The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1912-08-02
THEY BOOSTED PRICES

The farmers who have been selling
grain on this market the past several
days have been getting price equal
to that paid 200 miles east of here.
1t Is price above the market, we
are told, but there is reason. All
day last Friday there was a persist
ent rumor on the streets here that
Liberal was not getting the wheat
from her legitimate territory and the
reason given was because of higher
prices prevailing at Tyrone, a small
town ten miles southwest, wb4re a
fight was on among the buy{ A
great deal Of talk and gossf was
INDUCED in and the said Tyrone was
given fine lot of advertising and
boosting by a lot of Liberal men.
However, the rumor as to higher
prices at the latter named place was
verified, and Friday night the grain
buyers of this city and number OF
the business men of other lines met
for conference on the subject. At
this meeting it was shown that the
elevator men were paying the mark
ct price for the grain, and that to
pay more would make the business
Improbable. Bolin & Hall, the Lib
eral Elevator company, and the Far
mers' equity association are the three
companies most largely interested,
and on the above proposition their
stories agreed Nevertheless, when
the market opened Saturday morn
n xtrbn Ayau pnAtn1 NJ 30
per bushel Mondays market was
the same and from now on farmers
may rest assured that at Liberal they
will get price for their grain equal
to that of any market within hund-
red miles.
There are several variations of
moral in the above tale, one of which
is that undoubtedly competition Is
the life of trade, even though 1t Is
shown that it is hard on the com
petitors Another is that citizens
can thoughtlessly do lot of damage
to their own town by loudly pro-
claiming on the street corners the al
legged advantages of an opposition
town, regardless OF the fact that
the statements might have no merit
in fact. Another Is that the grain
men who are now doing business
without profit in order to hold the
trade of the town are patriotic to a
great degree and deserve our ap-
plause, even though we deprecate
their judgment Another is that now
that "its hat is in the ring" Lib
eral Is the best market in the coun-
try for grain regardless OF what any
other town may do or say, and the
farmer who fails to get the high
price will fail because he does not
bring his grain to this market.
1t is said that there is never loss
without some gain. What Is the
dealers loss Is the farmers gain in
this instance; this Is the farmers in
ming. Take advantage of 1t by haul
ing your grain to the big market.
Liberal will be there with the goods
as she has always been and always
will be.
In support of the above we cite
the fact that on Monday of this week
a prominent farmer resident of this
city was in Meade looking after his
interests up there. He made 1t a
point to investigate the markets on
wheat there and reports that on that
day the Meade buyers were paying
Is cents per bushel and claimed that
the price paid was the market for
that day. The same day Liberal was
paying 80 cents bushel at all the
elevators. Liberal is Liberal be-
cause it Is Liberal There is food for
considerable thought in this last
statement, and it won't hurt you to
dig 1t out.