The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-08-08
The Political Tendency OF the Farmer,'
Movement.

We have suspected from the first thar
the admiration OF h Republican party
aud the Republican press for the Patrons
OF Husbaniry was mere afiectation. as
sumed for political purposes, and likely
10 be discarded entirely as s00n as the
members Of these orders made a move
ment in earnest in the way OF CARRYING
out the work they had proposed to them
selves. IL was the most natural thing in
the world that the different Republican
State conventions should. by the adOp-
ton of specious and insincere resolutions.
try TO delude the oranges into the sup
port OF their candidates, and. failing In
that. TO SOW discord and ~dissensiOn
among them. Ii they hadn't tried 10
play some such trick they wouldn't have
been legitimate and legally descended
Republicans. liz requires a certain
amount Of chicanery ana double-dealing
10 make a man an ordinary Republican
politician. or TO give him any prospect Of
success in that party.
The Republican programme was adj
mirabiy simple. Ii was to express their
sympathy and friendship for the oranges,
without knowing or caring what their
ultimate objects were TO tell them that
they were a clever and much-abused class
Of people: that their wrengs must be re-
ult~~fl ~ lldL ivy RAAVN uVAHlik
about politics. and were liable to be taken
in by designing office-seekers; and that
their best. and, indeed, only practicable
policy. was To turn all that matter over
10 them. the Republicans, and to cOnfine
heir oranges entirely 10 social and scien-
tifc objects. In other words, il was a
sort OF polite way of putting Senator Matt
Carpenters brusque injunction 10 the
harrassed and overwhelmed people of
Louisiana. ITO attend TO their business
and let politics Alone
But the oranges somehow have Tot seen
il in that light. and, AS a consequence, a
misunderstanding and an enlargement
between them and their guardian friends
and advisers seems inevitable. The
oranges OF Kansas insist that they won't
let politics alone, and that they are at
tending 10 their own business. and fur
thermOre that they have no need Of either
advice or assistance The Sarcoxie grange,
in Douglas county. have decided Inst il is
the duty Of the people 10 elect their own
public officers. and hat a. there is a va
cancv In the United States Senate from
that State. in their judgment il is the duty
OF the elements represented by the Pat
rOns of Husbandry % hold a State con-
yentiOn at an early day and make choice
of a Senatorial candidate, and then 10
elect a Legislature TO vote for their can
didate. This is plain talk-teo plain by
far to suit TIE 81. Joseph Herald. whichis
a. liberal and mild-spoken a Republican
organ as one need wish TO read. In view
OF the danger thus Unexpectedly devel-
oped. The Heraldis forced 10 say that ''pri-
marily the aims and object. of the
Patrons Of Husbandry were most excel
lent and laudable, and deserving of en-
enlargement from every journal in the
land not purchased by the friends Of mo-
nOpolv. but we fear that in some locations
the order is bSi2g controlled by men inn
bued with nor s~elfishness hiatt patriotism
or devotion 10 farmers interest. Evidence
of this we find in the fact that SArcoxie
grange. Douglas county, Kansas. proposes
to go into the Senator-making business on
It's own hook
We regret that the Herald does not in
form us what those excellent and leud-
able aims and objects were that il found
itself able . o approve. Were they that
the oranges should confine themselves
strictly to social amusements and to the
discussion Of the principles Of scientific
farming. with an occasional episode the
way of a mild protest against being made
the beasts of burden of the capitalists, the
mOnODolists. and the manufacturers OF
the cOuntrye Notwithstanding the Her
AIDS liherality Of sentiment. we hardly
imagine that its sense offealty 10 its party
would allow il 10 20 beyond that But
the Changers have Judged better Of their
own interests than the Herald has judged
Tor them. They have found out that what
they gain In the way Of reform n OF
bringing the gigantic railroad monopo-
lies under some kind of legal restraint,
they have got 10 gain by hard fighting IN
the political arena. and inch by inch. As
long as they can be kept out of politics, or
divided in their political actions, the mo-
nopolists are perfectly safe IN their &C
QUESTIONS, that they have spent millions
OF money and years Of labor to acquire,
and which they intend to defend stub
bornly. The fact hat the Eerald and the
rest Of the Republican press insist that
the Changers shall let politics alone- Is
evidence that the Republican press are on
the side of the railroads and the monopo-
lists, and that they are trying TO close up
and render impncticable h only means
Of redress mat the Changers possibly can
have. Moral influence Is lost on sueh
things as monetary corporations. Inc
only thing they fear in this instance 4
Congressional legislation, and thai can
only be Effected BY the Changers entering
the political field and sending TO the
United States Senate and House OF heprie-
sentarives men who will reflect their prin-
ciples in the laws that they enact. Any
ether line Of policy will prove mere childs
play.-N. Loazis Times.