The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-04-17
FROM TEXAS.
HARRISON COUNTY.


Editor Patron Permit a Texas Gran
ger to offer few suggestions for the con-
sideration of the readers OF HE PATRON.
am rejoiced to see the names of many
old friends in Tennessee, my former home,
enrolled among the working Patrons in
our noble cause And it may give some
encouragement to our friends in the old
States to know that the aboring men and
women OF Texas are alive to- the interest
of the good cause. New applicants are
constantly knocking at our gates for adj
mission, and backsliders are being brought
into the fold again, thus Strengthening our
forces to fight against moneyed monopo-
lies and oppressive and unequal taxation,
"A general revival is pervadng large
portion of our State, and heartily endorse
Bro. A. J.. Roses suggestion of Grange
camp meetings.
Education is one of the cardinal princi-
pies of our Order, and should be the
watchword of every working man. It
should be written in large letters and sus-
pended in every Grange hall The subject
should be agitated until full determine
ton is indellibly fixed on every mind to
know their rights and privileges as Amer
lean citizens. The great mass of our far
year to year, studying nothing but how to
raise big crops at the expense OF muscular
power, and reading their county paper,
whose editor compliments them as indie
pendent landlords, and tickles their pride
with glowing descriptions of the bounti-
full harvest in store for them at the end of
the season. But these political editors
teach the farmer weekly that they and the
lawyers, rail road men, politicians and kid
glove gentry are hard at work devising
plans for his prosperity, teaching him that
while he works to produce, they must
work to provide markets and transporta-
ton for his produce, and to make laws for
him; that it is not the province of the far
mer to trouble himself about these
matters; that the making of laws, the reg
ulating of the finances of the country, of
taxation, of commerce, etc., are above his
comprehension, and that these sort of
things must be left to the kid glove gen.
try. But, thanks to our Grange organiza
ton, the farmer is beginning to have the
scales removed from his eyes, beginning
to learn that the kid glove gentry have
been seheming to reap the profits of his
labor, and how we'll they have succeeded
the history of farm life will clearly show.
Then let me say again to every farmer.
study well the causes that Cypress you:
study to learn why your labor is not as re-
munerative as that of other classes: to
learn why rail road men, bankers, stock
jobbers, merchants and professional men
get rich and wear purple and fine linen,
while you are getting a bare. subsis
tence. Is it for the want Of industry on
your part? BY no means; you toll early
and late. Is it for the want of proper i'm
plements of hushandrya You have at
Your COMMAND every machine for aug.
menting your crops. Is in the smallness
of your crops? Your barns are filed TO
overflow with grain, and your gin houses
xlAassi.sH :, Then where can We End the
Il answer, anilesitaiinglv, IN un-
~ sinwi~e and sprc4iIative legislat;o,,
discriminating tariffs and over burdenef
taxation. Then permit me again to URGE
YOU to study and learn how these causes
affect you. You will find that the .veight
of our Government is upon your shoulders
and unless you rise in your might and
throw ii off, it will sooner or later crush
You and force you into slavery under the
moneyed aristocracy. You have it in vonr
power to do this. You have the nunerl
cal strength and the Intellectual power in
your ranks to force these grieyous bur
@s ssasss as8 es1Rs s..sggssss.