The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-10-23
The Grange in North Carolina

The Grange i'm North Carolina,
In some sections in the Old North
State, the Order is in fourishing
condition. Roanoke District Grange
is accomplishing immense good. To
show the spirit of the Patrons in that
State, we print in full the following
excellent address of Worthy Master
Joseph w. Seasons, delivered at the
October session of the Hertford
Pomona Grange.
Patrons: Three months have
passed away, and, to-day, we are
again in council to devise and de-
termine for the good and welfare of
our beloved Order, of our wives
and children, our people, and our
section of the State.
In all the counties and sections,
where Patrons and their officers
have done their whole duty, the
Order fourishes and advances by
healthy progression. In all cases
of decline or failure, it is safe to say,
to those who were in office 'you
have done those things you should
not have done, and left undone those
things you should have DONE" No
organization, association, corpora
ton, or body of any kind, either
social or financial, religious or secu-
lar, ever succeeded or ever will
cucceed, unless its officers, lead
ers and members work, and work
continuously in its interests. Who
ever made anything a success, with
out devoting to it true toll, thought
and money?
Let US reflect and then try to re-
alize the great power we can WELD,
the immense good we can do, and
the great obligation resting upon
us, to fully exert that power and to
do that good. We must go to work
and utilize this Order. While you
strive to increase, build up and
strengthen it, at the same time use
it; make it work for you; keep it
bright ana smooth by constant use.
Use it how? use it for any and
everything good, that any organiza.
ton can be used; for any social ed
ucational, financial or civic purpose,
that will benefit or interest US. All
men have some special Order, or
ganization or association to subserve
and promote the special interest of
a special class; and to get its bene-
fits for that single speciality, they
expend any amount of time, toll,
thought and money needed to sue
ceed. This Order thus used, and
thus treated, will return thousand
fold for all expended upon it. Sus-
tain it well, use it at home, in the
neighborhood, in the township, in
the district; use it from the min
utest interests and objects of the
home and family to the greatest
schemes of State.
1t is actually impossible for us
agriculturists and farmers to any
longer derive sufficient profits from
our toll and labor to feed and to
support our families without this or
some similar organization, by which
we can relieve and protect ourselves,
from the ruinous exactions of State
and Federal legislations, and Gus
toms of trade, and the unjust and
extortionate determinations of cor
porations and monopolies. The
earth yields bountiful crops; i'm
proved implements and increased
intelligence enables the husband
man to reap more and more each
year, the prices of produce at points
of consumption are good and fair
demand for the whole supply ex-
lists; but still with all this, agricul-
ture is on the decline; the farmers
are getting poorer each year-each
wear more and more of them be-
come bankrupt; each year the mum
Der of landowners become smaller
and smaller, and unless some change
is made or remedy applied it is only
a question of time when wholesale
bankruptcy and ruin will over
whelm them as a class.
Why is this?
Because there is an abnormal and
undue amount of organization and
combination antagonistic to agricui-
ture and absolutely none in its de-
tense. The poor individual farmer
stands singly and alone, confronting
an army of thousands, trained, off
cerea, drilled, organized, armed,
equipped, supplied and ready TO
march at mowents notice. and