The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1874-05-28

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BY THE STATE LECTURER Quite
number Of Patrons OF Husban-
dry from different parts of the eoun-
ty gathered in Upton on Tuesday to
meet and listen to the Lecturer OF
the Iowa State Grange, Mr.. j. vii
kinson The meeting III the fore
noon was a private one, and OF course
we Philstines know nothing about it;
but we are told by Patrons who were
present that Mr.. w. gave them a
good practical ''home talk.
In the afternoon, the address was
public. and the court room was pref.
ty we'll filled-not, however, SO many
citizens out side the order as we had
hoped to see and as we think should
have been there. The speaker is a
grizzly looking, sternf featured gentle
man, past the middle age, whose
short grey hair standing out about a
narrow face reminds one of the pic.
lures of Andrew Jackson. Rather
stopped and feeble looking, his APP
pearance did not at all indicate the
very considerable ability as speak
er which he really possesses. His
address was in many passages Dor
dering on the eloquent, and Others
contained pictures and appeals which
might fairly be called pathetic. We
heard a member Of the order saying
that it was shame for the Grange
to pay man to go over the State
stumping for the whitewashed Demo
cratic, or Anti Monopoly party, but il
hardly seems to us that such harsh
criticism was warranted, While il
may have been evident where the po-
litical sympathy OF the speaker was
located land from the many smiling ia
ces and approving mods of old lineDem
ocrats, it probably was evident), we
do not think he intended in any way &c
make partisan appeal. At least,
that is the way in which we prefer tc
understand it when man says, as he
did, that all he asks is for people &c
keep their eyes open and then act as
becomes intelligent, thinking citizens
| of cemmon State and country.
There are many undoubtcd evils
and disabilities to which agricultural
classes have been subjected for lack
of organization. These the speaker a.
strongly portrayed as he ably defend
ed from all the common objections
the order by which the needed
organization was effected. 1t did
seem to us, however, as we looked
about upon the assembly of rroprie
tors of the broad and fertile acres o
old Cedar, that the speaker put it
leetle strong in some of the aggre
gated misery, humiliation and grind
ing subjugation under which he rep
resented them to have been toiling il
the past. Why, AS he painted tn
picture, some good old farmers VIII
that day drove themselves into tow
with rig worth more than all tn
poor reporters earthly possessions
looked round upon that innocent in
dividual as much as to say, land yo'
are one of those conspirators VIII
have thus oppressed us!''
| We are in no critical mood, an
therefore will make no reference I
some talk about the East Us. the Yves
"good right arms" &C., which nigh
have the effect Of exciting sections
prejudice; nor to the rather strang
statement that,providing courts shout
decide certain laws demonstrations
or remove jurisdiction from State I
Federal courts, then farewell to a
our rights as citizens Of a sovereig
State;" nor to the equally strane
statement that "just in proportion
our paper money increased in value
or in other words, approached par,
the same proportion has all our ives
, ern farms, stock and produce d
creased and deprecated in their va
l ue." These are certainly strang
f statements, and will, as the speak'
, said, bear thought-at least, befo'
: being accepted as truth.
, But, as we said, this brief repo
7 is written in no critical spirit, al
: therefore omits any consideration
these and other possibly hasty Sc