The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1877-07-18
TIE GRANGE ADVANCE.
WEDNESDAY. JULY. 10, 1877.
II. II. YOUNG, EDITOR.
Two Precious Reformers.


complimentary to oursclf, signed re-
spectively i" A Reformer" and Re
former" the writer's in both instanc-
es giving Their proper names.
These gentlemen have aggrieva'ces
and they desire to rush into print,
not for the purpose: of telling their
misfortuNes, but to find fault with
those whom they envy. Now, we
feel it our duty to say TO them, first,
that the ADVANCE is not medium
for circulating vituperative epithets
and personal abuse; and, secondly,
that those whom they condemn are
a good deal better than themselves
and wholly undeserving Of the CEN
:sures they deal out to them. They
desire to use our columns to tell the
public how they labored for reform
in season and out of season; how
they blew themselves out of breath
in the cause of the dear people"
against their "oppressors."
Why, gentlemen, you are egregi
ous]y mistaken. We have known
you both for six or seven years, and
in all that time you never did
stroke of work for the public, nor
did you ever apparently intend to.
You were both office-seekers in the
old republican party, and defended
every lniquity the leaders Of that Or
ganization were accused of. You
even apologized for the Credit Mo-
bilier frauds, and manfully persisted
in asserting that the back-pay meas
ure was right and honorable. In
your opinion the enormous IMPOSE
tons practiced by the railroad com
panies, prior to the ':granger legis.
lation," were all proper enough, and
the efforts of the people to subject
these corporations to law were
wicked and ruinous cons?iracies,"
"communistic revolts against popu-
lar welfare" The anti-monopolists
were a gang of "outlaws" and "cra-
zy zealots," who deserved to be
punished for melting the people to
resist the corporations.
1rue, you changed your views ;
but, remember, these changes did
not occur until you were assured
that the republican party would not
nominate you for Office. Nor even
then, until the prospect was fair that
the anti-monopoly organization
would succeed in this State, at least.
You then became anti monopolists
-reformers-and wanted to be
nominated in order that you could
do battle more effectively against
your old republican associates and
competitors. You even went owe,
to the democrats is, you
"coalesced" with that party-and
would, probably, have sided with
Beelzebub himself, if he had prom
ised you good fat positions. But
the democrats already had too many
such patriots as yourselves, and as
these were more likely than your
selves to get honors from that or
ganization, you soon severed YOU
connection with it. ="
There was now no place left fol
you. The republicans would not
have you; the democrats did moi
want you; and you had shoaled the
anti-monopoly party by your eager
ness to make your connection with
it a paying investment. The only
thing left for you was to find fault
with your neighbors generally and
cry REFORM" without knowing what
you meant by SO doing: 1t happens
now to be in your line to abuse
Messrs. Whitcomb and Pillsbury
and presuming that our old time
personal antipathy towards the form.
er will render your communications
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