The farmers' vindicator. (Jackson, Miss.) 1873-1???, 1874-06-19

discords is prohibited, We do not ques
ton, but that the rule extends to
prohibition of the examination Of ques
tons, that effects us in our business O.
social relations, cannot, and will not
believe, until competent authority EN-
phatically declares it to be SO.
If our Order was instituted to cor
rect abuse and resist combinations de
structive of the best interests Of thu
country, then certainly its humble
membership are not forbidden to exer
else the prerogative Of criticising il
private and in public, every wrong anc
outrage that has been inflicted on the
vital interest Of our common country
And surely, there can be no power
SO destructive to our general or indi
vidual prosperity, as the combination
Of a vast moneyed league, concentrat
ing its fearful strength, to make all
other interests subsidiary to and sub.
servient of its grasping cupidity.
THE ORDER OF THE PATRONS OF
HUsBANDRY
is designed to eradicate this great
evil, and break up these huge com
binations; that it will require time
and skill to do so, we do not dis
pute; but in the bright future that
awaits us, there can be no doubt that
these symptoms of moneyed combina-
tions will be destroyed, and their pre-
sumptuous arrogance be subdued within
legitimate bounds.
In regard to what it will do politi-
cally, the future alone can determine !;
but that it will, when it has sufficient
numerical strength, set idly by and
permit corruption, fraud, and pecula-
ton, to hold their high carnival in our
national, State, county, and municipal
governments, without using all the
strength invested in it, to destroy their
power, and drive these monstrosities
to their ders Of infamy, is 50 foreign
from the very nature and purposes OF
its organization, that we cannot for one
moment doubt.
And to believe that it will not when
its organization has sufficient strength,
to become a power in the land, use
this power to purify the political atmos-
phere, would be to regard it as gov
erned by spirit unknown to the inn
pulses of humanity.
Such are some of the objects we
have in view, so far as the general in
terests of the country are concerned.
And whilst its efforts are directed
to the eradication Of all recognized
evils in the country at large, and its
mission in this regard is a matter Of
the most vital Importance, yet when
we view it in its other and equally in
teresting aspects, it rises in dignity
and engrosses by the splendor of its
designs our highest admiration.
While il rightfully asserts its pre-
to crush out the great evils,
which, like a huge anaconda, would
swallow up the prosperity of the coun-
Try at large, yet it is so thorough and
ample in the scope of its designs as to
within its wide range every
ocal or individual interest.
It especially directs its efforts to
fleet by d salutary change the unwise
,olicy SO manifest in our domestic
economies. Peculiarly an agricultural
Institution, it directs its attention to
hat vital department Of the worlds
Industries, and appreciates the impor-
ance of raising it to that position
which its merits so justly entitle it to.
is FOUNDERS, sENsIBLY IMPRESSED
WITH THE IMMENSE VALUE OF AG
RICULTURAL INDUSTRY,
nd the magnitude of the oppressive in
ubus resting upon it, with sagacity
worthy Of our esteem, made it the basis
# organization, and knowing from ex-
,erience the power of combination, in
practical system of agri-
ultural unity, thought, and design,
hat will ultimately result in the re-
of that vast interest, from
he tyranny exercised over it by money
d monopolies, Wall street manipula-
ions, and tariff exactions.
so LONG THE PLAYTHTNG
f money power-agriculture, the basis
f all individual and national wealth
gricnlture, the source of every stream
f neutrality-suspicious., the broad
Oundation of nations strength and
neutrality-suspicious., whose eve
y strain swells with the minstrel notes
peace, happiness, power, and dig
ity, so long the oppressed slave Of
riley and ingenious usurpations, finds
i our Order a citadel of strength
yainst which the waves of avarice