The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-12-20
FROM ARKANSAS.
MILLER COUNTY.

Editor Patron On the 4th inst. goodly
number of the citizens of Sulphur Fork
Township and surrounding country met
at Union Grove to celebrate the anniver-
sary of the Order. AT 10 o'clock the
assembly was called to order by Bro. ;.
NJ Barnes, Secretary of Bright Star
Grange, who nominated Mr.. E. Terry as
chairman. The chairman stated that one
of the leading objects of the meeting was to
olive outsiders chance to see and know
what the Patrons of Husbandry were do
ing and intended to do for themselves.
Bro. 7. G. Tyson was chosen secretary
Bro. S. n. Barnes delivered the address
of welcome, stating, on taking the floor,
that he would borrow an address, and bor-
row he did, and good one at that.
Rev 7. w. Erwin was then introduced,
who addressed the audience on the pur-
poses of the Grange He said that he was
bound to acknowledge that the Grange
had not accomplished all of its purposes,
yet it must be admitted that the movement
has been successful One object of the
Grange was to bring the purchaser and
the manufacturer nearer TO each other In
order to do this, it is necessary for the
credit system to be done away with: hence
the motto of the Grange, "Pay as you go. "
If we do this, we are freemen; but if we
suffer ourselves to go in debt, we will al
ways find that we are servants to those
| to whom we are indebted. Let us live
within our means. Farmers have labored
under a great mistake in thinking that il
is not necessary to educate their children
| that it is only necessary to teach them to
read, write and cipher little. The no.
/ IL rorlI +1afn { he for
mer; the farming class should be the besi
educated, and from them our rulers should
| be chosen Changers should help each
other. Do we do this? say, not as we
should. If we fail to carry out the pur,
poses of the Grange, it will be failure
but if we carry them out, it will be sue.
cess. Tie purposes Of the Grange are al
good. If we ever become free people
we must organize. Bro. Erwin concluded
with an earnest appeal to all Patrons te
prove faithful to the purposes of the Order
The chairman then addressed the assem-
blage on the subject Of the Clement AT
tachment, or ''new process" of manufac
turing cotton. He showed the great los.
the farmers sustained by the present pro
cess of handling and selling cotton in the
raw form, and how much they would gair
under the ''new process" also that the tot
paid for the ginning in neighborhooo
would of itself be sufficient in a few year:
to put up factory He urged the farmer.
to combine in every neighborhood ano
put up these factories, and to cooperate
in all things. :.
Bro. Erwin again rose, and showed tina
the cost on bale of cotton shipped from
Atlanta to St. Louis is $II.3I, which in
cludes the cost from the cotton pen. e
After partaking of good farmers din
ner, the audience was addressed by Bro
NJ. A. Bryant, on the subject of Our Ag,
and It's Progress. He gave some good
sound, sensible advice, mainly to tht
young, and dwelt upon the necessity o
education. He spoke of the excessive
taxation, and with great force of the ne
cessity of farmers taking newspapers ano
reading them The public prints are ou
main instructors-theY give us a full his
| tory OF all that is transporting. he highly
commended THE PATRON, and advised al
to take it. He read from an article in TIKI
PATRON what is to be gained by shipping
to the Southwestern Cooperative Asso
citation in New Orleans, and concluded BY
urging the Patrons to carry out their pur
poses, and go right forward. eff we ART
right, let us go ahead"
Bro. J. c. Tyson addressed the audience
after which Bro S. n. Barnes, in brie
speech, said that great deal was said de
rogatory to the Grange, and he threw
down the gauntlet for public, discussion
to be good until the first of June next.
We had good day-a good time. Brigh
Star Grange is wide awake. PATRON,
Union Grove, Dec. :. &