The farmers' vindicator. (Jackson, Miss.) 1873-1???, 1874-06-19
For the Farmers vindicator.l
Good and Sound Advice.

Good and sound Advice.
For the benefit Of your young friends
and readers, | hope you or some OF
your contributors will, in the columns
of the VNDIcAToR, pay some atten-
ton to THIS damaging habit or practice
of putting off until the morrow wtat
should be done to-day. I am glad to
see your paper being appreciated.
Every farmer in our State should take
it. lam some farmer myself, and think
I k,aoao perhaps as much on this line as
the average farmer, and yet have
seen copies Of the VINDIcAToR, either
of which was worth its price for twelve
months to farmer, who did not know
more about the avocation than | do.
Your efforts to get information and
correspondents from all parts of the
State, l am gratifed to see, have been
attended with some success. And
among some valuable contributions,
those from DIR. Walden, of Carroll
county, are especially SO to agricul-
turists. / wish his leisure or surround
ings were such, that he could appear
more frequently in the INDICATOR.
And you, Mr.. Editor, should aorite
more. Your stand point, surveying
the whole field, enables you to give
much wholesome advice, and make
valuable suggestions to the Patrons of
Husbandry; and what | have seen
from your pen, on that line, has been
in the right direction. Your position
in the Order gives to your views weight
and influence in such matters, and |
hope they may be followed, so far at
least as the adjusting of your little
imbroglios within the Council Cham
ber." It can be productive Of no good
for those jars and chickering's to be
known by the outside world Such
gives comfort and hope to our enc
mics, those overshadowing moneyed
rings, now in control Of and running
the government in their own interest,
and to the detriment Of not only agri-
culturists but of the laboring men Of
every class and grade. Would it sur
prise you, should these rings be even
now represented in the Order by
shrewd, smart scoundrels, whose mas
sion it is to embarrass, fonse,at discord,
and make our movement a fdiJugef
Verify they look not only with distrust
but fear and trembling to the growing
power and influence Of our Order in
the land. They see that though in its
infancy, it already numbers hundreds
Of thousands, and extends from the
mountains to the sea-board, and from
the lakes Of the great Northwest to
the far distant shores of the Pacific,
and that within short time, unless
this young giant can be throttled (the
movement suppressed), it will WELD
the influence of three-fourths or two
thirds at least of the voting population
of our country. That through this
instrumentality, the laboring masses
may be brought to see the great de-
parture from the fundamental princi-
Piles of our government, as inaugurated
and established by our republican
fathers; that they now bear the bur-
dens without receiving any of the ben
efts of government; are but "hewers
Of wood and drawers of water" for a
oligarchy now in control of
it. ] am apprised that this is not
political organization, but you might
as well talk to me of "love not woman"
as of the prospect of an improved con-
dition of the laboring class of our peo-
pie, without being represented or hav.
ing their wishes reflected in our Ma
tional and State Legislatures. Not
until then will the husbandmen or la
borer enjoy in peace and quiet, free
from the molestation of official thieves
and robbers, the fruits of his toll under
his own "vine and fig tree" And to
bring about this happy condition of
shings, we should not SO much inquire:
Is he Republican, is he Democrat, is
he Wing? But rather, Is he honest,
IS he competent, is he faithful 10 his
trust? and govern ourselves as he may
stand this test. j. l.. B.
Water Valley, Mss, June 5, 1874