The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-10-09
THE GRANGE.
THE FARMERS DECLARATION OF INDIE
PENDENCE-GAREGE DECISIONS.

PENDENCE-GARE DECISIONS.
! By request of prominent members In TINS
county we give place below to sundry docu
ments of importance relating to the order Of
the Patrons of HusbanGry. Our columns are
at all times open to them % any reasonable
extent for such matter as they may desire &c
have published.
Tn. Farmer,' Declaration OF Independence.
When, in the course Of human events II be
comes necessary for a class OF people, suffer
ing from OPPRESSION and abuse, to rouse them
selves from an apathetic indifference TO their
own interests, which has become haDitoai
to assume among their tellow-citlzens that
equal station, and demand from the govern.
ment they support, those equal rights 10
which the laws Of nature and of natures God
entitle them; a decent respect for the opin.
ions of mankind requires that they should
declare the causes that impel Them to course
SO necessary to their own protection.
!, We hold these truths TO be self evident,
that all men are created equal that they are
endowed BY their Creator with certain mali.
enable rights that among these are lie, I'D
erty and the pursuit of happiness, That To
secure these rights governments are instituted
among men, deriving their just powers from
the consent of the governed; that whenever
the powers OF a government become destruc-
tive of these, either through the injustice or
ineficiency of its laws, or through the cor
rupilon of its administrators, it Is the right
OF the people to abolish such laws, and instl-
tute such reforms rs to them shall seem most
likely to effect their safety and happiness
Prudence indeed will indicate that laws long
established shall not be changed for light and
trifiIng causes, and accordingly, all exper-
fence has shown that mankind are more dis
posed TO suffer while evils are siderable, than
to right themselves by abolishing the laws TO
which they are accustomed. But when Along
train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing in
variably the same object, evince desire to
a people under the absolute despotism OF
combinations that, under the fostering care
of government, and with wealth wrung from
the people, have grown TO such gigantic pro
portions rs to overshadow all the land, and
WELD an almost Irresistible influence for their
own selfish purposes, in all It's halls of legis-
Iation, II IS their right--it Is their duty-to
throw off such tyranny, and provide new
guards tor their future security.
Such has been the patient sutferance of the
producing classes of these states, and such is
now the necessity which compels them 10
declare that they will use every means save a
resort to arms to overthrow this despotism OF
monopoly and to reduce all men claiming
the protection of American laws to an equal
ity before those laws, making the owner OF a
railroad as amenable thereto as the "verest
beggar that walks the streets, the sun and cir
his sole inheritance
The history of the present railroad monop.
oily is history of repeated injuries and OPP
preston, all having indirect object the estab.
lishment of an absoluty tyranny over the poo
pie of these states unequaled in any m0archy
of the Old World, and having It's only psrallel
IN the history Of the medleVa ages, when the
strong hand was the only law, and the high
ways of commerce were taxed by the feudal
barons, who, from their srongholds, surroun
ded by their armies ofvassals, could levy such
tribute upon the traveller as their own wills
alone should dictate. To prove this let facts
be submitted to a candid world -
They have influenced our executive officers
to refuse their assent 10 the laws the most
wholesome and necessary for the public good,
and when such laws have been passed they
have utterly refused to obey them.
/ They have procured the passage Ct other
| laws, for their own benefit alone, by which
/ they have put untold millions into their own
1 cotinrs IN tho ;niurv nf ha entire commprc, a
and industrial interest OF the country.
themselves bv hribiny venal legislators 10 he.
| trav ihe true interests al Their CONSTITUENTS
while others have been kent Quiet by the
compliment of free passes. ..
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