Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-11-27
4awN AND COUNTRY.

EDITORS COURIER: While the farm.
ers are combining in one mutual
brotherhood for the more effectual as
sistance of each other in their profess
sion, wrong impressions seems contin-
ually growing and deepening in the
minds OF the industrial citizens of our
cities, towns, and villages.
Men whose interests are identified
with railroad channels seem to grasp
this idea, and strive to implant those
impressions in the minds of men of
the different classes in town and coun-
try, imbued with the hope that they,
in turn will stir up prejudice against
the movement among those with whom
they affiliate, until the designs Of
this rapidly growing order TO relieve
US from railroad exactions, will be
frustrated, and the effort crushed by
the very ones who must otherwise reap
its benefits.
We have often reiterated that this
movement could not cripple any other
industry without injuring our own
also. That we desire to encourage
and establish homo manufactures of
every description, which would bring
every consumer to tho very door of
the producer, increase the demand for
labor and increase wages also, as well
AS saving each class from becoming the
| victims of railway magnates, who ex-
| tort as much from the one who buys,
| as the one who sells. That while VIC
desire to build up, our own class, only
by honorable means, we design 1t shall
not be at the expense or any other la.
boring class of people. Yet how of,
ten do we find men listening to the
representation ofthose who apparent.
ly have as little knowledge Of the true
nature of the Grange, as Of the com.
| posite particles OF the great luminary
of day. And many give more Gre
| dence 10 their stories than to those who
have seen the inside workings Of this
1 order, and know something OF Its ma
ture.
Every branch Of industry and bust
ness relies for success upon the pros
perity Of agriculture. II that branch
OF labor becomes impoverished, bust
ness generally becomes more or lesl
stagnated, and laboring men In th'
country for want Of remunerativ,
wages, flock to town in search of EN-
ployment when the result is that wa
ges are reduced to nero starving pri
ces. 1t is only the few rich, who car
profit by the distress Of such larg,
class of their fellow men, while th,
great masses must drink of the bite
cup of poverty. forced to their lips b,
an exaciiDg and INSCRIPTIONS moniet
aristocracy.
/ We hope to never witness such darl
days in this beautiful land of freedom
and to successfully prevent such con
dition ever being forced upon us. w,
must frown down every effort to array
the Industrial classes In any unhapp,
strife with each other. The literary
mercantile, mechanical, manufacture,
and agricultural branches of business
have interests 80 directly interviewer
with each other, that they each aud al
are absolutely indispensable to th
life, happiness, and prosperity of man
kind. A strife between any of thes
classes would be such an exhibition O
folly and madness, that every intelli
gent man or woman should shrinl
from entertaining the thought for on
moment.
1t requires both town aud country [,
develop National wealth and great
ness. Farmers generally and Grang
ers in particular, would rejoice at th
prospect of double the amount o
towns built and filed with enterpris