The Grange advance., 1874-07-08

date of assessment the nrSt OF way instead
Of the first of July, when the farmer ha
not sold his grain inor adjusted his indebt
edness. Second-In adding 10 per cent
penalty, as though the producing classe
were serfs. and required goading to duty
and when the money is to be wrung from
the toiling many to be paid into the hand!
Of the favored few. Thiri.-ln case of de
linquency, the facilities with which tn
cultivated lands can be rented, while tn,
spectators wild land can not
That when Judges become tyrants lik,
other tyrants they should be dethroned.
That the farmers and laborers Of Illinois
having cmancipated themselves from tn,
tkralldom of all the old political parties
and struck for their own rights and inter
csts, have taken high and noble stand
eminently worthy Of our own imitation.
That we hail with pride and satisfaction
the firm and noble stand taken by th
Farmer Governor of Wisconsin, in the con
test OF the people with the railroads.
That we, the Industrial Glasses, will no
lay aside our organization nor cease ou,
efforts until the last wrong is righted, tn
last tyraut dethroned, and the country re
stored to its original purity.
POEM.
llotst the Grangcrs' banner high
Let it float against the sky
Till all the people through land
Sec where the Grangers take their stand.
Would you know the tirangers' creed?
Of his purpose and his deed
Would his admOnition heed:
Then on his banner look and read.
= Faith in God, who sends the rain
10 fertliZc the thirsty plain
Hope that sees the ripening grain
Fulfill man honest love OF gain
Charity whose scattered bread
Floats till fainting want is fed,
And returns to bless the heart
The generous blessing did implrt,
And around the sacred three
Links the chain Fidelity
Binding in one fraternal band,
The earnest t!llers Of our land
Then further on, just look again
Following in the noble train,
- No aggression on the ri ght
Of him who trades, or him who dclves,
Taught by religions holy light
To love our neishbor ourselves
The world was made for Caesar, true,
But was made for Brutus too
:. But woe to him who darcs invade
The rights, to us that God has given,
The champions of the pillow and spade,
On every wrong will make rail-
Till every calling, every trade
Shall learn that Time makes all things even.
Then further on, again you read
No corruption and no greed
Shall destroy the freedom won
By the sword Of Washington
And that the men who hold the piow,
While honest sweat drops from their brow,
Will disdain the proftered pcf
Offered to each to sell himself,
But will carry to the polls
The suffrage of their unbought souls
Then take heed Your bodies writhe,
Severed by the Grangers' scythe.
Grangers stand firm! The world has read
The declarations you have made.
Your hands are on progressions plow-
Never say dic-no: look back nowt
Bnt push the cleaving powshare strong
Though corruptons rankest weed,
Sprung from foul, unwholesome seed.
Born Of i'lleness and greed
Stand 10y your country in her need,
For to her Sons vino hold the plow
She's looking for salvation now.
Changers. underneath your tread
Is the soil that God has given,
And the sunlight over head
Is the approving smile Of Heaven.
On yon broad land and cultured plain.
Spread out wide fields of emerald grain,
And since your hands the seed have strewn,
Then you should reap what you have sowu,
And never yield to idle hands
The hard earned truitage Of your lands.
Grangers, stand firm! The farmers plow
Is the bright sign of promise now!
Raise it on high Permission give
For every man to look and live
If you fall back, the foul disgrace
No deep atOnement can effaCe,
And dark, foreboding clouds will lower
Over our country's future hour.
And generations yet unborn
Will hold your memory in scOrn.
And future ages will agree
You were unworthy to be free.