Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-12-18
Wholesale Groce--s.
KANSAS CRY, Mo-, Nov. I, '96.
Osawatomie, Kas.


DEAR SIR: Enclosed find sheets IL, "a, 2S
and 60. Please return us the same number of
sheets out of your cost book.
Enclosed you will find new fish list. De-
stroy the old one and use this one.
You will notice that we have advanced Co.
lumbia oats, breakfast OATS Scotch oats, 3-lb
tomatoes, London layer rasins, evaporated APP
pies, and that sugar has also advanced, and we
have added Sutana seedless raisins to our stock.
This change in sugar occurred at 9 O'Clock this
morning. BE careful and note it.
Oven-baked oats have also advanced, but as
we have quite stock of them on hand we
wish you to run out, we still leave the price
$2o5, and we wish you would push these in
stead of Scotch You will notice that we have
new evaporated apples at cost of ~ cents per
h., and we also have new Sultana Iaisins at a
cost of cents. These Sutana raisins are
packed 50 lbs III the box, and you ought to
have no trouble in obtaining s cents per h.
Be careful to listen to what we are going to
say: All crackers, except ginger-snaps and
creams, have advanced Nc. per b. Be careful
the new cracker lists are out, we will forward
them to you.
You will now notice that the shower of pros
perity has commenced. Sugar that is manu-
tured by the sugar trust, and crackers that are
manufactured by the cracker trust, have both
advanced, and the banks to-day are paying out
gold, and for fear that we might not be as pa
triotic as others, we have concluded to send
each and every one of you your expense money
in gold We hope You will appreciate what we
are doing, and we want to say to you that this
money that we are sending you by express,
while it doesn't pay any more railroad fare,
buy YOU any more meals, still, it has this one
great advantage When you have time, you
can sit down and melt it up and you will still
have the same amount Of money. Now, we
don't want any other grocery salesman to have
any money that is any better than our sales
mans money, so, for that .eason we have for
warded you money that yea can burn and the
smoke won't hurt you, and you will still have
the same amount of money.
The election is over, and we were on the
wrong side, and for fear, through the notoriety
that VIC have received in the newspapers, that
some of your customers may think that we are
not good citizens, we will say that we have de-
stroyed our bomb and torches, and are now
ready to uphold the United States government.
We wish to add, too, that we will expect (and
we don't say it with malice) your customers to
pay up better About rs per cent. of the trade
that has been behind with us have been telling
us that the banks wonld not loan money until
after election; that as soon as election was
over, they would borrow money and pay their
bills. Now, we can see no cause why we
should continue to carry these men. In fact,
we don't intend to. CONFIDENCE has been
restored, and if your customers cannot borrow
money now to pay their bills, they can never
borrow money as long as we have gold
standard.
Now, if your customers tell You that they
will send your house some money in 80 days,
but would send them some now if they could
borrow it, you tell them that confidence has
been restored, and that the banks had told them
as soon as confidence was restored, they would
loan them some money, and that your house
wants them now to borrow it. We are not go
ing to be put off by excuses any more.
Trade has been very light with us this last
week. In fact, it was light with JUS the whole