The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-03-04
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For the .TisEs.
A Farmers Idea Of the Rational Store Cons
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USroS CouSTr. FEB. 29.--MR. EDiIoR
Please allow me space in yonr Columns 10
give my views rs 10 the advisability ci 'be
Al lance accepting the terms OF the Na'iona'
Trade Union Company. We should move
Sow "". 10y UIu'GVusIy, lest We Ia IN 'hs
ditch, for il we don't mind We will be caught
in atrap; or, rs the old saying is, they will
feed US on sUft corn awhile and then choke
US TO death on the cobs. L have no faith III
The company. since il is owned aud con-
trolc l by the Union COriags Company, the
same company that gave US farmers South
and Southw west so much trouble about juie
Oaggng and bin ling twine, and robbed US
Of millions Of dolsrs-for il was Eo less
than robbery--aud /, for one, have not for
gotten them. IL every cotton farmer had
done right thea they would not have bought
! single yard Of their bagging, unless they
could not get anything else to cover their
cotton. In 1897 the farmers Alliance agent
Of Uuion tried TO buy from +. w. Wagner, at
Charleston, (who was in the tru-tl nni his
price was Ii cents per yard, and he W II dn't
come down n cent, because he knew we
had to have The baggng; and now for ihen
TO propose to be our great friends, to help
! pui! US farmers out Of the mud by selling
| us cheap goods, | don't believe word Of il.
| II is only the scheme of hypccrites. II they
are such friends t. the farmers, especially
| the Alliance, why dii they charge us 300
ncr cent an this Jutc Bagging year or two
ago?
No, my bro her Farmers, they are wolves
| III sheeps clothing
This very Cordnge Company two years
| ago would have cast our Alliance lea .ers
| INTO den of Lions; as the enemies of the
| good o'd Daniel did him; il they had had
/ ~ lint fhpy M ,l
| friends. 4 pretended frieni is two-fold
worse than an opcu enemy.
do not doubt but that il would reduce
| the price of goods FIR while, but when II
| swallowed up oil the State exchanges in the
| United States, they will have accomplished
| their ends or aims and then the beiorro
! Farmers may steer their own boats. When
| this scheme was first talked Of was in favor
| of II, but the plan wa, very different from
| the one now advocated. The first one was
| rs understood it, for all the State Alliances tc
| unite and form a national Alliance Exchange
| 50 that the Exchange could buy rs cheap II.
| any Wholesale house in the Union, thereby
| enabling tue farmers to gct their heavy
| groceries, etc, at the very lowest prices; bu
| If understand the object of the Nationu
| Store Union Compiny, If carried out, il wi
| destroy al the State Exchanges that accept
| their terms. 30 it seems pain TO me tha
| the farmers will be the looscr5 in the end
| for the Union stores will then have all thing
their way.
| Now, Mr.. Editor, fear there will b.
| worse than II mouse in the meal tub-it will
| &c n Zig rat. | htl much rather give my
| small mite Of trade 10 open enemies thai
| pretended friends. But do not believe on
| merchants are the farmers enemies. The.
understand The iIrmc situation and the
we'll know if the Farmers sink they go dow
with them. Whatever is the Farmers inter
est is the Merchants. Ii the farmers ar
prosperous the Merchants, Doctors, and a.
industrial occupations will prosper. so it be
hoovcs us all, III every occupation aud pro
fession. TO WORK together for each ones bene
1T, which | believe We all will one da.
do, uniting to find out and correct ;hc evi
or evils tha, cause al the hard times au
depression among the laboring classes.
feel sure that every true patriot, let him Nv'
in town or country, will work together t
have an economical government administcrt
| in Justice 10 all alike.
| The farmer. are a, very busy. seeming I
| forge, the hari times cause by the loS
price of their products. but hoping tina
there is brighter day for Us ali in The nca
future.
LOOKING AHEAD.