Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-04-17

and State oranges. your Councils and
neighboring oranges in all matters that
are subordinate to the interest of the
whole brotherhood. The intimate re-
lationship and mutual independence
that exists between the subordinate
/ oranges and the State and National
oranges are so interviewer that they
are mutually dependent for their ex-
istence, on each other, which makes it
the imperative duty of the former to
punctually obey the injunetions of the
latter. and the latter are as imperative
ly bound to subordinate all of their
measures and injunctions to the pros
perity aud perpetuity of the former.
All the measures. however, that have
been set on foot by the State and Ma
tional oranges do not SAVIOR of this wis
dom and prudence yet all censure and
strict accountability should be with
held, attributing past errors to want
Of experience; for no order of such
immense proportions, can boast of a
higher standard of integrity among its
chief officers than the order of gran
gers.
Your duty to other subordinate
oranges should be to extend to them
becoming civility and brotherly de-
pertinent, cooperating with them in all
matters for local and common veal, at
the same time vieing with each other
in the accomplishment of the greatest
good.
The order is purely agricultural in
its nature, and the cultivation of such
principles and measures as directly
tend to improve and elevate that art is
the bounden duty of every good gran
| ger. To this end more enlightened
understanding of the laws of nature, a
higher standard of education among
farmers is the surest and most perma-
nent aid in your reach; without ityour
order must ultimately languish and
die.
Elevation and greatness, liberty and
virtue are the legitimate offspring of
an enlightened people, while the igno-
rant can boast only ofvice, superstition
and folly. The education of your sons
and daughters is an absolute necessity
and should be held paramount to all
other objects, and all other objects
should be made to subserve this end.
While on this subject, [ would sug-
gest that you instruct your County
Council to take into consideration the
Importance of making some effort to
establish in our county High School
or Agricultural Grange College, at
which your sons and the sons of other
laboring classes may receive thorough
education, collage at which your sons
may be able to defray their own ex-
penses by appropriating so many hours
daily to manual labor on a farm. The
farming classes. as you must be aware,
are not able to bear the expense of ed
ucating their sons in towns, where col
leges are nearly always situated board
ard tuition are beyond their reach.
Besides, labor college situated in the
country would possess many rare ad-
vantages over town institutions, it be-
ing out of reach of the numerous at
fractions and diverting novelties Pc
culiar to town, that too often lead the
youth astray. The hours often spent
by students in towns, in pursuit OF
those allurements, and the time spent
exercising in the gymnasium, would, at
country college, be appropriated to
much better purpose, spent in health
fui physical labor and at the same time
liquidating their college expenses,
thereby relieving their toiling parents
of burthen they are not able to bear;
surrounded by and meditating on the
silent operations of nature, the ever
pleasing landscapes, the shady groves,
the crystal streamlets, the blooming
fields, the Towering orchards and gar
dens growing in beauty and interest,
as the tender mind expands, it would
purify the soul, as the mind becomes
enlightened. Hundreds of poor coun-
try boys, thirsting for knowledge,
would rejoice at such facility and
would make an institution of the kind
self-sustainiDg and our farming COM
munity would be delighted to be able
to extend to their sons such munifcent
advantages for both physical and men,
tai training. Besides the sciences, all
the arts of scientific agriculture. hor-
ticulture, gardening, etc. should be
taught, and domestic economy and in
dustry enforced.
Such a school is eminently practical
and no enterprise can be attained that
will be of more lasting benefit to the
farming people. Besides, it would
give to our order a higher character
for laudable aims. Our membership
in the county is sufficient, being about
1900 or 400, mostly the boneand sinew
of the land ! am satisfied if your
Council would earnestly take hold of
the matter, some practical scheme
would soon be elaborated which would
meet the general wants of the farmers
and the approval of the subordinate
oranges.
To give interest to our meetings,
those principles and habits that tend
to promote the happiness and prosper
ity of the farmer should be frequently
agitated; such as domestic economy,
industry, sobriety, complacency, etc.
Economy among farmers is principle
that enters largely into our means of
success, although very common ex-
preston, it is, perhaps less understood
among the farmers of the South than
any other that IS as often spoken OF,
and cannot be too frequently discussed
in the grange. A new meaning VIII