Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1877-06-30
GRANGER'S DEPARTMENT.
TO the .,subordinate Oranges

10 the s.Subordinate Granges'
At the last meeting Of the County
Connc;I it was unanimously resolved 10
ornan;ye "Pomoua Grange, Tor TINS
Ceno,v July 2sth and Charlestown
0o ou ,Se time and place fixed The law
requires that each subordinate grange
IL ibe county shall send three (3) dele
aates a certain number OF ladies is neces-
sary for its formation.
it is hoped that there will be a gen.
oral turn out from each of the oranges,
as there is to be lecture at o'clock in
the evening by Prof. Benz. Hyde Ben
ton, President, of the Polytechnic Iusti-
tute of New Market, Va, on Agricultu
raj Chemistry. The Professor is repu
ted to treat this subject very satisiecteri
ly, and as it is one in which every farm.
er is deeply interested, it is to he hoped
that all will avail themselves of this op.
portunity to learn something about the
physical condition of our soil. 5.
THE AMERICAN FARMER.
The practical farmer tor the past cen
turtles has been distanced by every 9th
er class of people In all the older CIV,
ilizations he has lost proprietorship.o f
the lands and occupies the mental posi-
lion of tenant at the Will OF men who
follow other and less important aYoca-
tions, When we reflect that tve-tenths
of the people of most countries are TAR,
mers. or tillers of the soil, We are forced
40 conclude that some operating cause
has produced interiority Our fellow
citizens of other classes, are wont to at
tribute this inferiority to any but the
true cause. The preponderance OF i'll
,ellect resides with the greatest number
OF people beyond all question.
The real cause for the unequal cond:-
ton of the farmer class will be found in
the isolated habit oftheir occupation. The
total absence OF all form of organization
that relates to themselves, and through
which they could secure the advantage
of associated minds and cooperative ct
fort has characterized them in every age
OF the country.
The Grange is the very first attempt
that has ever been made TO organize the
farmers as a separate class, to combine
and cooperate for themselves specially.
While this is strictly true OF farmers,
every other class, composing only an
equal number, have from the earliest
peliod of mans history united and or
gained to promote their separate avo-
cations. Such as are engaged in trade
and transportation have employed asso-
ciated minds to frame every .comOlna'
ton that cooperative effort could de,
wise The more numerous class ell
uaped in mining and manufacturing,
brinp TO their aid laws, according fran
chises, and claim-vested right, that OF,
crate TO enhance their capital and labor
in a wonderful degree over individual
effort. Those who render professional
and personal service, are organized sep
aratelv. in strict subserviency TO pro
mote class interest. The different pro
tessioms have separate associations ant
give a sufficient part of each week to sc
cure the benefit of associated minds, &c
our-rank and uvcr-reach those whose
labor they desire to appropriate to their
individual benefit. So tho mechanic.
the artisan, and the laborer. These are
organized separately and severally to
resist an effort from any direction that
threatens ;heir avocatlons.
While this superiority of organized
effort exist the uuorgsnized and isolated
farmer must of necessity accept less Tor
his capital and labor New and un"erel,
oped countries will not present the de-
grading disparity in all the essentials OF
manhood aud equality, which is every
where observable in the older civillza,
,ions. but the element of final overthrow
aud debasement is as sure 10 eventu,
ate.
Farmers will never put their impress
upon the laws and usuages OF any coun,
iry while they adhere to their isolated
habits of life In order to avert, over,
throw an inequality, they must resort
TO all the forms Of organization and Co
operative effort employed by the Other
classes TO Over-reach and out-rank them.
The Grange has not come an hou'
too soon to save and perpetuate repub
lican equality upon this fair continent.
The farmer must be proprietor OF the
soil he cultivates to secure his equality.
Rob him of his proprietorship, and de
grade him to the condition OF tenan,
in America and the same results vii
follow here that now exists in the coun
try from which our fathers came.
We. PIOLLET, IN Farmers Friend
WILLING TO PAY FOR AN HONEST Gov,
EINMENr-The tax collector OF the first
district Of New Orleans has been in OF,
flee only two months and a halt, but his