The log cabin Democrat., 1911-03-04
WARM REPLY TO
 EDUCATOR ARTICLE
WAREHOUSE MGR. WRITES
WITH DICKINSON AS TO PEOPLES MERCAN-
 TILE co. FAILURE.
Editor Log Cabin Democrat:

A |. VI inson's item in the Rural Educator and copied in the Daily Log Cabin Democrat of March 3, 1911, we sure do wish to take some cognizance.
 Assertion No. l Imagination, pure and simple): ''Is was saving the people several thousand dollars annu- ally" Well, maybe! "Flour dropped 50 cents per barrel Sure-nobody disputes that. The market, not in Faulkner county, but all over the country did drop 50 cents, and even more per barrel Speaking in the the singular, we assert that this is, or ought to be, styled imagination No. }. But for sake of brevity we shall
 ,erm this next imagination No. 2. Ut S the only business they have in that .ounty except the warehouse, and they an hardly consider that theirs.' Why? Is it because Dr. M. F. didn't organize it? Is this the why" they
 ,an hardly consider 1t theirs? Answer us, doctor.
 Imagination runs like this: "It is a private enterprise run largely fol 5he benefit of the manager and stock holders" Doctor, could you tell Us why this is any more a private business than was the Peoples Mer- .antile Company? Is it because the great, grand and noble That box didn't organize it? Is it because this
 institution was even organized before the great ego joined the Farmers Union. Now, doctor, can you tell why the warehouse is run largely for the benefit of the manager? or the stock holders? Can you prove, or even truthfully assert that the stockholders ever got any benefit from the ware house? Can you prove, or even truthfully assert, that the manager has ever got any benefit from the warehouse, except a paltry salary? If you can, please crack your whip.
 No. (imagination). Now, doctor, are you really losing $100 in cold cash? If so, why? Bu we (singu- lar) had been under the impression that you had sold all of your shares
 in the Peoples Mercantile Company. Are we correct?
 No. 5. "There was no earthly eX- cuse for it's not being a success" :" Why, doctor, then there must have been a heavenly" excuse. "The business was run economically, at least as long as I was over there" Note the eX- pression, "as long as l was over there" Do you see the ego sticking out in this expression? Now, look at the time "T' spent organizing weeks, or thereabouts-notc charging cent. q got it well established And 'I', should remark that Y" bought a hard stock of goods, paying retail pricas-in some instances-whereas q" should have bought at wholesale prices. "When we retired the busi- ness was meeting all it's obligations.' We-who?
 Concerning Mr. Johnson's being as
 clean as a new dollar: In the first place we don't know just exactly how clean new dollar is, and in the next place we don't know when MT. John son last took a bath However, we will say that it is our candid opinion | that had MT. Johnson had charge of the business from it's incipiency and had been allowed a free hand till the present time, the business would now be in a healthy condition, nothwith- standing his ineXperience, which ineX- perience was not nearly so great as was the inexperience of the prime | founder of said company-which prime founder was the Hon. Dr. Dick | inson.
 Why not have a board of directors, doctor? Why observe that the thing has been a success where the man ager has run the thing with a high hand? Why, honored sir, do you mean to say that the warehouse has been success? You didn't mean to, did you, doctor? Oh! Doctor, you act so funny! Doctor, who are those parties who failed to get "controf' of the business? To whom do you refer as knockers on the business as soon as they saw they couldn't get control of it2 Peally now. isn't this another