The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1874-02-05
THE new sECREr oRDkR.
Som ethtng About the soverfSes Of In
a0saTy.

THE new 9ECREr ORDER.
so,a eths.g About the soverfSss Of Il,
aassSy.
To the Editor OF the Daily Graphic
1t will interest many of your readers
who have looked with longing hearts
towards the great order of the Patrons
of Husbandry, but could not hope to
enter it because they were not technic-
ally interested in agricultural persuits, I"
organization, under the protection of
the Patrons, coming to under their aid.
This is the order of Soverigns of In
dustry. That it 10 protected, and that
the leaders of the movement are come
of the first among the Changers, 10 Of
itself sufficient guarantee that 1t 10 con.
Q ave IN goo ! faith, and viii be conduct.
ed with any ability that will insure its
rapid growth among all industrial class
ses. Its secretary 10 not some invisible
creature, hiding in the obscurity OF q
up. o. box" but the able and WE'LL
known Mr.. ]. c. Abbot, general deputy
Of the National Grange. who is to take
up his pertinent residence in Worcester,
where the first National Council is al.
ready in working order. Mr.. William
II. Earle, Q well-known florist and q
citizen of high standing, is the master.
Another council has elready been or
ganized in Albany. New York. New
York city will be the next center of OPP
Grafton. The Springfield Republican,
in an editional on the ''Sovereigns OF
Industry" says:
Like the grange of New England pro.
duct disclaims political intentions, but
it dosen't disclaim human nature; and
we doubt not that organized human
nature will have opinions on political
issues, and express them too. The far
mers' grange even in New England dis.
plays good deal OF vitality this winter.
1t becomes Q very agreeable social in
stitu,ion in the rural ''gay season." and
the grange in the valley and up in
Berkshire think it nice to get their
-four straight from the Iowa oranges at
s. less than the price here. We won
der if the grange housewife finds any
drawback in the color of the biscuit
made from it.
The objects of the new order are iden-
teal with those of rhe Patrons. only it
embraces and benefits large class OF
the community. or course it is not ex-
pected that the "middleman" can be
entirely abolished. The oranges them
selves must have their agents at the
shipping and receiving points, but, as
the Republican says in the same edltO>
rial, "there is manifestly no use of bav-
ing middleman at the Iowa freight de-
pot, another at Chicago, another at Al
bany, and q wholesaler and retailer at
Springfield"
But to those who are inside these
orders there is q deeper and grander
satisfaction than that afforded by buying
ct discount directly from the producer,
though this itself is . great gain. This
deeper and grander satisfaction is the
true religious spirit-the warm senti>
ment of brctherly love. Convention and
dogma have killed the spirit ont of our
churches, but it was born again in the
grange; and the fire of divine love that
filled the souls of the Christian fathers
and mothers who took refuge at their
affairs fin the Catacombs when pursued
by Pagan hate burns again in the hearts
OF the oyerworked and oppressed people
when they form their sacred circles in
the grange, aud sing there simple, souls
inspiring songs. Old sectarian prejudi-
ces, political strifes, and party lines are
fading away before the higher teaching
of the grange, like grim midnight spec.
tiers before the light of day. And is it
not strange that those who have followed
the course of the scientific movement of
this century, and have accepted it as
new evangel, CO not seem comprehend
what this movement of the producing
classes all over the world means? That
they do not recognize 1t and hail it a.
social science in action? An era is at
our very doors az pregnant with the
signs of the transformation of our social
and industrial systems as the political
movement of the last century was to our |
political system. Industry is becoming |
copcious Of its fuaction, and is organ.
izing to demand its recognition. In the |
last century the American with such |
political rights as-the King might grant
hem without detriment to his preroga-
live, and, rising to the conception that
origin of political power resided In
and not in their rulers,
they inaugursted the Revolution of 1876. |
the producers OF the worlds
wealth finds themselves dependent up
On the bounty of their industrial rulers,
not only for the right to labor, but for
The pitiance of their production which
they are enabled to control, and they
are organizing to conquer their indus
trial freedom. Political slavery was
founded on the sword and persisted by
the sword in the hands of the people.
The industrial seldom of the present is
founded upon legislative measures, and
has come to see that by these
measures alone can it conquer its frer
dom.
With this conception of the industrial
army of the present We cen understand
the wisdom which lead the grange and
the soverigns of industry to avoid more
politics. They are, to quote the words
of Herbert Spencer in his recent paper
upon 1.-THE Transitions of Institutions"
interested in Questions of transcendent
compared with these occupy
ing the minds OF politicians and writer's
of history"
MARIE ROWLAND.
Hamilton, N. j., January 10, 1874.