The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-08-27
The Grange RevolutiOnists.

"The Patrons of Husbandry," bOganS
lied into oranges, it is claimed by their
Order, number 100000 members, or
nearly 1000 oranges in Iowa alone.
Missouri is said to have increased its
number from IA to 200 oranges, Iowa
from 652 to nearly 1000, Illinois 65,
Kansas -, Alabama 8, South Carolina
100, Tennessee 4, Ohio 6, Mississippi
SIS, Michigan 8, Nebraska 40, Louisiana
3, Georgia 2, Virginia l, Minnesota 36,
Kentucky l, Arkansas, Wisconsin "a,
Vermont ~, New Jersey l. Canada 3
California has 30, and will soon have
so, making % States in which oranges
are organized. A grange is composed
of a master, overseer, lecturer, steward,
assistant steward, chaplain, treasurer,
secretary and gate-keeper, all gentle
men; and ceres, pomona, flora and lady
assistant steward, all ladies. Care
should be taken to select persons well
qualified to discharge the duties of their
several positions. A general deputy of
educational Grange initiates the men,
bers and installs the officers, for which,
in either case, the officer officiating is
entitled to travelling expenses and S.
per diem for the time occupied. The
deputy or installing officer keeps du-
plicate, and a fee of SIS they get is
sent to the National Grange at WASH
ington, from which are furnished dis
pensation and the necessary books,
forms, etc., to enable the Grange to put
itself into working order. We quote
the following from an address of Judge
II. Halt Hyatt, formerly of New York
and Rochester, but now of California,
and master of a California grange:
We propose to become rerolutionists!
; Yes; we propose to try our hands at
revolution until we can overthrow the
perverted, rotten system by which the
industrious farmer, the producer of the
very elements of mans existence and
, subsistence, has been made to toll and
sweat and suffer privation, and too Of
ten penury and ruin, in order that the
bloated monopolist, the grasping mid
dleman and the ring slIarps, who roll
the farmer of all his profits, may roll in
F luxury and wealth, and by which the
farmer has been made to support the
politicl demagogues who ride into pow
err on the backs of the honest, but
duped, tillers of the soil, who are taxed
and taxed, and squeezed aud robbed, to
support these Unsuitable mOnOpolists
and political bummeCs, until it has
come to be serious question with
many farmers whether they had not
better abandon their farms and theil
homes to those who already absorb
nearly all the profits their farms and
labor can produce.
, We propose to break up the monopolies
: to combine our strength in one mighty
power that shall be able to hurl from
place and power all these dishonest
harpies who steal into Office, betray the
: farmers interests and makes them
selves millionaires and lordly aristo.
Gratis at the expense of the honest but
too cou6ding farmers.
We propose to demonstrate that
! though our Order is secret organiza.
ton in its modus operandi, in its inter,
nal workings, and has secret charm
spring that gives vigor and unwonted
energy to its magic workings-a shield
/. Of mystery that from prudential yetjus
tifa5le reasons the outside world may
} not penetrate, and that shall exclude
: the trickster and covert enemy from
our councils, while we only maintain
the privacy necessary to every judi
cious enterprise, yet we do not fea
$ freely, boldly and publicly to declare
t the ends and aims that we propose tt
4 accomplish in the progress of our secre
Il mission. They are such as all goot
: men, honest patriots and trne Chris
: tians and worthy citizens can commend
;, and wish success to.
The tax gatherers shall not, as il
u 1871, be paid nearly forty cents on th'
D dollar for collecting the internal reye
e nues of the country, or $7,225.392.5'
e for collecting $l3,375, 288 20, as shown
J, by the report of the Fifth Auditor y
3 the treasury in that year.