Nebraska advertiser., 1874-05-14
AMONG THE GRANGERs-AGA1N.

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Mr.. ). w Kennedy called at our
sanctum on Monday last. He said he
was not mad, and we were glad Of it,
for mad people are Not pleasant in
terviewers. Mr.. X. is an old friend
of ours, and we were therefore gratifi-
Ell at his call aud to see him in the en-
joyment of good health and humor.
He wanted to renew his subscription TO
the ADvERTISER-and did renew -
and see about that little article We
had last week regarding the way he
attempts TO administer his depart
ment of the grange business. He
said we did him injustice. We asked
him in what respect the injustice con-
sisted. He said We did not quote his
! resolution-tbe one he offered i'm the
grange meeting at st. Joe-correctly.
We cited him to the fact that We had
made no pretensions to giving the eX-
act words, but presumed the Substance
was correct He said it was not. We
told him when We pitched into any
( body through our columns were just
/ the generous man To give the same
medium Of defense, if desirable. He
! said he didn't want to answer through
the paper. We then requested him
to give us his resolution just az he
presented it at the meeting in St
Joseph. He did so, as nearly as he
could recolIect, in the words follow
ing. to-wit:
! ReSOIUed. hat after a subordinate
/ grange and county council has passed
a resolution not to deal with any firm
OF firms it shall be deemed violation
of the obligations of the Patrons of
Husbandry TO deal with said firm or
firms thereafter.
This is the whole OF the true res
olution, Uerbdtina, as Mr.. Kennedy
gave it TO US. That our readers may
distinguish the more readily between
the achedt and the chat, We here re-
print the resolution as we had il last
week:
ReSOLUed, That hereafter any grang-
er who shall be known to trade with
any merchant or merchants, other
than such as has been designated by
local or State Grange as suitable for
grangers To trade with, shall, upon
evidence furnished the lodge of which
he is a member, be deemed guilty of a
violation of the regulations of the or
der aud be expelled.
We leave the reader to compare the
readings of the two purported resolu-
tions and find the difference which
may be very distinguishable to per-
sons good at splitting hairs or that
know the difference between twee-
dieiee and tweedledum.
The animus Of the matter the way
K. has it and the way we had it
amounts to the same thing so nearly
that we cannot change our estimate
of it, and our criticisms of last week
are in full force and virtue. The ad-
option and enforcement of Kennedy's
resolution would impose hardships on
the members of his order as we shall
here briefly demonstrate
Granger is using his machine, he
breaks some part Of it. he must have
it fixed Immediately or suffer heavy
pecuniary loss; he could get an "ex-
ira" at T's implement store in Brown
vile. but T. has been condemned by
the county council and he dare not
deal with him for by so doing be
would violate his solemn obligations
as a Patron of Husbandry. Well.
what shall granger do in the emer-
gency? Why, go to st. Joe after your
extra" says Mr.. Kennedy-what-
ever be the consequences, you must
not deal" with T. Would not such
action by a county council be very
arbitrary ard oppressive? a few
hours of time and few cents in mon
ey would make tie machine all right
but K. would operate law COM
pelling the poor man TO spend two or
three days and several dollars travel
ing expenses besides other losses
which would necessarily be incident
to the stopping of work, rather than
trade with T.. whom he happened
not TO like, and would.be gratified if
crushed out of business. And now
Mr.. X. we hope you will not talk any
more about Us misrepresenting you,
our arguments are deductions of plain F!
reasoning.