The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1875-07-08
Ear The anderson Intelziqencer

F0r the AnGeT80n InteHtgenceT.
The citizens in the vicinity of Golden
Springs, Anderson County, S. G., held meet
ing on Saturday, the 3rd inst, for the purpose
of organizing Grange of Patrons of Husban-
dry. The meeting was attended by number
of influential citizens. The following officers
were elected:
S. T. Richardson, Worthy Master.
John D. King, Overseer.
DR.. James NJ. Richardson, Lecturer.
w. NJ. Richardson, Chaplain.
John g. Richardson, Steward.
w. w. Seawright, Asst. Steward.
D. Edward King, Secretary.
John G. Smith, Treasurer
S. J. Johnson, Gate Keeper.
Mrs. Charity Seawright, Ceres.
Mrs. M. l.. Richardson, Pomona.
Mrs. Hannah King, Flora.
Mrs. Emily G. Stone, Lady Asst Steward.
Worthy Master, DR.. Fl. 1. Epting, who was
deputized to organize the above Grange, said ::
Lud;es and Gentlemen: am here with the
| authority to organize you as Patrons of Hus-
bandry. May the Great Master of the Uni
verse inspire you with wisdom to enable you
to work faithfully, and Undue you with that
fraternal spirit which is 80 essentially requisite
! to an organization like ours! You are about
to enter an organization which is awaking
thought throughout our whole country. An
organization which has for its fundamental
objects mutual instruction, thereby to tighten
labor by diffusing knowledge of its aims and
purposes. But before you can realize the high
est benefits of the Order, you will have many
obstructions in your path which will tax to the
very utmost your patience, your perseverance
and your valor. To overcome these obstacles,
every means which talent, place and wealth
can command must be freely used. Let me
urge upon you to show to your members, as
we'll as to the outside world, that material and
moral gain must and will result from your or
ganization.
Labor is the only true source of the civiliza-
ton of man, and adds more to his health,
comfort and happiness than any thing in exis-
tence, and the only means by which we are
enabled to reach the very highest degree of
human intelligence. 1t is the most honorable
of all the occupations, and the only one by
which man is enabled to realize all of his pro-
ductive powers. What is it that has trans.
formed the wild forests and unproductive soils
into vast fields of fruitfulness 1t is the strong
arm of the laboring man. What is it but Ia
Dor that has built all of the most magnificent
cities that ever existed upon the face of the
Globe? What is it but labor that has built
all the ships that ride so majestically over the
pillows of the mighty deep from shore to shore
throughout our whole country, which enables
the "Iron Horse" with long train of cars
attached, to dart successfully at the rate of
twenty, thirty, forty, fifty and even sixty miles
per hour? What is it but labor that has erec-
ted the telegraph wire, which not only enables
US to dart our thoughts from the Eastern to
the Western Continents, but around the entire
Globe in the twinkling of an eye7 What is it
but labor that builds up our country in every
respect? Without it man is poor and
wretched creature-the slave of his own physi-
cal wants and elements, and deserves only to be
classed with the lowest order of humanity.
In entering an organization like this, you
must have in view the object of arresting at
once all litigation in and among the members
of the Order. We ought, by this time, to be
fully convinced that it is to our interest, to
stand aloof from those professional gentlemen,
who always locate at our Court Houses, and
who are often instrumental in exciting litiga
tion and discord among neighbors, solely for
their own pecuniary benefit, and who have
always been curse to all civilized people,
You should not permit one of them to enter
your ranks unless his chief interest is that of
farmer, and it is your duty then to watch him,
for he will do as he always has done from the
remotest period of history-come, nine times
out of ten, as wolf in the garb of q sheep.
You should also have an eye to the mer-
chant, however he is not as injurious to the
farmers of our country as the class that have
just mention. But if you permit many of them
to enter your ranks, especially those who have
little or no interest in farming, they may shat
ter the strougholds of your Organization, and
eventually produce a lien that will cover your
entire property.
It is your duty as Patrons of Husbandry to
revolutionize your farms so that you will be
enabled to produce as much upon one acre as
you are now producing upon five. Then, by
practicing domestic economy, you will ulti-
mately be enabled to buy everything for cash,
and the merchant will be indisnensahla to VOL