The Grange advance., 1874-01-21
The Played out "Organ" Once More.

late session, mlsre represented lis actlon, ana
fixed it up SO as to make it appear that his
sheet has been made the official organ OF
the State Grange for the coming year.
when he we'll knew that the resolution in
! troduced for that purpose was tabled by ali
almost unanimous vote. Of course he did
| not say in plain, positive terms that the
Union had been made the :: organ.' be-
cause straight -forwardness is no part of
his disposition. but his garbled version Of
the proceedings could not fail to make that
impression upon the reader. We charac-
terize this as the meanest and most con-
temptible kind Of lying. The man who
plainly and boldly asserts a falsehood is
thousand times more honorable than your
eelish Shiny, cowardly creature who IN
sinuates falsehoods.
In his issue Of the Sd inst. this model ed
itor of the would be - organ whether the
Grange wanted him or not, saw fit to drop
the subject, so also in his issue OF the 10th
| inst, but in the issue of the 18th inst, and
y
tention to this fact, the ''organ" publishes
an article from the Goodhue County Repub-
kcon which contains this language: :. The
State Grange has designated the TURNER'S
Union as the Grange organ instead Of the
Advance, which thus becomes the Grange
Decline''
OF course he does not say that the Union
was made the ''organ." but he deliberately
places in his paper an article from the Re-
publican, which does say so, we'll knowing
at the same time that it was false. The in
tention is clearly to deceive his readers,
and to make them believe his paper is still
the official organ in the hope that he may
make few subscribers thereby.
The writer Of this article and the article
of the 3lst ult.. was n OF at the State Grange
but one of the editors Of this paper was
The other article was based wholly upon
| the official report furnished US by Secretary
Paist, the other editor not being present at
the time Of writing. We have now got the
made them, and we herewith Civ. them to
show how the Union man garbl<i and mu
tilated the record to deceive his readers.
Last year the Union was the official or
gan. During the early part OF the late
session Of the State Grange, and before the
question Of an official organ came up. a
resolution was hurried through, without
discussion, recommending members g to
form clubs for the official organ of our
State Grange, the Farmers Union." At
that time the Union undoubtedly was the
official organ. Afterwards the question Of
official organ came up upon the report Of
the committee on resolutions, and after dis
cussion, the following resolution was
adopted unanimously:
Resolved, That the State Grange are
strongly in favor of doing anything that
can be legitimately done to educate the
masses and extend all proper means of in
telligence, and therefore we recommend the
members to subscribe for The GRANGE AD-
VANCE and The Farmers Union, or any
| other paper which in their opinion is the
best calculated to further this idea, but
that WE DO NOT recommend any paper as
| the official organ Of this Grange, for by so
doing we commit this Grange to the views
| OF individuals which may prove very dis
tasteful to the masses of our membership
and prejudicial to the best interests of our
Order.
Now why did not the editor of the Union
publish this resolution Why did he sup
press it? Was it because the State Grange
| appropriately named THE GRANGE ADVANCE
before the Union 2 Was it because the
Grange thereby abolished the "organ,'' -
| and intimated that it had had enough of
that concern ? In any event the suppress
sion was intended to conceal the fact that
the "organ was played out. Not only
this, but after the adoption of this reso-
luton, some one introduced another reso-
luton seeking to make the Union the Off
cial organ. and recommending members to
form clubs for it, which resolution was t.
bled, with not exceeding two dissenting
votes. This resolution is also suppressed
by the Union, because if it had been pub
lished its readers might have learned the
truth in the matter. Now what do the
readers of that sheet think of the paper
that has thus deliberately attempted in the
meanest and most dastardly manner con-
ceivable to deceive them as to the action of
the State Grange? What confidence can
De placed in any report that paper gives
after this
But the Union Duhliahes a lotter from