The Grange advance., 1874-04-08
War! War! War !!

"No people can ever consent to be
| absorbed absolutely by q neighboring peo-
| pie whose economical conditions require
totally different life and different laws !;
and least of all will the people Of the thir-
teen States who gained their freedom from
EnRland in their infancy consent to become
mere fringe Oh the garment OF semi
barbarous empire occupying the Mississippi
Valley, Yet that is what the Atlantic
States must become it the legislation now
begun in Congress is followed to its legiti-
| mate consequences. In the vote on the
Four Hundred Million bill there is sound
Of The tramp Of armed men !; and there are
| all the noises of war together in the legis-
lation which the West still proposes TO
! ,orce on the natiun.'
Tha, is the style in which the paper pub
lished in New York, tina. processes 70 be a
mirror Of public opinion. and always TO be
found on the side OF the majority, rants
over n tardy act OF justice done by Con.
gress to the West by the passage OF an act
to increase the currency sufficiently to give
the West something like tair proportion
instead OF contracting aud placing the West
at the mercy Of graspiug Shylocks OF Wall
street.
| The sound OF tie tramp Of armed men, y
forsooth:: Gains wrongfully obtained
seem always tv make men overbearing, im-
perious, unreasonable. jealous. The South
| living of the gains of slave labor: were
ever debating terus 70 the rest Of the ma
ton, and if their power was disputed or
their right to rule questioned, they were
ready to beat down their opponents with
bludgeous, or to fly 10 arms. While the
West have submitted to the cxtortions Of
railroad kings, to being robbed, deeced
and dcspoiled by Eastern rings, combin-
ations and monopolies, to pour out their
sweat like rain that their hard earnings
and the wealth of their rich soil might b:
drained from them to support jim Fisks,
Goulds, Bennctts, and al hundred other
classes of vampires and their fancy women
in rich palaces, to clothe them in scarlet
and gold, diamonds and fine linen, while
they rolled in luxuries they never earned,
gorged themselves with dainties, became
drunken on costly wines, spent their days
in idleness, and their nights in reveling
and debauchery. While she submitted to
all this, like the little lamb that Mary had,
then all went as merry as a marriage bell
the strong handed sons Of toll arise in their
dignity and assert their rights, then it is
"the tramp Of armed men, and " all the
noises Of war; The original 'Thirtecn
States - would not want to hear the steady
| tramp OF the honest sons Of toll Of the
West and Southwest banded together in the
cause Of right more than once.
! Forsooth, 'the thirteen States that
gained their freedom from England" as
though it were not for the whole of this
glorious free land, reaching from ocean to
ocean, that the Fathers fought. Who are
the true descendants of the noble pioneers
that opened up this new world, and with
they the bastard stock jobbers, produce
gamblers, money shysters and sneak
thieves who live in open violation Of every
principle held sacred by their noble ances-
tors, squander the patrimony left by honest
toll, and bring shame upon the nation, or
arc they the noble men who have followed
the example Of the honored founders Of
| the nation, gone forth and built up and
| added new empire founded in honest indus
try and justice: that gives strength, power
and glory to the old and makes the work
Of the fathers perpetual: But there will
be no war. If the Herald reflects the senti-
mcnts Of any class, it is only Of that class
Of now producing aristocracy from whom
the sceptre of political power is rapidly
passing.
The heart of the masses, made up of
hardy laborers and honest yoemanry,
east and west, north and south, begins to
beat as the heart Of one man. The West
having been aroused to demand her rights
will persist in that demand until she re-
ceives them, and the nation will only he
stronger when equal justice is done to
every section
HUMBCGS.
Humbugs seem to increase with the open