The patron of husbandry., 1879-11-08
tends to make the poor poorer ad the
rich richer-I. II. Putnam.
FROM TEXAS
MILAN COUNTY.

MILAN COUNTY.
. Editor Patron: | read the artice pur
porting to come from New Harmony
Grange, DeSoto county, Miss, attacking
THE PATRON, and signed by A " Hud
dleston, Secretary The spirit of tie arti-
Gle leads me to believe that whoevei wrote
it thinks more of his political partyname,
not principles, than he does of hs man
hood, the interest of his country OF of his
class. O, shame on a Patron whohad ra.
ther be the slave of mere political name |
than defender of Democratic principles,
whose name and the head of the oganiza-
ton has been captured by the goll gamb-
lers of Wall street and the Rothclilds!
| have been lifelong Democat, and
worked and voted to overthrow Radical
rule in the Lone Star State | have also
been constant reader of THE PATRON,
but have seen nothing in its columns but
what consider calculated to promote the
true interest of the masses, which is Jef-
| fersonlan Democracy. Jefferson forsook
the Federal party and founded the Re-
publican party because he opposed and
realized the danger to the liberties of the
people in the centraliZing tendencies OF
the former, and his devotion to the princl-
piles of free government has endeared him
to the hearts of all true lovers of-ibertY
He did not teach us to make ourselves
slaves to party or men, but to love ana
tsupport principles 1aIher Than paffy.
Now, permit me to say this: That who
ever wrote that article is a candidate for
some office and has entered into copart-
nership with the town ring to herd the
Grangers in party lines and make them
vote the sring" ticket. | would like to ask
the members of New Harmony Grange
to what branch of the Democracy does
the author of that article belong? Does he
belong to the hard hearted, hard headed
Sam Tilden Democracy of the East or
does he believe in the Greenback DemoC-
racy of the West? does he love the back
salary grabbing Sam Randall Democracy
or the economy demanding Democracy of
the West the best? or does he belong tC
the Yazoo mob Dem ocracy, the solid
South Democracy, or, as | suspect, to the
, anything he-7Vorld- -to,,e ,,eet-o6fce Democ
racy? o, ye party lashers and crackers Of
the party whip! your party lash has well
nigh lost its terrors to the most numerous
and thought to be most independent clas:
in this once free but now badly financially
enslaved land.
| ask the members of New Harmony
f Grange to coolly consider what they have
said in charging the Greenbackers with
being Radicals, Communists and black
f guards, and challenge them to prove the
+ truth of any of their assertions in regarc
to that party.
The Greenback party of the United
States and of the State of Texas stanc
squarely on the same platform, and every
true Greenbacker in the United State
stands on that platform. The same princi
Piles were unanimously adopted by thu
Texas State Grange at its meeting at Bryan
in January, 1873, which in substance
amount to this: the free coinage of golC
and silver on an equal basis, repeal of th'
! ! resumption act, repeal of the natona
! ! bank law, the Government to issue al
money of whatever kind, the payment o
the national debt or bonds in greenbacl
, money-the same kind of money the Gov
ernment paid its soldiers and bought tn
supplies that whipped us rebels back int,
S the Union. Is not all this square agains
the Radical party, that heaped all thes
: curses upon us?
e This much more, Bro. Worthington
;. When New Harmony Grange gets don'
: drawing off its support and does all it cal
to smother the best and only true and in
dependent Grange paper in the South
S west, send me the number of subscriber
II you have lost, and | pledge you that wi
G see them replaced with the same numbe
s or more. | do not know single reade
J. of THE PATRON in this county but wha
n approves of its course. A good Grange
e cannot afford to be slave to party.
e Frarternally, w. NJ. FERGUSON,
is Master of Milan Grange.
is Rockdale, Oct II.