The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-06-20
"pATRoNs OF HusBANDRY.,
Letter from the General Of the National


Letter from the General OF the National
GoUvERNEuR, N. Y, May 23.
To the Editor Of the Utica Morning
Herald:
Having seen an editorial in the Her
aid opposing the Order of Patrons OF
Husbandry rs wicked and tyrannical,
and many times having had my atten-
ton called to the fact that others of like
import had appeared, l write you. 1t
is evident that you are not aware what
our order is. The discussion of parti
san politics is forbidden by our consti-
tuition, yet we believe that we as men.
not as Patrons of Husbandry, should as
a duty scan very closely the acts of the
public servants; that we as producers.
while we furnish food for the millions.
fight our nations battles, defend its lib
critics in time of danger, should of a
right have an equal share as such is the
making of those laws by which all are
governed f; that we have a right to de-
mand that in all things, whether politi-
cal or otherwise, the principles of COM
mon honesty shallnot be wholly ignored,
and TO place ourselves in n position to
enforce that demand. We acknowledge
the fact that mind will always triumph
over matter, and that an active mind
whose whole thought is to gain the
profits of our toll will always be success
ful SO long as we, like the OK, depend
only on our muscular power but we
find that the great Ruler, has given us
brains also, and if he has given us them
. hot
we have men of active minds, and of
great wealth arrayed against us, but we
begin TO realize the fact that they can
not eat their money, and hope that ere
many years pass away we will be able
to show the great kings of monopoly
that there is in our order most noble
conception, that principle is about to
be born that to him or to her who labors
belongs the pay. Yes, even farmers are
beginning to believe that they can in a
measure fly their own kite, and yet, per-
haps, soar as high and continue as long
on the wing as though we should con-
tinue TO hang at the tail Of the kites of
others. We see vast river of wealth
continually flowing from the hands of
the needy into the hands of the few
who already possess their millions. Now,
we mean to stop those waters by legis-
lation, if we can if not by some other
honorable means. We know no party !;
but we consider it the duty of all con-
nected with us to outside of the grange
see to it that the candidates OF all par
ties be men of integrity, whose interest
is the welfare of the people, and not
political ring masters. Men point from
knowledge gained by others. The steam
engine was not brought to perfection by
one man, but each of its inventors took
hold where the former left off. So, too,
with rascality, each has taken hold
where the other left off, until it seems
to have out-stripped in perfection the
steam-engine but single-handed men
could not have made rascality such a
science, but they have combined, COM
bined to fleece those who earn their
bread and there remains no safety for
the producer but to combine also, and,
too, as thoroughly as those arrayed
against him. Yet our society is not for
the farmer alone, but for all whose in
terest is with us.
In the grange also we are taught to
advance the interests of education. In
short, the Grange or Patrans of Hus-
bandry is for the elevation of the mass
es socially, mentally, morally, and finan-
cially, and we hope that the press of no
political party will so oppose us that we
shall be compelled to regard them as
our enemies.
G.. ID. BEEMAN,
General National Grange, II. of II.