The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-10-29
THE CHANGERS.

5, next.
A ORANGE cooperative trade aasocia-
tion has been chartered at Farmer City,
Ills, with capital of 1000.
THE New York Post says the Gran
gers platform " is more like a new SER
mon on the mount that a political de-
claration of faith"
THERE are six hundred oranges in
Texas, averaging about thirty-four mem
bers to the grange, making total of
81 ,42O members IN the state, about one
fifth of whom are ladies.
THE master of the Tennessee state
grange has completed arrangements by
which he offers to furnish Patrons with
sewing m chimes, sold by agents at $50
$40 and 500, respectively, for $50, $33
Und 500.
THE Alabama Patrons of Husbandry.
to prevent fraud and theft by tenants.
propose that all merchants shall sign an
agreement not to purchase any corn or
cotton without written permit from
the landlord.
TIE Southern Agrieultulist urges
masters and secretaries of the subordi-
nate oranges the necessity of making
agricultural, horticultural and stock re-
ports to the statistical committee at
Washington city.
IT has been ascertained as ore Of the
results of the grange movement in Iowa,
that a more strict economy and cOntin-
ing purchasing to needs, the Patrons
have resorted less to banks and other
sources to meet their harvest expenses.
So say the money-lenders,
In reply to letter asking for infor-
nation, o. II. Kelley, secretary of the
national grange, says the grangers'
mortgage bank, lately advertised in New
York, is not Endorsed by the national
grange, nor is ID recognized by the e1-
ecutiye COMMITTEES in any shape what
ever.
Much depends on the master in the
grange. He should be a progressive,
reading, thinking, active man. He
should lead as an officer, and have his
suggestions matured and sound, ana
then he will have the confidence of the
members Let the masters wake up to
the Importance of their position, and be
prepared for any emergency. southern
'A0TicuLturist.
BLACK HAWK county, Iowa, has three
grain elevators controlled by the order,
one cooperative store and two cheese
factories, all of which have secured
large PeCuniary benefits to the farmers,
both Ia and out of the order, not only
in the management of the elevators and
store, but in the influence which they
have had In compelling reduced rates in
all similar establishments with which
they have to contend on the outside.
In consideration of the probable scar
city of grain and consequent suffering of
the lower classes, Union Grave grange,
Missouri, has pledged itself to restrain
Patrons as far as possible from shipping
their grain outside the county, request
the representatives to be elected to
the Legislature to urge upon their re-
BpeCtive houses measures for the relief
of the suffering parts of tho state, Cd
pose the proposed stopping of the pub
lie schools by the county court, believ-
ing that measures of relief can be de-
vised without letting their children
grow up in Ignorance, and ask sister
oranges to net upon the subject in a
spirit becoming the order.
IF concert and unanimity in action
and sentiment among farmers for the
protection of their most vital interests
are impracticable, then the Changers
had better disband. Why, the institu.
tuition was established for the very pur-
pose OF securing unanimity, n want Ct
which had nearly ruined our agricul-
tural interest. Individual honor. the
respect you have for promises, the sa-
credness of your VOWS, is the coherent
attraction which must cement Won as
one man. When individual honor is
wanting your resolutions and laws will
be worthless as the paper on which they
are written, for they will never be exc
cuted.-HOn. W. u. Winder.
In defense of secrecy in the grange. a
correspondent of the Western Rural
says 1--WE have ample evidence of the
excellence of secrecy, inasmuch as We
are taught to pray in secret to give
aims in secret, not letting our left hand
know what our hand right doeth, etc,
etc. And we might call attention to
many OF the finer relations and charao-
teristics in life which we hold in abso-
Lutte secrecy. Nothing is made common
but the drops of life, and the drops
only of everything are made common
place. Whereas, shut up in the soul
are the grand desires and aspirations of
the heart, only made known to our dear
est friend, and even then in secrecy"
THE spirit of all secret orders is too
often lost sight of-mere form taking
the place of that purer, higher and more
noble sentiments of fraturnity upon
which all orders, and especially the or
der of Patrons, are professedly founded
The moral, instead of the mental facul
ties, the heart instead of the head
should guide and govern the Thoughts
and actions of the Patrons in a fan
greater degree than they do. We dc
not fulfill all our solemn obligations
voluntary taken, when we go through
with the forms and ceremonies of the
ritual there is, or ought to be, holiel
motive for our actions than the too com
mon one of sordid gain or excellence IL
prescribed formRlity.
THE farmers of Salinas valley, Cali
fornia, were at the mercy of the rail
road corporations of that state, and will
an enterprise that does them mucl
credit, they went to work and laid dow
an iron pathway to the sea, which makes
them independent for all time of mo
nopoly in any form whatever. The por
of Monterey was only twenty miles dis
tant, where ships can come and load al
easily and far more cheaply than at SaI
Francisco. Their valley was connected
with San Francisco by long lines of rail
road belonging to Stanford & Co., bu
the Changers did not forget that HEAVIER
had blessed them with a seaport neal
by, and they subscribed the stock for
uhITOW-tThCk rhllrOhu ana nulib tn)
track themselves, and Esay they car
almost save to themselves the price o
the road the present year by cbeapeninr
transportation by the old RAILROAD line
even If they do not choose to use then
own road. This road, with n good mar.
row track, with all necessary turnouti
and rolling stock. and with two large
warehouses;, cost the people of Salinas
valley $50 per mile, and as they
save freight on million and a hal
bushels of wheat at the rate of fifteen
cents bush !, they will make a prof
for themselves. They went to work JUS
as our farmers should to protect them
selves by improving the Williamett,
river so as to make it navigable at low
water Willamette Farmer.
THE Patrons Helper, an Iowa grang,
paper, gives the Changers of that stat,
who complain that the grange has done
little for them, going over after thi,
fashion: "The California Patrons, bul
little more than year old and with {
membership not exceeding l6, 900, have
by their indomitable energy and devo