Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-07-31
NrGNS OF THE TIrEEs.

The rapid increase of the order, known
as the Patrons of HusbandrY," and
| the suddennesS with which it has tray
eled across the continent, indicates that
it has something which reaches the pop
ular heart, that it supplies a want
| among the common people which prom
ises to them better prosperity and more
exact Justice. AS an educational organ
ization we are in hearty sympathy with
it. We believe that when there is a
combination of politicians to carry cleo
tions that the spoils of office may be di-
vided among party hacks, it is desirable
that the people should organize in de
fence. We believe that, when transpor-
tation companies confederate together
to destroy the ordinary effects of healthy
competition, and pervert the laws of
trade, that concerted action of those
who suffer from such alliances, is le-
Ultimate means of restoring harmony
and obtaining justice.
We deprecate a secret political party
as inconsistent with the genius of our
institutions, and dangerous to liberty,
but we have no fears of a society whose
only influence in politics arises from
their being able to place before the peo-
pie more correct and enlarged view Of
the relations of governments to the peo-
pie, and who teach greater knowledge
of the wants and needs of the different
sections, and who endeavor to bring the
whole country into harmony by the es-
Enlistment of justice for all, by regard
ing the interest of the whole superior to
any of its parts, and by the distribution
of knowledge in relation to the econo-
mics of life and society. We have been
especially pleased with the influence of
the "Granges," in the last State conven-
ton in Minnesota, where the dema-
gogues, under the lead of Ignatius Don
nelly, endeavored to seize and run this
organization as a political machine, and
where the professed politicians combined
to control the convention as against the
people of the State.
W llllCllll ~ w uoi4DIh Ii las q POtlbAS6l
reputation that has reached across the
continent, and a tolerably clean record,
and he was surrounded and supported by
the old party leaders of the State.
Cushman X. Davis has no prestige in
politics, but is known in his State as an
upright young man, without political
experience, and known only by the bril-
liant abilities which stand sponsor for
his future, and his early and mastery
advocacy of the principles which under
lie the popular movement of the farm
ers of his State. The resolutions of the
conventions we have fully commented
upon they are reasonable and just to
all classes, and if the farmers movement
will follow the lead given them by the
Republican State convention of Mime
sofa, it will give healthy tone to poll
tics and have tendancy to secure the
services of the best men for public du-
ties, and we hope above all that it will
change the succession of candidates for
public stations, so that the Office will
seek the man instead of the man seeking
the Office. We hope we see the true in
dication of the signs of the times, and
that this new popular movement does
not mean in its political aspects war
upon railroads without reason, nor a
machine through which to create special
legislation, but that it intends to dissem-
inmate the principles of pure democra-
cy, and by diffusion of higher knowl-
edge of the laws of trade and the prin-
ciples of political economy, make this
nation in fact, what it always was in
theory, a government of the people, by
the people and for the people.