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The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-09-27
BE YE JEALOUS,

Patrons, farmers, and those in sympa-
thy with farmers, do you hear the warn
ing words, "Be We zealousr'
In these warning words our purpose
is to arouse you to renewed action in the
work of the Grange. The long winter
nights are coming on apace, which will
give ample opportunity for interesting and
entertaining meetings.
"Be We Jealous" has meaning two-fold.
BY zealouspess men and women are in
spired to do do that which will impart en-
ergy and prolonged life to the body, and
thereby intoxicating an example to others
that will bear fruit of lasting nourishment
and comfort.
In these brief remarks we intended to
give an incentive to our lukewarm breth-
rem. Active and jealous work should now
begin with an earnestness that will prove
OF mutual benefit in the near future Zeal
insures success in many ways, although
much depends upon the amount exercised
1t may act as propelling power, carrying
our hopes and ambition onward on er all
obstacles obstructing our path in an en-
deavor to reach the goal of our Jealous
ambition
Again, Patrons and Matrons, we would
speak, "Be We Jealous" and labor together
for our noble order. Talk with your
brothers and sisters still standing alooi
and impart to them the benefcent and so,
cial advantages derived from the Order OF
Patrons of Husbandry Strive to have
them fully understand the true object oil
the organization. Point out to them its
intellectual advantages. Make plain the
cooperative plan, and quite number OF
other ennobling purposes of the Grange
and nine chances out of ten your zeal will
be rewarded with good report.
- Our cause is in our own hands. We be.
lieve it to be just, and SO believing. we
should be ever Jealous in its advancement
| -Pennsylvania Farmers Friend
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-09-27
LAWRENCE COUNTY.

To Patrons of Husbaudry' The mem
bers of Hebron Grange and the public
generally were much entertained by an
address delivered by Capt. Put. Darden,
the Worthy Master OF the State Grange,
on the 9Th inst. All who heard him felt a
deeper interest and enthusiasm in the
cause. His speech will do much good in
this vicinity. He advanced such COM
prehensive view of the ways and means
b, which the depression of the agricultu-
raj interests of the country may be over
come, that it will be the cause of prac-
teal adoption of them by the better class
of farmers in this section
After Bro. Darden concluded his able
and interesting address, the following res
olution was unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That we the citizens of Law
renee county, Miss, tender our thanks to
Capt. Put. Darden, Worthy Master of the
State Grange, for the able manner in
which he addressed us, and that we en-
dorse everv word he said. and agree to use
every effort to carry the principles he adj
vocated into effect
Bro. L. J. Carver, General Manager of
the Southwestern Association at New Or
leans, also addressed us in his usual happy
style on the subject of CO operation.
Fraternally, T. 7. MURRAY,
7. SPURLocK,
A. r. SPURLoCK,
Hebron Grange, Sept. 10. Committee.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-09-27
"THE NORTH TEXAN"

This splendid Democratic journal, pub
lished at Paris, Texas, has been enlarged
to SO columns, and is now one of the larg-
est as it is one of the best, weekly papers
IN the country. Its columns are replete
with Texas and general news, and it is
one of the few political papers that has
been fair and just with our Order. The
North Texan is edited by Maj A. P.
Boyd, who, besides having a practical
knowledge of "the art preservative," is an
'ble editor and a gentleman of sterling
worth We congratulate him upon the
prosperity of his excellent journal.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-09-27
REAPING TWENTY SOU
MILES OF WHEAT.

The poetry of the harvest field will
to be rewritten. A correspondent Of
Chicago Tribune, writing from the
rymple farm, furnishes the rough N
rails for one canto.
''Just think" he says, "of a sea of VI
containing twenty square miles-Iy
acres-rich, ripe, golden; the winds
ping over it. AS far as the eve can
there is the same golden sunset hue.
away on thelhorizon you behold an ar
sweeping along in grand procession
ding on to meet it, you see major g
raj on horseback-the superintent-
two brigadiers on horseback-repan.
No swords fash in the sunlight, but e
weapons are monkey wrenches and b
mers. No brass band, no drum bea
shrill note of the fife, but the army No
on-a solid phalanx of twenty:four
binding reapers-to the music OF It's
machinery. AT one sweep, in ri
ling, a swath of Io2 feet has been cut
bound-the reaper tossing the bunds
most disdainfully in the air-eachbn
doing the work of six men. In all the''
rs self binding reapers at work. Dr.
the harvest about 400 men are empe
and during thrashing, 6oo--their Vi.
being So day with board"
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-09-27

prise was everywhere prospered. The
people naturally want some more OF the
speculative era They are becoming in
ouisitive. They naturally want to know
what they must suffer in every approach
to hard pan They see there is screw
loose somewhere For, while they suffer
and grow poorer, their teachers-the
money kings roll in luxury, and each day
grow richer and richer. The people want
an era of cheer, of trust and hope, and will
have it, but Invested of panic breeders
The scamps who prey upon the industri-
Gus, who mould public thong ht into "spec-
ulative eras" and reactions, that they may
rob and crush the people along the road
to hard-pan, must step down and out.
They must cease to give value and price
to the peoples property and products, and
then all these troublous times will cease.
We have had enough of money-bag rule.
We propose genuine speculative era
peoples rule. Give US this, and the re-
public lives Continue the present and
the republic must go down! A govern
ment given over to the keeping of dema
gogues, Iings, wicked shylockism, must
90 down! Let the people rise up and res
cue the nation from its peril.-halamazoo
| Mail
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-09-27
THE TWO THEORIES.

The advocates of our present financial
system attribute the distress throughout
the civilized world to reaction from a
speculative era. We are told that the un-
paralleled suffering of the lower and mid
die classes of society is due to the unusual
tribulation, shrinkage and liquidation at
tendant upon getting back to the point of
solid and real values, and upon honest and
true money.
The advocates of an American system
of finance, attribute the distress to purely
natural causes. Prices had adjusted them
selves to the volume of gold, silver and
paper money in circulation. The men who
control money centres and educate people
falsely, saw golden opportunity to still
further increase their power over the
worlds values. They decreed that Ger
many and the United States should de-
monetize one-half of the metallic money in
the world. 1t was done. They decreed
that Germany should prohibit the circu-
lation of any bank note under $25, and
that the United States should withdraw
from use and burn up some 81 900, 900,
900 of the circulating medium 1t was
done. They decreed that the medium thus
destroyed should reappear in the form of
an Understanding and untaxable debt,
upon which the people have already paid
$1,000, 100000 interest. 1t was done. In
short, they decreed an enormous debt for
the people, and then with demon purpose
robbed the people OF their ability to paw
by shrinking the value of p: operty and
produce.
When the money bags of the world de.
creed contraction ofthe volume of money,
they decreed the terrible shrinkage of val
ues and consequent ruin which have taken
place throughout most of the civilized.
world, and SO crippled business as to throw
out OF constant employment the wage ell
ement gq8a
These are the two theories. Choose We
between them. Whichever is correct the
world suffers as it never suffered before
In the squalor and wretchedness of the
poor IN our idle industries in numberless
tramps, IN an increasing national debt, and
IN the growing insolence of the money
power, we can trace the natural effect of
OF cause,-and that. settled, precon-
certed purpose on the part of the money!
kings to RUIN FIRST, that they NAY RuIE
AFTERWARDS. Was ever villainy more
apparent? 70 l6ev -. j
In the speculative era,n the masses
We're prosperous and happy; they were
every day building broader. deeper and
purer civilization The Republic was
stronger then than to- day. It's citizenship
was employed, and found no time to mur-
muir muir humanity was drifting upward, and
into closer sympathy with noble achieve
Ement There We're no tra,nps; children
oid not cry for bread; and business enter
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-09-27

L desire space in your valuable paper to
direct few thoughts to the members of
the Oranges in the State. Brothers and
Sisters, as the time is here for holding pic
mics l would say let us go to work, and
let us have Grange revival all along the
line. We should remember that the
Grange as well as similar orders is what
its members make it. 1t is patent to all
well informed men that we have accom-
pllshed much lasting good, and that much
more yet can be done. Our Order can be
made power in the nation that will be
recognized and respected; power that
Will be present in the councils of the ma
ton tor good, to the farmer and working
men OF all classes. While seeking to iniure
no man or class of men, it is our duty to
MAINTAIN our Order and insist upon our
rights, which have SO long been neglected.
brothers and Sisters, our Order with all
It's interests is IN your keeping, and it is
tor you to say what its future shall be.
desire to see our Order maintained until
we accomplish the grand aim of its foun-
ders, the elevation Of the farmers. the men
who follow the grandest and noblest call
ing OF mankind; until farming shall Justly
be recognized and farmers no longer look
ed upon as hewers of wood and drawers
OF water. To that end let us continue to
educate them until we occupy as high a
position, educationally, socially and NOR
ally as any of our brethren of other call
ings, Then and not then will we have
accomplished what our Order was des-
tined to accomplish. In conclusion, per
NIT me to say, do not fail to select dele
gates to the next State Grange; let each
county in the State see that their county
is represented by live granger, and let
US have one of the best State Oranges that
we ever had in the State The State is in
a good condition financially, and we have
but to do our duty and success will perch
upon our banners.-T. 7. OAibhant, Iudi-
ana Farmer.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-09-27

Worthy Secretary A. H. Baugh, of
Equity Grange, Smith county, Miss, sug-
gests that each Grange in the State con-
tribute $40 to enable Worthy Master OAR
den to devote his entire time to canvass
ing the State. The suggestion is a good
one, and if carried out would be the means
OF drawing thousands into the Order.
Worthy Master Darden has done splendid
service during his present tour, and the
pest interests of the Order would be great
~ promoted if he could remain in the field.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-09-27
FROM MISSISSIPPI.
KINDS COUNTY.


Editor Patron. Our attention was d.
rected a few days ago to scurriious par :
agraph in the Brandon Repupiican %
the 18th of August, respecting Capt. Oar
den, Master of the State Grange, VINO IS
yictimized by one claiming to be mem
her of the Order. We are assured that
Rebu6hcan principles are antagonstic to
the welfare of the Order of Patrons OF
Husbandry, be they found in Wall street.
New York, or Brandon, Miss. The great
est misfortune attending the Order is that
too many wolves have been allowed to
enter its fold.
If what Worthy Master Darden uttered
at Stems Creek on the 10Th caused the
"Republican's' criticism, it will do no
hurt to the farming interest of the country
to recapitulate some of the subject-matter
of the address, setting forth the many
grievances which are borne by that class
of citizens which he-represents:
Agriculture owning 50 per cent OF the
property, pays 90 per cent OF the taxes,
and has only three farmers to represent us
in Congress. The bloated bondholder
being free from taxation, controls the pri-
ces Of all the products of the soil, contl OILS
the carrying of freights upon all through
lines, and makes unjust Determinations in
distances All railroads also free from
taxation, and manufacturers receive toe
large bounties from the Genelal Govern
ment. He exposed the disguised Wire,
workers and political demagogues who
prey upon the credulity ofunsophisticated
farmers, land the press of the country which
has not shown that generosity to the
Grange that it has to other secret orders
Some of our State laws are very hurtful
to the farming interest. The lien law, as
it now exists, and a few others, should be
repealed.
Other points of his speech we might
mention; it is sufficient to say that Wor-
thy Master Darden is making an impress
sion wherever he goes, causing the masses
to think, and to act intelligently next No
vember by electing such men to the Leg
islature who will enact laws 10 ameliorate
the condition of the agricultural interest
of our State, thereby bringing prosperity
and contentment to all classes of our peo-
pie. S. G. WILSON.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-09-27

Baltimore devours $4,000 worth of
oysters day, or at the rate of thirty cents
head, for every man, woman and child
of its population. Boston $4,000 day,
or twenty five cents head. New York
$2oc,oo worth every IA hours during
the season, or 100000 year Balti-
more has SIS 100000 invested in the bust
ness, and besides what she eats, cans and
ships annually 100000 bushels. The
oyster business of the country IS calcula
ted to amount to fully $500, o,ooo The
wealth of the oyster banks is greater than
that of the cotton fields.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-09-27
THE FARMING INTERES'

THE GOOSE THAT LAID THE GOLDEN :
In England and America the e''
and most sagacious minds are begin
to enquire about the sick goose that ,
merly laid SO many golden eggs
goose is sick, and the golden egg:
dropped slowly. The eager multl'
who were formerly SO largely benen
by these eggs now feel uneasy and .
ious. The British Government prop
to give this producer of golden eggs '
attention in future The British nv
ment has requested the app
ment of a Royal Commission to my
into the cause of the prevailing dlS'l'y
the agricultural districts of EnglaHu
consultation of physicians in an imPo'
case: but the commission seems y
chiefly in the interest of the rich laldps
ers, and those who are the most disu'e
seem to have but little voice in Inc Y
ter. The real inquiry will dououss
how the lords of broad acres can u,
more money out of their estates III
OF inquiring how to relieve the acl'"
tress in the rural districts.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-09-27
COTTON.

Cotton in Liverpool continues to de-
cline. AS we stated at the time, the sud-
den advance was speculative manipula-
ted by the gambling ring that controls
prices, instead of producers, manufactu-
rers, and legitimate dealers. The hard
times and business depression throughout
the world, the low prices of cotton fab
RIGS, the scarcity of money and destruction
of confidence and credit, and the failure
of the food crops in Great Britain aud on
the Continent, conspire to prevent high
prices for cotton this season. Still, we dc
not believe that it will fall to the low pri-
ces that our farmers realized for last years
crop. We advise farmers to sell their cot
ton, little at time, as fast as it is gath
cred If possible, sell to Legitimate deal
ers, and not to spectators or their agents
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-09-27

Prof. Pendleton, of the Agricultural
Department of Georgia, makes this dis
tinction: An agriculturist he calls one
who is learned in the principles of agri.
cultural science, while a farmer is simpl,
one who follows the art as an occupation
The same distinction, he says. exists be.
tween the machinist and the factory ope-
rative-the one understands the science Of
mechanics and can repair and reconstruct
the machinery, the other uses the tools and
applies the art Is the distinction in the
first instance tenable one, and is the com.
parison propers aa
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-09-27

Large numbers of trichina spiralis have
been detected in cured meats imported in
to Aisace from a America. In Switzer-
land, too, the discovery has been made
that American hams are full of the tricb
ina, and government commission has
been appointed to decide upon the pre-
cautionary measures to be taken. The
cantonal authorities are recommended 70
warn the people against the use of Amer
lean hams, especially in the half raw state
and to arm the police with discretionary
powers over the sale of the article. Elk.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-09-27

The opinion is expressed by weather
profits that there will be early frosts
throughout the South this fall. The low
est temperature on Sunday night wss 65
deg, and fall of Temperature is predicted
Should the frosts occur as early as appre-
hended the results to the crops will be dis
astrous in the extreme
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-09-27
WHO GAINS ON A GOLD BASIS

The Zndebendeut says that the value of
a barrel of flour in I8o4-5 was $40 so, and
in 1870 it is only 5000, and points to the
circumstance as one of the benehcent re-
suits of gold basis. Well, let us revert
to 1861, and do business on gold basis
at that date, and see "who have been the
gamers"
The average gold value of a greenback
dollar in those years was as near as may
be to fifty cents. Multiply the gold value
of a greenback dollar by the greenback
value of barrel of flour, and we find
that barrel of flour in IS64-5 was worth
$S.25 in gold, or $2.25 more that it is worth
now on the gold basis the /udebendent is
Dragging about
Now who gains that $2.25 on the barrel
of flour? 1t is not the farmer certainly; it
costs him lust as much labor to produce
that barrel of flour o-day as it did in 1904
s. 1t is not the laborer, for the figures
show that the gold value of a days work
in those days was nearly if not quite, twice
what it is on the glorious specie basis of
to-day.
Let us see. The average price of skilled
and common labor in 1905 was about
S. A greenback was estimated at fifty
cents in gold BY the rule referred to
above the gold value of a days work was
$I.73. The average price of days work
of the present glorious specie basis period
is one 81 per day. The laborer can, there
fore, to-day earn q barrel of flour in six
days. But with his gold wages of IS64-5
he could buy his barrel of flour for lit
tie over three and half days labors!
Remember all these transactions at both
periods are on gold basis
AS shown by the first proposition it is
not the farmer who has gained by the low
price of flour on the beneficent gold basis
of day, for he can't get as much gold
for the flour into $2.25 per barrel as he
did in 1So4-5. 1t is not the laborer who
has gained by the gold basis price of flour
to-day as compared with the gold price of
Ioo4-5, for then he could get as much
gold for his labor in three and half DAYS
as he can now in six days. Then sure
enough, 'who has been the gainer:" 1t
has been the subsidized newspapers, a la.
the INDEPENDENT, the high salaried aristo.
cratic preachers, the usurers, the gold
gamble-s,th tax dodgers and ring pirates.
who do not in their whole worthless lives
produce enough of anything that is USE.
tnl to mankind to pay for the champagne
they get drunk on for single Sunday
Grand Rapids Leader,
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-09-27

Some years ago, when the immigration
fever in our State was at its height, an
editor out at Grenada used this sentence
in labored leader on the subject: ''The
only salvation of our people is emigva-
tiou." If the crop mortgage system con-
tinues much longer, our people will find
that the editor was literally correct.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-09-27
recognized and ac-
alton is to be the
airy. AS the
- 1oqL 's9Ieq o5losos-7.---ss
and Impressive ceremonies.

How many poor old father and moth
er stint themselves and work their hands
off, to send their bright boy to college,
where he learns to despise his fathers &C.
cupation and station in life; or to send
their lovely daughter to a fashionable
boarding-school, to be untitled for the du-
ties that will most probably fall to her LOT
in the coming years!
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-09-27

Bro. I. J. Carver, General Manager of
the Southwestern Cooperative Associa-
uoh at New Orleans, is accompanying
Worthy Master Darden on his canvass Of
southwest Mississippi and has made a
most favorable impression. His discus
sion OF the subject of business co-opera-
ton has greatly strengthened the cause in
that section.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-09-27

The United States have now more than
five-eights as much railroad mileage as all
Europe, and it will be but few years be-
fore we will have as much as all the rest
of the world
In Michigan. under close and persis.
tent system of wheat culture, the yield
per acre is increasing, and the ability oil
the soil to yield wheat also apparently be.
coming stronger
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-09-27
WV PuE4sT5pTYn-
rnoo pyd..ls- 'e,sl
W. RS who were in indie
Stances a few years ago.
aust organize for reform.
more money with which to

more money with which to
ur business That is the great
cal question of the day: it is the only
POLITICAL question that interests us. We
will not vote any longer for the lawyer
politicians, who don't understand the
financial question any way, and are under
the control of the Money Power. The
politicians say the sectional question is the
leading question, and SO they are at work
to excite the people and array section
against section. Very well; let them fight
it out on that line. But we won't get ex-
cited; we won't fight with or under them
any longer. We know that the Green
back doctrine is right, and we mean to or
ganize and elect men to Congress and the
Legislature who will represent us fully
and fairly on this question. With more
money, we will be able to give more time
to the Grange, and then we will push it
fo1ward."i
We think the farmers ought to work
for the Grange and the Greenback cause
at the same time.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-09-27

Worthy Overseer Rose of the Texas
State Grange is doing great work tor
the Order and for the cause of co-opera-
ton in that State. The farmers of Texas
may well be proud of leader SO earnest,
capable and patriotic.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-09-27

THE PATRON is gradually getting cir
culation in all parts of Tennessee, and is
beginning to invade Virginia, having Sc
cured a Judgement in Washington county,
the southwest corner of the State.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-09-27

We hope to see a Cooperative Asso-
citation established in this county very
soon. Once started, cooperation will
sweep all before it. 1t is death to middle
men, big profits, adulterated goods, and
swindling generally. aE
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-09-27

A "new process" cotton factory, in con-
nection with one on the old system, will
be established at Paris, Texas, next VIM
ter The superiority of the new over the
old system will be made apparent to the
farmers Of Texas by this arrangement, and
we shall be glad to see it carried out.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-09-27

Every years experience proves 'Dn ..
ne of superphosphate of lime, as ~
fertilizer for wheat,
A colony of Hollanders is to DC ~ ~.
in North Carolina this fall in the e'''
part of the State.