Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-03-05

ana energy are Vastly superior 10 any
other tillers of the soil to be found in
the world.-I,ater- Ocean.
REPRESENTATIVES of the Changers of
Des MONIES and Lee counties, Iowa,
and Hancock county, ILL.,, met at Fort
Madison, Iowa, recently TO discuss the
propriety of establishing a grain and
implement agency at that point. A
proposition was made favoring annexa-
ton to the Keokuk agency, which was
referred to committee to report at a
future meeting.
THB following resolutions have been
adopted by Penn Grange $50, of Guth-
RE county, Iowa:
WHEREAS. Certain of the so-called Chicago
rings have boosted that they could blow up
certain oranges by few gifts or half-price
sales. and thereby turn them away from those
who have stood firm thus far through the fight;
therefore, be it
Resolved 5y this grange, That we will buy
rings or their agents. Further. that we will
not buy any of their half-price, neither use any
of their free gift implements.
VERMONT seems to take kindly to the
Changers. There are now 63 divisions
of Patrons of Husbandry In the State,
six IN Orleans county, ten In franklin,
one In Essex, one in Grand Isle, six in
Lamoille, twelve in Caledonia, four in
Chittenden, ten in Washington, four in
Orange, one In Windsor, five In Rut-
land, one In Bennington, and two in
Windham. The grange at st. Johns
bury Centre disbanded recently, to get
rid of the non-agricultural members,
and another was organized composed
entirely OF farmers.
"THE grange is not political, but
Changers have votes, and in Illinois the
Farmers Movement is an organized
voting force. In the Sixteenth District
day has already been nan ed aug. 30
for Farmers Congressional Nomi-
mating Convention at Vandalia. NJ.
NJ. Hooton, one of the most active or
ganizers In that district, says:
We seek reforms that can only be effected
by the ballot, and it is nonsense to try to keep
Intelligent men from discussing these ques-
tons in an organization created for the special
purpose Of reforming these political abuses ~
THEY (the Grangers) are compelled to
enter the struggle by the constant call
of the tax-gatherer. A voice cries out
to them from the fumes of every cup of
tea or coffee. 1t sounds in the very
squeak of their boots, and groans along
the face of the plowshare. The glib
click of the reaper and mower has the
ring of taxes and tariffs, and comes
back In a wall with returns from the
sale of the farmers crops.-Specch OF
Judge Randall at Norris, III
A LARGE farmers meeting was held
at Earville, ILL.,, recently, at which
speeches were made by Prot. TAYLOR, of
Chicago, and others favorable to the
grange cause. Much enthusiasm pre-
vailed. Resolutions were passed in
favor of a greenback currency; the
abolition of the national banking sys-
tenn; that the Executive shall enforce
the laws against railroads refusing to
obey, as he would against rioters and
other unlawful combinations who violate
the law; denouncing the LaSalle County
Agricultural Association, and demand
ing of it the return of 50, 900 misappro-
priated in connection with certain fair
ground transaction. The meeting was
a success in numbers and in al respects.
In Dekalb, H., special meeting OF
the Dekalb County Grange was held
recently to consider the subject and take
action as to the forming of stock as
socistion at Lyndon, Ill, for the manu-
factrre of agricultural implements. A
statement was made that 800, 600 would
be required to commence operations,
ard that $40, 900 per grange was neces-
sary, and claiming that 80 per cent can
be saved on the manufacture of plows,
and 800 on threshirg machines. The
combination among sewing machine
manufacturers and implement makers
was denounced, and spirit of enter
prise was manifested. The oranges
throughout that section are in healthy
condition.
Now WE don't want to make the kid
Siovers too sick at once, but we can
not refrain from saying, in this appro-
PIRATE place, that Wisconsin elected
last fall, and has just now inaugurated,
farmer for Governor of the Badger
State. So, then, the producing class is
coming to the front, at the East and the
West, and the lawyers and the politi-
clans are quietly asked to take back
seats. Back seats, gentlemen, if you
please. Take your beringged fingers
and bestudded linen up into the gal
lery, and let the honest, horny handed
sons of toll govern awhile. It hurts,
we know, gentlemen, and we are ex-
tremely sorry that your occupation is
gone. What would you say if the next
Governor of Indiana should be genuine
farmer ?-Indiana Granger.
THE editor of the Nation, whose
Western travels have never extended
further West than Cincinnati, and
whose experience In Western political
movements is confined to the part he
took in trying to engineer the Greeley
and Brown convention In Cincinnati
has expressed the opinion that the farm
ers' movement has completely failed
And the same week the Nation ex
pressed this opinion the New York