The Grange advance., 1873-11-12
Grange Advance.
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Jim Fisk stock .jobbers and Butler back
pay grabbers have amassed colossal for
tunes by gambling in railroads. in wheat
and various other things, and by stealing
the hard earnings Of the people. and have
sent their lily gotten wealth 70 fashionable
France for diamonds, jewels, silks and cost
ly raiment to lavish upon fast women or to
adorn their own worthless bodies have
squandered their money in high living, in
costly wines and sweetmeats with which
to stimulate depraved appetites; ;; have run
into wild spcculations and recklessly in
Cured enormous debts. B,tr> all at once
their supplies have been cut oil, and they
are busted. Good men ha ye peri 4itted such
scamps to ru, their affairs and lave taken
hand in themselves occasionally and they
are played out, or laid out France has be-
come rich and paid her immense war debt
without feeling it, and the men on this side
Of the ocean who have really helped to foot
the bill are badly used.
The farmers, in the meantime have gone
in rags and patches, ate hog meat, and
toiled early and late, through heat and cold
wet and dry. Have. done work that no
other class OF men would have done, and
| have lived lives from which men, VINO
could not live a day without the products
which the honest toll Of these same farmers
have created. shrink with disgust.
Yet because these farmers have met and
organized societies for their mental, NOR
al and social improvement, and material ali
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS they have appealed
to the laws Of their country for protection,
because they have asserted their rights as
free men to use the ballot, because they
have asked that common sense and honesty
be used in government, they are to blame
The Changers have done it, they smashed
the railroads, they brought on t. he panic
! Railroad presidents and secretaties anu
treasurers, and directors must be paid sal
aries for merely nominal services, so large
that the salaries Of Congressman snl Sena-
tors, Of Judges and Of the President must
be raised to keep up with them, tor verify
if these men had not renounced the world
(?) to accept these Offices of patriotic trust,
they might have ali been railroad secrcta-
ries, presidents, directors, or\at least
brakemen. Ticket agents, fqf aoing as
as near nothing as it is possibl{ okconceiyc,
must oe allowed com,hlsslona~amount
to millions of dollars. u Thousand other
men are to be hired At fancy prices, with
the tacit understanding that they are to
steal a certain per cent. Then if these
grand institutions, conducted with 50
much Of business ability (?) and
with SO great economy, smash, what is
the matter? Who is 20 blame The
Grangcrs, the miserable Grangers. If the
farmer tolls hard, and his crops are de-
stroyed, or Oh account OF the extortionate
ireights required to keep up these misera
bly, handled transportation companies, he
is compelled to sell his produce for less
than cost, and fails to meet that mortgage
on his farm and it is sold out from under
him. and he and his family are turned
away from their old home, who is TO blame
then? Oh, the farmer. The improvidcnt
farmer. Down with the men who are
mean enough to preach such doctrines,
and with the miserable fools who are
such ninnies as to swallow such preaching
But stop, stop: you will make the people
discontinued with their lot, unhinge society
and, and-destroy your miserable occupa~
tion. "That ali men are created equal
that they are endowed by their creator with
certain unalienable rights" is the creed
which our fathers adopted and to which we
have sworn allegiance, however disagreea-
BILE it may seem. Under that creed tn q
farmer has fully IS much right to do as he
pleases with that which is his own. az anv
other man in Gods Universe. If he pre-
fers to hold his own wheat for high price
instead Of selling it to somebody else to