The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-01-28
Bushwhacker No. 2
Dear Mr.. Editor:

Dear Mr.. Editor:
Isn't it wonderful how great minds
run in the same channel?
Bushwhackers, are getting as thick
in this country as Sein Feiners in Ire
land. T. A. X, that is hideous
name.
l have hardly recovered from the
shock l got. when ! learned Of the
amount of my taxes. "Don't say Tax,
say Star"
Ibelieve yet that will have to get
the Chiropractor to give my back
bone one of those famous adjust
ments." This fellow with Chinese
name, that seems to stand for moth
ing, has made the wonderful discovz
cry that there is a sugar trust and
that it controls the prices Of sugar,
which is probably true, as to the,
wholesale or factory price, but the re-
taller certainly has something to do
with the retail price as evidenced by
the slide in price when the Chain
Stores started the fun" 1t was
enough to make "Tax's' oyster laugh.
to watch the gyrations around here
when the Bynn Yam started. These
economic advisers have veritable
tempest in teapot which looks
bigger to them perhaps than to anyone
else. You can exhaust Webster's vo-
cabulary in fine and funny sayings
about lightning rod peddlers, organ
peddlers, stock statesmen, stove ped
dlers, Sunday School teachers, White
| Mule and the little lowly creature, the
oyster, but you can never make the
lhousekeeper believe sugar is cheaper
at 35 cents pound than it is at 10
cents pound, or that broom made
by this blind broom maker in Farm
I ington ought to sell in one store for
70 cents and in Chain Store for 30
cents. Selling at 70 cents they sold
it "a per cent above the selling price
at the Chain Stores, which, they tell
me, make a legitimate profit on that
broom at 55 cents.
Why not hush the fuss. The money
used in conducting both these stores
belongs to the people living in Farm
ington and vicinity. One near widow
Ilady has d. small amount Of stock ep
wficirlshe gets eight per, cent, and she
supplements that small income with
her daily toi,, in that store for which
she gets a monthly stipend. She
does this to support herself and
three helpless little children whose fa-
ther is in the hospital, a hopeless in
durable.
1t has been generally conceded that
team work will accomplish the most
and best results. Everybody should
get in the team. Make long pull, a
steady pull and all pull together
That reminds me- of my boyhood
days, when a great many people
worked oxen. There was generally
one old OK that would crowd his
mate and sometimes push him off the
bank and sometimes into gully,
That kind of conduct of the OK would
provoke his characteristic driver un-
til he would cuss by note to the tune
of Tom and Jerry, Nearer My God
to Thee" or "Where did you get that
hat?"
You bushwhackers get out of the
woods; you can pull better in the road
and you can pull very much better by
pulling straight on your own side OF
the road. Don't "scrouge" Old Jerry,
You evidently must have plenty OF
money as you boast that nobody has
ever got you, and that puts me to
wondering if the Red Cross ladies
ever "got" you. ! have heard of sew
eral in this county that they have
never got--or got but very little.
Who, who, vino in the -- are
you, anyway?
1t is not the purpose of these chair
stores to cut and slash prices. They
believe in honest competition and it is
their policy to sell nothing below q
price that would make them a legi.
innate profit, except perishable goods
to keep it from being total loss.
S. R. TURLEY.