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

we arc and hayS been iaboring, and. sir!
Il believe yet it would have been d { great
power 70 ourselves, of good aud not OF
Ieyil, had Il been kept pure, no unworthy
membership sanctioned and no iepnfsrPa
from Its noble principles and ioity aims
| been permitted. Many Of US watched its
tremendous mushroom growth With won.
desing astonishment; Ike the great Mis-.
sissippi that Inns its beginning Il, 60 many
little streams high UP the aldo OF Tho
Rocky Mountains, looking In Ehe iis-
tance like 50. many silver threads as
| silently they wind ,heir way down 10 the
valleys below, gathering strength ais they
come, larger aud larger until It sweeps q
| majestic current ~ the Gulf below: GO
from ten Oranges formed III the far
Northwest in 1868 itgpread southwark
aud eastward until in 1876 1t numbered
1000 Oranges and ], 800. 900 patrons.
Wen, why to q certain extent has it
tailed (? Ithas never failed !; the farmers
failed, that war all. It was simply
name fer farmers when they came to-;
gether TO try and learn something about
their calling and to improve their society,
ana they were not equal to tho occasion
that's just all and nothing more. One Of
the drawbacks was the case of those who
went Into it to make money as they
thought. With that class when it 5ffst
arrived It was very popular, there was
no trouble about, getting the chs ter
members. The tidings went abroaS "a
ye! here Is an order come down from the
fnr West; they want you to join: thcy
lihave got all the corn, flour end bacon.
| aud they want to almost give it 20 you.
Come one, come all, and buy wine and
T Gil without money and without price
pail, A came up and Joined. He Was
financially, morally and socially broke:
he had failed 10 pay his honest debts:
| time and again he had run of his cotton,
when there was a lien upon It.; lie had
bis land 30 settled on his wife and chill
dren that Eis creditors could not get It;
his credit Hfs entirely gone, and he was
IN bad old way, but this Grange was
tho God-send ): his troubles would soon
now all be over; 30 he was put through /:
SO he got certificate from the Grange
tnae ne was in good SANDING; his dues
all paid; had it signed by the Master
and Secretary, and, Of course, this would
| make his credit all right, and he wonId
go 70 the store and trade, but when that
! merchant rolled ur the whites OF his
eyes, spit upon the floor and said he did
not see whit use he could make Of that
collateral, A went out and jcined the
cormoranb who sitteth on the goods
Doxes at the street corners and Hamneth
she Grange. Others thought that al
they had to do was to join and all things
| you'd, be well nothing moro 10 do.
some + w, or rather Corid not exactly
tell why, but somebody, way ont yopder,
was going to tend to everything, all YOU
got to do is to. pay your dues, ID cents ID
| quarter and yet, II you had asked that
man when he bought plough or hoe, if
ne dldn,t Just take it homo and throw it
over the fence into his field and 60 away
considered him u fool. They looked for
| great aavantages from the n.sa. !l!t
they never seemed to have realized itha
fact that they would have to work tho
\ advantages out for themselves. Now
there was one thing these members did
think that they had 10 do, and that Was
that they had an eternal var to wage on
ell merchants, lawyers, in fact all pro.
tessionai men and Rll railroads; the
| whole concern were set of Internal ras.
Gals and To be exterminated root aud
| branci whereas the fact was I've really
| mad no light for any one. five were
attending to our own affairs ne had no
time for those other things. We wanted
TO buy from that merchant with whom
we could make the best terms, and when
| you hud the money there was no trouble
about tradiDg. When it came to opr.
staple goods, We could combine our orr
ders, concentrate our business, and even
here az home we would get the advan:
tage of wholesale and car load rates.
knock aome middle men from taw and
cut OIL some commercial excrescences
that were feeding too much upof, YOU.
AS said before, we had no war to fight
Wlth any merchant, or anybody else; !;
Ithey had their line OF business, which.
was Just as essential TO society as 0nrs,,
ana lltlisi moro than thai, they being entirely
/ consumers and help TO create the demand
ZOE :; Az our produce; 8
/. 1us.i,i 1us i,i nny nuulpie opinion tue crown.
| Ing work OF this Order was 10 reform our
moral and sncialeyils, and to give us a
pure, refined / and cultivated society
among onr country people as could be
stound in our towns aud cities. You
know how it is generally considered that
country people are Thought 10 be d set OF
| clcdhoppers, and there Is no one I'd blame
but ourselves. Did not our Int war
leave its heaviest footprints, iiere7 Do
you not find The tongue OF Islander keener
!, than q edged sword Does nctsalt.
ishness reign gnpreHe & Is not golden
evil careesed, while humble virtue Ii tin-
observed g * s { 4. &. ,ss S.. 81
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