Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-04-23

bility that compels no nobleness. They
are mainly unscrupuloIs in their means,
and entirely selfish in their action.
Bribery and corruption are their custom
when dealing with governments !; extor-
ton and brutality mark their conduct
toward private persons. They lavish
their iu-gotten wealth with varied
taste, on horses, harlots and theological
seminaries. They enrich their confding
constituencies of stockholders with
wstered stock" and plumber them
again in the guise of illegal services.
They wantonly disregard even the time
honored precept of "honor among
thieves" and turn traitors to one anoth-
er if it will ouly pay. Well may we say
with Geo. P. Marsh, our present Minis
ter to Italy, that the example of the
American States shows that the private
corporations ofaction is the
interest of the association, not the con-
science of the Northumberland COM
posed of ultra-democratic elements,
may become most dangerous enemies to
rational liberty, to the moral interests
of the commonwealth, to the purity of
legislation and of judicial action, and
to the sacredness of private rights.
Farmers Must Read and Think More.
How very important it is at this pc
riod of our country's history that farm
ers, as a class, should read and think
more upon all subjects appertaining to
and bearing upon their vocation; that
their minds should be cultivated as well
as their fields; that their moral sense
should be quickened, and that they
should have the means within their
reach Of learning the current history of
the times, of observing the action of
their public servants, and be prepared
to exercise, at all times, with wisdom,
the momentous privilege of an Ameri-
can citizen, the right to vote.
The grange meetings, if punotually |
attended and properly conducted, will |
supply, to great extent. this desider-
alum, and must, necessarily, be pro-
ductive of immense benefit to society.
Through the grange will be commu-
nicated knowledge to many who have |
no other means of acquiring it. 1t will |
call into exercise minds that before |
rusted unused. 1t will elevate vast |
of men from the abjectness of
q mere animal condition to the nobler !
station of intelligent being. Its use
fulness will constitute the true means
of dignity, as we'll on account of the true
character of its members, as the extent
of its operations.
The Patron of Husbandry to be q
thinker must be reader, it therefore
should be the duty of every officer of
grange to appoint himself or herself q
committee of one to see that each men,
Der is supplied with reading matter.
The lecturer should bring the subject
prominently before the grange at each
collect and distribute newspa-
pers, magazines, pamphlets and circu-
lars, bearing upon the vocation of the
farmer or his duty as a citizen. Such
a course of instruction strictly adhered
to and conscientiously carried out,
would bear good fruits IN less time than
many would imagine.
We, as Patrons, profess, for our main
object, to promote the cause of educa
ton, to relieve an oppressed people,
and to teach the principles of truth and
justice to all /; but we cannot accom-
plish much unless we commence the
good work at home.-Fdrner' Vindi-
Gator.