The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1874-01-08

fellow men the simple justice We are SO
willing to recognise in their behalf. We
are taught to look upon all lsboring me-
chsnics Is fellow helpers in supporting the
world. We have no inclination to under
rate their merits or defrsud them Of their
honest earnings. But while we accord to
them just and proper remuneration, We
claim for ourselves from them . reoiproca-
ton of simple justice.
The social Grange We here celebrate
may be considered farm on a large scale,
al least so far as cooperation is concerned.
And as in large farming institution it is
the duty OF the head farmer to seek the
best m@rket and cheapest trausr ortation
for all the produce, to sec that nothing
is wasted in exhorbitant charges for car
riage, or BY selling below the true value,
so We, on CUR great farm, or Grange, have
men who seek out for US the most avail
able reads to market, and the best prices
for our grain At an honorable SALE So we
hope to be enabled to husband our resour-
ces in such manner that our homes NAV
enjoy and exhibit some evidence of refine
ment, that our sons may be distinguished
as we'll for intellect As Industry, and that
We may have some little leisure to taste
the sweets and comforts We are difusing
among all other classes Of society.
In the Good Book, where We learn 80
many noble lessons of piety and morality,
We are also informed that the .'Husband-
man that laboreth must first be partaker
of the fruits" But ss Changers We would
no. sickle for even this God given prior
ity. if We could but enjoy . reasonable
share of these fruits after We have been at
pains to stop The mouths of q hungry world.
But the non-produeing classes have little
else to do but cit and plot against US far.
mers, snd by their adroitness they have
managed to get up rivalry among the men,
bers Of our noble calling. They have set
US at variance, and they have, to q great
extent. made farmers feel that every other
cultivator of the soil was their rival and
opponent, standing directly in their path
way to succeas !; and by this delusion they
have managed to cheaper our produce I'm
Ill its sale will hardly suffice to pay our
taxes. It was in this way that the crown.
cd heads of Europe so long held sway over
divided, tugnaoious and ignorant people.
And as the nations Of Europe are now be-
ginning to awake from the long, long night
of ignorance and kingcratt, it is in good
taste that farmers of both hemispheres
should awake from the stupor Of mistaken
rivalry with which the non producers have
msgn eti.ed US. It is time We had begun to
see that the interest Of oil orking classes
is essentially identical. The Grange move
ment is an effort to snify the. interests Of
farmers, movement to throw of the in.
cubus Of agricultural rivalry. Uni6cation
is tho taste and tendency Of tho nineteenth
century. Union is now beginning to be
considered strength Is we'll IN secular q
in the still higher and boiler labors Of thu
church. The divisions Of the church,
which for 80 many years have stumbled
the men Of the world. ore now awakening
the attention Of tho wieest heads of tn,
best nations of Garth. The late Evangel
ical Alliance which met in New York, il
its proteststions for Christian Union hal
made an epoch in the history Of the nine
teenth century. And while the old WALL
Of partition between religionists are crumb
ling swsy, is not unmeet that that in
terest Of the world which stands next t,
eternal salvation should combine fer it,
own protection, and for that unity ant
community which breaks down rivalry ant
secures cooperation and good will anon,
| men.
There is bat in South America vhiol
is called tho VAN pire. It tries to flch
living out Of honest people by sucking til
blood of sleeping men. 1t fastens ltsel
somewhere en- the head of its victim, an
gently fans him with Its wings to keep hiu
asleep, while the trescherous animal drain
bis life's blood! A copy Of this vampire v
have in GLASS of operators who sell aeri
cultural implements. They fan US will
tanning mills, respers and threshing ma
chimes, and even barn shovels, until, Will
We sleep, they draw away the rich currea
Of our vitality. One single vampire q
this kind has been known to suck $500
in one season from q single community
But it 10 . part of our study to get rid {
this empirical and vsmpirical imposition
Among tho ancient hungariaDs tn
vampire was thought to be kind Of en-
bodied ghost, which roamed the cart
sucked mems blood and caused deatl
Dom Calmet tells US that "the way the
managed 10 got rid of these, Was to disinte
the body to which one was supposed to b,
long, pierce it with stake from q gree
tree, cut off the head, and burn the heart.
But We have much less offensive, an
more effective, means Of clearing out tn
vampires of our farming community.
is to have officers Of our own to npgotial
with the manufacturers Of such implement
IS we need, and thus dispense with tn,
class Of niddlemen who have show
themselves both avsricious and unscrup,
lous.
As Changers. it is our duty to add firm
ness to gentleness; to be kind to oil Of
posers, but be firm for every rishteo,
principle; and to DO alike careful to Of
courage no rivalry among ourselves, o.
70 admit no one to the privileges Of our o
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