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The Grange advance., 1874-05-20
Five Things the People Should Demand

1st. Cheaper transportation by open
ing and improving water routes: and by
such laws regulating and equalizing
tariffs on railroads, and by such other
means as may be found just and neces-
sary
End. A complete remodeling of the
Patent Laws, so that inventors would
be allowed a reasonable royalty upon
each article manufactured, and ali be
permitted to manufacture and share the
benefits of the invention by paying the
royalty.
Sd. The support Of the general
government by taxation based on actual
property valuation. and collected
through the same channels as are
Township, County, and State taxes,
with scarcely one dollar of additional
expense, doing away with the horde OF
revenue collectors and revenue class
with nothing to do, who like an army
Of locusts are devouring the wealth Of
the nation, doing away with the neces-
sity of our Custom Houses of palatial
dimensions, built Of marble and granite
with untold millions wrung from the
toiling masses by the consumers Of the
taxed articles on unequal taxation.
4th Free commerce with all ma.
tions, with all questions of home finance,
trade and banking solved on the same
principles Of equality, right and justice
9Th. A faithful aud honest admins
tration Of the laws, and just and eco
nomical management of the govern
ment finances. H..
The Grange advance., 1874-05-20

The GRANGE ADVANCE is furnished in
clubs of ten for Sl.50 per year, and will
be furnished for the next 30 days to single
subscribers for three months, and to clubs
OF ten or more for four months at so cents
each on trial. We want five thousand new
subscribers in the next thirty days, and
can have them if every one of our friends
will 20 to work in earnest.
The Grange advance., 1874-05-20
The Unions Apology.

Some unpleasantness having sprung
up between the Hastings Union and
Major Kennedy, the Union man goes
for Kennedy after this fashion:
For the last two or three weeks, Major
" "Arkansa 9" Kennedy has seemingly done
nothing but run about the streets Of Hast
ings, informing our friends and enemies
that he was about shooting down on sight
either one or both Of the editors Of this pa
per, because we dared to state what the
county records prove that Kennedy, each
year he was Auditor, drew few hundred
dollars extra salary. That is the true rea-
son Of his rabies, though he tries to put it
on the footing that his "mad " was up be-
cause we called him Stebbin's dog.
AS TOR drawing extra salary, he cannot
deny it; the county records prove it, but
We do acknowledge that We might be. mis-
taken as regards him being Steb's dog
perhaps steb is Keunedy's animal. One
thing We are positive Of, that the whole
Federal Ring is dirty pack, and Kenne-
dy's pistol can never make us take it back.
Now that he understands how much effect
his threats Of shooting has on the course Of
the Union, We expect to see him carry them
into execution, and We have no doubt that
By next issue our readers will have the
pleasure Of first class obituary notice Of
either one or both the Editors;
We "want,to be On angel" our will ID
made perfect resignation has taken posses
sion Of our manly bosoms, and We calmly
await our fate ct tho hands Of the gallant
The Grange advance., 1874-05-20
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Here is little anccdote we want the
Pioneer to publish. A prominent Re-
publican recently turned Democrat.
Says l." What made you change :"
Says he" Perfectly natural"
Says I-"Why SOP"
Says he" Don't man, when he
gets tired lying on one side, always turn
over and lie on the othcr?"
The Grange advance., 1874-05-20

Party, dropping out all the old leeches
and supplying the places with new
men, is the question the Pioneer is now
pondering over with serene gravity.
We think that after it shuff1es the cards
for few weeks longer it will follow us
and 90 in for ii new deal all round.
The Grange advance., 1874-05-20

Major. We wish to inform " Arkansas"
B (for fear of mistake) that the Union Office is
in the third story of the Dakota County
Bank Office hours from A. M. to 6 P. NJ,
and by application at the Office he can easi-
ly find the man who wrote the article, and
who is willing to shoulder the responsible
ty. Kennedy knows his man let him shoot
The Grange advance., 1874-05-20
The Present Feature OF Political Or.
g1nS.

1t is amusing to watch the varying
tint of the political organs Of the day.
For years past when farmers we're need
ed for political use, they were soothed
and oonciliated by few kindly and
patronizing expressions. Honest
farmer" "sturdy yeomanry," "bone
and sinew of the country" we're
choice expressions, and used with gen.
erous liberality during a political
contest; but suddenly the organs strike
a higher key note, and voluntarily in
form farmers that they are a "power
in the land" What liberal conces.
sion! All derison from this source has
ceased, no more clod-hoppers, Doors or
burlesque, but all is either compliment
or fulsome flattery.
In wasat school have these editors
taken lessons that they have so readily
learned to conjugate the signs of the
times in new style? Is it the Grange
organization: that troubles them? They
are not in the ship, can't control the
helm, and for their souls can't find out
in which direction the vessel is steering.
Here is where the trouble comes in.
No wonder they sing.
81 want to be Granger,
And with the Changers stand,
An Office in my pocket,
And salary in my hand"
The Grange advance., 1874-05-20
An Old Farmers Opinion of Party.

George Washington in his Farewell
Address to the people of these United
States that address through which the
beloved Lincoln could find nothing more
appropriate to be read in all the churches
and everywhere throughout the land in
the darkest days of the Nations great
struggle-used: these words, which with
the history Of the past before us, seem
almost inspired: IL" The alternate DOM
ination of one, faction over. another,
sharpened by the spirit of revenge nat
ural to party dissension, which in differ
ent ages and countries has perpetrated
the most horrid enormities, is itself a
JrtghtfM despotisn. But this leads at
length to a more formal and permanent
despotisns. The disorders and miseries
which result, gradually incline the minds
of men to seek security and repose in
the absolute pover Of an individual !;
and sooner or later the chief of some
prevailing faction, more able or more
fortunate than his competitors, turns his
disposition to the purposes of his own
elevation on the ruins Of public liberty.
Without looking forward to an ex-
tremity Of this kind (Which, neverthe-
less ought not to be entirely out Of
sight, the common and continual ms.
chiefs Of the spirit Of party are sufficient
to make it the interest and duty of
wise people to discourage and restrain it.
1t serves always to distract the pub
lie councils, and enfeeble the public ad-
ministration. 1t agitates the commun-
ity with ill-founded jealousies and false
claims; kindles the animosity of one
part against another; foments occasional
riot and insurrection. It opens the door
to foreign influence and corruption,
which find facilitated access to the gov
eminent itself, through the channel of
party possessions. Thus the policy and
the will Of one country are subjected to
the policy and will of another.'
How do these words of wisdom cor
respond with the prating Of miserable
little demaggogues and one-horse poll
t'clans about "loyalty to party keep
ing up :'party lines,' and "party disci-
pline :" What interest has the people
in I" party drill and discipline None
at all.
The place seekers who have no merit
Of their own, and wish to obtain nomi-
nations by manipulating party caucuses
and to ride into position on the strength
Of party excitement, are only men inter
ested in keeping alive party strife and
feeling: George Washington, who only
sought the good Of the Nation, and &C.
cepted ofhee With reluctance, as duty
The Grange advance., 1874-05-20
Advertising Rates.

Special notices in editorial columns, % cents per
line.
Cash before insertion for all advertisements for
month or less. and invariably in advance unless
special arrangements made.
The Grange advance., 1874-05-20

\ gentleman named Wright, is this
fall going to drive over Illinios one of
the elegant four horse carriages fur
nished at public expense for the use of
Government officers. The carriage
selected was used by Secretary Delano.
This will exhibit Washington style,
and give the farmer, who tolls all day
covered with sweat and dust, the de-
lightful pleasure of seeing to what use
his share of the tax is put.
The Grange advance., 1874-05-20

If the farmer wants to know how
much tax he pays to support the Ma
tional Government, he can take the
gross sum Of hundreds of millions annu-
ally expended and from that take the
share proportionate to Minnesota and
from these data he caa make up his ac-
count pretty nearly. Remember al
ways, every dollar of the National debt
and National expenses is paid by the
productive class, and can't be paid from
any other source.
The Grange advance., 1874-05-20

President Grant has finally recognized
Baxter as Governor Of Arkansas, and
will give him military support to keep
him in Office. This was scandaIously
disgraceful affair. Brooks probably
got majority of votes but Baxter got
the certificate so that neither Is legally
elected. 1t may be the Legislature now
in session will take steps to correct the
wrong. No doubt the fighting is now
brought to an end.
The Grange advance., 1874-05-20

Gan any one inform US OF. what use
to the country is, or has been, the Ma.
tional Bureau Of Education at Wash.
ington 1t publishes tons Of useless
documents which nobody receives or
reads: yet it is paid for by the peo.
pie.
Can any one inform US of what bene.
fit to the country is the Department Of
Agriculture at Washington? It dis.
tributes few worthless seeds and sec.
'ond-hand reports, all If which is paid
for out Of the earnings Of the producing
class.
Are not both of these institutions a
fraud and injustice to the people, and
kept up merely to make places for idle
political hacks?
The St. Paul Pioneer, as managed
by its new editor, is auxiously looking
about for a new camping ground. II
can't yet determine how to get fixed
for the fall elections. Whether to play
second fiddle to the Press and patch to.
gether the disentegrated fragments Of
the Republican party, to go in for Don
nelly's anti-monopoly movement, Or to
follow us in building up an lndastr;a
The Grange advance., 1874-05-20

The Wisconsin railroads are making
square, stand-up fight against the
Governor The law regulating fares
and trcights Was to have gone into op-
GRAFTON May lst. but the companies pay
no regard to it. The Governor declares
he will bring them to limbo; he has
not openly proclaimed that he will
snake them over HI, but he has said
enough to show there will be lively
time before all is over. 1t requires no
prophetic vision to foretell the result Of
a conflict Of moneyed monopoly ar
rayed against the power Of whole
State. Consultations for purposes Of
extortiou doesn't loom up so beautifully
and pro6tably as it did u few years ago.
The Grange advance., 1874-05-20
This is the way farmers do things in

This is the way farmers do things in
illinois:
The Illinois farmers, who met at Bloom
ington few days ago, and called an inde-
pendent State Con !ention, represented L.
PIG farmers clubs, and claimed the control
OF 200, 900 votes. or one-half OF the voting
population of the State. Commenting upon
this remarkable claim Of strength, the
Chicago Tribune says. whether it is overes-
timated or not, there can be no doubt of an
entire unanimity among the farmers OF the
State to shake off old party bondage, and
start out anew. "There is also,'' it adds,
ga powerful Anti Monopoly, anti-caucus,
and anti-corruption element in the cities
and towns as we'll as the rural districts,
which is equally disguised with the frauds
that are being exposed from day to day in
Washington, and with party spirit which
would hold down the people to the abuses
they have borne too long'-N. Y. Tri-
bune.
Are the Minnesota farmers incapable
Of rising up in mass and shaping polit-
icaI affairs after their own fashion.
Suppose they should let the old lcechcs
drip and try new deal
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1874-04-25

Men nd women both wesi gar
mpn'- very much re,embhhg hr old
Roman toYa, shiGh pre fas eu"' 'hon'
h wa,, AIua Srs y gir l'. l G
an, wear he halrii very nee
way, netting utter the waterfall
style, minus ihe false material. Thr
men wear theirs pretty much as the
Europeans do. II is still the custom
or he lodies, Va soon as they marry
blirkcn heir teeth and shave Their
cve'rows, in order, I suppose, To
prove their ,ffeUtion for their hus-
,aud., and l think it ought, for it
renders them horribly ugly. The
young misses are usually very good
looking, and some of them beau
,iiul, but none OF them can compare
with our Young girls at home. They
are accepting the modern improve
mrn,s with wonderful celeritv, anc
are making long strides on the roat
TO civilization, and rapidly dlstancin
their nt,ghbors in China.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1874-04-25

THE STAGES OF THE OLDEN TINE
The first line Of stages in the United
States was established soon after the
close OF the Revolutionary War, by
Captain Levy Pease, OF Bos' on, and
Mr. Evans, of the Indian Queen Ho,
tel, in Baltimore, and extended from
Boston to Savannah. They were
long-bodied carriages, on Yery low
springs, having five seats and no
doors, and were entered by crawling
in at the front upon your hands and
knees, and proceeding in that way
until you reached the seat you were
expected to occupy. The celebrated
Frenchman, Brissot de Warville, who
afterward suffered under the guillo,
tine, made tour of the United States
IN 1887. Speaking of these carriages,
he said "they were admirably calcu-
lated for the country IN which they
were mi de use Of" as if better and
more convenient kind could not have
been used. They were at least as
pleasant az the public conveyances of
France at that time, and for many
years after. Handsome and conve.
nient diligcncies did not find their
way into France 10 any extent until
after the battle of " aterloo, when
the French began to adopt the Eng.
lish fashion.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1874-04-25
BY TIE l. E G r A p ii

BosToN, MASS, April 2i.-The fund
for the relief of the Louisiana sufferers
amounts to $50, 600, with continued sub
scription.
PITTsBURo, April 24.--The river has
fallen nine feet and ten incnes.
WAsuTYGToS, April 2i.-The Senate
proceeded to the consideration of bills on
calendar, and the following were passed:
4 bill amendatory Of the act to provide
an internal revenue to support the gov>
ernment, to pay interest on the public
debt, and for other purposes, approved
June 30th, 1864, provides that no legal
document or paper required by law to be
tamped, which was made, signed, or is.
sued in the Northern States prior to the
first of January, 1865, shall be deemed or
held as invalid, or of no effect, by reason
of the failure to impose thereon the ie-
quired stamp.
New York, April 24--Thc failure of
John Zeriga, gold broker, is ans
nounced.
BosrON, April s4.-George Markland,
printer, committed suicide last might
fii;s;-wi His wife recently drowned herself.
New YORK, April 24.-The Evening
Post states that a three-story frame
house on Stockton street, Brooklyn, fell
this morning, while being raised, bury
ing some seven or eight workmen.
At ten o'clock four had been taken out,
who were believed to be dying, and two
could be seen in the ruins, supposed to
be dead.
BosroN, April 24.-Gen. Butler has
been interviewed ON the veto message OF
the President. He said he had not read
the message, but could not see how the
President could get around his own act
Of last fall in issuing the twenty nix mil
lions reserve; in fact, he did not under
stand it, unless Mr.. Grant had gone back
on himself, adding: "Well, if the Pres,
ident will deny his own acts, let him dc
it."
LIVERPOOL, April 34.-Cotton quiet
and unchanged.
NEW YORK, April A.-Cotton weak
and unchanged. Gold closed at 11ai.
GALVESTON, April 24.-Cotton nomi-
nal. No transactions; Good ordinar!
15t; Middling Ut. Gold 112.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1874-04-25

The PEAcH.-The peach is ma.
tive OF Central Asia. From thence
it was brought to Southern Europe In
the time of the Romans 1t was cul-
tlvated in England as early AZ 1880,
and was brougho to this country by
the earliest English settlers. The
peach likes bright, sunny climate,
and succeeds far better III China and
America than in Britain, or any por-
ton of Western Europe.
In ancient times the peach was
consiG d, by the Chinese, a sacred
fruit. There are some traditions of a
particular tree which bore but sin.
gle crop in thousand years. The
fruit of this rare crop was supposed
to confer immortality on those who
ate OF il. Another tree, growing in
the mountain iaslaess, and guarded
by q hundred demons, bore fruit
which produced death when tasted.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1874-04-25

lie Carlton, q French paper OF New
Orleans, charges that Kellogg, the
usurping Governor of Louisiana, has
Subsidized both the Picayune and
Times. Like the Mercury, we find it
hard to believe that any man or
paper Of decent standing could be
bought to back the guilty author OF
SO much evil, as this man has un-
doubtedly wrought for poor Louis
lana. Yet, in these corrupt days,
these days OF "editorial Advertising"
and impersonal journalism, we are not
prepared to take up the cudgels in
defense Of our New Orleans cotempo.
ssries until we see our way more
clearly. Will they furnish the light
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1874-04-25

From all we can learn there has
been less cetton and more corn plant.
ed in Texas this year than last. l
the worms do not visit the interior,
and destroy the crop, notwithstand,
ing The shortnsss Oi The cotton seed
s,wn, the yield may even exceed thai
ot 1878.
"Santa Anna has returned to Mex
leo, and is in want. Ii the museum
managers throughout the country
who have his wooden leg on exhib,.
ton will return it, he will he able v"
tshlish wood yard.'-&. L,uis
| Globe.
Had it not been Tor the kindness o.
old Joel Robinson, he would have se'
up grave yard in the neighborhood d
ol san Jacinto, and furnished the first
corpse himself.
A correspondent, writing from the
city of Mexico, says:
81 cannot pretend to give descrip
tio1 of the cathedral. | never saw So
much gold and silver used as ornaments
in the interior OF building in my life
solid silver columns, ten or twelve feet
high, supporting g'lden candesticks,
surrounded every altar, bronze roiling'
protect the precious decorations from the
cupid of the devout " orshippers. Ii
every recess was AN altar, at some OF
which, during my visit, ladies, gor'
geously attircd, were kneeling on the
bare floor beside the filthy Indian, saying
mass, and eech alike dropping their fe'
much or little, as the case might be-
iu,o the golden box which the priest helt
out. Paintings on the walls, gold trap
pings around the sacred alcoves, anC
FURNISHED gold and silver behind the al
tar, make the interior one scene of splen
dor.
There arc 10000 Grangers in Cali
fornia.
Berry Shouse announces himself al
anti Granger candidate .or Supervise
from the First District in Nipa county
California.
The divorce business is better in Chi
cago now than it was before the "grca
fire."
A paper in Nebraska, under tn
head of"An hour with our bushes
men," describes two saloons, an,
ends the item with the remark, eth
completes the round of the busines
houses on the public square"
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1874-04-25

We look carefully over the column
81 copied puffs, ia the News every
morning, and find them mainly from
yspsrs from whom the News rarely
Or never copies anything else. The
sountrr papers Of Texas could teach
New York advertising agents several
dedges they have never yet dreamed
Of. sud this is one of them.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1874-04-25

We had over column Of eompli
nents and editorial notices of the
News from our brethren of the press,
On hand, which we intended publish
ing this week, but last mail brought
~ such an additional quantity that
vs end the thing too overwhelming
fer eur mcdesty.-San Saba Ne'os.
Nay il ever be thus with yen,
brother Lessing; may you have the
compliments, and in no stinted meas
ure, TO the end Of your days; may the
Spirit Of Good preserve, in like man.
Aer, your modesty.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1874-04-25

II is said that there is q strong
feeling ia the Legislature TO repeal
the present printing bill, and restore
tAst passed by the 18th Legislature.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1874-04-25

The Statesman, of the 22 /, has an
able and extausti, e argument In ia,
vor of the passage oi the Public
Weighcr bill, presenting, however no
rev argument and only making a
careful arrangement OF the arguments
already produced.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1874-04-25

The Galveston revival is still in
progress. The Mayor, it is sad to re-
late, is the only prominent citizen
who has yet succumbed. There is a
vast amount Of necessitous material
for the revivalists TO work upon, in
that same little city by the sea.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1874-04-25

Dr.. Frank Rainey is ont in the
Crockett Herald, and explains his
reasons for resigning his seat in the
Fourteenth Legislature.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1874-04-25

The bill before the Georgia Legs
ture to pension crippled Confederate
soldiers, was vetoed by Gov. Smith
on mere technlcalily. He, probably
deeming it impolitic at present to al.
low the bill 10 become law,
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1874-04-25

The present overflow in Louisiana
hss set the levee tinkers to theorizing
sesln, and in the meantime the fair
State Is in fair way to be drowned
out entirely. It is the same old idea.
II the patient dies, the physician has
the satisfaction of knowing that he
aied according to the books.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1874-04-25

The Dallas Commercial pays q
high compliment to the address Of
Worthy Master Lang, delivered to
the State Grange at Austin a few
DAYS since. The address was indeed
. most able one, and well worthy a
careful study.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1874-04-25

All the large cities in the north
ahd east are subscribing very hber
ally ia aid Of the sufferers in Louis
lana. This is redeeming trait In
northsrn character.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1874-04-25

With reference to the statements made
IN the Galveston News, with regard to
the public printing and the proprietor OF
this paper, we have only to say, that we
never entertained thought Of getting
the printing, except upon the condition
Of Offering the best bid, and any intima-
sisa that Ne expressed ourselves other
wiss 10 false
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1874-04-25

Galveston has three crack volun.
sess sempan,es, and Is scarcely three
tiAss ss large as Waco, aid yet we
haven't. one, nor is there any pros>
peet, either immediate or remote, that
we will have one. Are our young
men turning Quakers
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1874-04-25

We are gratified to note that the
Waco EXAMINER disclaims being the
"only Simon>pure" Democratic paper
In Texas. This condescension and
recognition oil the claims OIL other
journals will be appreciated by the
press of the State. The announces
ment comes late, but yet may be in
time for the encouragement Of less
prominent journals than the EXAM
INER Selah .-Ne,cs.
We can't imagine why the News
discusses subjects like the at owe. it
doesn't claim any sort Of Democracy,
"Simon-pure" or otherwise, and if 1t
did, the evidence against such claim
is SO overwhelming that he and his
claim would be laughed out of court
in no time.