Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-04-20

MANY of our peoplesentertain very erone-
Gus ideas as to the aims and objects Of the
Grange movement. Some good, intelligent
men persist in making the most erroneous
statements as to its purposes. They call it
a great political organization, OR one de-
signed to make the farming community i'm
mensely rich at the expense of all other
classes. They assert that it is a monopoly
of the direst form and destined to ruin the
such as the above are expressed, as we have
said, by intelligent me1-men whose OPP
portunities for obtaining information are
good; men for whom ignorance could
scarcely be made anleXcuse. Why men let
their p~rejudices SO run away with them, as
to misrepresent facts and try to injrsre the
farmers, is more than we can tell. There
is a strong disposition on the part Of some
of our representative men to array all other
classes in the country in direct ~antagonisrn
to this fraternity. Most particularly would
hese designing ones have the miners be-
lieve that the Grange was q combination
against them, when, i'll truth, there are no
two classes whose interests are more closely
allied than those of the farmer and miner.
The Grange organization is in no wise an
tagonistic to the miners interest, but that
both these classes have been and are vet tie Re
ing numerically preyed upon by these re-
morseless (! Go-betweenso is. a fact That is
in~controvertible. And having reached the
point where forbearance ceases 70 be q viz
tue they have at last sought by combination
Of effort to right some el the many wrongs
to which they have been subjected. Thus
far these efforts have resulted alike advan-
tageously to all classes Of laborers, whether
miner, mechanic or farmer.
Cooperation has proved q success beyond
q doubt. The miners and mechanics are
| possessed Of too much good sense-are too
intelligent to be influenced by a designing
few. The agricultural community band
themselves together in the Order of the
Patrons of ~Ilusbandry for mutual adyan-
tage and the elevation of their calling. 1t
is not their desire to change the laws OF
trade, but it is their desire that the laws of
supply and demand should govern prices,
and not speculation. Corners, rings, and
monied combinations have wrnng from the
hardy sons of toll their pennies, earned in
the sweat Of their face, long enough. The
laboring classes of the East, not eligible 10
membership in the Grange, are banding to-
gether in the Order Of Sovereigns of Indus
try, and are working a great reform. There
is no conflict of interest between the Soye-
reign and Patron. Each order is laboring
for the same object, with the same purposes
in view and will accomplish like results.
The time is not tar distant when these two
great fraternities will be cooperating in pei.
feet harmony throughout the entire country
A CHANGERS IDEA ON TIE GUEslIe II.
We know the universal antagonismi of la
bon and capital, which explains all is.bo1
strikes elsewhere. Wise, or otherwise. lhey
will continue, in the nature of things, till
justice and equity shall harmonize the con-
flicting relations of men and classes, eraploy-
ers and employees. Labor can never be
yielded or relinquished, since life itselfis OH
" sustained by labor. Labor itself is al
ways the w~orkingman's capital, which
should stand forever united and independent,
against all monopoly of kings and lords.
The negro cllattel had rights, founded in
human nature. The rebellion was mostter-
ribly bloody, to be sure, but the last resort.
Mankind is slow to learn.
The knights of Agriculture and the
Grange are now grand ard extensive. We
avoid the blood, but claim Justice and equal
rights for the farmers and producers. Par