Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-02-10

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gether to the dollars and cents-forgetting
the true principles Of the Order. The
Grange is a moral and social order in which
farmers may meet on a common level. We
follow a pursuit of which Washington said
there is no other "more llealthful, useful
and honorable" Look at the records of
crime to-day, nl%ne-tenths of it is committed
in the town and cities. Does not this speak
well for the farmers? We should never
permit the God-given mind to be covered
up with rubbish from the cities. There are
men, who live in towns and write agricul-
or regulate a pillow to run as it should. They
will tell us what to do nights and rainy
days, just as though we belonged to the
dumb brute creation, did not deserve any
rest, and were incapable of enjoying pleas
ure. But, before the Nineteenth Century
class, and the country at large, that Agri-
culture is the tree Of life. Without it, all
other branches of business would perish. 1t
is the only occupation that can alone us-
tain man, afording him an unbounded field
for work and study. 1t rules the world.
The pages of ancient history bearing wit
witness to this fact, together with the OBJ
servations of modern times, warrant us in
the assertion that no pursuit can claim a
better right to the reins by which the desti-
MES of nations are guarded. 1t cannot be
denied that nations rise in the scale of affiu-
ence and wealth, or sink to that Of poverty
and insignificance in proportion to its pro-
gress or decadence in Agriculture. The eX-
istence of Agriculture began with the Crea-
ton itself. 1t is the only pursuit pointed
out by Deity. Wandering down the dark
pages of the ante-deluvian age there is ever
to be seen the twin-brothers Of Progress
Agriculture and Civilization-joined to-
gether then, as now, by the insepe1able tie
of mutual dependence. Without it man
must perish. We learn from Holy Writ that
God commanded Adam to till the soil. elm
the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread,
till thou return unto the ground" Again,
in the commencement of the Post Deluvial
era, witness the readiness with which the
few survivors applied themselves to rural
pursuits, the success that crowned their eff
forts, the halo of peace and plenty it threw
around them, and the assistance it rendered
them in spreading civilization to the re-
hottest parts of the earth. We CLEAN from
the history Of those tribes who have refused
to nurture Agriculture, that such opinions
invariably had a whitening effect upon
tho nnnrnIaC of fhnir YNnnYN1n INn ~ f1o
flowers of civilization wither and decay UNI
der their barbarolls feet, and every principle
of humanity dethroned by the blacklist
vices that cling to fallen nature. Again, we
see those born under u barbarous sky,
rocked in the lap of Ignorance and Supersti-
ton, after being awakened to the pleasure
and profit to be derived from it, discard
their early vice and become examples
worthy Of imitation. So great, indeed, is Its
influence upon the minds of men, that [ feel
justified in saying that it the mercilcss saw
age, who is now such a terror to the enter
spirits of our mountain homes,
could, for a short time, be permitted to
realize the difference between the ease,and
happiness that Agriculture could throw
around them an contrast it with the horrors
and privations of the war-path, we might
expect to see a happy change wrought
in their mode of life. What a degree of sat
is inspired in those who have drank
such long, sweet draughts from the stream
of knowledge that flows from this fountain.
We see the fruits of their labor giving
strength to their work for a cause that is
honorable and just. We have seen spring