The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-07-28


else. II settler wanted to buy a
harness suitable for farming opera
lions he could not get it of his home
merchant. He had to buy something
with chains and toggles like the
freighters used Instead of the
dealer getting the kind of harness
the settler needed on his farm, the
settler had to send away to Mont
gomery Ward & Co., TO get it. Some
times he sent to some house that
was not reliable and got stung, and
then the merchant blamed the set
tier for allowing himself to be rob-
bed. 1t was all due to a lack Of
understanding and mutually plan
ming together for what we all wanted
and needed. Every man wanted to
do things his way, regardless of what
anybody else wanted. Once my
brother and l wanted two tons of
barbed wire to fence our claims,
and we got it into our noodles that
we could do something smart and
sent our order to Burton, Herrick
& White at Ogden and fool the home
dealers. We forgot that somebody
had to pay transfer charges at Ogden,
and local freight from Ogden to-
| Blackfoot, and when the wire was
delivered here, Dave Biethan came
along and showed us where he could
have supplied us out of his stock
at the same price and made ten dol
lars on the deal.
| Lost Their Farms
A few years ago some of the
farmers over at Groveland mort
gagged their farms to buy stock in
some alleged mines in Nevada, and
lost their farms outright. If they
had just walked into any of the
local banks and talked with the
cashier for ten minutes, none of
! them, unless he was obstinate, would
have made such plunge as he did.
| want us to learn to council to-
gether and be honest and sincere
with one another in Planning bust
ness and futures. The farmer needs
the council of the bank cashier re-
garding his investments, just as
much as the merchant and the news
paper man, and ought to make use
of it. The banker is not going to
advise the farmer or anybody else
into doing some very foolish thing.
They are his customers and he can't
afford to do it. If they do not pros
per he will not prosper. If the
farmers and merchants are all pros
porous, the bankers will be.
A Queer News Service
Just because newspaper man has
press and some paper and ink, is
no reason why he has any right to
60 along condemning or humiliating
some body just because they have
made as many mistakes as the rest
of us. Not all the sugar people are
insincere and trying to build mo-
nopoly, but where there is evidence
of it we should take note of it and
make them quit it. 1t is easy for
a whole community to make mis-
takes and all suffer for it.
When Mackay was dry town
some eighteen years ago, the man
aser of the principal group of mines
made some blunders and the news
paper criticised. him. He shut off
the patronage of the printing house
and crippled it. Things went from
bad to worse and all business rapidly
petered out. One store in town was
doing some business and still kept
a delivery wagon on the job, tho
there was not much to deliver. Ralph !
Osborn was operating the delivery
wagon, and one week the newspaper
came out with some boiler plate"
and this item: Ralph Osborn |
creased his wagon this week"
Everybody in town knew what .
news there was, but it was not worth
anything to them. The next week
the paper came out looking about
the same, but it had this item in
it: Ralph Osborn says it is all
josh; he doesn't grease his wagon at
all"
" We can't afford to get into scraps
among ourselves in this valley and
destroy what business we have, so
that industry will be all josh, and
so there will be no need of greasing
anything. 1t will be better for us
to remember that we are all human,
that we have all formed more or
less unfair and foolish designs at
times, for getting business, and that
all of US will 60 right on making
foolish plans if we do not council
together to avoid those things.
1t is the privilege of this valley
to have rich farms and industries
paying good dividends to stockhold-
ers, and for the home people to own
the stock or part of it, but it is in
evitable that somebody shall pinch
his thumb at times, and l want to
tell you how some of these things
can be brought about. |
To be continued