The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-08-18
The Oranges.

The Oranges.
Our Saturdays special Washington tcie-
gram informed us that there was move
snens to introduce the farmers oranges
into Virginia.
It does not say whether this movement Is
initiated BY the oranges outside OF Virginia
or that people Of Virginia are setting it
a.foot. This Is important. We should DC
happy to know that it was the work OF the
oranges or their representatives elsewhere,
because that would show that Virginia Is
considered at least a power in the nation, and
that her influence was at least sufncient 70
Justify an effort to procure it. f !.
Exactly how we are to run the oranges
inst now we cannot see. We have an issue
upon US OF such vital importance as to over
ride all Others, and our energies are so COM
plctely absorbed by it that it will be hard
for us to find time for anything else until
after the election. REV.
The trouble about the farmers oranges is
that, being organized to work reforms in the
policy of legislation, they cannot be kept out
of party ,ruts. The inscriptions partlsans
will fasten upon them, and they will 6e per-
yerted to party uses. The grange war upon
railroad corporations is just, but anybody
who wants power and place will join the
FRANCES, and those who Join them
with that object will never be faithful.
Their motives are corrupt, and bride from
the corporations will make them faithless to
the oranges; but that faithessness they VIII
disguise under numerous pretences well CAL
cuiated to deceive. They will deceive. ..
We have never known an honest agltatlon
originating amongst the people that was not
seized by the politicians and used 10 tlie'f
own advantage. The people are simple
the politicians are cunning. The people are
misunderstanding politicians are selfish ana
sordid. Wherever a people are assembled
together there are the politicians in then
midst. The Divinity appears amongst two
or three assembled in his name to CHERISH
and sustain them in doing his work; but the
devil is there too. So when the people en-
deayor by some means to promote the pup
lie good, there is the hcartlcss politician, ano
he will agree with them III all their views
with the intention Of bctraying them when
the opportunity offers, and the further pur
pose of advancing his own private ends IRE
soective of the public welfare.
So the oranges will soon see that di>intcr
estedncss and honesty amongst pubic mct
are scarce commodities, and ultimately they
will find that any calculation they have
made based upon the supposed honesty o.
those people is Il great mistake.
With regard to Virginia there is but one
party that can properly become allied with
the oranges. The whites arc the farmers.
and the owners of the land. The negroes
are neither farmers nor landholders. If the
Conservatives join the oranges they may be
assured at least of one thing: That they
may thus be able to increase their inter
course with their northern fellow.citizcns
and thus increase the amount of their par
ticipation in the affairs of the nation. This
will be greatadrantagc gained. Wcshould
therefore, be in favor of joining the oranges,
and thereby helping to reCstablish sympathies
and kind feeling between the northern and
southern people. We can do little for Vir'
ginia until we are in more familiar and
friendly relations with the North; and q
union with them through the oranges viii
probably do more towards this end than any
thing else at present.
That some good may come of the aSita-
ton of the oranges is very probable. All
grievances are more or less mitigated by agl'
tation-the complaints of the suffering.
Power is very likely to relax its seventies
when the complaints of the people rise with
a loud voice that can be heard long way.
The railroad corporations may be somewhat
intimidated, and make some concession to
the compIainants. But they are very power
full, and in the long run will reap the harvest
of wealth which it is in their power, by one
artifce and another, to gather in the rich
field they have under control.
The great remedy-the great protection Of
the peoples competition. Wherever that
can be effected it will defend popular rights
and interests.
secution Of this policy for the relief of the
vast country where these oranges originate
is the completion Of the James River and
Kanawha canal. That is something for Vir-
ginia oranges to unite upon, and it would
be a powerful tie between oranges in Viz
ginia and grangcs in the West.
We are, with these views, in no way OPP
posed to oranges, and suppose they may do
well here, but we warn them everywhere to
beware of the mere traders in politics. They
will surely deceive them. Entrusted to their
hands, the objects of the oranges will be be-
trayed, and all their agitations-all their ap-
peals for justice-wll come to naught.