him in OBTAINING and
blacksuarling-n one. but every
commission merchant Of that city.
In our knowledge, there is nothing
to Justify us in saying, that they are
"a ring of thieves and we cannot
accept the unsupported statements
Of the editor of the Review in proof
thereof, for the reason, that his allie
cations are made with reckless dis
regard Of the facts necessary TO sus-
tain them. Taking for instance the
the commission firms against which.
the editor of the Review has made
specific charges, viz: T. II. kepaer
& Co.. Barnet Bonds Son and w. P.
Gusts & Co. we submit that the
reputation of business men was meyer
assailed on more flimsy pretexts. The,
reputation of the charges against
GUSTS & Co.. can be seen in letters
published by us to, day-the firm of
Barnet Bends Son, we are advised
! V Mr.. Miller, the agent Of Pritchard
& Co. from whom the editor of the
Review obtained the information
upon which he based his chargesl
that he has rever since his arrival
at Tasley received from said firm a
cmnupication of any kind or char
acter whatever-and the same Mr..
Miller advises us, that the kilograms
published by T. Fl. Kepner & Co., in
I NTERPRIsE of last week ARE the only
cnes that have passed between them
This season and kepner & Co.,and he
could not have offered Miller there.
fore potatoes for $2.25 per barrel,
when he was hereto pay So, with the
CIV of depreciating their value and
jrjuring the farmers of the Eastern
Shore. If however. the editor Of the
] eview has in his possession facts
hich sustain charges against any
commission merchant, then it is his
Guty to produce them and we will
Gin hands with him in the fight in
lie interest Of the PEOPLE. But the
II mors rpcn which he has fed and
which seems to satisfy him, do not
.rflice for us. Nor do we believe the
farmers of the Eastern Shore expect
or desire Us to villify and abuse any
nan CT set of men because mere
rumors are in circulation rejecting
upon therr-and we believe that they
ill Go us the justice to say, that
curing the ten years We have pub
lished the ENTERPRISE, that we
have always espoused their cause
and stood up for their rights. And
we have to say in this connection
that the columns of the ENTERPRISE
ale open as they have always been
to expose any wrong perpetrated
against them by commission mer-
chants or anyone else The vague
runners which the editor of
tie Review accept, as sufficient.
IL viewer, will not satisfy-us. Inform
tion tased upon truth is the kind
we have erdeavored 70 furnish our
leaders in the PAST, and we cannot
lie swerved from our course in that
direction even to tickle the fancy of
those who ever stand ready to damn
tic commission merchants. We do
ret wish to be understood as saying,
However, that we approve all the acts
of the commission merchants. They
lave their share Of the faults which
lirman flesh is heir to, they are like
tie rest of mankind and some of
them do not deserve and should not
receive the patronage Of the people.
But this we will say, that the adver-
tiscme MT of no commission merchant
can have place in our paper, whom
we do not believe to be responsible,
and the name of any commission
merchant now appearing therein will
be promptly expunged upon reason
able information of his irresponsi-
biiity and crookedness, and as proof
thereof, we submit, that the adver-
tisements of several commission mer-
chants lave been declined by us, be-
cause we did not believe the interest
of farmers would be safe in their
hands. In conclusion, we repel with
contempt the insinuation of the
editor of the Review that the patron.
age we receive from tie com
mission merchants in any way
checks our freedom of speech, but
submit that the want of that patron
age may account for the venom and
spleen and all uncharitableness which
has characterized his attack upon
them. He solicited the advertise.
ment of every commission merchant,
we are advised, whom he has villifed
and abused and failing to get them.