The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-08-14

The PATaoNs OF HusBAsDRY-A New
SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND PoI1T1cAn E1E.
MEST. The New York Herald publishes
lengthy report of IN interview of one
of its correspondents with AIR. Sander
son, Of Washington City, relative to
this new order, and comments upon il
as follows:
Started six years ago. it appears not
to have really taken root till 1871, in
which year over 100 oranges were
organized. Since then they have spread
with singular rapidity, particularly in
the Western, Northwestern and South
ern States; and they now number over
5.OoO oranges, having q membership OF
3OO, ,UoO, with no indication of any early
check to the extension. Thus it is eyi-
dent that the ORDER basiin it capabilities
OF exerting npon the future course OF
our national policy and politics IN i'm
portant power, not to be ignored by
those who seek popular preferment or
10 guide governmental action. AS
stated by its sponsors, the main objects
OF the order are to elevate the social and
our agricultural class, aud to enrich it
By bringing it into direct communion.
tlon with manufacturers and frciphtin0
corporations. in order to save the farmer
from the exactions Of the army Of laid.
dle-men, whose commissions and profits
so seriously enhance the cost of all he
buys, while they redace to the lowest
figure his returns for products sold in
| the seaboard markets. The talisman of
the order, IN its financial aspect, is cash
1t seeks to teuch the farmer that with
cusn, through its organization, he can
buy. far cheaper than through the village
trader, who IS willing to give credit, for
which the purchaser has to pay on enor-
NOUS premium. It buys for him his
| harvesting machinery, and for his wife
her sewing machine, for much less
money than he could procure them from
agents; and for him 1t makes contracts
! with steamboat lines and railroads to
bring his grain, cotton, rice, cattle and
| other products to market at rates which
viii! greatly enhance the value of those
articles to the producer. In dealing
with capital its policy is diplomacy, not
war. 1t negotiates with manufacturers
| and freightcrs, rather than fight them.
After it has large accumulated capital,
it may mako itself felt in the oonstruc-
| tlon and control OF those great trunk
freight railways which, fret proposed
some mouths ago by the Herald, are now
so urgently demanded by our leading
business men as the necessary conduits
through which the life-giving currents
OF trade may circulate in all the length
and breadth of the land, North and
South, East and West, connecting all
sections with each, like the arteries in
the human body. By association it
would relieve the farmer from the effects
of isolation and dependence upon others
| who live at ease on the results of his
toll a ritual, with obligations Of
secrecy, appears to be used as the
cement to hold the constituents OF the
new order in place and give i. opportu
nifty to crystalline and develop. For the
present it protests it has no political
aims. It's chief engineers at Washing
ton were Ia the service ct the General
Government when the order was origi-
mated. Some OF them still are. In
some OF the Western States, where it's
numbers are large. in spite of it's de-
clared freedom from political objects, il
already enters largely into the calcula-
tions Of the politicians. IF it's increase
|
next Presidential election receives no
check, it is certain to largely tinge the
complexion OF caucuses and nominating
conventions. Earlier it's influence must
be felt in our legislative and Congres-
sional halls. Members, sure of the sup
port Of the grauges, will hold old po-
lltical fealty less in awe. and tho power
OF tie secret order will claim the atten-
ton OF tho lobbyists, who claim the
ability TO "iix" matters in our manufnc-
tories Of law. The order appears to be
| under the guidance Of men Of tact,
having the ability to commend their
new scheme to large class which con.
sidars itself chcntcd by those it feeds.
They wisely abstain from keeping an
"orgap." SO long as the ordcr conGnes
its operations to legitimate and worthy
objects, it can be content With the notice
and criticism OF the independent press
When it finds paid organs necessity it
VIII have sunk to the low level OF po-
litical party.
| y HAND Ice MACHINE. Gen. Alfred
l IypfSOp late of tho