The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-09-20
FARMER IS CONSIDER.

letter to the 11uSDanQnlal, III reply " I
letter to Gov. Sessions of Michigan, who
claims to be farmer, but is really i
national banker: |
"a friend has just called my attention |
70 your issue of the 9th of the present
month, in which Lieut-Gov. Sessions at
tempts to read certain officers of the In.
diana State Grange lecture, for having
advised the farmers of this country to
take hand in the management OF the
Nations finances, instead of leaving it
altogether to himself and the other poll
ticians.
Without attempting to speak for other /
officers of the State Grange the Secretary \
acknowledges having exercised his rights
as citizen of our common country, equal
ly, if not to the same extent, with Gov.
Sessions, and to having advised the people
to do such acts as he believed would soon
est and most permanently relieve them
from their financial embarrassments, and 4
can not even now weep that he has done
so, however badly those who think ten
per cent good thing" may feel about 1t;
The advice, 'be more economical ana
work harder" SO persistenly and gratul-
ously given-to the producers OF wealth, is
good in inself There is and always has
been an absolute necessity for those who
create wealth to be economical, in order
to make both ends of the year meet, and
economy of the most rigid kind will con-
tinue to be necessary on their part so long
1 as the laws are framed and executed in
the interest of the usurers, and it is only
when the motive which prompts such adj
vice is that of the usurer, who wishes still
to ssreap where he has not sown and
gather where where he has not strewed,
/ that the advice to "work and economic"
becomes direct insult to those to whom
I tits given. l#@ ~ t''"l
Is The farmers Of this country cultivated
1862, 754 more acres of ground in corn,
and produced 466,o5S, 900 more bushels OF
that cereal in 1873 than in 1868, and they
received for their entire crop $50. oS5,4o
less, with which to pay their debts and
taxes and interest, for their crop of 1873,
than for that of 1868. Yet the same men
who so manipulated the legislatures OF the
country as to rob them of the products of
their labor and capital invested in the cul-
tivation of over sixteen and a half million
acres of ground, and of nearly eighty-four
i millions of dollars in addition upon the
single corn crop of 1875 are still advising
greater economy and yet more labor on
the part of the producer of corn. ,1a!H-G
The Secretary of the State Grange OF
Indiana says to his brother farmers every
where, stobf Stop your everlasting work
from before dawn until after dark. Take
your shoulders from the wheel a moment
/ Straighten your bent form, you are men,
Take time to think Work? Surely: all
men are commanded to work. Econo-
mise? Yes; economist more closely than
you have everyet done, if it is necessary
in order that you Raay-have time left to
study; but stop work with feet and hands
long enough to ask and answer this ques-
ton! Why is it always necessary for those
who create wealth to SO rigidly economist?
In seeking for evidence to enable you
to answer the question, reject none be-
cause it would in turn, cause you to re-
ject old and time honored theories for re-
forms are but the overthrowing of old
theories and old practices by the introduc-
ton of new and better ones. Do not fear
to investigate or act because of the sneers
of any, for it is not more true than great
4 reforms have been accomplished, than it
4 is that they have ever been in spite OF
those who either from a spirit of conser-
1 vatism, or from the less worthy motive of
4 self interest, have set themselves in oppo-
sition. - 10 -aac -Ii b. .aa Il, . =.
Even great men are sometimes in error.
Lieutenant Governors have been known
to be mistaken. Those who. oppose the
issuing by the government of the money
which the people must have in order to
make their exchanges, and the putting of
that money in circulation unburdened
4 with any interest, may be prejudiced
against it by reason of their early educa-
tons. They may not yetlhave have thor
oughly investigated the question. They
may be under the party lash, or swinging
it. Any are all of these things may be,
and in any event your duty as citizens and
voters of our yet free republic demand
thatyou investigate and understand these
q Questions, upon the settlement of which
all agree that SO much of veal or woe to
our people depends ta eaa
Il One of the hard money dailies of this
! city in defending a few days since rev.
erend gentleman from public censure for
;, inability to meet his business obligations,
made the statement a true one) that sew
Il en-eights of all business men fail by the
q time they reach middle life."p A beauti
| full commentary, surely, upon the none
tary system advocated by those who ''find
1iPIo per cent good thing:'o, xa ~e1er
= How careful we ought to be not to dis
turbia systemby which seven out of ev-
. cry eight of them who engage in com
. MERGE are made bankrupt by the time old
age, with its need of rest comes onlod
, Another-o of the hard money organs of
this city in commenting few months
! since upon the death, by starvation, il, two
districts in Egypt, of ten thousand people,
said: at was really money famine, cans.
lea by o7er-takation-a rand hieh rates offutey,
esk"ubnfq Il3a5 3l3z si.Af2r39 sgafn4.I
II" The continents of the hard money etli-
) ltor and offered in reply Jto, the sneers of
/ the hard moneysGovernor, tosthose who
: think that the amount of the government
debt, upon which the people must PAWN
terest, has something to do with the pros
. pefity of the people. - 5dI g8i f5tFI.srI., +.