Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-06-04


Master Allen, of Missouri State
Grange, has ne patience with any
Patron who will own bank or rail-
road stock. He says:
"We want no such tangling ALLAN
ces. Men engaged in such enterpris'
es are not eligible to membership in
our order, and If, after becoming
members they choose to engage in
them they ought to seek q dissolu-
ton of the connection with us, as
these schemes are clearly in conflict
with our purposes; and If they have
not the manliness to do this, We
must have the courage to show them
our gates. There is as much affinity
between oil and water as between
Patrons of Husbandry and railroad
and bank monopolies. They will
not mix in the very nature OF things
no congeniality between them
whatever; and the sooner we rec0g-
nize that fact, the better for us. We
have no compromise to offer them.
We demand justice, and intend to
have it,"
Let us indulge home illustration
of the absurdity Of Grange doctrine
as taught by this eminent Master !:
Hon. Samuel Breckenridge, of this
county, is an estimable gentleman, o
respected citizen, an excellent farm
er, a worthy Patron, an Anti-Monop-
olist in good standing, a member of
the Legislature elected on the Grange
ticket. His organ, the Democrat,
says he has enough of this worlds
goods, and did not need that portion
of his salary as Representative
which he donated to the county In
sane fund. 1--WE might with propri-
ETY. also name A. b. Lyman, NJ. V.
and George Harsin, +. b. Ruckman,
Allen Short, Osbin Marsh, w. j..
Millard, and hundred other good
men, all farmers, Changers, etc., but
Mr.. Breckenridge may fairly repre-
sent the class. Mr.. Breckenridge
has few thousand or few hundred
dollars surplus capital. He does not
care to use it upon his farm as he has
work enough already, and perhaps
there cannot employ it proftably.
What shall he do with it? If he
loans it to his brother farmers for In
terest, or invests in government
bonds, or merchandise for profit, or
town lots for legitimate speculation,
tor i'm any other manner uses his hard
earned surplus for his own good and
increases his means thereby, does he
not as justly subject himself to the
charge of being monopolist as if he
should invest in bank stock?
He lives ten Or twelve miles from
a railroad. He must drive his stock
and haul his grain that distance to
find market, or by selling at home
discount market prices at severe
cost. This he wants to avoid; he
wants to develop a valuable coal
mine on his farm; he wants humid
red advantages which railroad
would bring to bin and his neigh
bors. If he joins the merchants in
town, and his farmer neighbors who
like himself are willing toencourage
the building of railroad, and takes
stock for that purpose, does he there
by render himself odious, and ineli-
gible to membership in the Grangep
If not, what does Grand Master Al
len mean?
Is it not the possession of dollars
and the voting in opposition to the
so-calIed Anti-Monopoly party, that
makes a man a "monopolisto and
places him under ban? Some Of the
gentlemen we have named above
own bank stock. Master Allen
would therefore "show them the
gatesn If they had not the ''manli-
nessn TO withdraw from the Grange.
Those of them who vote the Grange
ticket, although they own bank
stock, are in good odor with the an
ti-Monop. party. Those who do not
vote that ticket, honestly seeing the
whole thing grand monopoly and a
transparent humbug, are denounced
as Radicals" and scarcely recogniz-
ed as Changers.
Cow Gtnpa'a Letter withdrawing