Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-07-10

VI Tue Idllly requires, ana make cotton
and other staples the surplus; and
most earnestly do we urge upon our or
der to pay more attention to gardening
and -ruit growing, and an increased at
tentiOn to the treatment of domestic
animals, by lessening their number and
improving their qualities.
For years past the newspapers have
been preaching this sound doctrine.
Continual droppings will wear even
stones, and gradually tue folly of con-
tinuing the old plantation system after
the abolition Of slavery that gave rise
to 1t, is becoming recognized by all 1t
was in 1865 we first took the ground
that our people could and ought to
raise all their own provisions. Not
only that, but manufacture our own
wood and iron into all the implements
We need, and spin all the cotton we con-
sumo, selling only the surplus to the
world. Such must still be our aims, if
We would proper. The newspapers have
not been slowto appreciate the situation
and its needs, but it requires long and
continual hammering to change old
habits and customs rendered obsolete
by the sudden destruction Of two thou
sand millions of slave property. Now
the Grange is bringing to the task the
powerful help of organization and
united effort, and we have reason 10
anticipate that these views, so often
repeated, viii be put into practice
Such is the force of organization in
any human enterprise, religious or
civil, political or industrial.
The arguments for a diversity Of |
crops and industries, apply with pecu-
liar force to Tennessee. The voice of |
nature calls us to it. Our soils are
varied and adapted to every product of !
the temperate zone, which is the abode |
OF civilization. Our wealth of water |
power suggests manufactures, while |
our hills furnish the ready materials to |
work on. The future dictated by ma
ture for Tennessee is an open book
that any child may read No man or
community can work against nature
and be prosperous.
But TO return to the circular issued |
by the Executive Committee to the
Tennessee Patrons. A minor matter
which is a fruitful cause of vexation
and loss, although entirely within the
control Of the farmers. is thus dealt
with:
We find that the practice of Offering
an Inducement to labOrers to leave
their employers, after a contract has
been known to have been made. by per
sons Unmindful of the immortality and
injustice of such a course. has grown
into 4 custom, and Is a fruitful source
of bad feelings and litigation. We there
fore earnestly impress 1t upon our or
der that such practices are contrary to
the teachings of the Grange, and must
not be INDUCED in.
The efficiency Of cooperative organ
izatiOn is thus illustrated:
We recommend to our order the an.
pication of the principles of co-opera-
ton and associate action IN all the bus
iness and social relations of life, and
earnestly recommend its application in
forming county council of oranges in
every county, and the formation by
said county councils of a State agency
for purchasing supplies and in selling
produce, and IN building up and sus-
tanning merchants and manufacturers
IN our midst, and to sustain the labor
ing man in his efforts to obtain the Just
rewards Of his labor.
And We deem it our duty to caution
the members of our order against talk.
ing too freel Y in reference to PROPOSE
tlons made to the order by business
men, or other matters concerning the
grange. Such indiscretiOn should not
be INDUCED in or cOuntenanced by the
Patrons.
By keepinga carefulwatch over their
own middlemen employed in the work
ing of agencies, the Changers can nip
in the bud any natural tendency to
relapse into the old order of things.
The caution enjoined is natural, and
yet 1t seems to assume that outsiders
are enemies. As an almost universal
rule, the reverse is the case. Even the
merchants, as a class, anticipate most
benefcent results from the grange
movement. 1t is IN spirit and practice
opposed to the credit system which has
caused half our mercantile failures. 1t
fosters industry and economy, and so
brings to commercial marts purchasers
whose custom IS steady and valuable
The ladies need but little Iecturing,
and are dismissed with these few
words:
We recommend to our sisters of the
order that they cultivate among the
members of the order the kindest and
most affectionate regard for the social
improvement Of society, and particu-
LARRY among ourselves.
The address closes with a timely and
needed appeal to the patriotism and
manliness Of our youth:
We earnestly appeal to the young
men Of OR State to cultivate a higher
regard for our native home. and initiate
the manhood of their grandfathers,
whose type Of manhood they have par ,
tally lost in the Wild desire for more
effeminate pursnA than is creditable
Ia their manhood or beneficial to the
country: stand 10y the old men in their ,
declining years. and bcautify and stay
ON the homestead.
In the glare Of material progress, we
should never lose sight of manhood.
Machinery, and railroadsand telegraph
Will never supersede the worlds need
for sterling integrity. This is the ele-
ment of primitive times that we must I
carry with us in our career Of progress,
or it will be progress to destruction. ,
To revive amoug us the sturdy virtues !
that We revere IN our pioneer fathers. :
is not mere cropping in the dradpas