The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1873-06-14
The Farmers MOUinO.

From the Cecil County Whig
''The farmers in many parts Of the country ap-
pear to be waking up to the Importance of union
or cooperation, to protect their interests In IL
linois the combination against the railroads ex-
tortionate charges for freights on their produce,
is something formidable In the South and
Southwest a steady movement is being made
through secret organization termed oranges
This organization is being pushed steadily and
earnestly through all parts of the country, by
forming State, county and district lodges or
oranges, and may eventuate in considerable good
1.-THE object of these movements, and of the
numerous neighborhood, county and State agri-
cultural societies, is to build up fraternity
among the agricultural classes so that by concert
of action the power of the tllers of the soil can
make itself felt and respected in every branch of
government and avenue of trade. The day OF
chronic grumbling among farmers is gradually
giving place to movements to gain power, or
make the immense power of the farming interest
felt, and not only felt, but predominant in the
country. The interests of the farmers are one,
and when they have formed closer alliances and
conferred with each other, the jealousy and ill
| founded suspicion which has always been mark
ed feature in that class, will give way to higher
| intelligence and self-reliance and trust in each
other and the great agricultural interest of this
country will eventually control the government.
More study and education, and less hard work
possibly-or the latter more judiciously applied
will finally work the great revolution which
will place the landowners and bread-raisers in
the van of American politics.
"The habitual dissatisfaction felt and expressed
among farmers, at the hard lot and light pay of
| the tillers of the soil, will be changed when a
higher intelligence obtains among them. For,
however distasteful the business-more on &C.
count of the impossibility of acquiring great
wealth by lucky stroke, like those made often
in mercantile or mining purSuts-one thing is
certain, that great majority of the race must be
tilIers of the soil. Among farmers wealth is d.
yided; while none are very rich, none present
the squalor and abject poverty which clings like
a canker to every other pursuit. The fact that SO
MANY millions of men and women mast inevita'
bly till the ground for their own, and the bread
of the world, is fast bringing the rejecting minds
apona ihana.t saa!iaess3,s as men ia
pursuit have. They see that thousands of middle
} men grow rich and prosper, handling and con.
trolling their produce. To devise means to stop
this and a multitude of other abuses, is what the
leading minds among the farmers are now at
tempting to organize.
"Again, great deal of labor is wasted every
year on the farm, by the imperfect knowledge o.
them who direct the work. This evil can, in q
great measure, be remedied by more enlghten
ed system system that is adapted to the local.
ty, soil and markets. To occupy higher plain
in the social and intellectual world is the destiny
of the future farmer and this position alone
gained will have immense weight in reconcing
the farmer and the farmers family to his business
'Neatness and economy are branches of know
edge our farmers are sorely in need Of and which
they cannot acquire too soon. slovenly, i'll
kept place, with shabby dwellings and grounds
about it, are among the most repulsive thing:
, that greet the eye of the American farmer.
home devoid of beauty becomes repulsive; while
one surrounded by the adornments which art and
nature combined are capable, with little expense
of giving it, is spot which becomes endeared tc
every member of the family.
1.-THE movement at present going on among
the farming communities Of this country has fol
its object the centering on the farm and the coun
try, the thoughts and affections of them who
dwell there and whose desolate surrounding
and gloomy prospects, cause such multitudes tt
yearn for a change and desert the country fol-
the town, too often to meet squalor and want t.
which the country must ever remain stranger