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On The Abuses Practised By Millers And Dealers In Corn.
taid on the advantages of ready mone } , without the trouble and expence of attending markets ; and , if a farmer be poor , a little advance money will easily enlist him into the service . ' I only desire , ' says this friendly man , ' to have the first offer ; if you find that I do not give as good a price as any body , then you are welcome to go elsewhere . ' In the mean time , this price is regulated and fixed by the fraternity , who maintain a general correspondenceand agree upon
, their several divisions . As at some times they will not buy at all , which every observer will find to be in seasons of the greatest plenty , so at other times , when there appears a possibility of ingrossing , they will infallibly be above the markets ; otherwise they could not hope to gain their ends . In very plentiful J'ears , we may form to ourselves ihe case , as it must always be under the present management . Then
the innocent fanner , who ' is the dupe of these harpies , shakes his head , cries out that the times were never worse , and that they shall be all undone . If you ask , how he can be so ungrateful to complain of plenty , and observe that the crops are every where remarkably good ; ' true , ' replies he ; ' but } r ou don ' t consider what charge we are at in inning and outing , and the grain sells for nothing . Mr . A . Z . buys none now , and we can tell by iiirri when the times are likely to be good . ' *'— -The truth is , that this friend to his country ,
unless put into action by some foreign commission , does then sit still , and rejoice to see the market glutted , that the farmer may feel" the difference , and have the greater eagerness to deal with him again , when it shall suit his purpose . —Change but the scene ; let there be but a bad season , and thin crops ; then , like Pharaoh ' s lean kine , who swallowed up the fat ones , this herd of dealers in the dark are incessantly busy to increase the calamity . By large contracts with ( he
farmers : by changing of hands , and such concealments as are exceeding difficult , if not impossible , to detect ; theycan monopolize the corn , introduce an artificial scarcity , and dispense the necessaries of life upon their own terms . —Hence , the bitter complaints of starving the poor ; hence , in populous towns , those grievous parish rates , which no reasonable profits in trade can answer , and which , added to
the expence of maintaining his own family , too often make the industrious housekeeper a greater object of compassion , than the poor who wear the badge . Q . Do nqt these grievances cry aloud for redress ? Q . Should not all- ' millers be obliged , by a clear and strict law , to grind every grist that is brought to them ? Q . Would it not be hi ghly beneficial to the people who live near
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
On The Abuses Practised By Millers And Dealers In Corn.
taid on the advantages of ready mone } , without the trouble and expence of attending markets ; and , if a farmer be poor , a little advance money will easily enlist him into the service . ' I only desire , ' says this friendly man , ' to have the first offer ; if you find that I do not give as good a price as any body , then you are welcome to go elsewhere . ' In the mean time , this price is regulated and fixed by the fraternity , who maintain a general correspondenceand agree upon
, their several divisions . As at some times they will not buy at all , which every observer will find to be in seasons of the greatest plenty , so at other times , when there appears a possibility of ingrossing , they will infallibly be above the markets ; otherwise they could not hope to gain their ends . In very plentiful J'ears , we may form to ourselves ihe case , as it must always be under the present management . Then
the innocent fanner , who ' is the dupe of these harpies , shakes his head , cries out that the times were never worse , and that they shall be all undone . If you ask , how he can be so ungrateful to complain of plenty , and observe that the crops are every where remarkably good ; ' true , ' replies he ; ' but } r ou don ' t consider what charge we are at in inning and outing , and the grain sells for nothing . Mr . A . Z . buys none now , and we can tell by iiirri when the times are likely to be good . ' *'— -The truth is , that this friend to his country ,
unless put into action by some foreign commission , does then sit still , and rejoice to see the market glutted , that the farmer may feel" the difference , and have the greater eagerness to deal with him again , when it shall suit his purpose . —Change but the scene ; let there be but a bad season , and thin crops ; then , like Pharaoh ' s lean kine , who swallowed up the fat ones , this herd of dealers in the dark are incessantly busy to increase the calamity . By large contracts with ( he
farmers : by changing of hands , and such concealments as are exceeding difficult , if not impossible , to detect ; theycan monopolize the corn , introduce an artificial scarcity , and dispense the necessaries of life upon their own terms . —Hence , the bitter complaints of starving the poor ; hence , in populous towns , those grievous parish rates , which no reasonable profits in trade can answer , and which , added to
the expence of maintaining his own family , too often make the industrious housekeeper a greater object of compassion , than the poor who wear the badge . Q . Do nqt these grievances cry aloud for redress ? Q . Should not all- ' millers be obliged , by a clear and strict law , to grind every grist that is brought to them ? Q . Would it not be hi ghly beneficial to the people who live near