Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-02-03
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For all the virtues of society and for al
the boosted attachments of civilization, w
owe an irredeemable debt to those VIII
were clearheaded and thoughtful enough
to see the wisdom of saying "No," an
were possessed of sufficient courage t
say it and stick to it. Gallileo, Melanc
thon, Luther, Hampden, Bentham, Jenner
are among the heroes who, in defiance Q
popes, emperors, kings, councils, and al
the faculties, have said "No" to the high
placed and convenient wrong-to tn
t~ime-honored error unlike good Vauncelo
"Via !" All these and more of the sam
kidney, have at one time been stigmatize'
as infidels, traitors, dreamers, charlatans
Even in our w prosaic times, we hav
men in theology, politics, arts and science
whom we call dreamers, because they se
a little further than we can and charla
tans because they are savers Of "No" tt
the convenient doctrine that whatever is
is right. On the other hand, how human
ity might have gained, if some great one.
of the earth had been able to say emo" tx
their ambition, their vices, and their self
will.
A crisis is approaching in the grange
Among those who waited "-to see - if il
were q success, there are now to be found
very few skcptics. But the very fact OF Their
standing aloof, until the movement has
passed the doubtful point, in a measure dis.
qualities them from b coming members O.
the Order at-a1l.
The question very naturally presents it.
self whether those who would only join
when they were satisfied that it was for their
personal interest to do so, can ever be sufi-
GENTLY imbued with the doctrines of coop
Grafton and the proper spirit of the grange
to impel him to help furnish fuel for the fire
that burns for all.
Ofcourse those who prey upon the labor
Of others will not fail to pursue the farmer to
the very gates of the grange, and inside
unless there be wisdom and resolution in
terposed by those who are inside to stop
them.
Very few of those who have "promi-
nence " outside ever distinguish themselves
or are ever even heard from, on account
of their work inside the grange. But
men having plenty of money and disposed
to go in, are not so easily kept out; for if
there be any toadyism or s~ervility in the
grange, their money and influence will make
it available and will procure a systematic
persecution and abuse of any who may dare
to manifest any opposition to their unhal-
lowed designs.
The farmers have gone into the grange
for the purpose Of escaping the influence of
a certain class. Now if these be allowed to
follow them into this chosen retreat, then.
indeed, is their case hopeless. Let eyery
person who knocks at the gate be closely
scrutinized, and if his fitness is not above all
question, let each member without tear Of
the plant minions Of money, be ready with
a manly mo-" There is no other wav of
preserving this institution-the farmers,
only hope-but by saying "No.n Neither
has any member that recognizes the force of
obligation any right to shirk his daty,
or put in the towards plea Of taking neither
side. His duty to the Order, his duty to
himself, ~imperatively demand that "Non
be sometimes said.-Daigo Rural.