The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-08-11

LIS progress W the CnrOne easy al Cne IoyaA
factions are united; but it will simply give the
| world time to take breath before the curtain
rises on another scene of change, most prob
ably a violent one.
Tho Patrons OF Husbandry-A New
Social, Economic, and Political Elo-
ment.
In another part Of to-day's HERALD is a de-
tailed account of the secret order which, under
the title Of 'Patrons of Husbandry," is intro
ducing new element of force into our
national politics, for working in villages,
country districts and States it may reach
q step beyond Our Washington CORE
spondent has sought information at head
quarters, and given us statements of its
originators and prominent guardians, as to its
condition, objects and prospects. Started six
years ago, it appears not to have really taken
root till 1871, in which year over one hundred
oranges were organized Since then they have
spread with singular rapidly particularly in
the Western, Northwestern and Southern
States; and they now number over five thou
sand oranges, having a membership of three
hundred thousand, with no indication Of any
early check to the extension. Thus it is evil
dent that the order has in it capabilities of
exerting upon the future course of our national
policy and politics an important power, not to
be ignored Ky those who seek popular prefer
ment or to guide governmental action AS
stated by it's sponsors, the main objects of the
Order are to elevate the social and intellectual
character and condition Of our agricultural
class, and to enrich it by bringing it into
direct communication with manufacturers
and freighting corporations, in order
to save the farmer from the exactions of the
army of middlemen whose commissions and
profits so seriously enhance the cost of all he
buys, while they reduce to the lowest figure
his returns for products sold in the seaboard
markets. The talisman of the Order, in its
financial aspect, is cash. 1t seeks to teach the
farmer that with cash, through its organiza-
ton, he can buy far cheaper than through
the village trader, who is willing to give credit,
for which the purchaser has to pay an enormous
premium. It buys for him his harvesting ma
chine and for his wife her sewing machine, for
much less money than he could procure them
from agents; and for him it makes contracts
with steamboat lines and railroads to bring
his grain, cotton, rice, cattle and other pro-
ducts TO market at rates which will greatly
enhance the value of those articles to the pro-
Queer. In dealing with capital its policy is
diplomacy, not war. Itnegotiates with manu-
facturers and freighters, rather than fight
them. After it has large accumulated CAPT
tai it may make itself felt in the construction
and control of those great trunk freight rail-
ways which, first proposed some months ago
by the HERALD, are now SO urgently demanded
by our leading business men as the necessary
conduits through which the life-giving cur
rents of trade may circulate in all the length
and breadth of the land, North and South,
East and West, connecting all sections with
each, like the arteries in the human body. By
association it would relieve the farmer from
the effects of isolation and dependence upon
others who live at ease on the results of his
toll
ritual, with obligations of secrecy, appears
to be used as the cement to hold the constitu-
ents of the new Order in place and give it OPP
portunity to crystalline and develop. For the
present it protests it has no political aims.
Its chief engineers at Washington were in the
service OF the general government when the
Order was originated. Some Of them still are.
In some of the Western States where its num-
bers are large, in spite of its declared freedom
from political objects, it already enters largely
into the calculations of the politicians If its
;v,craaca in tha interval between now and the
next Presidential election receives no check it
is certain to largely tinge the complexion of
caucuses and nominating conventions. Earlier
its influence must be felt in our Legislative
and congressional halls. Members, sure of the
support of the oranges, will hold old political
fealty less in awe, and the power of the secret
Order will claim the attention Of the lobbyists
who claim the ability to eek" matters in our
manufactures Of law The Order appears to
be under the guidance of men of tact, having
the ability to commend their new scheme to
large class which considers itself cheated by
those it feeds. They wisely abstain from
keeping an "orgap." So long as the Order
confines its operations to legitimate and
worthy objects it can be content with the
notice and criticism of the Independent press.
When it finds paid organs necessity it will
have sunk to the low level of political party.
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