The Grange advance., 1873-11-05
EDITORIAL NOTES..


Women are to have the right to be Regis
ters of Deeds, Notary's Public, School off. :.
GERS and Librarians under the new con-
stitution OF Michigan.
Marshal Bazaine in his trial had tele.
grams, showing that his delays at Metz
were occasioned by orders from the EN-
peror.
Emigration agents are to be expelled
from Germany by authority Of the Govern
ment
The Pope has been writing to the En-
peror of Germany, complaining that the
measures Of his Majestys government are
severe, and are aimed at the destruction of
Catholicism, and claiming to be informed
that the Emperor is opposed TO this harsh
policy.
The Emperor replys, that had the Pope
been correctly informed, he would have
known that the Emperor Of Germany runs
his own Government charges portions OF
his Catholic subjects, especially the priests,
with intrigues and revolts, and declares
that he g. will maintain law and order 80
long as God enables him to do so, even
against the servants of Church which he
supposed acknowledged obedience to secular
authority as a command of God"
A young lady at Durand, ILL.,, would not
study bookkeeping in the High School.
The Principal expelled her, in accordance
with vote of the Board of Education. A
jury awarded the young lady just $3.50
damages, in suit against that Principal.
This is certainly new way of making
money. That young lady ought to have
the " franchise"
The Boston School Board report against
corporal punishment. Solomon's proyerb
is found not to apply to Young America,
however good they might be for the chill
dren of Israel. The proverbs for the pres
ent day should have been, "Spare the
child and never mind what becomes of the
rod,' and = Bring up child and away he
will went"
The farmers, at their late convention in
Chicago, resolved to sell none of their
pork, this year for less than five cents per
pound. Some of the papers consider this q
very curious resolution. It is something
new in this part Of the world, at least, for
farmers to fix their own prices on their
products, but we fail to see anything more
strange about it, now that farmers are be-.
ginning to understand that they have rights
40 we'll as other folks, than we do in man.
facturers Of plows fixing the price on their
plows.
Nobody can afford to raise pork for less
than five cents pound, and nobody has
any more right to demand that the farmer
should raise pork and sell it for less than
cost, than the farmer has to demand that
the manufacturer shall make plows and
sell them for less than cost. When the
farmers place an extortionate price on their
products, the consumer will have q riaht
to complain, and not before. Now is there
any sense in raising a cry about the prices
being regulated by the supply and demand.
Every body knows that consumers pay an
average during the year from twoto three
times the price named for their pork. The
trouble always has been that farmers have
rushed their products on the market and
take whatever they could get, instead Of
waiting until they were needed for con-
sumption. Of course men who are in debt
haveto that extent, in conscience and right.
mortgage on their products, and the only
remedy is to learn to keep out of debt
But aside from paying just debts, the
farmer has right, and should be prepared
to hold his pork, or any other of his pro-
ducts, until he can realize fair and living
price therefor.
What would he have thought Of the man
ufacturer Of plows who crowded them up
on the market regardless of the immediate
demand or Of the cost Of making, and thus
forced them off to persons who only bought
to hold, in order to make enormous profits
when there should be demand. But this
is just what our farmers have been doing.
It is as well for them as for the consumer
that they are learning the folly Of this kind
Of operation. When farmers learn to hold