Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-03-23
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receives one-half of one per cent.
upon wholesale purchases is a state
agent, one being allotted to each state.
Upon the basis of gross purchases of
So, S75, 600, as figured above, the state
agent for Kansas would receive the
snug little (?) salary of $40. 500 year
almost as much as is received by the
president of the United States
Fourth-It does not yet appear lust
what proportion of the ''swag' the dis
trict or division superintendents would
receive They would probably have
charge of a gronpe of states and re-
ceive a small commission upon all
wholesale sales in their district A
commission of one fourth of one per ceut.
in four states like Kansas would net
the district agent the sum of S9S, 600 q
year.
Now, Mr.. Editor, italicize just once
more. Shoao me the men tchO egpect to be-
come district, state on local agents, AMI I
soiu Sh0ao yOR men ach0Se advocacy of The
plan is far from disinterested
And what do the farmers of Kansas
who thus ruthlessly drive into bank
ruptcy and dispair from one-thir to
one-half of the business men in their
own state, and many thousa ID lcsi-
ness men and their employees in the
large cities, receive for their share in
this work of centraiization and de-
struction and for forever arravinp these
one to two million voters against any
party advocating alliance measures?
Assuming their purchases to average
$3.50 each, then so, 600 alliance men
save, each one of them, the sum of
S10.S3 year. This and nothing more.
Why! foolish men, it will not re-iIn-
burse you for the loss sustained in the
reduced sales of eggs, butter and gar
den sass"
Since writing the foregoing l have
received my Kansas Farmer and find
therein an article from Mr.. Edwin
Snyder, in which he advocates the ma
tional union plan and poses as apologist
for trusts monopolies and combines in
general. l take pleasure in clipping
from his article, first, to prove that it
is not intended to ever sell goods any
cheaper than they are now sold, unless
forced to do SO by competition Mr..
Snyder says:
The customer is assured of a dividend OF two
4
the year He has not cent at risk. and is as
sured of goods as cheap as they can be hal any,
where, less the above reduction. The customer
being entirely independent, win compel The
company TO sell as cheap as other stores do to
secure trade
Second, to prove that l am correct in
my statement that the plan in its
operation would convert from one
third to two-thirds of those now en-
gagged in the service of distribution into
tramps-or farmers. Mr. Snyder saws,
1t is an admitted fact that at least three per
sons are now engaged in commercial pursuits
distributing the products of labor) where one
could do the work.
The policy of the National Union Co will dis
miss two of these from trade to industry. and
thereby prove great public benefactor
Apologizing for trusts and monopo-
lies, Mr.. Snyder says:
The Standard Oil Co. certainly has a mononot.
ly of its business, and yet coal oil is better III
quality and costs but fraction of what II did
when the business was In :. tes.ds ..,....r,I
Gus little companies competing with each othesf.
for the trade The fact is the vast economies
of production and distribution possible in i'm.
mense enterprises greatly tends to cheapen
and in the end the people receive the benefit
Mr.. Snyder forgets to state that hum
dreds of millions of dollars. received
for coal oil, ETC., would, if received by
a multitude of small operators have
been consumed in food, clothi7g and
other necessaries Under the MANAGE.
ment of the Standard Oil Co. the mil.
lions are converted into an interest
bearing incubus upon the people. Look
at Rockefeller, for instance, with his
$780, oOO,0 Let Mr. Snyder add to
the retail price of all the oil used in
the United States, the interest paid the
magnates of the Standard Oil Co and
then tell us whether oil is dearer or
cheaper than before.
Besides, cheap goods mako cbaon
men. Cheapness IS not an evidence If
prosper--y. -. On the contrary, we need
lots of money, every man emp.oyed,
high wages and dear goods and then
We'll be prosperous During the war
and until the policy of contraction set
in, for instance. Mr.. Snyder is assum.
ing upon the ignorance of his readers
when he writes of the national union
plan as being a cooperative plan. I'm
der cooperative plan the customers
OF the stores, own the capital, (goods)
and divide the profits among them
selves. Under the national union plan.
corpora ton owns the capital and
takes the lions share of the profits
a vast difference.-George C. Ward, in
Topeka kan Advocate.