The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-05-28

IN general acting together for our
mutual protection and advancement
as occasion may require"
We shall constantly strive to
secure entire harmony, goodwill
and vital brotherhood among our
selves, and to make our Order per-
petual. We shall earnestly en-
deavor to suppress personal. local,
sectional and National preiudices,
all unhealthy rivalry, all selfish am
billions.
For our business interest we de-
sire to bring producers and con
sumers, farmers and manufacturers.
into the most direct and friendly
relations possible. Hence we must
dispense with a surplus of middle
! men, they not being necessary to
our success in the transactions of
our business.
We aim TO buy from first hands,
and sell directly to consumers.
Hence we hold that transportation
companies of every kind are neces-
sary to our success; that their in
terests are intimately connected with
our interests, and harmonious action
is mutually advantageous, keeping
in view the vital principles that in
dividual happiness depends upon
general prosperity, and that no one
can expect to prosper in anything
that involves the injury of others.
We are not enemies to railroads,
navigable and irrigating canals, nor
to any corporation that will advance
our industrial interests. Neither
do we stand in antagonism to any
laboring classes, believing that the
laborer is always worthy of his hire
We oppose communism on the one
hand, and agraianism on the other
hand. We ale opposed to such
spirit and management of any cor
poration or enterprise as tends to
Cypress the people and rob them of
their just rights and their just pro
fits; not enemies to capital, but op-
posed to the tyranny of monopolies.
We are opposed to excessive sala-
ries. high rates of interest and ex
orbitant per cent profits in trade.
We seek only self protection and
the protection of every true interest
of our land by legitimate transac.
tons, legitimate trade and legiti.
mate profits. In order that we our
selves, as we'll as our children, may
be thoroughly qualified to discharge
the great duties of life we earnestly
advocate both by precept and exam
pie, careful attention to education,
especially that pertaining to practi-
cal agriculture and domestic science
We hold it to be one of the cardi-
nal principals of our Order that, in
addition to a general education,
every man and woman should have
special education in that business Oh
occupation which he or she expects
to follow Stephen Girard fully
appreciated the value of a special
education when he advised a young
man who had been in his service
from early youth, until he reached
his majority, to go and learn trade
Said he, when you make a per
feet barrel you may return to me-
At the end of two years the young
man had succeeded and brought
the barrel, for which he received Of
Girard the sum of three thousand
dollars. He also informed the
young man "tbat he now had that
which made him independent o.
Stephen Girard, no matter VIVA
: may happen to the latter. Our sons
should be thoroughly educated in
some trade or profession, and no oc
cupation is more honorable or more
free from temptation or from can
kering care than the business of ag
riculture. Our daughters should
first of all, be carefully taught the
mysteries of domestic science II
connection with a general educa
ton. After that there are variou:
occupations which may claim thei
attention, such as teaching, shop
keeping, book keeping, telegraph
ing, sculpture, painting designing
poetry, authorship, etc. No one
need be drone in the human line
The fragmentary condition of soci
ETY. is such as to necessitate grea
diversity in opinions and tastes. l
is said that nature never reduplicate
herself That one cannot find tive
leaves of a tree that are exactl,
alike in every particular, nor tive
blades of grass that in all respecr
are counterparts of each other.
Hence, we believe that the grea
Architect of nature, in the Develop
inent of His plans, evidently design
ed this diversity which is fount
everywhere in endless variety, in an
innate and in inanimate nature
Were it not SO, there would now ap
pear such horrid sameness, such
dull monotony that this world woul
} appear one vast solitude, making i
possible that mankind would no
have existed on the earth durinj
, the space of half a century, bu
would have died of ennui. SO also
was it designed by Omnipcten
: Providence, that there should b
diversity in office or occupation. |
| all followed the same business Their
could be no progress. If all were ia
r mers, even farming would becom
the dullest Of all dull! occupations
whilst agriculture is undoubtedl