The Grange advance., 1873-10-29

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the fulfilling and very forgetful after cleo
tion. The man who fails to keep his prom
ises with those from whom he has re-
ceived credit, and is content to thus sponge
q living from his creditors without giving a
return, will not keep his promises to his
constituents, and will not hesitate to make
any number of promises with the design of
obtaining your votes, just as he does to get
credit with no intention of keeping them.
ELECT THE INDUSTRIOUS, HONEST MAN.
But elect the quiet, industrious man,
with moderate desires and honest inten-
tions.
He may, and probably will, be modest,
and will accept Office with dif6dence, if not
with reluctance, from feeling Of the re-
sponsibility that he is compelled to assume
and his own inadequacy to the task; but
only convince him that it is the honest,
earnest and determined desire Of the pee
pie that he should serve them, and their
well founded conviction that he can, with
benefit to the public and with honor to his
constituents, fill the position, and, if he be
true patriot he will accept the trust, and
when once he has accepted, you can rest
assured that not stone will remain un-
turned that is in the way Of his thoroughly
understanding and faithfully performing
his duty
SUCH MEN MUST BE SOUGHT AFTER.
Such men will not press themselves upon
you; you will have to search them out.
To do this you must understand men, you
must be able to read human nature. No
better place can be found to obtain this
knowledge than in the close association Of
the grange. One bland, blatant fool will
sometimes talk down nine wise men, and
ninety-nine persons out of a hundred who
have only heard and been pleased or dis
pleased with the words without reference
to the sense or want of sense, will call the
fool the wisest man Of the ten. Bring
these men to the test Of close inspection
and constant association, and ninety
men out of the hundred will detect the foof
The same rule will hold with regard to
ascertaining the vices and virtues of men,
HOW PEOPLE ARE re FIND TRUE MEN.
Yet voters unfortunately can have the
privilege of associating with but very few Of
the men for whom they are called upon in
this great nation to vote. So it is abso-
lutely necessary that other means Of infor-
nation be sought. In this age Of news
papers, steam printing presses, always so
willing to print everything with regard to
a candidate,i it would seem an easy thing for
a,voter to sufficiently inform himself with
regard to the candidates for all the Offices,
and it would be if it were not for sub
sidized press. AS it is, not one-half Of
what is published in political papers can
be believed. Yet among many falsehoods
the truth will sometimes get into the news
papers, and from multitude 6f these wit
nesses the truth will appear, and they are
worthy of study for the little of truth that
there is in them. There are men in this
country to-day whose characters in the
midst of all the defamation and lying; in the
midst Of all the untold corruption, stand
untarnished, and it is doubtful whether the
man whose character is entirely pure can
even, in the present state of'things, be sue
cessfully assailed for any great length of
time. And when it comes to that, that the
people nominate their candidates instead Of
the candidates nominating themselves,
much of this difficulty will be done away,
for then man can be judged somewhat by
the character and design of the men who
HIGHER STANDARD OF MORALITY.
bring him forth. Yet away back of all
this, the Patrons, in common with all good
citizens, have big gher work to perform,
that of bringing the people, the masses up
to higher mental and moral standard.
With universal morality and intelligence,
with high appreciation of virtue and
hatred Of wrong existing everywhere, the
success of mean men is made almost inn
possible. Universal corruption in politics
is pretty good index to the existence of q
corrupt moral sense throughout society.
It has we'll been said that the only hope of
free nation is in the virtue and intelli-
gence Of its citizens. The people must be
informed that they may have of their own
number men whose interests are one with
their interests, who are capable of grsp-
ping with the questions of the day and of
worthily representing them in legislative
and congressional halls.
HAsTY LEGISLATION.