The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-07-03
From the Dirigo Rural, Bangor, Maine.
Our Onli4atiOns.
LETTER FROM THE MASTER OF The
PENNSYLVANIA STATE GRANGE.

LETTER FROM THE MASTER OF THE
PENNSYLVANIA STATE GRANGE.
Editor Dirieo Rural; l have
been an attentive reader of your
very able and very excellent journal
for nearly two years. The farmers
of Maine, and throughout the whole
country, are very much indebted to
you for the manly espousal of their
cause and the able manner in w hich
you present their claims to consid-
Grafton, hitherto denied them by
the organized and concerted efforts
of men following other and less inn
portant avocations.
Your influence as journalist de-
voted to the everyday wants of ag-
riculture, is widely appreciated, aud
men like myself trust that you will
be recognized in the near future, as
among the Journalists entitled to
to lead public opinion. Since the
advent of the Grange organization,
which, as you know, is the only or
ganization ofany practical character
that farmers ever had in the history
of the world, other journals of the
same character as yours have been
established in the different States,
and an effort made to build them
up. They are having good effect,
BY showing the agricultural people
how persistently they have been op-
pressed, cheated and deceived, by
men whom they have helped to elect
to the various offices Of the repre-
sentative and executive depart,
ments of our governments, State
and National.
The American farmers are coming
to understand that they must leave a
journalism that is specifically, and
persistently, devoted to their inter
ests, as is the journalism tina repre-
sents the commercial, manufacturing
and money classes. To attain this
farmers must become as clanish, sci
fish and yigilant, as are mauufac
turers, merchants, bankers anc
transporters. There are none o
those classes who patroniEe Journals
devoted to the farmers true inter.
ests. Why then should the farmers
patronize those newspapers wholly
IN the interests of their adversaries
1t is the plain and unmistakabl'
duty of the agricultural class, to hell
support journals SO serviceable as i
the Dirigo R4rai,, and the obliga
ton begets on ~the other hand ar
obligation on the part of gentlemen
like yourself, to guard we'll the in
terests of our class. One of the pur
poses of this communication is t
remind you that the articles yol
print from the New York Datl
Times come from one of the yer,
worst enemies of the American far
mer. | say this journal printed a
elaborate editorial some time since
in which the editor stated that ag
riculture would not reach its tru
importance in Americu and houris
as it ought to, until the farms wer
held by the monied capitalist, an
the farmer should become tenan
after the manner of England.
Here, you observe, is journs
that strikes the most deadly blo>
that could be directed at the Amer
lean farmer. fthe time ever come
in America, when the proprietorshi
of the American farmer is destroyed
and come it surely will, if farmin
becomes the least profitable and re
, spectacle of all the avocations thu
embrace our productive industrie
America will not boast republica
government.
You are aware that the leadin
journals of all our great cities hav
endeavored to ridicule Presider
Hayes whenever he accepted a
: invitation to. attend a meeting {
. farmers at the annual exhibition !,
specimens of their labor. You al
also aware that there has been a
apparent concert of effort, by tn
same class of journals, to ridicule t
contemptible inuendoes, Gen. w. (
LIE Due, our very able Commission
: of Agriculture. This has been OF
+ the most villainous assaults upe
/, American farmers that could be d
: vised; and my advice to our farf
ers as the only fitting resentme
). for this injury to their cause is
e discontinue a journal that contai
i an attack of any kind on the prese
Commissioner of Agriculture.
General q Duc has done mo
10 advance the true interest of t
farmers Of the United States, tn
! any living man. The article viii
Il you copied into the Dirieo Pu,
of the 18th in. t., is what we mig