Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1875-05-21
q Rocky RIpaR.n May IL. 1875.

Mr.. EDITOR :--Maybe you have never heern
tell of "Rocky Ridge" but it is a little farm,
OF no great shakes in your county, where
were born and bred where | have made the
food what went into my family's mouths.
The other day as ! was standin', lookin at my
wheat which is mighty good whea. il do say
it myself. up steps one OF the ueighbors and
he SAYS, says he ''Neig hhor Plowman ! wants
you TO join our Grange" - Wants me 10
do whatP' says /, speakin' pretty roughly.
for tell you fell a good deal riled for / al
ways thought that Grange WIS nothin' of no
consequence and was d bumbuggin kind Of
affair. And he says again, though ookin'
right skeered and speaking MS if lie was not
certain whether that was just what he wanted
TO say, 81 wants you TO join our Grange"
"You do, do you" says J. 81 guess
neighbor Jones when, you was countln up
the fools round here you counted me in; well if
you did, you can just count me out, for aim I
goin' to join your Grange nor no other kind
of your darned foolishness, and if you cone
round here | am goin' 10 run a pitehork clean
through you, and i m great mind TO toppe
you over now with stone" And with that,
for was awful mad, picks up great big
stone and would n toppled him if he hadn't
busted away from there, but didn't like 10
hit man in the back while he was runnn'
Now, Mr.. Editor, as those Changers, when
lie, writes you a letter and as haven't go, no
more money to spend on advertising than they
have, thought would just write GU letter
TO put in your paper, TO let those Changers
know W hat | wants them 10 know.
| wants them to know think their Grange
is an Internal humbug and swindle, gotten up
by trickin' politicians what wants 10 go to the
Legislature TO git money out of the peoples
pocket to do nothing for them, and ! just
tell you we've had enough OF this putin ur
tickets for the Legislator, sending men there
what can't draw up bill, what seIs there
and says nothing but "aye' and no" and if
the first one says ave when he ought to
said "no," then all the rest SAYS ''aye'' too,
and rice versa, aud then when the Leg slatu'
is osrr, all those what said aye" when some
smooth-saced, sneaking chap told them to say
faye" gifts some public office for life and
makes livin' without wotkin for it. Md this
Grange is Just one Of those packin' eonven-
lions " hat the peoples cryin out against. ]
ain't got no education, but I've a ways found
sense enough TO take care OF Eph and Bph' $
little ones, and don't git fooled like good
many what's go, education by feiiers what S
selling hayfoiks, aud such things and AIM
gone TO gil fooled into this Grange nei her
Tell me that you're goin' to buy fertilizers
cheaper than you can from the agents what
y
roads reduce their freights, and then you can
fertilize so cheap that you can make somelhin'
off your poor land. Yes the whole darned
thing is iertil-lies, and you cant take me in
with cn neither. Think | don't know that il
you buy your fertilizers from the manufactO-
ries way off yonder somewhere, thatit Amt
gon' 10 cost you as much to git en- here y
rail- as the agents would charge; and YOU
might as we'll talk about maxim il rain when
you wants TO, and yon wouldn't be any big
ger fool neither, as talk about the poor farm
err maxim rich railroad corporations reduce
their freight by hodin' back their produce till
they starve. And sposin' they do reduce their
freight, don I know it will put in the power
of all The farmers olt West 10 ship their pro-
duce TO Eastern markets aud nonopolize the
whole darned thing Now ain to be gulled
so darned easily, and if catch one Of those
mean, cose-fsted Changers skulking round
Rocky Ridge" what wants me to join the
Grange, l. II send day light clean through them
with big, ducking, double arrcled shotgun,
what keeps loaded for just snch fowls AS
they be- EPHRAIM PLowMAH.