The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1873-02-15
NUMBER IL.


the Order, there are nine male and four
female officers in each local Grange, elected
annually. The presiding officer Is styled
Master.
THE STATE GRANGE
has nine officers, and its membership is
composed of the Masters and Past Mas
ters Of the local Oranges Of the State.
THE NATIONAL GRANGE
is composed Of the Masters and Past Mas
tiers Of the State Oranges. This organiza-
| tion constitutes grand net work Of recip-
rocal assistance that spreads all over the
thousands Of agriculturalists throughout
the Union who may become patrons. SO
much for the organization.
WHAT ARE ITS OBJECTS
1t proposes to further the interests Of
agriculture in every possible way. The
organization Of Grange IN any locality
induces a community Of thought, thereby
increasing the soclality Of a neighborhoOd
and improving it intellectually
If the Or Ter did nothing more than this,
who could measure it's advantages to the
people Of tins Union, vast ajority Of
whom are agPiculturists. To Danish igno-
rance from our doors, to elevate the farmer
intellectually and to teach him he has a
mind as well as muscle, is one Of the grand
objects Of the Patrons Of Husbandry.
But 1T GOES FARTHER.
1t proposes to impress upon the farmer the
mournful but long since patent truth, that
he has heretofore been the pack horse for
all other parties; that he has been the
dupe, the very scapegoat Of Spectators and
mIddlemen Of every shape, size, color, and
description that he has rights which, from
ignorance, he has never dared maintain
that if he has the energy and patience to
labor diligently from seed time to harvest,
he certainly should have the intelligence
to know what he never has known, viz
the true. proper. marketable value Of his
hard earned products that if IN
ONION THERE Is STRENGTH,
80 in this organization ends may be aimed
At and etfects produced which IN the future
will relieve the farmer from that industrial
thraidOm to which he has been subject in
the past. These and many other similar
lessons, practical every one, and profitable
to the purse a. well as to the mind, do the
Patrons Of Husbandry teach to those farm
ers all over the UnIon who will unite with
the Order and
to do So The advantages accruing from
organization need not be discussed at this
time they are apparent to every rejecting
mind. We're 1t otherwise, we would sell
dom hear of Chicago Boards OF Trade,
Milwaukee Chambers Of Commerce, pork
packing associations, stock yard companies,
trades unions. and the like Mercantile
men, commercial men. professional men,
and mechanics Of every kind appreciate
fully the value To their respective vOcations
of union, concert, and sIngleness of pur-
pose But farmers everywhere have
always acted as though their vocation
aimed At nothing, anu AS If their duty was
to labor patiently, year IN and year out, %
produce fur market something that other
people set a price upon. And the most
menial aburrr, the most abJsct slave to
such policy as tins, has always been the
Western farmer. His harvest time seldom
ever comes his moments Of recreation are
always IN the future. The work required,
the time consumed and the expenses IN
CURED Ia prepare ms cropfOr sale 50 surely
burthen hun with debt that, year after
year, he goes a heggar into the market,
humbly receiving for his products Just 50
much as hIs masters are disposed 20 give
hun. The Patrons Of Husbaudry propose
IN a thousand ways to put stop to this
impoverishing policy.
1T T. A SECRET SOCIETY.
But farmers In particular have A natural
dread ~ this little word I" secret. They
associate with II all kinds Of mischief, mis-
cry. and dlabohcal crime. They turn
away from a person that even hints that
this organization j. of a secret cast as they
would from loathsOme reptile. They
think secrecy means mischief, and nothing
else But, my friends nothing could be
wider of the truth Ii Is only the key that
secures the principles in which they be
heve When God created the universe he |
made everything just and right. He has
made men. and classes Of men, and has |
gwen To- th,.n all natural protection
secrecy II | have iH mind some wonder |
ful invention and 20 {" the places Of pub |
ne resort ami lay open all my plans and |
give all the particulars IN its construction,
would not some long cared gentleman cir [
cUmvvut uIy Intentions ! tell you shat |
the man whl succeeds IN business IS the |
man whn kreIs his own secrets and cOun-
cIiS. he trader vino brags about his sharp |
spruulatI.ns. anu tells All about how IL Is |
u me- may NV 1T down as a financial fail |
urr. but the sly man. Who keeps his own |
secrets. succeeds II j. not only man
against man In the race for gam but |
classes NJ men against men. Lawyers,
physicians. merchants, telegraph cumpa |
mes, and raIlr. ad corporations are aTrayed |
against each other all combined aim their |
thrusts az the farmer. This society is
secret iu ITS dpIngs for NO other reason than
tOr protection other combinations are |
formed for the pur' pose Of roDbIng farmers |
Of their hard earnings.
SE,KEoX II NECESSARY EVERYWHERE.
Upon all matters of Importance our legis- |
ittiSe bodies SIT III secret SESSION for fear
oi the effect outside influence might have |
upon their deliberations II is a noticea- |
ble fact, those very men who turn with |
horror from our organization that openly |
avpws secrecy, are the very ones who sink |
VT into some darA corner Al our open con
yvntiuns, and there concuct schemes for /
running the political machine. This open
secrecy Is contemplate II is beneath the |
dignity a man It a. rOttenness, total and |
unqualified; but a secret society that does
not attempt to conceal it, name or its OBJ |
jrcts, and j. wholly in the interest Of pro
grcss, deserves to meet the approval of all |
weil-wishers to humanity. Hitherto farm |
ers, the great producing class Of our coun-
try, have acted IN total disregard to this
great agent, or principle, So universally
Acknowledged AMI effectually used by
others.
They have stood aloOf from all unions
OF associations, each and every man acting
upon his own account having no concert
Of action whatever with his neighbors.
whose interest is identical with his own,
and who might be presumed to have
common interest in all that relates to has
material welfare. This fact being patent
T. all, We offer no proof 70 corroborate il, |
but proceed to say that by the efIectual
use Of this agent. the prnfesslnnal. com