Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1875-02-12
From the New York Worll, of Fen. 4.
The National Orange.

The National Orange.
( the Order of the Patrons of Husbandrv at
/ Charleston yesterday is an event Of real
importance The World alone of the great
newspapers has followed and clIronicled
the progress of the order which nov EN-
braces $4,000 subordinate oranges and
/ from million and half to two million
of members, being in many parts of the
! West and South coextensive with the
agricultural population. 1t has invested
in its enterprises ofevcry description some
SlS, 100000 of capital. and from it accrues
an annual saving to the farming class Of
not less than S20.000.000. We congratrl-
I late the Patrons of Husbandry on the fact
that they have recognized that the laws Of
! trade are not 70 be subverted or repealed
/ by the passage Of resolution. and that
/ the nearer the shoemaker sticks TO his last.
/ as general rule the better his estate No
one pretends to doubt that, having an
nounced their determination to deal di-
reCtly and for cash, the Patrons will re-
! ceive from merchants and manufacturers
/ the attention that q business man ALWAYS
accords to those who make him business
like proposition. To the maker of reap
( ing machines or ploughs it is matter of
I indifference tn whom goes the wide mar
gin between the factory price for cash and
the retail price for credit: so the whole
sale dealer cares not whose address he
stencils on barrel of sugar or a sack of
coffee So long as he gets his money. The
devotion of the farmers to the credit sys-
TEN has had much 10 do with their bur
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they come prepared to deal for cash they
will find that the existing channels of
general trade win need very slight diver
sion, il it is possible to make any. 1t is
possible for the farmer tn buy his own
groceries. make his own boots. build his
own wagons and insure his own property,
but it will not pay him to do this if the
operation costs him more than he would
have 10 pay TO the grocer. shoemaker.
wagon builder and underwater, or as
much. The Patrons everywhere can by
union secure any supply or service for its
bare cost plus the profit To which the ne
cessarv producer or distributor is entitled.
and to attempt so secure it for less is to
seek an impossibilty and insure loss.
That the continuance of the order in
some form is certain, We are quite convinc-
ed Such an association will pay be-
sides il affords 10 the farmer that social
and mental occupation particularly need
ful to him and particularly grateful in the
winter OF leisure that succeeds his spring,
summer and autumn of hard work. We
arc equally sure that the good sense of the
Patrons will in time lead them to remove
the seal of secrecy which does no good and
much mischief, and to modify or abolish
the ritual, the oligarchical, extravagant
and erroneous practices Of its managers
which detorm il.
We cannot fail to notice the probability
that the grange will play an important
part in the restoration of the South. Such
testimony as the protest of the Patrons OF
three States which we print to-day cannot
fail TO produce among all the grangers an
effect even deeper than the abundant evil
dence of committees or correspondents.
The diversion to the South and South
west of the tide OF agricultural laborers
now flowing from England to Ontario and
Manitoba, is another enterprise of interest
and importance in which the grange is
engaging. twill not only give the South
ern planters the white labor which they
consider indispensable To the proper de-
velopment of the resources of the country
but by perpetuating the white ascendancy
will secure tor the South the peace and
prosperity which are conspicuously absent
in such States as Mississippi, Louisiana
and South Carolina.
Two things especially the grange does
WELL By promoting the interchange OF
experience and opinion, and by establish
ing agricultural libraries of reference. it is
doing work the tull value of which to
the agricultural class and the community
at large it would be difficult to overrate.
1t is also doing a good work in educating
the farmers to investigate for themselves
causes the effects of which they feel. 1t
needs slight study for the farmer to con-
vince himself that the depression which
affects his business, with that of the whole
community, is not entirely due to the
ploughmaker or railroad agent, but has
its origin in matters mediate-in legisla-
ton if inspired Of prejudice. in the debase
ment of the currency, in the discrimination
of the tariff.
Surely there is far more room for con-
graduation than for solicitude in the or
ganizstion of this trade union of the
oldest, UNNECESSARILY the greatest and the
most important of all the trades that have
ever been followed on the earth.
1t is reported that the New York Republic will
soon be revived.
1t is said that the coming bonnet will rival
that of 1894 which was one size less than corn
basket.
A verdant gentleman from Talbot was swindl-
ed out of $ll.OO last week, in Baltimore. by IA
pair of confidence chaps.
1t is whispered that christening may occur
at the White House in the spring. which hasn't
happened since Tyler was President,