Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1876-07-04
After the WytheyiIIe Poet.

After the Wytheyilie Poet.
Editor Virginia TdtrOn:-We pro-
pose briefly to annalize the brilliant
effussion"i of the cores ondent of the
Wythevile DiSpdtch, signed Anti
Granger The production, to say lie
most for it, is but Il silly effort in poor
doggerel to slur q great Order, with
which and of which he should have
nothing to say or do. as clearly he
knows nothing.
II the article so welcome to the
Dispatch has point at all in it, or
about it, it is that it is q tissue of false
hoods, (snd when say falsehoods, ]
mean LES from beginning to ending.
TO get Off something apparently moth
"a ing, the learned poet of the Dispatch
makes use of the following in stanza
No. !: ,r...
"They know each other by wink, grip or grim"
&c, Sc. ....
No lady or gentleman, in or out of
the Grange, would think of applying
the testof the grip of the Grange as n
test of recognition, at all. Anti
Granger fails in this first starlza TO
even approximate the truth. In his
second he says: Son. .. .... ....
f. nv Won raise plenty 81 oats, &c. /. .......
You II perhaps got an Office In which there is
pay" &c,
For the information OF. the Dispatch
and his assine correspondents who so
vulgarly assail an Order Of farmerH
and their prospective sons aud daugh-
tiers, we venture to say his stanza No.
. Is faIsehood all over--there being
not an Office Of pay in any Subocdi-
nate Grange, and but three each in
State and National Oranges. The
Grange would be no place for one OF
Anti-Granger's proclivities If Office
with pay attached was all he aspired to.
The sour grapes would not be worth
the pulling, even were the Anti-Gran-
ger qualified to reach them. His next
stanza No. is equally deficient in
point of truth and reads rs follows.
mechanics and professions may all go to grass,
The farm hand cant hire without his pass,
Aud there under oath TO stick to the rule,
No show for the poor man, niger or mule"
The mechanic and professional man
il properly qualified as to character
and having an interest on the farm,
equal to their profession, are all well
coined into the grange-even the law
yer is admitted, when qualified as a
farmer. Anti-Granger being neither,
as we take il, but an tic (neither the
horse nor ass, but the foal of an ass,
and rather more of the latter is eX-
Guided. Probably he fears the ballot,
and we think we'll he may, If every
thing else We're right with him. No
"pass" or rule of the kind alluded to
has ever been promulgated by the
Orange, State or National, that we are
are of. The so cents day farmer and
his wife and family, their character
being all right, can enter the grange
and receive all its benefits, both social
and pecuniary, along with the veal
thiest farmer in the land. His fifty
cents per day will, as far rs it goes,
buy as low for him as the largest
amount any member might invest;
and in this the poor class Is more to be
benefited through the cooperative plan
of the grange than those who have
more money and could better afford to
pay large profits to middlemen. No
pass has ever been required by any
grange that we, have ever heard of,
and the only thing of the kind we
ever did know of, was in a Farmers
Club. Perhaps Anti-Granger could
tell where 1t originated aud took root.
Certainly no passes are required by
any grange we ever set in. We could
have no use for them in the grange;
the moment Patron passes the ballot
he needs no better endorsation.
And as for the "niggeT and mule, -
we leave them to Anti-Grange and
his class. We propose to use them il
we need them, and not to misuse them
cruelty to dumb brutes being forbid
den by our regulations, aud upon this
Anti Granger may be trusting too far.
IA word to the wise is sufficient" AS
Anti Granger seems to sympathize
with Sambo and his ass-ine associate,
we have no desire to interfere between
them; birds of feather viii flock to-
gether.n StanZa No, s out-Herods
them all, and is as follows. .
"But q they've no lana, and wear common
Tho Grangers will tramp the eorus OF their toes, -
Ne, sc. .. ...
Again would the Dispatch's CORES
pondont make the impression that
farmers and grangers were in the habit
of wearing "store-clothes," and that
their faces were not ''bronzed," their
hands not horny" and their hair
without ebay seed.n A lie, "Anti.
Granger" But this last stan2a is O
little too thin to wash. You must
pick your flint, Mr.. 'Antl-Granger.
and try IL again. It is against this
sort of inequality the grange is max
ing war. We seek TO elevate and
dignity labor whether i'm fine apparel
or i'm rags. We say, make labor re-
spectacle, and you elevate the work.
ing Masses Lastly, "Anti.Gran-
gerV sounds the keynote of all his
opposition as follows:
"Aud now, IA Inclusion, viii say to all,
There's swindlors great and swhndlors small,
Whore II la
who roan tho oouuiry-their object Il peif
fWhU pays "Anti-0pngeT"l