The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-12-27


robbers that have ever skulkaJ and
the forms of law, or disgraced oe6lnt
civilization. The educated Patron b haHder
as the agricultural classes bavo eneVe
wronged by unjust taxation and l., zee
special legislation in the interest of O'ne
thy corporations and other capitaI;s." ea
their province to seek redress &c
grievances in those departments VI Ie
they have been wronged, The edn.
Patron does not believe that one Cd
people were born with saddles unonS
backs, and another class with boots
spurs on to ride them. He does NJ.
lieve in building British and Tory
tocracy of money spectators and barI'
Of mailing millionaires and paupers LnS
special legislation of congress and d.
ions of courts. He does not beEevo :.
shrewd robbers have any right to c.~
themselves with the panoplv Of !.
change the quantity and quality of =
currency, the relative condition Of y
debtor and creditor classes, and effec,..
ly confscate the property of the mas
to make millionaires of that class Of :.
spirators who would wrongfullv ab..
all wealth, without producing anytb.
themselves. He is conscientiously ON.
ed to all of that organized sharper,
which through false prretense takes M
session of the government, steals all old
producing classes poor, fills the land wi
paupers and tramps, robs cripples, widow
and orphan children, then ESTABLISH
prison houses and whipping posts to On
ish their unhappy victims. Such orgsT
cations through sectional parties, hayes
ed this land with burying grounds chi
piles, widows and orphans with power
hard times and slavery for laboring Ga
es, to build an aristocracy of European
American money spectators and ban
ers. They treat with contempt the m,
sacred, constitutional rights of Americ,-
and make. presidents by the lowest pol
cal trickery. They rob the treasury al
call it back pay, they turn the wh
machinery of government into one y,
system of plumber, vet they retain In
power by deceiving the people throu
subsidized,presses, and arousing the wo
passions of hatred, and party preiudi.
bordering even upon war. In this iss
full hour of American history, the Nato
al Grange organization speaks with I
uncertain sound. 1t demands a new
parture-a direct representation FRI (
that class of producers of wealth and ia
payers who have never been Justly rep
sented in this government The Std
Grange Organization of Missouri spec
ly demands that the national banking
tenn shall be abolished, and that all q
rency shall be issued by the Federal G, +
eminent, and that all interest bearing
tional debts shall be paid without DEL
The intelligent Granger can no Ion!
be reconciled to that fearful system
slavery, which permits railroad comp
mics to take annual rent from all Of L
farms of the West and South, which n
mits organized capital to establish N
traps in every city and toll-gates ala
the highways of commerce, and sprc
mortgages upon children yet unborn.
great cooperative work of all organ
tons of all the industrial classes shall
to liberate the Gown trodden of this
all other lands. Governments shall
established by the people for the peof
not by an aristocracy of corrupt pol
clans and genteel robbers, for the bend
of such conspirators. The great quest
of freedom or slavery must be settled
the immediate future. 1t is only Qui
ton of intelligence and integrity, whei
the American people are capable of SCI
government. Will the sectional paI
slave continue in his ignorance, and i
lap the hand of the butcher? VIII 4
people continue to be deceived by subs
lied party presses, and permit a conys
ton of bankers and their hireling lawyei
to call itself the National Congress. mai
an to 7 president, and establish pe
manent system of slavery for the viii
race without even the expense of the a
system of overseerS? And shall this in.|
NOUS system of bondage now ESTABLISH
be transmitted to our children and to d
ture generations? The intelligent Pau,I
of Husbandry is willing to co-openI
with all other industrial classes and he'd
orable business men to change the COD
eminent in the interest of the AmeruI
people, to bury those sectional hateI
and strifes, which have been cultyaa
aud strengthened by the most desper1i
and dangerous class of political corg1
tionists and bummers. | am an adyOcai
of the Grange organization because Of u
immense good work already accomplish
and because of the grand lyceum Wild
has been established along the mounts
slopes and river valleys between the v1
oceans; educating the people to kno1
their rights, and developing that hgh1
manhood necessary to purify and prots1
that government transmitted to us
Jefferson and Washington. l am an Al
vocate of the Grange organization II
cause it demands equal and exact just1
for all, and special privileges for nOn
Because its principles are broad as huns
rights, limited by no creeds or sectior1
lines; it carries peace, protection, al
prosperity to American homes. In u
organization rest the hopes of all the ~
friends of good government, of Reput i
can institutions of the true philanthropS
and the honest American statesmen, \
true Patron can be no coward. He WI
submit to no fossilization, he is no dea
fish, he does not float with the currents
popularity, but pravely moves up strea1
seeking purer fountains. His sense
justice will not allow him TO live MON III