The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-22
R11rHRRRoRp COUNTY.

RUTHERFORD COUNTY. -
Editor Patron. Seeing that we are on
the eve of returning prosperity, we should
mark wei! how for forty years the silent
thunder has been accumulating, slowly
but surely, finally eliminating in a civil
war. History says some things one way,
and common sense, unprecedented, sees
them in another. The clashing of party
interests and sectional thirst for suprema-
CIV among leading politicians and would
be hereditary officeholders, outside of the
great masses of both North and South, are
responsible for our late civil war and
for the confused condition OF things
at present, The sooner the great masses
learn that politicians are only interested IN
them lust so far as their indivlduaiainter--
ests are concerned, the better for them.
Prosperity will certainly come, if politi-
clans will Just let it. There are now dan
gerous elements brewing, and behooves
the great masses to keep them down. Du-
ly considered, the greatest good to the
whole people is not to be found in any Po-
litical creed of to- day, nor has it been for
forty years The great masses are notrep-
resented in our National councils; our
laws have become a heterogeneous farce,
and their execution myth. .sf
Now these old political hucksters are
still on hand, using every means in their
power to mould the opinions of the masses,
and if we do not watch as well as pray,
we will be ruined again. They are in
partnership with Wall Street backed by
the public press, and in league with all
''ringdom" to carry them back into office
the goal of their ambition.
In conclusion, the Radical Congress, or
some of our big political expounders, or
some self conceited chap like John Sher-
man, will claim to have manufactured
prosperity by gambling with the finances
of the nation with Wall Street and 1000
pet Government Banks for the last six
years, and first by demonetizing silver and
then renlonetizing it, taking up old bonds
and issuing new ones, trying to make the
world believe that the debts of the Gov
eminent are being paid, and that because
our exports are larger than our imports
our public debt is being rapidly diminish
ed, when any one can see that the wheat
meat and cotton sold to foreigners in Eu-
rope come back in gold and silver to com
panies and private individuals, increasing
the bulk of the circulation and paying pri-
vate debts, and no thanks to Congress OF
John Sherman.
No; this gambling and specializing in
Congress, with the aid Of the money cen
tres, backed by hungry public press, and
smoothed over by Congressional oratory
has simply been a dead weight for the
people to carry-a gigantic system of ex
periments, terminating in wholesale bank
ruptcy to the masses, and beneftting only
the capitalists.
The South has been financially wrecked
and in doing it the great North has beer
seriously damaged. The fanatical, South
hating politicians of the North-not The
masses, not the soldiers-manufactur the
whole resumption scheme for the purpos,
of grinding out the South The first schem,
was disfranchisement, coupled with
forced internal direct and indirect system
i of revenue taxation. This ground heavily
yet failed; so did confiscation, in part; for
ty acres and mule had its influence, addeC
to being burnt and foraged out during tn,
war; and yet the South, as our friend
would have it. was not sufficiently hum
bled. The s'bloody shirt wreckers trieC
to make the negro a white man and thu
white man a negro by amending the Con
stitution and signally failed, but when the
: On the finances, they did raise the dew
; and nearly killed themselves.
The producing classes. North and South
have themselves worked out their tempo
raj and financial salvation, notwithstand
ing the many dead-weights they have hae
to carry: first, themselves; next, all thu
handling class and a great number of mid
; dlemen next the office holding, or brair
class as they call themselves, including of
flee hunters, the scientists, ministers, prin
tiers, teachers, etc. Yes, under all these
; circumstances, the producing classes, b,
the blessings of Providence and the prac
tice of rigid economy, and by adopting
the cash system to a great extent, witt
starvation here in the past and starvation
in Europe now, have got us pretty mucl
; out of debt. Our past mistakes should
caution us in the future that producers
margins are too short to risk any credit
for credit is a risk, and risk is gambling
and that is always uncertain. III l,o
II. H. L. YEARGAN.
Murfreesboro, Nov. II.
1t is in the Grange, as in. every organi
ization, that the few must take the lead
r and too often there is feelino of con,