The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-04-03

Pomona Grange No. g., Patrons of
Husbandry, will meet at Anderson on
on the first Saturday of April next, and
general turnout of representatives from
the sub Oranges would greatly contribute
to the encouragement, advancement aud
prosperity of the Order. Come along,
brethren, and let US have confidential,
family talk over and about the prospects,
hopes and expectations of our Order.
In the past few years we have encoun-
tered many and trying difficulties; we
have realized only partial success from
some of our efforts for good, while in
Others We have had the modification to
witness an almost total failure. But the
darkness of the ill-boding cloud is pass
ing away, and bright rays of hope and
cheering expectations are looming UP to
quicken our energy, confirm our faith
and reward our future properly directed
efforts. Many of our dormant Oranges
are hopefully revived, delinquent MEM
bers are reinstated upon their rolls, new
members have been initiated, and the
number Of "clear members" have heen
nearly doubled within the first quarter of
the present year. Your power and i'm
portance is being felt and recognized all
over the country; and by our govern
ment, not enthusiastically, but surely
appreciatitely. The number of legisla-
tors, both National and State, represent
ing our interests in the halls of legisla-
tion are perceptibly on the increase.
Not long since the President of the
United States was pleased to compliment
the National Grange by an invitation to
visit him and the different departments
of State, and earnestly solicited their CO.
operative wisdom in favor of the initia-
tory efforts introduced by the govern
ment to advance and elevate the farming
interests of the country.
Your complaint and petition for relief
on the subject of railroad discrimination
has been promptly responded to by our
National and State Legislatures. In the
Senate of the United States Mr.. Davis,
of Virginia, introduced the following
preamble and resolutions, which COM
manded the attention and wisdom of
grave Senators in their places:
Whereas agriculture is the foundation of
nearly all our wealth, and it is mainly
through the expectation of its products that
we are paying off our large Indebtedness,
foreign and domestic, and have the present
large balance of trade in our favor; and
Whereas although about one-half of the
people of this country are engaged in agri-
cultural pursuits and all other interests are
dependent upon this, our leading and most
important interest, commercial and other
wise, yet but little has been done by the
General Government to promote agricul-
ture, while other less general and important
interests have been largely aided: Therefore,
Resolved by the Senate, (the Houoe of Repre-
on agriculture of the respective Houses be,
and they are hereby, instructed to consider
generally the subject Of agriculture, and re-
port, by bill or otherwise what can and
ought to be done by the General Govern
ment to better advance, encourage, and
foster agricultural interests, and that said
committees shall have the power to send for
persons and papers.
Mr.. Davis truly said: "It is subject
so broad, so national, so unircrsal, so non
partisan, so non-sectsonal, so .tar-reaching
in its effects and important in its results,
that it should at once command the pa
tient attention of all, and in its consid-
Grafton party feeling and party passion
should have no voice. 1t
is the foundation upon which civilization
and society rest; the basis and source of
the permanent wealth of a nation. No
people in history have made substantial
progress in civilization, the arts and
sciences, and have remained long pros
porous, if they neglected agriculture. It
is the most universal of all arts, the pa
rent of manufactures and commerce, and
the basis of all other industries, and
without which all others must decay and
perish"
Lift up your weary heads, ye toil-worn
men of,the field, and gaze with delight
upon frightening prospects before you.
Heretofore you have been oppressed and
weighted down by your own government
in the exaction of exorbitant taxes.
Now your annual taxes are growing de-
lightfully less, with n hope of further
reduction. Merchants and traders of
every class have been demanding high
profits from you for their goods and
wares and receiving your goods at mere
nominal profits. Now you can buy in
the cheapest markets and demand remu-
nerating prices for your surplus goods.
No longer plod along the beaten path in
dependency; cheer up and feel lively
sense of your importance in the world.
Realize that you, and each Of you, con-
stitute distinct personages IN the torma-
tion of this great mass of operators, with
distinct dnty to perform, the omission
of which may leopard the final success
of your body as whole. As the defec-
tive link of strong chain sewers the
union of its strength, so the dallying
member of this great concourse may
very materially hinder and delay the
accomplishment of our prospective good.
Be advised. Press forward in your daily
avocations with diligence and energy.
Be frugal and economise as your situa-
tion will allow. Be sure your dollar is
made before it is spent. Be united for
effective and successful action when ne
cessity calls YOU to the point.