The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-12-20
ADDRESS OF WORTHY LECTU-
RER A. M. KELLAR.

Delivered before Pleasant Hill Grange, Bell
county, Texas, Nov. IS, 1879.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: According
to previous appointment, l am here to day
to discuss some of the objects, purposes
and principles of the Order of Patrons of
Husbandry. .-.. .
[ know you do not want TO hear
speech made up of long string of excu
Sos ana apologies, viii bore you
with such to-day; but do claim word
or two, to better prepare your minds to
hear and appreciate what l may have to
say to you. You that have come here to
hear fowery language, flights of oratory,
eloquent and learned pleading that are cal
culated to please the ear and tickle the
fancy, will have to go away disappointed
l am an uneducated man, never wrote
line in school under the instructions of a
teacher in my life. Yet | claim that
have something to tell you that you ought
to hear, and will do you good, if you will
heed it. The Worthy Master of the State
Grange thought so too, or he would not
have sent me unto you, and ! must be al
lowed to tell it in my own simple style, |
will promise you this, that | will endeavor
to deal in facts, and not in fiction.
Was there necessity for an organiza-
ton among the farmers of this nation? If
not our Order is useless and expensive
lncumbrance upon the energies and in
dustries of the agricultural classes. But
what are the facts? Why is it that every
other calling almost beneath the sun have
organized for mutual protection? If there
is class beneath the shining heavens
that stands in need of organization and CO.
&c p,
farmer said to me the other day, "Iell
me what there is in your new Order cal
culated to recommend it to my favor!" L
propose to answer that question here, at
this time
shall not devote much time to its an
uqulty or venerable age. We cheerfully
acknowledge that it is modern plant
but we claim that the soil has been
well prepared and the seed properly plan
ted, and we know that we are giving it
i proper cultivation, for it has taken deep
root and spread its branches all over this
land and country Some of its good prin-
cIples we shall attempt to elaborate.
AS love and regard grow out of contact
and communion, so, by an unalterable law
OF our moral constitution, meE naturally
behold with indifference, if not with pref
udlce and aversion, objects which seem
TO hold no sympathy with them, and from
whose concerns they are shut out, as i
were, by wall. These influences it il
our duty to our Order as far as possible
to remove; for wherever the conventions
compact exists, men are deeply interested
IN any organization which is formed, o.
any principle which is agitated among
them, as ultimately it must have a goot
or evil bearing upon themselves. We de
clare then, at once, that the whole scoop
and object of our association is to make It
members wiser and better men and wo
men, by the equality and condition
which it supposes, TO break down an
soften the arrogance and sefishnesss OF tn
human heart, to 1nculcate charity an
orotherly love. to strengthen and invIgo
rate all the relations in which men an
women can be contemplated, toward
themselves, their country, their God.
10 these ends, our Order appeals d
rectly to our social instincts, the stronges
OF all human instincts.
We teach improvement in virtue, rel
glon and sound morals; and the practic
OF judicious, well directed and eficier
Charity. We bring to the aid of thes
honorable pursuits the principle of soci;
combination; the same principle of acti,