Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-08-02

felt in every department. OF our sofciiiiI'oh'
The character of our legislators. no odds OF
what party they are, is greatly improved
since the Grange has swept the land. a
mere ring politician finds it now difficult
to get a nomination. Unless q man stands
well with the farmers. it is now considered
dangerous to put him forward. What Is the
result? Down 90 Credits Mobilier frauds
and Indian steals. Down go lobby tricks
to rob the public Treasury! Down go the
whisky rings! Down go villainous patent
right extensions to rob the farmers OF their
money! Up goes the credit of the nation.
and silver, 1.-the poor mans money! creeps
out of the vaults to which il has been BAN
ished! Up goes the civil service!
But again. the material benefits of the
. Granoe-the actual advantage in dollars and
cents to the pockets of every farmer (and
every body else also) has already been felt in
no small degree. and when farmers can De
made to see and feel their duty, and hold
fast to their interests and stick together rs
closely as other occupations do. there is no
telling how much money advantage they
may gain. Many agricultural implements
have been reduced in price fifty per cent.
Sewing machines are sold for just one-half
of former prices, and a few years effort will
bring all agricultural implements down to
a Just and fair price. We do not want them
below this, ''for the laborer is worthy Of
his hire" and the Grange wants all manu-
%facturers to flourish-to reap a just reward
for their labors, their risk and their capital
invested. .. ...r+
Then again, the agency system Of the
Grange (by the way, we believe this is the
only true grange plan) brings it within the
power Of every Patron no odds how limited
his purse, to buy all his family supplies
coffee. sugar, calico. domestic and farm inn
plemcdts-at very low rates, the members
of each Grange have only to combine their
little wants and needs together, and send
off the money, and get their goods safely
and at low rates, and distribute them among
themselves. No expensive machinery is
connected With it, no extra profits are made
out of it, and every Patron who practices it
is much richer at the end of the year.
Thus we conclude that the true mission
OF the Grange is not revolutionary nor an
tagonistic to all establishment usages, but
that il may be and ought to be a blessing to
every class of society, for its just aims and
objects are to elevate and cnnoble and COM
binc for good only the agricultural class
which all acknowledge is the foundation
upou which the superstructure OF human
society resistant class from which in the
cource of years all others are recruited rs
they become encrvated and fade out-the
class which in our land even now furnishes
the brains for the halls Of legislation and
highways OF trade and commerce. Let us
make the public see in our republican oun
try that III the Grange everything is for good
and nothing for evil; that all are interested
in the success of this experiment to combine
for their own and the public interest the
people in whom no danger lies, and we may
soon have the good will Of those who now;
misunderstood and fight us. In spite Of the
bitter opposition of those who do not under
stand the Grange, and the falling-by-the-
way of weakened friends, we still go on
ward. The better elements of the Grange
persevere in the noble work, and will go on
until the movenlent shall be homored and
cherished as the best of human societies be-
cause it means ''good to all.'-MontAiy
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