Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-07-13

IT Is LIMITED, and we think some are in.
%credulous enough to believe, the farmers
movement, so far as it relates to Montana,
has proved a failure. Those who think and
talk thus never take pains to inform them
selves. The fact is, the oranges in Montana
are just beginning to get rightly to work.
The farmers are just beginning to learn the
practical workings and benefits of the Or
der. If those who try to persuade them
selves that the farmers have failed in this
respect would attend some of their discus
sions upon practical subjects, their opinions
would be vastly changed. If they knew the
vast amount of knowledge they have gained
in regard to the cost of manufacturing farm
machinery and the profits realized by mid
die men for handling farm supplies and
farm products, they would not think the
grange has been a failure. The fact is, they
have just found the true channel, and their
onward. AS long as business men deal fair
ly with the farmers they have their conf
dence, but no longer. They know as well
when they are overcharged for an article as
the merchant does, and he who seeks to
take advantage of their supposed ignorance
to extort from them exhorbitant prices, will
be remembered in the near future.
Our farmers have had a hard row to hoe,
Merciless middle men on one side and grass
hoppers Oh the other, have long kept them
poor. but the hour of their deliverance is
drawing near. Let the merciless Shylock
beware. u@ "-4.
The Farmer, London, England, May 20,
1876: Mr.. j. w. A. Wright, who has for
some time been in Great Britain as the rep
resentatiye of the American Oranges, hay
ing completed his mission here sailed for the
United States on Saturday. His mission
here was twofold. He had to take such OPP
portunities as were afforded of making Eng
fish farmers acquainted with the objects and
actual work of the Order of the Patrons OF
Husbandry in America and he had also to
study, in the interests of the association
which sent him here, the various forms of
cooperation which obtain among us. All
those who nave met with Mr.. Wright, and
they are many, will give the American
Changers credit for having sent to us the
best man for the work.. In personal bear
ing, in intelligence, and in the power of
adapting himself to varying circumstances,
Mr.. Wright is all that can be desired as a
representative. Hi sthorough %earnestness, his
faith in the association he so fifty represents,
and his tact in advocacy, will be admitted by
all who became acquainted with him. Be-
tore he came, our notions of the Grange
were all of a distorted kind, now we know
that it is in the main an embodiment of CO.
operative ideas with which we are familiar.
It has, indeed, the mystery and parapherna-
liza of a secret society, which may very we'll
be described as " tomfoolery," but the same
of tomfoolery . passes muster among
us in treemasonry, in odd-fellowship, and in
a score Of other societies. How far the
may meet the needs of English
we will not now attempt to say.
That English farmers would be better off if
they had the same close organization, and
same attentive care of their interests as
is manifested in the history of the Grange
in America, we do not doubt at all. Mr..
Wright's visit will certainly bear fruit.
He has been fortunate in becoming known
to many of our representative ~agriculturists,
and wherever he went he left a favorable
impression. His utterances will prove like