The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-05-07

Oranges have multiplied so rapidly all over
the Middle, Western and Southern States,
while yet in its infancy, the Order has become
huge affair. In our rapid increase in this
section, we must not suppose this state of af-
fairs exists alone with us. The officers of the
National and State Oranges have to labor to
their utmost extent to supply the necessary
material for organizing new Oranges alone.
Consequently, there is but little time left them
to look after the wants and requirements of
those Oranges already organized. Patrons
then should have patience, and inform them
selves of the fundamental principles which lie
at the foundation of the Order, and in accord
ance Herewith shape all their acts, that life,
vigor and encouragement may be infused into
every member. Let them not depend too much
upon others, but bear always in mind that
upon the individual or subordinate Oranges
depends all the hopes for which they are striv-
ing,
The interest of the consumer and producer
are opposite, if not antagonistic; the farmers
or Patrons are the producers, and it is reason
able to suppose that they alone are capable of
forming proper estimate of what will advance
the producers interests; any advice rendered
them, then, in general way, as to their con-
Germs, by those not of them is not for then
Farmers have not always so understood this
important fact, and by following different
course have been led into many errors, where
by they have become almost irrevocably en-
tangled. The first principal object, then, OF
the Grange is to free farmers from these meshes,
which have so operated to separate and divide
them one from another. Thus placing them
in the unnatural position Of being, in truth,
hewers of wood and drawers of water for the
rest of the world.
In the organization and arrangement OF
Society, there are numerous and various classi-
fications and divisions. Each class is more or
less necessarily dependent upon the others.
Each class has its equitable rights and privi-
leges, which the others are in duty bound to
respect But as self.nterest is one of the rul-
ing traits in the mass of mankind, the tenden-
cy is to invade Others rights and privileges,
and this tendency would be much oftener
Welded to we're it not for the invariable laws
of political economy, any infraction of which
laws will sooner or later react upon the class
so invading. Now, the farmers constitute one
of these classes of society-they have their
rights and privileges which they claim the
other classes should respect, and upon the
same reasoning they are bound to respect the
rights and privileges of the other classes. 1t
would be the acme of selfshness for one class,
in the very clamor for its rights, to infringe
upon the rights of others. This is truism
applicable to all classes, and, if kept steadily
in mind by the farmers, would aid them mate
rally in placing proper estimate upon the
many fine spun theories regarding the relative
obligations by some, supposed to exist between
the several classes. BY comparing their posi-
ton in the past with what it is now, lamen-
table fact is made manifest; that as class
they are possessed of but few of the privileges
they are equitably entitled to enjoy. This may
appear to one otherwise interested, or to the
advocates of one-sided economy, to be an
exaggeration, but to the thinking tiller Of the
soil the assertion is truth we'll established
The second principal object then, which the
Grange is endeavoring to teach, is that the
farmers should at the earliest moment possible
re-assume the rights and privileges which they
have been led to barter away for what was not
even equal to Esaus r.ess of pottage. As
good Patrons, let us not, in the effort to secure
our lost position, inhict the same wrongs upon
others which have been inflicted upon us, but
at the same time let US adhere tenaciously to
the ends in view, swerving neither to friends
or from foes.
Before the organization of the Grange, the
r farmers, single-handed and without organiza
ton, felt and felt keenly the pitiable condition
OF their class, but could see no remedy fol
the evils which afflicted them they conse
? quently, became disheartened and discouraged
and fell naturally into the course which tend
ed to aid in bringing additional evils upor
themselves by bringing disrepute upon thei
class and profession. They isolated themselve
: from each other and the rest of the world, ane
feeling they had no one to depend on bu
themselves, soon acquired the belief of com
f plete self-reliance-a trait exceedingly usefu
? in it's place. but in this particular case, al
! enemy to education, improvement and progress
+ The greater this self-reiance, the more com
plete was their isolation, until ignorance as
3 sumed the place of wisdom, when their misfor
tunes were complete. This want of prope
!. understanding as to what was their interest i
3 the root of most of their evils. The Grang
D is aware of the fact, and hence has adopted a
its principal fundamental doctrine, "Educa
: ton, progress and improvement"
, Having established what are some of tn