Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-04-06


cipel spcculator, a word w hen you
charge price for handling our goods that is
avogant-altogethc too high in compare
son with the cost Of producing them--it be-
comes oppression, and oppression is oppros-
sion spell it as you will, and taxation is tax
alton, whether levied by Yankee or an
Englishman, and we can endure il 10 one no
better than our forefathers could In tho other.
The granger has got his back up on this
matter and the more you try to keep il down
the more you will help hump it. The farm.
or has been so much imposed upon that to-
day he dares not trust his own senses. lie
hesitates to buy the best stocks in the mar
ket, fearing they, with the company that con.
trOls them, may go up. lie is not anxious
to buy gold knowing it must come down.
The result is panic is upon us-a crisis that
carries down things of naught and things of
worth men who wouldn't prevent it if they
could and men who couldn't if they would 90
down together but these things will not al.
ways last. Though the farmer Of to-day
calls it hard times aud wonders il the presi-
dent is the cause Of it, he will some day
open his eyes and thank the granger for the
day when shoddy men and shoddy goods
found their level, and trade started anew
upon 6rmer basis. In these trying times
the words Of Pope,
1.-THE proper study of mankind Is man."
are very good text to preach from, and the
people are freely using it. A cry Of dis
honesty comes to our ears, we read it in the
daily papers, we rush to the rescue, open
wide the shutters Of cur windows, threw
open the front doorput on our Oging glasses,
look out upon our wicked neighbors aud the
josting crowd of dishonest humanity that
goes crowding by, and standing aghast at
the wickedness we behold we preach loud
and long upon repentance, and thanking God
that we are not like other men, We retire,
and the world is no better after our sermon
than before. The trouble is, we have not
handled the subject Alright. We have made
the application first and preached the sermon
afterward. Let us reverse this order, let US
preach first aud then make the application.
Yea, let us preach loud and leug, and pray,
even on the house.top, for the destruction Of
evil aud tho advancement Of good, and retir-
ing within our dwellings shutting out from
our view the outer world, opening inward
the shutters of our own SOUL looking down
Into the secret recesses of our own hearts,
inplore in tears of penitence for forgiveness
and strength, to live a better life. Our SER
mon then, may make one better man.
At the suggestion Of Miss G. A. Hall it
was decided to admit women to the order, on
an equality with men, receiving the same
number of degrees aud participating in all
its deliberations. 10 this fact think the
grange is largely indie bted for its success, for
all know that in many respects women are
fully mems equal, and in some of the stor-
ling virtues his superior Aud whether she
speaks in behalf of temperance or religion !;
whether OH New Years day she gives lib
orally from her bounty to the deserving needy
around her, feeling in her soul than He who
loves the cheerful giver will, when another
New Year shall come, give her more to give ;
or whether within the grange on the com.
mttec of relief, she visits the sick, admins
tering to their wants; or with her half-por-
suading half-commanding voice,iR the initia-
tory ceremony, she urges the tillers of the
soil, to cultivate fruit aud flowers to the ex-
tent of their ability, though it be to plant but
one fruit tree and one vine year her
voice is ever Welcome and her efforts in be-
half of good ever successful. Though l am
no stickler for woman's right, so far at least
as the balot.box is concerned, | think l do
not read the signs Of the times Alright if at
some future day, after having voted in the
grange and delighting to see persons Of re-
spectabity and worth elevated to the sever
al offices Of honor, after having learned the
sacredness of the ballot.box, and having
taught it to her children, she may some day
ask, for aud freely receive at our hands, the
elective franchise, as we go up together, for
believe, if women had voted the 9TH of No
vember last, we should have known the 9Th
who was to be our next president, with greater
assurance than we know to-day after months
of trial and strife. There is one phase Of ouI
past election that has not perhaps been fully
dwelt upon. 1t is written in that best Of
books, that it is not well for man to be alone
and when such splendid Christian woman
as Mrs. Hayes can be found to preside at thu
White House, it seems like folly in any
party, to think they can 60 back of what il
written and fill the order with an antiquatet
old bachelor. ..
From outsiders the grangers get many I'M
kind hits. A few days ago lady not 500
miles from here very unwittlngly remarked
to granger's wife that the grangers were
having meeting in the village, remarking
"you can tell granger every time as far as
you can see him, by his old rickety sleig
stuffed full Of children" That woman har
| never been blessed with family Of her own
t or she would never have made so heartless
remark. She was forgiven, but tell you
would sooner be that humble granger, earn
ing an honest living with his little on es sit
| ting like olive plants around his table, par
I taking of his humble meals, clothing himse