Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-01-01

one personally responsible. Home strength
and manly dignity are sclf.sustaining and
more important to the country than any
mere outside law. 1t is its own law, and il
united it is public law. Unite then, dear
workers-combine in compact body. Or
ganize, cooperate, throughout the proud old
Green Mountain State We have sense
enough among the people, scattered round,
confused, but it must be transferred from the
city to the country--irom the tender and
delicate professionals to the rough-skinned
industrials The farmers home is made his
royal palace. The November election is
past, and we wait whole year for another.
But the workingmau can never wait so long
for the political wagon. He requires his
daily meals, with his regular toll and to
depend on legislators and congressman is
discouragiug life delay. The home is lit
tls world-a kingdom-to every family. 1t
is the center of the universe to us-not
Montpelier, nor Washington.
Let us understand that cooperation kills
all monopoly. The grange saves the farm
ers, and all should therefore come into gran.
ges and lodges. Dairy-associations are CO.
operative, and when the cows cooperate, all
can eat cheap butter and cheese. The world
is big monopoly of kings, lords, presidents,
governors, money, and professions, to be sub
dued by cooperation. Tue post Office sys-
tenn is magnificent example Of universal CO.
operation, most perfect and beautiful. A
letter goes thousands Of miles for one cent,
or three cents, when, if each man carried his
own mail, his correspondence wsuld cost
fortune So all things are cheapened by co.
operation. Banks are cruel monopoies.
The few are rich, the many, poor. But ap-
ply cooperation to finance, and every work.
ingman will have plenty Of work and plenty
of money. Such plan is now needed for
the hundreds of thousands out of employ
ment Learn the lesson, brothers and sis.
ters.
Love is cooperative. Marriage co-ope.
rates the sexes, and equal rights make it
happy. Womaus ballot will equalize
Monopoly of wives is Brigham Youngism.
Death, death, to monopoly! Lawyers
monopolize law, and doctors medicine, and
rob the ignorant masses. But cooperation
will rectify these things. There is no
monopoly in heaven all are in the grange.
Anti.mOnopoly is the essence Of grange poll
tics aud grange religion. Down with monopo-
ly.
What mighty revolution in single day,
as it were, and that without blood Now,
instead of king, with his sword, to awe his
subjects, we have thousands Of farmers with
the pillow, mechanics with their tools, and
women with their needle, broom, cookstove
ssd Gradle---each and all armsl with the
ballot. The hand that holds the bread is the
power that makes the law. The farmers
granary is his bank, and he holds tho key,
and should govern the transportation. Under
Potter law, or no law, the right belongs to
the peope--the common people. That is
the true democracy.
Now, it is plain that such discussion is
eminently appropriate to the grange, in its
county councils, and in the newspaper. 1t
is friendly aud brotherly, and requires uu.
checked and unlimited free speech. Let il
rouse up the sleeping apathy of all drudgcd
laborers over the whole land, The idea is
strange and absurd, that grangers have tied
their own hands, or choked their own mouths
in any true sense of politics The reform
movement is really both political and relig-
ious, practically.
Champlin, MINI, Dec, 1874.