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The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-04-24

This, then, in my judgment, is the
great whrk before us-Organiza-
ton! And not only must we per-
feet our organization, but we must
practically avail ourselves of the
advantages, the benefits and the
power which organized effort and
united action alone can give us. In
no other way can we defend and
protect ourselves against the en-
croachments of other and better or
ganized classes; thus only can we
relieve ourselves of the unequal and
unjust burdens imposed upon US, and
reap and enjoy the just rewards of
our labor. We, the agriculturists,
comprise majority of the people of
this gerat nation, and yet, practical.
ly, we have no voice in the forming
of those laws which so vitality affect
our prosperity and happiness as a
class; and as matter of course, they
operate to our disadvantage and in
favor of the classes in whose inter-
est, and for whose benefit, they are
made. Almost every lawyer in Con-
gress is said to be the attorney of
some corporation, class or organized
interest, and is it strange that they
work for their clients, or that the in
terests of the farmers should be neg
lected and his rights trampled upon
Other vocations-well organized,
firmly united, seeking their own in
terests-have able, skillful and elo
quent advocates in every Legislative
body, but no able advocates with
persuasiN e eloquence plead the cause
of agriculture, or with logical and
unanswerable argument sets forth
the necessity of its protection and
encouragement The farmer, isola
ted and alone, fights his own battles
and is always worsted. From year
to year this state of things grows
worse. Each succeeding year will
see our burdens heavier and our
profits lighter. Depression, discour.
agement and despair, like a dark
cloud, settle upon the vocation OF
agriculture. One by one its votaries
will pass from the relation of owner.
to that of tenants, as gradually, under
the oppression of forces Already put
in motion, the land passes from the
hands of the many into those of the
few.-4. R. .Shipley of Oreeo,
State orange. E&
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-04-24

secure for the system full and per-
feet trial, to the end that the young
who are destined to the fields of
may be better qualified
for labor therein and our Order may
be prospered in the noble work it
is doing for those who till the soil"
This book, just published by
IMessrs. Appleton & CO., was writ
ten by Prof. Lupton of Vanderbilt
University, to meet the demand
created by the Act of the Tennessee
Legislature. 1t is admirably pre-
pared, and comes up fully to the
purpose for which it was designed.
We feel sure that this book will
soon be introduced into all the
common schools of the country.
The members of the Grange every
where should give it their immedi-
ate attention, and insist upon it,
where there is no State law requir
ing its use, that it be used in all
schools over which they have any
control.
We shall recur to this subject
from time to time, and present in
our columns the opinions Of leading
members of the Grange to whose
special attention this much needed
work will be brought.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-04-24

In taking survey of the Cont
nent, we can not help being struck
by the contrast that the condition OF
France furnishes when compared
with that of the rest of Europe.
France is Republic, and France is
free of that dread Of revolution
which is the spectre that is startling
every European Government.
4 Unlike the United States, France
has been wise enough to discard the
British financial system, and as a
consequence, France is the most
prosperous country in Europe.
/ Whilst Prussia, Russia, Austria
and Italy are groaning beneath the
heavy weight of taxes for armies to
keep their population in subjection
the French Republic, strong in the
confidence that it has in the loyalty
of its citizens, devotes itself to the
task of developing its industrial re-
sources.
A recent editorial in the Journal
des De6ats, SUPPOSED to be inspired
by the French Government, in dwell
ling on the improved condition OF
the country, speaks of the wonderful
powers ofrecuperation possessed by
France, and declares that the policy
of the Government would uniformly
be one of peace, 1t would enter
into no entangling alliances, and
would keep resolutely aloof from
anything that could be construed
into acts of aggression by other
Powers The age of wars for con-
quest must soon pass away in Eu-
rope. Governments were becoming
convinced that better policy must
generally prevail, If they were not
all to be crushed beneath the weight
of war debts and the Generalization
which has grown greater with every
decade for the past. 100 yeare; and
in the " ork of inaugurating new
era France was disposed and pre-
pared to take leading part. .o
Here we have the keynote of the
policy that France intends adopting
How different it is from that pursued
by the monarcoicat Governments oil
Europe!
France IS giving to the world .
practical demonstration of the su
periority of Republic over a Mon
archy, and is silencing forever the
Bourbon cry that the people CANNOT
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-04-24

"Do you ask what will educate
your son? Your example will edu-
cate him; your conversation with
your friends; the business he sees
you transact; the likings and dis
likings he hears you express, these
will educate him. The society you
live In will educate him; your do
mestic circle will educate him;
above all your rank, your situation
in life, your home, your table will
educate him. 1t is not in your power
to withdraw from him the continual
influence of these things, except you
were to Withdraw yourself from
them also. Education goes on at
every instant of time; you can nei-
ther stop it moi turn its course.
What these have tendency to make
your child, that will he be.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-04-24

While out on the farm blowing
and planting your fields, ask your
self these questions:
Who am / w orking for?
Who is to have the profits on this
cropl
Can my Grange help me decide
the question? -
Can our Order help me to save
for wife and home an honest share
of what my harvest yields!"
Is not the Grange necessity and
our only salvation?
Then read on this page "One
more tightening of the bands" see
and believe what is going on. Busi-
ness men are awakening to the
danger, The Chamber of Com
merce of Cincinnati it will be seen
are acting. The New York Board
of Trade have been in correspond
ence with Worthy National Master
!. Woodman, concerning the ac-
ton of the Grange on inter State
commerce, and are assuring us of
their hearty cooperation.
Let US be up and doing; read and
keep posted; get every member of
your Grange to reading and study
ing this important question; get
your farmer neighbor interested, let
him read and ask him if he don't
need the Grange more than ever?
Don't miss meeting of your
Grange this summer. Don't fail to
take time to read the Bulletin regu-
larly, and keep thoroughly posted.
g Forewarned is forearmed."-
Grange Bulletin.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-04-24

We would thank members of
those Oranges throughout the
Southwest that have cooperative
stores or other enterprises under.
way, to forward US statements of
their progress. Thousands of Pa
irons would be encouraged to SINH
lar efforts when they hear of the
success of those already engaged in
them. The more ear 1est and active
members of the Order in the South
west have become thoroughly
aroused to the Importance of CO.
operation, and it will now engage
their attention as it has never done
before.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-04-24
Cotton Manufacturing i'm the
EOuth.

&
The farmers of the cotton States
have splendid future before them
if they have the wisdom and enter
prise to take advantage of the op-
portunities now within their reach.
They have found by sad experience
that it is simply impossible to make
money by growing cotton, that all
who deal in this great staple reap
rich reward except those who pro-
duce IT. This is true of every class
that produce and sell an article in
the raw or crude form. The man.
ufacturers of the finer articles of
cotton cloths in France realize a
greater profit from the manufacture
of 100000 bales of cotton than the
farmers of the cotton States do from
the production of 100000 of bales.
All the expense attending the hand
ling of the raw cotton from the
field to the factory in New England
and Old England falls upon the
producer. This fact is not under
stood by our farmers, otherwise
they would make greater efforts to
effect an entire change in the pres
ent system.
The remedy is now within the
reach of the cotton growers them
selves. They have simply to con-
centrate their means, put up a "new
process" factory in every neighbor-
hood, dispense with their gins and
all the cumbrous machinery and ex-
pensive and oppressive modes OF
handling their cotton, and manufac.
ture and sell it in that form. That
this can be done, has been clearly
demonstrated in these columns time
and again. The Clement attachment
is complete success; no one who
has seen it in operation has doubt
on that point, and its general adop.
ton is but question of time. This
"new process" is so much more eff.
cient, and cheaper and simpler, thai
it must supercede the ''old system
at an early day.
Many enterprising farmers in
several of the cotton States, in NORTH
and South Carolina, Georgia anc
Texas especially, are already moving
in this matter. They have purchased
individual and county rights to uss
the Clement Attachment; severa
"new process" factories have beer
erected, and are in successful opera
ton, and others will soon be started
That these factories will soon b,
erected all over the South, is abso
lutely certain, but it is not SO certain
who will erect and operate them
Merchants anc capitalists seem tt
be giving the question closer atten
tion than the cotton growers, whx
are more deeply interested in it ane
who ought to be the first to act.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-04-24

Bro. w. z. Hancock, of Salado,
Texas says: ys:"Co-operation builds up
the order-gives it vitality, tone and
energy. 1t quickens and puts into
active operation all those features of
refinement, education and general
intelligence, public spirit, industry
and interest in skilled farming.
There is no failure in cooperative
stores when conducted according to
the rules fixed for such enterprises.
l am speaking of true cooperation
on the Rochdale plan"
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-04-24

Farmers who expect to better
their condition by improving their
system of cultivation, devoting their
attention exclusively to farm labor,
make a great mistake. They might
double the products of the farm and
still remain poor. 1t is the robbery
which is going on under the mer-
chants business system that is
crushing them to the earth. Big
crops cannot make them independ-
ent, but organization will. What
we mean by organization is for
every farmer to join the Grange and
put his shoulder to the wheel. u
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-04-24

'SsSIo7,f "SJ 9ql pug 'uauIaInnI,1, SIII.
Worthy MaSI5f n al .sulp,,e r.. .;... T,r.e
SIN our own State the necessary
legislation has been secured, and our
public schools have been equipped
tor the instruction of the masses in
the elementary principles of agri-
Culture, and the necessary elemen-
fary work is now ready for the press,
and very soon we shall test the prac-
ucabliity of instructing the masses
IN this direction, with what results
remains to be seen.
ou will see from the report of
The committee on education that the
National Grange passed a resolu-
uon looking to the adoption, in
every State in the Union, of this
method of instructing the masses in
An elementary knowledge of sci
ence which bears so important a
seiation re to their daily avocation.
lhls is. perhaps. the beginning of
Al end that will confer the proudest
alstinctIon upon the Grange, and
winch will establish its claims to
oe Me confidence, respect and support
" the farmers as an instrumental
ay Tor advancing their interest. AS
.ns t effort to popularize agricul-
:ateducation and provide for the
.lStfnction in this direction of even
le children of the humblest farm
r. has been inaugurated under
of fahge auspices, let every Patron
~ Inc State use his best efforts to
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-04-24
Number 7.
be trusted with the government of
themselves World.
Railroads. and the Empire.


The colossal transactions in rail-
road stocks within the past few
months have awakened no little
throught and anxiety among all clas-
ses of intelligent Americans. 1t is
singnificant fact in the progress of
ideas that evil doors are after all the
great social preachers. Jay Gould is
doing more to hasten a solution of
the problem of social democracy
than a century of philosophers and
agitators. The instincts of the
American people are naturally av-
erse to Government control of what
are generally considerd to be private
interests, but when the public be-
hold transaction like the purchase
of so vast an interest as the New
York Central and Hudson River
Railroads by one man, a feeling of
alarm at the possibilities OF railroad
monopoly is everywhere infused.
The prospect is indeed startling.
In 1870 there were only 2,SI3 miles
of railroad in the country-now
there are upwards of 10000. These
roads are to the country exactly
what the arteries are to the human
system. They distribute the vast
productions of forty millions ofpeo-
pie. Any power that can control
them is dictator over the nations
industrial life blood Think of this
dangerous figure Gould, then, who,
starting few years ago with plum
der stolen from the Erie road where
he was employed, now assumes die
tatorship over 1850 of road, OF
about one-eiggth of the whole miel-
age of the country.
And what manner of thing is this
coming ogre, whose deep laid plans
are now aimed at the throat of ev-
cry producer in the land? The affi-
davit of President Watson in the
famous Euie suit, brought to recov-
er stolen funds from the band of
thieves of which Gould was the
leading spirit, proved from the books
of the defendants own firm that
some $4,000, 900 had been stolen.
With this plunder as starter, the
career Gould has been one contin-
ued record of corrupting legislators,
bribing judges and trompling rivals
under foot with audacionuS lawless-
ness.
During the legislative investiga-
ton of 1879 Gould admitted, under
oath, that he had bribed the Legis-
latures of four States. In 1877 he
spent more than $1,000, 900 for Eek
ira and legal services" which sums,
robbed from stockholders, were
credited on his books to the "India~
rubber account" Within a years,
by series of cunning Vaccinations
he has succeeded in consolidating
sos miles Of road under his man
agement, until already, with the
| Vanderbilt interest secured last
week, his network of monopoly
stretches from ocean to ocean.
This state of things is unquestion-
ably precipitating an issue between
the people and the bold monster
that is preparing to handcuff the
industries of free republic. The
Socialists to-day find their greatest
ally in this railroad Alaric, Con.
servative men are everywhere be-
ginning to admit that if the colossal
| strides OF these unscrupulous railroad
magnates can be checked in no 9TH
er way, the people will yet be con-
strained to practically confiscate and
dispatch vampire which threatens
in the near future to be master of
the government itself.-/riSh
World. -
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-04-24

There is great and growing de-
mand among members of the Order
in Georgia for more light in regard
to the cooperative business system
recommended by the National
Grange and heClementAttachment.
We believe that not one Co-ope
rative Association has yet been or
ganized in the State of Georgia, but
since members of the Order there
have commenced reading THE PA
TRoN they have become interested
in the subject, and many Oranges
are discussing it with the view or
ganizing associations and establish
ing stores. The letter of the very
efficient Secretary of the State
Grange, Bro. E. Taylor, which We
print elsewhere, indicates that letters
of enquiry are reaching his office
and we are receiving similar letters
also from that State.
The leaders Of the Grange in
Gorg:a, the intelligent and patriotic
few who have remained faithful to
the cause, have determined not only
ito revive the Order there but to make
it more powerful than ever. And
las a means to this end, they are
bringing the questions of CO. opera
ton and Clement Attachment facto-
ries prominently before their people,
being satisfied that with these pro-
eressive business and industrial sys-
TENS adopted by the farmers under
the auspices of the Grange, the Or
der in Georgia. as in other States,
will be directly and greatly ben
gefitted,
I We shall watch with deep interest
the movements of Worthy Master
Smith and his associates in the State
| Grange in their patriotic efforts to
| rebuild the Order in the Empire
State of the South, and we will give
full accounts in our columns of their
work and progress.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-04-24
The officers of the Arkansas Stat

The officers of the Arkansas State
Grange expect to secure the services
of Worthy Lecturer Eshbaugh OF
the National Grange next summer,
and intend to make vigorous effort
in behalf of the cause in all parts OF
the State. Past Master Jones, now
of the Executive Committee of the
State Grange. viii canvass large
part of TIE State during the year.
Altogether, the Grange prospect ia
Arkansas is Frightening.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-04-24
A Good Test.

If you are thoroughly convinced
that it is the gold, and not the Gov
ernmcnt stamp that makes money
Just make few sovereigns
--of solid gold-and see if you
won't go to the penitentiary just as
quick as if you had made them of
brass. Try it, some of you gold
basis men.-ZoromfO Can.) Ma
tiona|, 9la
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-04-24

The failures in New York for the
first three months of this year num-
Der 400, with liabilities aggregat-
ing sIs,ooo,ooo. Last year during
the same period, tine failures num-
bercd 2,5ooo, with liabilities of $4S,-
100000.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-04-24
work and progress.

We earnestly hope that the Gran
ges in this State are all contributing
literally to the salary of Worthy
Master Darden, and that he will
soon be able to take the field. The
Grange that holds back in this pa
triotic work is stupidity blind to its
hest interests.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-04-24

The founders of large fortunes
are generally themselves too mean
to enjoy them.-Royee,
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The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-06-02

Ing news from Chicago. and then en-.
tered the Senate Chamber with a smil-
ing countenance. He was in happy
mood throughout The day, and was fire.
quently the center of group of Sena-
tors earnestly engaged in conversation.
Cameron has been retained as Chair
man of the Republican National Com
mittee, and G.. F. Hosf, of Massacfm-
sets, has been selected as temporary
Chairman Of the Convention.
Goss was defeated by Ryan in West
Virginia yesterday. The iglrt lasted
ono hour and forty minutes, and eighty
seven rounds were fought,
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-06-02

A Temporary Organization Effected
and Committees Appsinfeth

CHICAGO, June 2-2:2o p. M.-The
Convention was called to order at /
P. N. George i. Hosr, of Massachu-
Sets, was unanimously elected Tempo
rary Chairman, and he addressed the
Convention.
On motion of Hale, of Maine, the
roll of States was called, for appoint
ment Of Committees on Credentials,
Resolutions and Permanent Order of
Business.
Utah having been excluded from the
roll of States aud Territories, Fray
asked that it be included. { 1nkling
objected, and the Chair decided that it
be called.
All questions on contendinz delega-
tions were unanimously referred to
the Committee on Credentials. Pro-
tests of cont-sting delegations from
Alabarta, Illinois, Louisiana and Penn
sylvania' were also referred.
On motion of Logan, a resolution was
passed granting 800 seats daily to vet
Grams of the war.
Conkliur moved that the Convention
adjourn till'll o'clock tomorrow. Hale
opposed The motios was carried.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-06-02
A FIELD DAY AT CHICAGO.

Chicago is the center Of attraction for
the people Of tile United States to-day.
The eyes of the whole country are
turned in that direction. Powerful and
unscrupulous political leaders, intent
only on self-aggrandizement, are en-
deayoring to subvert the will of the
majority Of the Republican party, and
set aside the traditions of the Republic,
by nominating candidate for the Pres
iaency for a third term. To accom-
ptish this end the leaders resort to
every device known to politicians. Tie
machine has been worked to its great
eat capacity to carry conventions and
instruct delegates. Three great States,
New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois,
have Instructed their delegates to Chi.
caso to vote for third term, although
tie majority Of the Republicans in those
States are opposed to it, IN the con-
ventions in those States, according to
Republican report, debate was cut off
and parliamentary usages overruled,
and the Chair instructed to recognize
only certain persons, that the will OF
the majority might be subverted and
delegates elected who were in favor OF
q third term. It is barely possible, but
by no means probable, shat the Ma
tional Republican Convention. which
assembled i'll Chicago to-day, may not
coun eenance this bulldozing Surely
there are men in that Convention who
are governed to some extent BY princi-
pie, and who will remind the Conyen-
ton that in nearly every Northern
State Republican Convention four years
ago declared against third term. All
OF the 756 delegates in that Convention
certainly cannot be so inundated by
C'onkling, Cameron and Logan that one
or more Of them cannot protest against
the nomination of the man whose sec.
ond administration was shown to be the
most corrupt that ever existed in the
United States.