Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-02-04
THE VITALITY AND UTILITY OF
ORANGES.


we have been reading the reports of the
officers of the State Oranges and of SUBJ
ordinates, with a view 10 form an ih-
telligent opinion Of the lifetime and
usefulness of these new social and bus
mess organizations. Not being able to
purchase farm implements and ma
chimes on satisfactory terms, the gran
gers of Iowa have commenced their
manufacture with sufficient capital, en-
ergy, and skill of expert mechanics to
ensure success. Under the new order
of things, no middle man is to come
between the artisan who makes pillow
or a reaper and the farmer who uses it.
A State agent of the Oranges says:
"Our Order is now measurably cut
loose from all combinations and it now
remains for us to demonstrate to the
world the fact which we have so long
claimed that our Order is able to pro-
vide ways and means for providing i'm
Elements, and at very much reduced
prices, to meet the demands OF the
times. We now have manufactured
within the bounds of u own State al
most all the implements used by the
producing classes, and, an opportunity
is now offered us of manifesting u
fidelity to principle by concentrating
our strength within our own State, and
upon given implements the manufac-
turers of which are not only willing
but DESTROYS of entering into CONNER
cial relations with u.s."
Building up home industries by bring
ing the men and women who manufac-
ture all sorts Of goods near the pro-
ducers of grain, meat, butter, cheese,
fruits and vegetables, needed by all
alike, is an obvious and important adj
vantage to all branches of productive
labor. IF the three hundred oranges
already formed in Tennessee. and the
others soon to be organized, a learn
to produce more wealth from the soil,
the mine and the workshop, for the
equal benefit Of the members of the
oranges and the public at large than
is now done, the State will thank and
bless the institution. Production and
consumption have never been studied
as a science by the masses. One of the
leading objects of the Patrons of
Husbandry is to cultivate and
difuse knowledge on this subject.
Production of some kind must precede
consumption; and if We feed andhouse,
and clothe, and educate the great body
Of producers better than il is nowdone,
or help them to help themselves to a
higher seat in the chair of social, phys
ical and mental comfort, they in return
will help all others ten times more than
they now do. Our aid to the worthy is
ike good seed sown in a fertile soil
where the tillage and climate promise a
generous harvest. Production and con-
sumption are i~nseparable. From fear
of some interference with the pecunia-
ry interests of the members of the Or
der, the Master of the State Grange of
Missouri says hat the charter viii be
withdrawn from any Grange that adj
mits n or more political editors into
the Association. It is an industrial or
ganization, involving largely produc-
ton, exchange, transportation and
consumption. If politicians in any
way assail the labor or its re-
wards, of the hu~sbandman, he
Will act in self-defense. La
Dor directed by higher intelligence,
and acting in perfect concert Overa ma
ton of forty million people, may
achieve results which many now deem
simply impossible. Thegreat scientist,
Lardner said a few years ago that no
steamship could carry coal enough with
other freight, to drive the vessel across
the Atlantic, His science, like thewis-
dom of many Statesmen, was a dying
tradition. The vitality of the oranges
is precisely like that in telegraph wires
and cheap postage. 1t means expert
business with increased facilities for
doing the same. Yet the sharpest tools
may cut ones fingers, and ~beperverted
to deeds of mischief. No man or wo-
man will become an angel by joining a
grange or a church, but both may ex-
ercise a salutary influence in society.
Neither takes In everybody, good and
bad alike. Theone is social and econom-
icaL the otherreligous in its purposes.
A State Grange was organized a few
days since in New Hampshire, at which
twas officially reported that one of the
subordinate oranges represented a NIL
lion dollars capital. Capital is seeking
employment among educated laborers.
The Executive Committee of the United
States Grange in Washington is pub
fishing books and pamphlets illustrat-
ing the working and principles of
the Order. This committee lately in
vested $4,000 in Government six per
cent. bonds. Pay as you go, and keep
out of law suits, are two prominent
ideas. From Maine to Texas and Cal
ifornia; cultivated common sense is
working and combining for an obvious
industrial revolution. Producers are
trying to learn to keep property, as well
as to call it into existence. Who shall
have the custody of the nations wealth
all the way between production and
consumption? If well informed pro-
ducers say, we viii keep it in u own
hands, can others reasonably complain
at this new and remarkable decision IN
mankind?
IT is well known that Grant was ex-
-ceedingly anxious for a third term, but
it was supposed that his 'claim" had
been satisfied by the doubling of his
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