Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-03-07
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OPROSSAs ah0 ehOCO VS. bhC
Oranges, that they are going too fast
making too indiscriminate assaults
upon other interests. Whether the
charge be true or false, it should serve
as hint to be prudent and guarded.
On one point at least, greater caution
should be observed, and that is the
initiation into the Order, of parties
not fully in sympathy with its motives
and objects and. therefore, not worthy
of confidence. 1t should be fixed
Law, in each Grange, not only to scan
closely, the fitness of every applicant
for initiation, but also to promptly ex-
pei every one whose indiseretion, or
want of principle makes him danger
Gus to the welI-being of the Grange.
The movement is too comprehen-
sive in its scope to be understood at
glance, and this fact, of itself, should
suffice to show how important it is to
go slow, in the beginning, making each
step an advance in the right direc-
ton. Each member should be fully
impressed with the idea, that the work
he has undertaken to do, contemplates
the regeneration of the entire political
and social systems Of the country, and
that to do this, the first step is educa-
ton of the people. AS none are too
old to learn, Oranges can be made pri-
maryschools- teaching by precept and
example, by theory and practice, the
value of those social virtues which
tend to secure honesty in business, and
the peace and happiness Of society.
They can also impress both sexes with
a due appreciation of the dignity Of
labor, and the beauty of economy; how
to make home attractive and happy by
means of outward adcrnments and the
internal attractions neatness, afec-
ton and cheerfulness.
By due attention to such means,
home, can be made the center of at
traction for children, suppressing all
desire to go elsewhere in search of
amusements and thus securing for
them the moral advantages of home
influences and shielding them from the
contagious effects of intercourse with
the idle and vicious. Indeed, if the
Oranges do their duty, there need be
no idle and vicious children in the ru-
raj districts. All may be taught that
honesty is the best policy; that indus
try is 4 virtue, and labor honorable.
These three lessons, practically, as well
as theoretically acquired, by the rising
generation, will do more to elevate the
dignity of agriculture than all that
may be effected against monopolles
and middle men, and will do more for
the permanent overthrow of these
last, than can be effected by any other
means, because they cannot exist in the
midst of the purifying influences Of
public virtue. Then to educate
the hearts and heads Of all not
too hardened in iniquty, or ignorant
beyond hope, should be the primary
object of every Grange-its own pecu-
MARY interests being the second.
But there is no valid reason why
these intellectual, moral and pecuniary
interests may not progress, pdri pdssu,
provided they are not embarrassed by
a too indiscriminate membership and .
mistaken adaptation of means to ends
The selection of honest and capable
Representatives, in every department
of the government, State and federal
will not conflict with the discharge Of
the duties above mentioned-on the
contrary attention to this point, is the
quickest and most direct means of rem
edying the ills which so sOrely affiict
the interests of the producing classes
Monopolies and corners and rings are
grossly incompatible with the spirit
of our institutions, and are the off
spring of the infamous corruption o.
those into whose hands the admins
tratiOn of the government has fallen
by means of ignorant fanaticism anC
the criminal lethargy and prejudice'
of those who have the power, but no
the patriotism, TO correct such danger
GUS abuses. For their immediate cor
rection, we must select the right sOr
of law makers; for their permanen
suppression, moral and intellectual
training is the great agency. Will
these two vital objects IN view, the
Changers have ample scope for al
their patriotism and energy, withou
embarrassing themselves, in the infan
cy of their undertaking, with mino
issues, and embroiling themselve
through the foolish and defiant utter
ances of indiscreet, if not treacherous
members. The Oranges cannot NOV,
too fast, if wisdom is at the helm, bu
with mixed crew and Incompetent
engineers, there is danger ahead, anC
predictions may, every day, be heard
that the Order will soon prove sigma
failure. We have no fears of such ;
result, but apprehend that it will en-
counter obstacles thrown in its way b.
want of proper appreciation of 1T
high aims and of the means bes
adapted to their attainment. Comment
casually heard on the streets, have sug
gested these words of caution-the.
may be uncalled for-we hope the!
are-but in any event, they can do nj
harm.
OUR correspondent, Montgomery,
urges. with force, the claims of Judgt
Porter, of Paris, to the next Governor
ship of Tennessee. Knowing the ca
paeity of the writer to estimate tn,
moral and intellectual qualifications o
those with whom he may have formed