Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1874-09-04
PATRONS or HUSBANDRY.
what Is the Granger1

In room With 1iie tiis,sls nuw u, lIar
passwords and signs. and grips, and
allows nobody to hear what he s.. US OF
see what he does. He must have many
secrets. Most assnredly he has; and
the Sun, locking down impartially up.
on everything mundane, and iml,art
ing health and vigor to everything
good, knows what the secrets are. In
the first place, they relate entirely to
his own affairs, and it ,s for this reason
alone that he las failed to crafty the
general curiosity by publishing them
at large. For instance, the Grangers
make their hard living by tillin1 the
soil. When one Of them begins life,
it is a great matter to him to get his
reaper, Ills mower, his thresller, and
his hundred other machines and i'm
plements, as we'll as the household
furniture. his clothing and his grocer
les, his "0ne-llorse shay and his par
lor organ at something near halt the
price of the retail merchant, or the
manufacturers agent. This he does
by cooperation with others situated
like himself; but how and where he
does it is one Of his secrets, and very
precious one at that.
LII like manner, when at the end of
a season OF incessant toll he sees his
field yellow with the harvest Of bread
and his fatted herd lowing in the pas
ture. he reflects that he and the con-
sumer of all this produce are situated
far apart, and that host Of interme.
diatc agents and traders absorb a
large portion of its value in money.
He resolves to put in his own purse
the difference between the price paid
by the consumer, less transportation,
and the price usually paid to the far
nler. He does this by means Of the
Grange; but the precise method of it
is another OF the grand secrets. When
lie has accomplished these two capital
operations he has made and saved en-
ough to make his business profitable,
and to give his wife and children some
Ur tho funuri~s ANIL advantages in
which the families Of tlourishing mid
dlemen are commonly iDdulged.
An association which promises him
such results, and which at the same
time vindic:ites the independence of
him and his class opens to him a pros
pect full Of r0seate and radiant hues
as compared with the servile and beg
carly condition from which he is just
rising. Heretofore he has taken what
was offered and given what was asked.
Henceforth he will like other classes
Of men, combine with those whose in
tercsts are identical, and to do himself
the Justice OF which lie has been so
long deprived. His power in virtue Of
this widespread and coherent organi-
zation may we'll be considered tremen-
dous. A million of members today
will be two million by the next spring,
and when they begin to hold back
crops or send them forward according
to their own good pleasure, New York
and Chicago, Wall street and the pro-
dnce exchanges, will begin to count a
new and terrible, because unknown
and unnanageable, force in the busi-
ness of the country.
TO the Granger the Grange is an un-
mixed good; to the speculat0r an un-
mixed evil. The manufacturer and
the wholesalers find their accounts in
the certain sales and the cash pay
ments which a,e part Of its economy;
50 that nobody but the blood suckers,
the Spectators in grain, the middle
men and the politicians have anything
to fear.-N. y. Paper.