The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-08-30
SILENTLY BUT SURELY.

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treatsd with alt kind pc ooufur1e y ! aa h.i
seurrility, and dssig pated e. the CO
hoppers in metions attended v ill may
prophecy by the monopo ste pres, susn
as the 14lta, Record JJynibn and Ssirnllar
would be arbiters of the formers interests,
that the Grange could not last year-the
farmers never did and never VII effect
anything will crush them
out, etc But what is the result The
Granger, especially the active, inteihgem
and live Granger, is now an important eli
ement in the body polite, leading and
influential arm in all the reforms ofsthe
day; peer of the leading legislators OF
the State; no longer clod-hoPper,a mud
sill, but-a living, active and genuine re-
former of every political evil in all parues,
and while he is not and seeks not tosbe-
come a politician in the old party and
creed sense of the word, he is the author
of new practical and reforn1atory POLICE
that have reached not only the farm: but
struck ar the very root of monopoly, and
instead of being crushed by il as SO often
prophesied, has SO thoroughly environed
monopoly as to have become its, master,
instead of IFS servant; and its wise conn-
sellor instead of its AFFECT slave, and all
this through that principle, Id greer
and HeG0en sentSS' to the tue Granger,
actingras no other worker has ever acted.
Not aggressive bat ever suggestive; not
communistic and overriding all law, but
conservative, having all the gueatinterests
of society to serve with no capital tor
speculation, no gambling, but working,
practical common sense that 1T is, ingra-
tiating into all classes of Society, and
IentIy 6xt surely ing-felt-beeeas-
ing felt by the legislator, the lawyer, the
Capitalist, the merchant, and the laborer;
and all 'ssiIently but surely" through the
Changers who embodied and organized
this Grange principle through its Gran
gers Bank and Business Association,
gives the farmer an open marke with the
world with no monopolist restrictions: 1t
regulates and reduces interest 20 the far
mer in moving his crops from 20 per cent
to 10 per cent per annum; and with the
honest patronage of the farmer 1T would
have continued to do his insurance at one
fourth the cost of other places. Yet how
many, in their own cold, selfish, jealous,
partisan and creed like spirit, cry out, the
Grange is doing nothing for me, Oh,
how wish these unhappy Changers in
name, but lacking the principle, could
turn the tables and ask, what are they do
ing for the Grange, perhaps out of sheer
ignorance and jealously, abusing the otti-
GERS and active members both of their
own and the State Grange; or the Grange
Institutions or its officers, which they are
continually trying to break down instead
of TO build up, and then, as in the case of
the Changers Fire Insurance Co-call all
connected with it, or that have spoken in
( its favor, corrupt corporationists that have
ladisgraced, and forever ruined themselves
in their estimation, and therefore call up
on the Grange to appoint committees and
investigate the whole matter, to find out
in the end that all that is or can be COM
planned of is that these pretensive Gran
gers have not filled their part of their con-
tract So for want of that honest fulfill
ment on their part, the Changers Fire ms.
Co, noble, great and grand as was its
work, had to suspend for want of honest
members, TO pay what they had subscrb
ed and promised to do. The same would
be the case with the Bank and Business
Association, were they as dependent on
the same class of carping Changers. Yet,
aside from all this, there are enough left
Of the truly principled Changers, that
that have confidence in this great, this
overw eening organization called the
Grange; that work without ceasing, and
through their efforts, Silently, but sure
Ily,r without personal abuse, without com
plant of the officers of their own Grange
or the State Grange, have confidence in
their great brotherhood, and sisterhood,
and go on in that confidence, accomplish
ing as the history of this glorious Order
now fully shows, that it is the great silent
reformer of all judicial, Legislative and po-
litical, as well as commercial, financial and
social evils of the day. 'Silently, but
surely" go on with your noble work, gen.
uine, confding accomplishing and unset
fish Granger. Silently, but surely will
you, with unnumbered blessings, carry TO
complete success the true reformer's work,
and silently but surely reap for yourselves,
the Grange, and the State, and the Nation
that reward that must follow such noble,
public-spirited and unselfsh patriotism.
With no political creed nor selfish con-
tracted party spirit, with no disunion, jeal
GUS and disorganizing member, with no
distrust in our glorious principles, but
making them part of ourselves, SO as to
live them out in our honest and gen
uine fraternity; aiding, helping, working
for our own institutions instead of faisify
ing them; the organization called the
Grange will and can become the greatest
conservative, law-abiding State and Ma
ton, reforming agency and principle, ev-
er given to man and woman; and oursuc-
cess or failure to become such rests who'll
ly with ourselves, in being true to the
principles we have enunciated, and in
living them; each for ourselves, with full
confidence in our Brother and Sister
Changers. Silently but surely the work
goes on.-B. P. in California Patron.
Santa Cruz, Aug. 18th, 1879, 50 2-e,
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WHY?
Why should men, who loaned green