Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-04-30
Oranges and Changers.

THERE are L, 4UU oranges IN ILLINOIS,.
Missouri has 1870 oranges thorough
ly organized.
THE work of organizing oranges in
Maine is going on briskly.
THE oranges of Michigan now num-
Der about 320-having increased nearly
fifty in two weeks.
THE Patrons in the vicinity of Grand
Rapids, Michigan, propose to purchase
and run the works of the manufacturing
company at that city.
If all the farmers in the Union could
free themselves from debt by the last
day of the present year, 1875 would be
to them year of jubilee.
OVER million of Patrons in the
Union and their numbers daily increas-
ing Never before did any movement,
social, political or religious, make such
rapid progress. Patrons may now
laugh to scorn the efforts of their ene-
mics to force back the tidal wave. They
remind one of the good old woman with
mop and broom trying to keep her yard
dry, as the swelling tide of the Atlantic
rose higher and higher.-Erchange.
"THE war on the middlemen is fool
ish," say certain editors " middlemen
are indispensable to the community" "
True, and so are drOnes indispensable
in beehive but if you will watch,
you will see the little bees some sun
shiny day carrying out the supernu-
merary drones and dispatching them.
If this was not done the drones would
consume so much honey that there
would not be enough left for the work
ers.-COl,tna6us (1Hiss.) Patron 81
Husbandyy.
THE political status of the grange is
thus defended by the Parsons (Kansas)
Sun: "When the Granger comes to
vote, he concludes that he will vote,
first for his principles, and, secondly,
the man he votes for he must know is
man of integrity and in full sympa-
thy with the principles and policies of
government that.the grange and its in
fiuences have brought him. The Re-
publican Changers will not vote for a
railway monopolist if forty Republican
conventions have Endorsed him. The
Democratic Granger will not vote for
such man, though Jackson should
rise from the dead and tell him to vote
the straight Democratic ticket. AS the
individual Granger acts, so will the
grange as a body act"
As an evidence of the money-saving
connected with a proper organization
and cooperation of oranges In any
given county or section, we would in
stance the following: Such an organi-
zation In Centralia, Mo-, recently estab-
lished purchasing agency, embracing
district of thirty miles square. The
value of farming implements which
passed through the agency in one year,
was 1913, $50, on which the commission
usually charged would have been $2S,
O5S. In this case, the agents charges
were Just 81, 676. 50-thus saving to that
little district 1913, 382. so in one year.
Our farmer friends who have never unit
ed in this movement, and our various
friends as well, may scratch their heads
at such things but O little figuring
will show how easy it may be done by
concentration of effort.
THE time of the year is fast drawing
nigh when the country will swarm with
peddlers, patent-right swindlers, and
travelling men of all grades and callings.
The best plan is to always buy of home
merchants, from the very reason that
travelling tradesmen have no induce
ment to be honest. They never expect
to sell to you again, and it is their pur-
pose to make as mich as possible in
their single trade. The home merchant,
as a rule, sells cheaper, has better
goods, remains in the neighborhood,
helps pay the taxes, and is always
ready to compete in prices with any
body who dispenses goods in the coun
try. He take the farmers produce ii
exchange for goods. buys wood ani
other necessaries for his household from
the farmer, and it is wrong, as we'll a
Improbable, to buy goods of tramps
whose only desire is to bleed his vic
tim of every cent possible. The bes
way is to firmly refuse to deal one cent
worth with any peddler of groceries O.
dry goods. Exchange.