The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1873-07-04

: now engage the attention OF large
classes of our people.
, The Bates county { Mo- Record
copies, with favorable comments, a
eulogium of the workings of the new
: farmers movement, in which the
5 following language occurs:
ave are glad TO note that the time is rapid
liv aDnroaching when the farmer will be less
s1soentible TO tbe Establishments and deeep-
tons of crop or any other 'humbugS-' A
; marked change Is daily taking place in the
, mental element of the LHsbandman. While
he has always been a ssurdy, ccnmon-sense
+ man. a revolution has been going on in the
thinking apparatus anu he bt gins TO look at
= his vocation from higher standpoint, and
developipg q larger amount ofTeAeetion IN the
prosecution of his laboTs. He is not satisfied
that his hands shall be Che only instruments
of his success; he Is making his brains the full
erum for more power effort. He has awOke
to the necessity OF his newspaper and his IL
brary. and broader view of society, and its
social and political organizations is the result
Hence we find him applying his lever to the
objects obstrGcting his progress, and already
the monopohes aud expressions that have
borne him down are feeling the force of his
awakened power"
The editor of the Monticello IN.
Y J Republican, while on Western
tour, writes to his paper the result
of his observations thus:
"In view of the hundreds of thousands of
bushe els Of corn stored in rude cribs, and even
piled upon the ground, through Iowa, Hebras-
1 kba Ifoalf
whether the country is a success or railroads
failure. Large sections of those States are pc
cuharly adapted TO corn raising; but what
good is there is producing corn II there IS no
market for itS and what is the use Of building
railroads if they cannot be made serviceable IN
carving the necessaries of life from one sec
ton where produced to another where con-
samed2p
aOlivia,' the lady Washington
correspondent of the Philadelphia
Press has written rose colored de-
scription of the new order of "The
Patrons of Husbandry" The fea-
ture of female membership in the
oranges appears to have captivated
the fair "Olivia." After describing
the origin and method of the organ
ization, she states that it commenced
here in Washington in February,
1868, under the leadership Of Mr..
William Saunders. She says:
$50 far their blows have fallen heaviest ON
what are called the 'middle-men.' Iowa, who
/ her
purchases of agricultural implements. By
means of this order the farmer bought direct
/ from the manufacturer, whilst the mlddle-man
or agent had TO step aside"
The Webster City (IOwa) Free
man, in giving a summary of the
workings of the order, remarks:
aBoth sexes are admitted, and this may to
great extent account for the rapid growth of
the order. Their greatest increase is said to
have taken place in the last six months, as
| they were not above 10000 IN number at the
close of l87l-and if they are 10000 now,
their increase in those months amounts to
440, 600, being at the rate of q, 500 month,
surprising rate for a fraternity to grOW-and
rather alarming when we consider that the
Changers may take it into their heads to act
as political party. They are, as rule, farm
ers or sgriculturists generally, and their main
i purpose is to secure cheap transportation for
farm produce, a point that interests all, those
who eat quite as much as those who grow"
The Logansport lind Journal
gives a favorable report of the pro-
ceedings ofthe National Agricultur-
al Congress recently held at Indian
apolis. 1t was composed of two
hundred and fifty delegates from the
subordinate oranges in twenty-five
States. 1t resolved that the consoli-
datioR of parallel lines of railways
should be prohibited by law; that |
the States should fix reasonable rail
way rates; that when a road owns
line in two or more States The Gen
eral Government should regulate
rates of fare and freights upon such |
line; that the creation of fictitious
stocks by railroad mana gers should |
be restrained by law. 1t opposed |
the acceptance of favors by judicial,
Legislative and executive officers
from railway and other companies.
1t commended the investigation of
the bearing of narrow-gauge and
tram railways upon cheap transpor-
tation. Also the following water
routes:
"The Niagara ship canal, the Champlain
canal route, from the st. Lawrence to New
York; the Fox River canal, of Wisconsin; the
James River and Kanawha, through water
line; the Illinois and Michigan canal, and the
Illinois river improvement the Atlantic and
Great Western canal, and the Mississippi and
Appalachicola canal, along the Gulf coast"
After stating Chat the Congress re-
fused to consider questions of cur
rency, tariff, and finance, to act on
the eight-hour law, the Agricultural
Land Grant Bill; that it held that it
was no part of the design of the or {
ganization to discuss or act upon t
purely political questions, the editor /
says:
I'll was body of sensible men, which is de- i
erbed by the indianapolis Journal as the
most intellectual looking assembly ever gath
red in that city"
The Media american says:
ait will not be known for probably two
ears yet whether State legislatures can re- "
trlct the freight and passenger charges of rail-
Dads chartered previous to the passage of any =,
uch act. The Illinois test cases were decided u
0 be unconstitutional, and they are EoW Ia "
en for final decision to the United S;atos Su- dI
RENE Court"
The Sioux City (Iowa) journal, b.
to resolution of conven- P
ion of Grangers held lately at Lc Il Il
lars. Iowa, which declares that ev- -, ~
ry man they support for Office must c.
e the "unswerving enemy of all cor ia
crate monOpolies," states that the n
eople of Iowa are not enemies of Ia,
abroad corporations. AZ
"They owe their homes to railroads; their re-
WINS would not have been built but for rail- mi
ads. Indeed, Northwestern Iowa would be :;
)thing more to-day than the desolate wilder "
is it was a dozen years ago but for the rail- pa
ads that have spanned its broad, rich prair- Gu
3 and made its fertile soil available to the III,
lsbandmsn. The farmers are necessarily :,
e friends Of these transportation routes. Ih'
ney will do more TO secure the building of phi
ditionRI lines of railway than for anv other ha,