Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-06-18


What has the Ords, Aooomplishsdi
! 1t has accomplished the much COW
eted feat Of making itself one Of the
essential features Of this generation,
a feature that is being closely scanned
and the more closely all of its pro-
portions are viewed, the more impress
sive and more cherished it will be-
1t has accomplished the most marve-
lous growth, and at the same time a
healthy and permanent one, of any
order or sect ever started. And had
1t not been founded on the rock of
integrity and justice it would long
since have become topheavy and
fallen into disgusting, dishonorable
debris. For 10! these many years
the farmer has been compelled to
meet and cancel unjust and unholy
bills in the shape Of transportation.
Stocks have been watered and swelled,
figures have been made to lie, and
detestable knaves, yclipt politicians,
persuaded us into the belief that all is
we'll. We, unsophisticated and I'M
suspecting, believed their handsome
stories, and ere we were aware of it,
they had us, as they thought, firmly
bound hand and foot. But ere the
AK fell that was to sever the heads of
all our rights, this modern ajax, "rhe
Patron" arose, and in tones that COM
manded respect, and in manner that
forbid defiance said "hold! hold! you
vassals, l come to weigh your acts"
The matter rests for time. Hosts
on both sides were forming into fierce
combat. The Goliaths of capital
strided forth and might be heard in
their debauches and revelries saying
cit won't last long, these farmers
have not brains enough to take care
of their own business" and other
kindred declarations. In the interior
the Grange was at work preparing a
suitable sling with which to meet this
army, whose coat of mail was gold.
The spirit of our order stepped forth
and showed the world the pebble
upon which we relied for SUCCESS
The pebble had this motto streaming
therefrom, equal and exact justice
to all men, and special legislation for
none" 1t slew the "giant wrong"
and to-day we witness some Of the
fruits of our labor, fruits that are
pleasing and profitable-the reduc-
ton of rates on both passage and
freights.
+ There is not one but will remem-
Der the time when the farming class
was almost without representation in
our Legislative hall. At that time the
"blessed elect thought but little of
the wants of their constituents. Their
"chief end" seemed to be, in fact, was
to immortalize their names and come |.
home with plethoric wallets. How
are matters to-day? The first thing
asked is "what do you want?" or
what can l do that will tend to pro-
mote the welfare of you who have SO
kindly and generously made me what
l am your representative. This
great and radical change is one of the
outcroppings of our teachings. | do
not wish it understood that politics
have been discussed in the Grange
room, far from it, but rather the en-
tire workings of the order teach us
to love and cherish honesty in all
things, and at the same time deals
death blow to all trickery and Chi
canery. This is another accomplish
ment.
History is replete in criticisms
upon the idea Of Hamilton, who, in
1892, advocated and gained the estab-
lishment of United States Bank
an idea that met the strong objections
of Jefferson-an idea that perhaps
more than any other one caused the
deadly bullet Of Burr's pistol to be
sent with an assassin's aim.
Wcndall Philips, Charles Sumner,
VIM. Lloyd Garrison, Horace Greeley
and others long and patiently bore
the obloquy that was heaped upon
them because OF their views upon the
slavery question. Not few was the
number that classed them among the
fanatics and monomaniacs. Long
and patient did Morse labor before
he was able to surmount the obstacles
in his way for the consumation Of his
views that the telegraph would al
most overcome space. But as the
wheels of time have carried forward
the car OF progress, Hamilton's prin-
cipal of banking lin the maln) has
been adopted. The principles of
anti-slavery as promulgated by Phil.
Ups, Sumner, Garrison, Greeley and
others, have been established by a
fierce internecine war. Morse's cleo
trio telegraph has become one of the
chiefest, proudest elements of this
nation-an invention, or manufacture
that commands the homage of the
world. Had some one, or even a
number, advanced the idea ten or
twelve years ago that January lst,
1875, would find manufactures own
ed and operated by the farmers, he
or they would have been considered
as great fools as those men that l
have mentioned above. Facts are
stubborn things, but it is fact that
to-day there is heard the din and
hustle of manufactures in q number
of States, that are owned and kept
running by the hard earned capital
of the farmers. What more glad
some sound can there be to the true
Patron than the demoniacal scratch of
the buzz saw, the hum of the lathe
and plancr, and the swapping of the
sparks from the glowing metal that
is placed beneath the mighty and