The Grange advance., 1874-04-29
BY A. GAYLORD sPALQING.

women learn the value and power
of the pen: 1t would give potency
to the newspaper beyond Legislatures
and Congresses, and thereby enable
them to throw off the extra burden OF
taxes-State and Nationalist politics
and war. They would no longer,
through ignorance. consent to be con-
tinually crushed by capital, fashio"
and aristocracy. Each one would pro-
duce his own honest bread, and become
his own individual sovereign: president,
and governor. What worker needs to
be governed. protected, and saved at
such fearful cost? Universal nonsense
and imposition: We are taxed for our
very breath, which goes into the hands
of men that never lift finger in the
way Of productive labor. 1t simply
keeps up nation full Of professional
leaders, who live on the peoples drudg-
cry. But the leaders will never stop
until the workers dismiss them Let
US do that then, quickly as possible.
It will be a happy day Dear Changers,
discuss this matter, and write for your
free and brave paper.
The question Of rights must be un-
dcrstood. The first right is. to be a
man or woman; which consists Of body
anG mind, life and liberty, and the
means Of happiness, as stated in our
great Declaration of Rights. And the
ballot is the key, which unlocks to all
and to each impartially the worlds
riches and blessings. 1t is the symbol
Of equality, and the power ofthe nation,
which, intelligently exercised, makes
every man king, and every woman queen.
1t is the backbone of all true democracy
Any other quality is an unmitigated
sham and an outrage on mankind.
The means of happiness are labor
and property, or production. What
need Of lack to anybody? But behold
your Astors, Stewards, and anderbilts> J.!
They are social carbuncles and NON
strosities. Yet such men lead| the
world, and every city and town have
their petty Stewarts and Vanderbilts,
whose motives, aims, and principles are
the same as those Of the bigger bugs Of
large cities They are your monarchs
Of trade, money and monopoly. The
true object Of life is perverted, and
property is considered more curse
than blessing for the rule seems to
be, that the higher the wealth is heaped
up, the more frightful and hideous is
the amount Of poverty, ignorance, and
vice all around, especially in cities
ITO have and to hold more than
the noble usc-is the controlling idea
Of most men Of property. The few nat
urally gain in oppressive ascendency
over the many, and no relief is attain
able except through a terrible struggle
and crisis, as in the late rebellion
against negro slavery. and now in our
rebellion against monopoly. A partial
and temporary victory will amount to
very little. We must "plow deep" in
to the principles Of things. Arlstocra.
cy and non-production are the same
under any name, whether secular or &C.
clesiastical. There is no sect in truth
and principle, and but small degree of
truth or principle in our sects. This is
proved by their endless divisions and
disputes. They must therefore be set
aside, and better ideas substituted,
which will throw of an awful burden
from the shoulders Of the laboring class.
Truth is always harmonious unity,
and works exceedingly cheap.
But the Grange institution is to cor.
rect and regulate matters hereafter, and
will cover the entire ground of business
and politics, thereby economizing ex.
tensively by dispensing with hundreds
Of old, costly, professional, aristocratit
ways. For instance, in legislation. Al