The Grange advance., 1873-11-12
For the Grange Advance.
What issthe Matter

For the Grange Advance.
What is the Natter?
Jim Fisk stock jobbers and Butler back
pay grabbers have amassed colossal for
tunes by gamblingin railroads. in wheat
and various other things, and by stealing
the hard earnings Of the people, and have
sent their lily gotten wealth to fashionable
France for diamonds, jewels, silks and cost
ly raiment to lavish upon fast women or to
adorn their own worthless bodies have
squandered their money in high living in
costly wines and ) sweetmeats with which
to stimulate Deprived appetits; I have run
into wild speculations and Ereqklessly in
Cured enormous debts B@dRl at once
their supplies have been but of4 and they
are busted. Good men ha se peri fitted such
scamps to run their affairs and .hve taken
hand in themselves occasionally and they
are played out, Or laid out. France has be-
come rich and paid her immense war debt
without feeling il, and the men on this side
of the ocean whoshave really helped to foot
the bill are badly used.
The farmers, in the meantime have gone
in rags and patches, ate hog meat, and
toiled early and late, through heat and cold,
wet and dry. Have. done work that no
other class of men would have done, and
have lived lives from which men, vino
could not live day without the products
| which the honest toll of these same farmers
have created. shrink with disgust.
Yet because these farmers have met and
organized societies for their mental, NOR
al and social improvement, and material ad-
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS they have appealed
to the laws Of their country for protection,
because they have asserted their rights as
free men to use the ballot, because they
have asked that common sense and honesty
be used in government, they are to blame.
The Changers have done it, they smashed
the railroads, the brought on he panic.
Railroad presidents and secretaties and
treasurers. and directors must be paid SAL
aries for merely nominal services, so large
that the salaries of Congressman snd Scna-
| tors, of Judges and Of the President must
be raised to keep up with them, for verify
| if these men had not renounced the world
(?) to accept these Offices of patriotic trust,
| they mig ght have al been railroad secreta-
ries, presidents, directors, oNat least
brakemen. Ticket agents, fd loing as
as near nothing as it is possibl lt9eoncsive,
must be allowed <commss) )bpA amounting
to millions of dollars. Ahousand other
men are to be hired At fancy prices, with
the tacit understanding that they are to
steal certain per cent. Then if these
grand institutions, conducted with 50
much of business ability (?) and
with so great economy, smash, what is
the matter? Who is to blame? The
Changers, the miserable Changers. If the
farmer tolls hard. and his crops are de-
stroyed, or on account Of the extortionate
freights required e keep up these misera-
bly, handled Transportation companies, he
is compelled to seH his produce for less
than cost, and failsato meet that mortgage
on his farm and it is sold out from under
him, and he and ashis family are turned
away from their old home. who is to blame
then Oh, the faymer The improvident
farmer. Down With the men who are
mean enough to preach such doctrines,
and with the mi5erable fools who are
such ninnies as to swallow such preaching
But stop. stop! yop will make the people
discontented with t9leir lot, unhinge society
and, and-destroyayour miserable occupa-
ton. "That allHmen are created equal
that they are end aNed by their creator with
certain unalienalae ae rights" is the creed
which our father4adopted and to which we
have sworn allegiance, however disagreea-
BILE it may scent Under that creed the
farmer has fully much right to do as he
pleases with that tsvhich is his own, as anv
other ] u man in Gdf's Universe. i he pre-
fers to hold his o4 4n wheat for high price
instead e selling i e g, somebody else e