The farmers' vindicator., 1874-09-18

raised, after thousand commissions and
bloody antagonisms, and after the lapse
of centuries. England for nearly three
hundred years in her perversion Of the
natural law of supply and demand,
attempted to build up a vast system of
manufactures at the expense of other
interests, thereby sinking the mass Of the
people inabject ignoranceand the deep
est degradation and poverty; lasting un-
til starvation stalked through the land
a familiar in the household of every
laboring man lasting, until her cor
rupt and rotten borroughs, the con-
trollers of Parliment, bought for a
price. became SO foul, that in sheer
desperation the hand worker and the
mind worker, made so vigorous de.
mand for the repeal of protection laws,
and the abolition of the corrupt politi-
cal borroughs, that concentrated wealth
yielded to the power of the people
and the result has been that English
agriculture fourishes, the poor laborer
fears no starvation, education is dis
seminated, and the men who once lay
voiceless under the burdens of wealth
protected by special legislation, now
influence the policy Of the government
Of England.
LOOK TO THE EAST,
the land of the lotus and the palm,
the land selected by Omniscience for
the planting Of Paradise, the land, we
are told, which once flowed with milk
and honey, where the vine empurpled
the hills, and the waving grain gilded
the valleys; what is it now? For
thousands of years despotism has de-
stroyed agriculture, and the millions of
the poor, who starve even in the midst
of the grain they raise, work and toll
on and die, to pamper the thousands
who rule and sqaunder what the poor
produce. The East, the birth place of
man, ofcivililation, ofletters, ofpoetry, |
Of religion and to-day, where can you
find despotism more limitless, big. |
otry more blighting, a humanity more
debased, and a civilization more bar
baric ?
No civilization, no liberty can exist
SO long as the wealth of a nation is
controlled by the very few, and agri-
culture is in the hands of only the
very poor and needy-so long as labor
is debased and capital concentrated-so
long as capital can corner the grain of
the West and the gold of the East
SO long as imbecility and corruption
drives from the seats of power and
place, study, honesty, and moral char
acter, and SO long as one industry is
protected at the expense of Others,
and the higher moral sentiments of
the people are shocked at the corrup-
tions which are the eminations of such
policy-eventuating, as it has with us,
in Sanborn contracts and Credit Mobi.
liers Pacific Railroad Stocks and f.
nancial panics.
These remarks will not infringe that
rule of the Order which disavows po-
litical afinities, and banishes their dis
cussion from the Grange Hall.
THIS CRUSADE OF PATRONS,
however, is in defense and for the
of American agriculture, /,
and if any policy of the present Gov
ernment is in its way, it must fall.
Place for the monarch of the land !
Open the doors of your temples, for
we would examine your Gods, and if {
you have erected false idols, the icono-
clasts of the country are ready and {
will demolish them. We are the war
rantees of the national prosperity, and c
false political theories must give way I
before this advance, as well as false i
theories in detail agriculture. Other q
wise the organization is useless, and it s
will become only the pupPet Of another {
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