The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-08-26

is helping our young farmer very mate
rally and if you have no Grange where
are your agricultural societies? Should
every county, if not every neighbor-
hood, have one? Other classes of men
have their cotton exchanges, grain ex.
changes, boards of trade, trade unions,
and why should you think that you are
so clearly designated as the "hewers Of
wood and drawers of water" that you
fear to join an association which will
advance you in the three departments of
life-intellectual, social and business? 1t
is against your interest 10 meet once a
quarter, or even once year TO compare
notes and rub your intellccts together? {?
Out of so many some new idea may
spring. We are too far advanc-
ed now to attend any other school,
but we can make this more profitable to
US than collegiate course. Is there
anything wrong in meeting your neig gh-
Dor here, or spending a pleasant day
with him, if nothing more, whereas you
have been in the habit of only meeting
him in the big road? 'Tis not one or
two great favors in life time that makes
you friend. but the many little every
day kindnesses, too small to be mention.
ed singularly, but which bind you to-
gether as with hooks of steel. Is it to
your disadvantage to combine and save
hundreds of dollars in the purchase of
your heavy domestic goods, of which you
are large consumers viz: your wagons,
guanos, bagging and ties, iron and ma
chinery? Did not the Iowa State
Grange purchase the patent for the
barron Harvester, and we're able to
furnish it to their members for $40,
whereas they had always been. paying
5000 for the same machine? But even if
you don't make anything in the way of
money out of your association, if you
don't even get back your initiation fee,
if you have done something for your day
and generation, you should feel richly
rewarned if you shall have made your.
self and neighbor better men or women.
If, Mr.. President / had possessed, the
ability to so write this whole humble
paper, it would have been on our farm
er's domestic life; for, sir, l have the
belief that our farmer should have just as
comfortable, just as convenient and as
handsome a home, and just as pretty a
wife, if he can get her, as just anybody
else. Then, sir, I do want to see our
young farmers do something more than
as farmer said in my neighborhood,
stay at home, make corn, and eat it like
another hog. Make yourself and inf1u-
ence to be felt throughout your whole
section. As your part in putting down
vice and corruption in the land aid in
toning up the public conscience until it
will, be fatal for q man to betray the
public confidence. to call his fellow out
into field and slay him, or to steal
from the public treasury, instances of
which we have in even this Democratic
age of purity and honesty. DO your
part in putting down corruption in office
and out of it. Post guard round the
sanctity of virtue, and crush out every
social evil. Would not the conscious
ness of performing such as these be
something of q reward? Would it not
be something to recuperate and beautity
the home of the future farmer, so that
twenty years from to-day you will not
have some upstart of farmer, like your
humble essayist, up here before the
Darlington Society, abusing the past
farmer for mining our beautiful Sunny
South?