The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-06-21
LETTER FROM PAST. MASTER
WRIGHT. OF CALIFOR MIA. t42t

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Editor Patron. Many thanks for the
copies of your paper which receive reg
ularly. / assure you it has been a great
pleasure to me to see "THE PATRON OF
HUsBANDRY" established again in its old
home at Columbus, after the fearful
scourge of yellow fever drove you from
Memphis with SO many thousands of its
people. It is especially gratifying to see
the handsome new head with which it is
beginning its fresh lease of life. The de-
sign is certainly neat and suggestive. Such
engravings are part of true object teach
ing. Going now, as it does every week,
with its bright face into many farming
communities, THE PATRON, by aid of its
very appropriate heading, becomes all the
more forcibly reminder of great and
useful truths, stimulator of productive
thought and a valuable educator. Most
sincerely and earnestly do wish you and
your truly valuable paper a long and sue
cessful career. 1t is veiy rarely the case
that farmers have an opportunity to sus
tain paper that devotes itself SO exclu-
sively, earnestly and faithfully to farming
interests, and to that organization which
will always deservedly stand highest as a
genuine farmers instituton-the Grange.
/ trust the farmers of the Southwest will
constantly show themselves so awake to
their interests that they will fully sustain
THE PATRON, and always hold up your
hands in this good work that yon. have
found to do so faithfully, cheerfully and
effectively. ~ s
/ hope these words will not be looked
upon as words of fattery, for in such l
will not knowingly indulge. . Be assured
they are but the words of friendly convic-
ton. AS one most sincerely devoted to
the noble principles of the Grange and of
Rochdale co.operation-a the purest
practical truths for associated effort and
trade-I should feel, my dear Worthing-
ton, e were i your papearh to finally suspend
/ publication, as if great darkness had fall
the Southwest. While THE P ATRoN con-
| by the fact that true light is shining
there, and that in spite ofthe partial gloom
which you tell us. enshrouds the Grange
cause in Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana,
a brighter time .ior such interests will yet
come, and that chiefly through your per-
severing zeal. 80 .,.5''''
We must also recognize the fact that
you are not working for agriculture alone,
| but for our true industrial interests at
large This your new heading illustrates
we'll by the typical union of hands be-
tween the Fafrner and Artisan. Would
to God, this union could be made heartily,
closely, unchangingly,- from one end Of
our land to the other, so that instead of
| the true friends of political reform vast
ing their strength over the dead issues of
the past; instead of allowing worn-out
| political leaders to force. them, year after
| year, to fight our lamentable war over
again, all our industrial classes and their
true friends could unite their votes on the
real issues of the day. Then they could
place in office, from President down, hon
est and competent friends of the true
| wants of our industries; men who will
/ seek to serve the people who elect them,
rather than to enrich themselves; men
who will not worship the Money Power
! of Wall Street and Europe, Of Jay Gould
and the Rothchilds, and their workers
on the side of Mammon. - 81 si'' -
| You remember the strong resolutions in
favor of industrial unity. in California
which were unanimously adopted by our
State Grange last October a year ago
Some thought, you know, that it was go
ling, a little too far, dabbling too much II
| politics, etc, for Grangers. But such
/ critics were mistaken-that is ALL Thai
leaven worked. In a quiet but sure way
the kind Of union we wanted between ths
friends Of reform was brought about. "A
! C Institutional G Convention was called by
the popular vote, and a large majority b
the delegates We're true to the peoples IN.
terests, They prepared for US one Of the
best constitutions, all things considered
THAT has ever been offered any State, 9afnnd
our people ratified it by. over II 900 ma
4 jority, though large sums of money ane
tevery corrupt means in the catalogue wers
used to defeat il, and every leading papel