New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-08-25
TIE FARMERS MOHEHENT

prpopr oy THE MUSTER or THE MISSOURI STATE
oRANGE-sATIsFACToRY ACCOUNTS FROM AN
KANSAS AND MssOURI-THE WORK OF ohr
GANIzATIoN.
lBr TELEGRAPH TO THE rRIBuSE.l
CHICAGO. Aug. A.-Mr. T. X. Allen, Master
OF the Missouri State Grange, has been maShs s'ue
weeks Official tour through Missouri and Arkansss hs
reports tho farmers everywhere enthusiasac 10 '"s
Orange cause, resolved the rshtine OF
their WRONGS and earnest for self improvements
ON the got instant he attended and addressed bv nvs
tariou, meeting Of farmers st Grand Bnrgo"oe near
Hclsna. Ark, at which several thousand We"
present, and among his audience we're MANY
eolored people, who listened afentiveiy' Inc
Master of the stats Grange In Arkansas u 5ua<s
Jones, q wealthy farmer residing pear he'nhA
who In very intelligent well energetic ana prsec
cal There are as yet but subordinate Oranges IN
Arkansas all In the northeastern part OF the STATE qua
the order spreading Mr. Allen thinks that INC
Orange movement win have healthy eject ia Toe
SOUTH by assimilatiRg parties and producing ostes
state OF feeling among the people.
He fears there will be trouble In Arkan.ss, ana
perhaps in Missouri In regard 10 colorod farmers bus
trusts that serious. The Patrons being or
gnnzed social purposes, the he thinks csnnot
be admitted to the lodges, but wherever tuneens
number OF them dese separate organization, ne VIII
himself that they aSe properly oSgaaiEed
and agoing The people in Arkansas with who's" DC
he anywhere and wherever he went thn great
est peace aud unsnimity Of opinion seemed TO prevail
The Order, he further states, rs IN the bighest
degree fourishing in this State There are 40
ready more than 500 lodges In Missouri, with
average membership OF 49, and these numbers VII be
than doubled Ia the next three months There
will probably he more than 10000 Changers In Missouri
before Spring open. Tue Changers, Mr.. Allen thinks
will endeavor to keep out Of politics, but they cannot
fail TO greatly modify parties eventually.
ADDRESS BY THE ILLINOIS FARMERS ASSOCIATION
THE FARMERS RECOMMENDED TO COMBINE.
| CHICAGO Aug. 24-At the meeting Of farm
ers at Kankkee, Ill.,. yesterday, Mr. s. NJ. smith, secre
ary the Farmers State Association reiterated ME ad
vice 10 the farmers combine the other industrial
did aud get higher for their produce than
those offered under the undisturbed operation OF supply
end demand He said one great ault with Is that
get into debt and mortgage corn, pork and beef
before they are raised. Then at the mercy %
our grocer and merchant. and we must sell for any
price they decide to pay u.s. We should get clear OF
dsbt II have TO our pants until they nave as
many cOOrs by Of the patches as coab
Get out of debt auG be IN condition to hold your pro
fair remuneration your labor IL the pork men meet
in September and set price on your pork az
give q for It, then meet thein Dy noi ~
excess OF breadstus what the world wants to con
sumo II there is surplus one year there VIII De
deficit the second third year, aud 1t viii all be
wanted at remuneratiye prices. Get out Of debt ana
keep out Of DEBT and assert your Iue mdhhood ann 40
not stand Mt the mercy OF every combination Ihat %
| formed TO iatten on you
very pthy address made by tho President OF the
meeting Aphonse Miller, everyday practical farmer.
After speaking OF that led to the formation
/ OF oranges and clubs, the President said:
Representatives in Congress have thrust their hands
into the natOnal Legislatures hOught
and sold by moBOpolies or kind that want 10 use
them; our chief agistrate has itching palm and
| takes his share of the back-action. fOrwardac-
ton salary-steal corruption fraud, and br-
berry Is stalking abroad IN the Land. The habits
of 1875 being oppressed until oppression become
uncomfortable, formed into defensive comb nation set
forth their grievances in the Declaration OF Indepen
denee and signed and seaedt with their blood also
the patriotic farmers of 1873, being oppressed by King
Railroad, have entered into "A combination; have set
forth their grievance in declaration OF independen nee
and will fight until their just rights are secured -
We make no war with railroads roads, but we viii
wage unreentng warfare with all salary steals Credit
Mobier frauds and all class legislation that make mo-
nopoes possible; that enrich the few al the expense or
the people. l believe it to be libel ON humanity
10 say every has his price; we Know
| men. good and true, whom can elect
as our servants, yet shall never get them until We
smoke out the petty politicians that are gong around
begging for Office 1t matters not from what parry we
seek out good and true Ia other wOlun, &c once
! must seek the man. and not the man the ohce'