The Republican. [volume] (Maryville, Tenn.) 187?-187?, 1874-08-15
THE CHANGERS.

Roman Catholics On Wisconsin are
leaving the oranges, the bishop OF Mil
waukee having issued a pastoral against
them. ;,
GEN. FIrzHUGH LEE, Of Virginia,
favors the apparent objects of tbs
Changers, but objects to their secrecy
and to the introduction of women into
its membership.
THE Kansas executive committee warn
those who organize oranges in occupied
territory that in future they will have
to consolidate with othe srauses or sur.
render their charter.
THE Kansas Farmer objects 10 the
grange taking so much money out of
the state, and shows that if the dispen-
sation fee were So instead of SIS the
sum of $4,000 would have been re-
tanned in Kansas.
Toward the close of the last
session congress received petition
from the colored citizens of Georgia
asking for an organized militia and
arms, coupled with a complaint that
there is secret society known as the
"Patrons of Husbandry," which they
fear intends to bear opprsssively on
them.
The south is rivaling the north and
west in the number and strength of her
oranges. The members of these oranges
wherever located, are brethren. They
don't ask each other whether a decade
ago they wore the grey or the blue.
They only want to know that they are
American citizens, and 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 a
bank of their own, with a capital of
$4,000, 900 in $4,000 800 shares. The
Patrons have been enabled to charter
fifty vessels themselves this year, and
are confident that facilities will be am
pie in future to take all their grain to
market.
A CALIFORNIA patron says of the re-
suits of the organization in his neigh
borhood: "The discussion of questions
of practical interest to the patrons,
which forms feature Of our grange, is
having tendency to develop not only
better manner of expressing ourselves,
but greater willingness to make the
effort. Great improvement has already
been observed in even the little prac-
tice we have thus far had"
M. l.. RETTzEL, in the Indiana Far
mer, says of the grange movement in
Hendricks county: "The grange move
ment seems to have eelipsed everything
else, and is constantly increasing. Old
politicians and wire-workers are looking
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 identical. in union there is
strength. and being free people, with
the ballot we expect to right our polit-
cal wrongs"
UNADILA GRANGE, Ann Arbor, Mich,
thinking that wage of $40 month
was too high for hired men, sent an
agent to New York to capture forty
newly-arrived Germans and engage
them for a season. After two weeks
work he secured 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 who we're not patrons. The
grange is out about 81 900 by the at.
tempt to import cheap German labor.
THE grange, national, state and sub.
ordinate, is not porperly the origin of
the farmers movement against the evils
under which tie agricuiturists have
long suffered, and from which they
sought redress, but it is more properly
an overgrowth of, or capitalization of
the forces, both moral and physical,
which have been brought to bear to
redress these grievances, and is thus the
principal factor employed in carrying
this mighty 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 as to gain everywhere enthusiast
tic adherents. Farmers have derived
help from it farMers' wives and daugh-
ters 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 by con-
versation and song and harmless amuse-
ment. Economy, thrift and manage
ment have been taught its members.
It's success proves conelusively that it
has had the power of making average
men and women work in unison for a
common good, and accomplish what
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, bat also TO partly the heart
and cultivate and enlarge the mental
faculties.
Ii was to he expected that after their
superhuman efforts politicians would
succeed in some sections in diverting
the grange to partisan purposes. The
only wonder that they have met with so
little success. The decease of Good |
Hope grange bears out the Western |
RuraP6 asseI ton that, as soon as the
oranges allow themselves to drift into
politics, they will cease to exist. The
premature death Of this grange will be
a danger signal to such bodies as may
be inclined to coquet with politics, and
transgresS the fundamental law of their
order. The decease of one grange, nav.
of hundred or a thousand granp 81,
from dabbling in politics, would be no
reason why the thirteen or fourteen thou
sand other bodies, which have not broken
their laws need despair The true vaIueof
the grange lies in its social and business
features and as long as farmers pock-
et-books contain good tangible testimo-
malls of such value, the grange will live