The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1875-06-10

turaI industry with agricultural !
wealth. In the first place, materials
to very large amounts which might
be worked up to advantages, but
which will not bear the cost of dis
tant transportation, are wasted for
want of neighboring manufactures.
In the next place, it is destitute of
those towns aud villages which grow
| up around such establishments, af-
fording home markets for the produce
of the farmer more advantageous
than those at a distance, and supply
ing him with necessary articles at
a cheaper rate, the price being dimin-
ished to the amount of the cost of
transportation.
Where manufactures exist the i'm
dividuals interested in their success
and prosperity from their proximity
to each other, easily unite their eff
forts for all purposes ofcommon inter-
est, and good roads naturally result
from such combinations, and conven-
lent lines of communication are
everywhere established, so as to give
to each one his fair share in the adj
vantages of trade, whereas in purely
agricultural countries the products
of industry, in too many instances,
find their way to market by misera-
BILE roads and circuituous lines of
communication, to the great loss and
Inconvenience of the farmer.
But the present state of things can
not last. Already upon our agricul-
ture new and better era is dawning,
which, under the stupendous power
of the Grange; will speedily brighten
into perfect day. Under its guidance
the farmers and planters in the South
will emancipate themselves from the
iniquitous rule ofgreedy "rings," and
brush away the parisitical classes
which prey upon their substance
Under the powerful hand of the Order
of the Patrons of Husbandry, with its
million and quarter. of earnest men,
all owners of the soil which they cul-
tivate, the means of transportation
by land and by water, and in every
: direction, will be so multiplied as to
putt an effectual curb upon the pres
!, ent monopolies by competition, and
> the pillow and the loom and the forge,
seated side by side, will work har-
moniously together for the common
. veal. 3R @ E'agi%
WHO WoULDN'T?-Does the fal
mer croak? Yes, and who wouldn't
: with so much to try his patience and
vex his soul? Must he smile to see
himself the sport of the seasons
drowned with rain when he wants
!, fair weather, and parehed with
!, drought when he needs rain !? Can hi
e be accomplishing when the. frosts. o
n a single night blight his budding
S hopes, and give him the certainty O
J. want where he had tire promise OF
e abundance? e..,.-,,.4
|, When what the seasons leave him
n his numberless other enemies threat
r en- to destroy? Think Of the many
e diseases to which his crops are sub
It ject-of Others. which consume hi
tiocks, his heards, fowls, &c. File
i and bugs and insects without mum
h Der, the cut worm, the caterpillar ant
o other creeping things, the locust ant
q the grass hopper. the birds, thesquir
"a rels, the beasts, and the mole-all ar
Is the farmers enemies. That was
IS sly joke, or a poetic license. of Virgil
ar when he exclaimed:
Ia " O fortunatos minimum, sua ri bona norint
AgrieOlas! - w @ m ~
le But, alas! they don't know thei
IL blessings and do know their misfol
g tunes. This being the case, the
VI must and will croak, and as we sal
ie in the beginning, who wouldn't?
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