Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1919-07-18
" WHO'S WHO AND WHY"

Dear Mr. Editor:
your last weeks paper under the cap
ton of "Who's I.ooncy Now" in
which | am severely criticised over
the recent sale of the Farmers Wool
Pool. | would like To ask space to
briefly reply to this article I'm ask
ing who's who" | would speculate rs
to who tie writer is, as he sails into
The arena under Il non dc plume and
leaves the reading public TO guess who
he really is. If he is II member of
The wool pool he is within his rights
and should have signed his name to
his letter and the public would have
sympathizcd with him in his gricy-
ancc il he could show he has one. On
the other hand, if he is not a mem
Der OF the pool, has not suffered any
loss, and is as | suppose, one of the
"malcontcnts,' Il proiitccr or para
site; one who has lived Off these same
farmers Tor years and yet has never
shed tear before over the great
wrong under which the farmer is
STRIVING to live; if he is Il parasite
and proiitcer in thei.. products buv
'ng and selling what the farmer pro-
duccs, has he any standing in court
ton as its the matter under discus
sion, have the local buyers in the
past made PREPARATION to the farm
er when they bought his wool at Soc
and sold IL for around Il dollar per
pound, realizing in profits nearly
twice the price paid the producer.
For marketing this wool they took
two dollars and gave hime one Have
the local buyers paid to these same
farmers the extra Die on the pound
where they bought his wool for SOC.
and are now boosting about paving
Mr.. Brown Tie for our wool? Early
IN the season they announced thew
would pay stated amount and the
rise of the market and therefore the
purchase of our wool at Tie would
according to this entitlc each of the
farmers outside of the pool to Il total
OF lie for his wool. If this has not
been done. first east the mote out OIL
thine own eye, and then you will SEQ
more clearly who has wrongcd the
farmer, especially the little farmer.
inc one VINO was not able to produce
100 pounds of wool, for as | under
stand he was only paid soc per pound
and the larger producer, The more
fortunate who had larger amount
than hundred pounds was paid soc
to zoe pound. Did our friend. "Wool|
Gathered" say anything to you about
TINS III his letter? Did he SWEET great
drops over the condition of these for
tunate ones? Why did he not tell
you of the sale of the other pool of
wool. said to be 1900 pounds? Mes
srs. Reuben llarman. G. Il. Moss, Sam
Ward and X. X. Gillespie, four of as
Intelligent gentlemen (always exccpt
ing of course "Wool Gathered") ms
tins county can boast of. These gen
tlemen are said to have sold the pool
FOR Coo. Did he shed any tears over
their loss. Would he intimate that
these gentlemen need a guardian
II so, then the whole financial affairs
OF this county had better be placed
IN the hands of "Wool Gathered"
Now, If the writer Of the article is
a parasite, Mr.. Webster tells us this
is hanger on"-a plant or ami
mai living on some other being nj
whose expense it or he obtains its
1000. Buying for one and selling for
Two. In this connection | want to call
the attention of the public to an arti-
Gle taken from recent issue of the
Breeders Gazette which will appenr
IN this paper. There is no use TO tell
" WV ScIleTaIlY
that these parasites are abroad in the
land. They have been feeding off
some one all these years and right
mere we get to the core of the con-
troversy; Because the farmers of this
county have organized into an AS
soclltion IN an cndeavor to rid them
serves as FAR as possible of these par
asites, we have all this howl, all these
tears and groans.
But to get back to the sale of this
wool. The Ward Hartman pool was
sold out Saturday, June 2Sth for G5c
and ours on the following Wednes-
day, July End, for Csc straight grade. |
we deducted 3 to 3hc tarc for the
bags, while Mr.. Brown told me he
allowend a pounds, saving to the
farmer of V to one pound or Sac to |!
oac on each bag of wool. NY instruc- !
IONS from members Of the wool pool,
such as r. S. Moss and r. NJ Iaw.i
son, both able officers and devoted to
the success Of the Association. was to
sell when | could get Csc. MANY of !
me members were insistcnt that I |
sell for several weeks before | did.
My, advice all the time was to hold
as long. as possible as the market wasI
advancing. When we opened nego-l