Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1874-08-06
sFHH CHANGERS.

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is Tan o0ataa iS' as #aaso RHs Mebay e sSapg
with a capital of $40,
Roman Catholics in Wisconsin, are
Maabee fhs1s having iSsasfd Pastoral psaP
GEN. FrTzuggaan,1 F gaa,1'4 LEE. 81 Virginia,
favors the apparent objects of the
Changers, lbdt objects to their secrecy
and to the introduction. of women into
its membership. ]. u "a
The Kansas executive committee warn
those who organize oranges in occupied
territory that in fiture they will have
to e9nsolliaate 7 II Dat With othe gragges or sur.
The Kansas Farmer objects to the
grange taking oh~moneys ysout- of.
the state, and shows that if the dispen-
satioh fde gere $5tinstead Sof '$I5 the
SUM OF $4,000 would have Been treg
tanned in Kansas.
Toward the close of the last
session oongfsssS y ysdgya ys petitiohs
from the coa5Sfede z esoaiti1efi5sa oai1efi5a GaSf GaSs;as la
asking for an organized militia and
arms, coupled with complaint that
Patrons Of fHusbandry," which they
fear intends to bear oppressively on
them. "a lS
west in the number and strength of her
oranges. The members of these oranges
wherever located, are brethren. They
ago they Wora Tie. srey br the bite %bihg
They only want to knbws that they arS
American citizens, drid working for The
same laudable objects.
The grange movement has been more
successful in California than elsewhere.
Not content with the success already
achieved, the Patrons are. starting q
bank of their own, with capital Sof
$4,000, 900 in $4,000 800 shares. The
Patrons have been enabled to charter
fifty vessels themselves this year, and
are cenfdentthet facilities wifhbe ann
Apie inS fdture' toEtalSe all their grain to-
market.
A CALIFORNIA patron says Gf the re-
suits of the organization in his meishs
borhood: "The discussion of questions
of practical interest to the patrons,
which forms a feature OF orr gfange, lis;
having tendency to develop not only
better manner ofexpressing ourselves.
but greater willingness to make the
s-effartszs Greut improvement .hasaalready,
been observed in even the little prac-
ticeAse have thus far bad.p.A 8 srn o
ME-. RhfFzish, In the Indiana Fsrs
mer, says of the grange movement in
Hendricks. .county:i .si The grange move.,
ment seems to have eclipsed everything
eelsS and issconstantly increasing. Y Old
Spolitioians and wire asworkers are 1ookinne
down their noses with doleful express
sion. The farmers and laboring people
OF the country are being more strongly
united than ever, because their interests
are ldenticafg .inh union there is
strength and being a free people, with
the nas ballet BALE T., We expect to right our polit-
UsEEbalSSa csnzsaaHH, ne al lun AZ Arbso4, BOZ Mich.
thinking that wage of $40 q month
was too high for hired men, sent nm
agent to New York to capture forty
newly-arriyed Germans and engage
them for q season. After two weeks
work he Sc cured his men and paid their
fares west. Arriving at Chelsea Mich,
all but eight refused to disembark, and
went further west, while six of the
eight hired themselves to countrymen
OF theirs whoswere not patrons. The
grange is out about 81, 1000 by the at
tempt to import cheap German labor.
The grange, national, state and sub.
ordinate, is not porperly the origin of
the.farmerss movement against the evils
under swhich the agricuiturists have
long suffered, and from which they
sought redress, but it is more properly
anovergrowth of, or n crystallization of
the forces, sboth moral and physical,
which have been brought to bear to
redress these grievances. and isthus the
principal factor employed in carrying
thisimighty movement into effect. OF
BUT recent origin, without agricultur-
lists for its founders, the grange has so
exactly met the pressing wants of the
times MS to gain everywhere enthusias-
tic adherents. Farmers have derived
help from it ;tfarmers' wives and daugh-
tcrs have gathered new life and
spirit. and energy under its social
and intellectual influence, and have
given in return sociality to its meetings.
Business and pleasure have been prop,
erly combined; the monotony of toll
has been broken and relieved 2 by con
versmatiop and song and harmless amuse,
ment. Ec6nomy5 thrift and manages
ment have been taught IFS members
Its success proves conclusively that it
has had the power of making average
men and women work in unison for a
common good, sand accomplish whet
they hardly dared dream Of. In the
meetings of the order all but members
are excluded, and its proceedings,
while conforming to rural pursuits, are
designed not only to please and charm
the fancy, but also to purify the heart
and cultivate and enlarge the mental
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