The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-06-12
WHAT the GRUNGE Arc.

An exchange says: "The membership
Is confined TO those who are producers
from the soil, and even those find It
necessary 10 show clean record, free
from any faint Of monopoly. Editors
who take bold aud determined stand
ia behalf of the Order are admitted rs a
matter of compliment
s'The mere fact that man Is n farm
err does not quality him for member
ship. He must be free from amy en-
fangiing alliances with monopoly. lie
may own a thousand rms. aud yet, IL
his Interests are more closely Identified
with railroads or with manufacturing,
he Is not entitled 10 a place among the
Changers.
"Ono among the first feelings that
the initiatory exercises of the Order
impress upon the farmer Is that he has
an occupation or calling inferior to
none in the land. This Is decidedly
wise and beneficial, for it has the ten
dency TO make the farmer place nigh
er estimate upon themselves rs "a class.
II encourages spirit of enterprise and
pride Ia the pursuit Of farming. The
farm Is the basis OF all the countries
wealth, and 10 i for the farmer to feel
himself sovereign aud independent
beng. Those OF an other pursuits ex-
alt their business, and yet there is not
one that could not be better dispensed
with than that OF the farmer. Let all
the farmers In the country suspend their
work for one year, and the whole world
would be brought to It's knees; let any
thing els stop, and the farmer snaps
his finger IN the face OF the world, and
says he cares nothing for Il nc all, for
he can live on the products or the farm.
"Nhy, then, with all this great ball
ance Ia favor Of the hushandman,
should he feel Dependents upon any
class or corporations Why should he
be subject 10 clilnes ami rings organ
lied agains. the iarmerg lie has here
tofora not oven organized for defence
They have been content 10 live and hope
that better Judgment would prevail.
hut they have dcspaired OF that now,
and, deeply feeling the wrongs and lm-
positions crowded upon them, have de-
termincd 60 strike for their rights.
while the Oranges have no partizan
sympalhies, a. a body, they naturally
find themselves Ia ahtagtmism with the
leading features ot The Republican pol-
ley: the tariff which has built up a vast
iron and steel monopoly. which has In
creased the price Of al the farmer had
60 huy and decreased the price of all lie
had 90 sell; tho railroad monop0lies
which have grown mp almost exclusive
- under the aid OF vcnal Republican
legislatures aud a Republican Credit
Mobiiier Congress; the land monopoly
which threatens to Introduce the Eng
3ish landlord system into the United
States, ana which system has been
made possible hy the wholesale voting
away by Congress OF the public lands
to vast railroad corporations.
"iO fight these things Will be rs nat
ural and as necessary 70 the farmer as IL
Is Tor him to piow. He win fight
them involuntarily In the nlhIlment OF
his pledge, only IL vote for those men
for Office whose Interest Is identified
with his own. The Oranges have no
use and place for political tricksters,
Ing the past ten years has forced thi.
decentralization upon the country car
expect nothing at then hands.