The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-10-25
Number 40.
cheapening of currency, brought about
by its bundance.- Chicago Inter Ocean.
HOW POLITICIANS PUT 1T.


1t has long been known that in political
parties, and in the estimation politicians
especially, the farmers of the country, the
producers of all the wealth of both State
and nation, occupy but very low posi-
ton, and hence they and their interests
receive but little consideration at the hands
of those who are elected to positions of
honor and trust by their votes. We do
not desire to misrepresent the language of
any one, or to place upon it construction
which is not entirely legitimate and prop
er but when most distinguished politi-
clan, and eloquent orator, and member of
Congress, such as is the Hon. John Goode,
of Norfolk, is reported to have defined the
Conservative party as being composed of
there different and distinct classes, to wit,
the bone and sinew, the intelligent, and
the capitalists, we would like to be inform
ed to which class the bone and snew be-
long-whether the farmer, the informed
men, or the men of capital. We all know
what bone and sinew means. 1t means
capacity for labor, toll, endurance; but the
most profound and learned anatomist, of
whom the world has ever heard, has new
er yet, nor even with the most powerful
microscope, discovered any brain in either
bone or sinew. With the important SUBJ
ject which is reported to have been under
consideration and discussion at the time
this classification was made, we in this non-
partizan journal have nothing to do, nor
anything to say, for we are fixed in our
| determination never to discuss a purely
| partizan question: which is likely to di-
vide our people. Our purpose, as before
! announced, is ''to elevate the standard of
the manhood of the agricultural Glass;" so
| they may receive that recognition in all
matters of public policy to which they are
entitled, bearing as they do, most of the
burdens of government, paying into the
treasury the larger proportion of the reve-
nue., casting nearly three fourths of the ball
lots, and receiving no more consideration
than to be called bone and SinezV. Farmers,
have we not good cause for an organization
| like the Grange, in which we may avail
ourselves of every legitimate and prop
er means to diffuse knowledge among our
our class, educate them so they may oc-
cupy higher plane, and remove the stig-
ma and the odium which must always at
tach to them so long as they are to be
regarded as nothing more than the "bOne
and sine7U' of the countrys Are you will
| ing to hold that position, and you and
your children to be the mere hewers of
wood and drawers of water, while the in
teHieeuce and capital of the country will
continue to forge and rivet the chains
of the most abject slavery upon
you? We do not believeit There is too
much honest pride; there is too much no.
BILE manhood; there is too much of the in
dependent spirit inherited from our faith
ers, still remaining with this, the noblest
of all classes, to permit the ariculturist to
patiently hear the position of ''m1nd-silks'
in all that affects the welfare of society,
the prosperity of the country, and the hap
piness of the people Virginia Granger.