The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-10-02
UIls Gril,,lae.
Nasty.
Some Trouble occurs I'm Mr. Nasbys
GranEe--The Honest Farmers Move
for Their Rights.
From the Toledo Blade.

Workin eZ smoot with us eZ L GOOD wisl
in our movement for the reject Nv TIL
hard-handed agriculioorists NV llhnoy
We hev made some blunders ourselve'
and besides the farmers themselves don
show that abstract enthusiasm wich
wanted to see. They are too devoted II
things purely personal to take brnat
views Nv things.
Oar first misforchoon occurred in tbs
election Nv officers Nv our Grange. go
list Nv the officers, and we went on Il
fill 'em. Mr. Cephas Billins was elected
Master. Mr.. Pettus Treasurer. Mr.
Blathers Secretary, and the other prInei'
pal Offices WIZ filled by the other gentle
men who woodent decline a county offs
eff they wuz urged hard enuff
"IVha. am | to hev?' I asked
Bilins run his intellectual eye down
the list
Wood it SCOT 700 to be Floral p he
replied
Anything - wuz my answer.
Whereupon, / wuz elected Flora, and
the list was published in the county
papers.
There wuz a guffaw all over the coun-
ty. Not one Nv US knowed that Flora
was a female knowledge is power The
idee Nv my being Flora-the goddess
Nv Flowers, and SIGH mite ez well put
4
and short sleeves, and stand in taboo
ez the Goddess NV Liberty
But we endoored the lafture Nv the
populis at this little blunder, and went
to work vigorously to drum up recroots.
We held daily meetins in the back room
NV the Jackson Hotel, discussion the
wrongs Nv the laborin classes. To see US
there was site which shood hey melted
the hearts Nv the laborin men. Billiuses
favorit attitood vaz leaning on his elbows
on a Temporary bar. Pettus, lying on
long on a long table. at full length.
mournfully victim his lips ever and anon
with a little whisky ana water, while
Blathers was tipped back in a cheer,
with his feet on winder sill, where he
Good see the sons of toll. whose interests
we wuz watchin oyer, a sweatin in a dis
tant field.
''Observe," said Blathers. that hon
est yeomanry putin in his unrequitted
toll. My sole aches for him, it does"
And to drown his sorrows at the site,
Mr.. Blathers ordered glass of whisky,
remarkin' to the landlord in the most
absent minded manner to just chalk 1t
down, which the landlord, havin' heerd
the concloodin sentence Nv the order, IN
an ekally absent minded manner didn't
bring the likker at all His onfeelin' re-
mark was that he was just out of chalk
That afternoon [ got hold Nv three
farmers, and had long and satisfactory
talk with them. They were incensed
agin monopolies, and were ready tie Jlne
in movement to bust en-. | told EN-
Nv our new organizashun, and invited
them to come with me and enroll them
selves with choice band Nv noble spir-
its, who wuz agoin to bust their bonds
and elevate labor to its proper place.
''Are 700 will. to jine such holy
croosade? ~ | demanded. 'Are you
willin to iine organizashun witch will
give the farmers of the country proper
reward for their labor-Wich will give
EN-, in short, wat belongs to EN- ?''
Eve air we air !" said they, in ko-
rious.
Then come with me !" said I.
| ushered EN- into the back room of
the jackson Hotel.
"Billins, Blathers. Pettus, | yelled,
exui,ingly, there is three honest yeo-
many who hes bin ground into dust by
thievin monopolies, who want their rites
here is three recroots for our noble ar
my of freemenl"
1t struck me at the time that my
friends did not look so exultant ez they
should-that they wore the general ap-
pearance Nv three men who wood hev
liked to hev been somewhere else.
Mr.. Billins." sed farmer No. l, you
propose to give the farmers wat is their
doc, do 700 p
''Mr. Blathers, you are going to re-
store to the farmers what is their own,
ain t yoo7 p said farmer No. p
'Mr. Pettus, you propose to help to
restore to labor vat belongs to it, don't
yoo?"
Certainly" sed Billins. Blather and
Pettus ez white ez sheets.
Then commence in this holy croosade
by payin me for the load of hay 1 sold
700 eight years ago, sed the infooriated
man, seezin Billins by the throat.
PAY me for the load Nv potatoes 700
bought Nv me last winter" shouted No.
,, seezin Blathers.
PAY me for the load NY wood l drawd
you last fall, wuz year ago." shouted
No. 8, goin for Pettus
The farmers didn't get their pay, and
we hev abandoned all hopes of sekoorin
them. There amt no use Nv US sympa-
thizers with labor tryin to do anything
with men who take such narrer and
grovellin views Nv things ez these men
do. Principles are broad and general in
their naeher, and cannot be brot down to
SIGH matters ez wood, potatoes and hay.
Ontil men kin be made broader, our la.
bors will be in vain. Can't Pcttus,
Blathers and Billins sympathize with
labor jest ez we'll when they don pay e7
when they do"
follered these men out and heerd en-
ask each other wat earthly good it coco
possibly do labor and laboriu men to elec
three sieh internal beat; to offs. This i:
the reward We git for our services il
awakinin the masses to a sense Nv Their,
wrongs. And the ongrateful wretehes
are organiziu is elect actooal farmers te
the Legislature. ard to SIGH county off
ses ez hev anything to do with taxasher
and SIGH Wat Endorsement is there fo
Il.