The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-02-26

"'oh J ou, .you are almost at
the goal of happiness, where, with
5ohn Bhnyan, you may sing the
song of deliverance-
Must here the burden fall from of nav
back?
Must here the string that bound i. to me
efacksn
| And that | do not held out to YOU
false hopes and false promises, let us
| retrospect our history:
Oniy fourteen years in existence
and what are our victories? What
are our fruits?
lst We have broken the back
bone OF railroad monopoly. by the
decision OF the celebrated "Granper
cases that went TO the United
States Supreme Court in 1876 from
the Northwestern States.
I'd. We have been heard in Cons
| gress, and our petitions respected.
80 far the Committee on AgricuI-
ture has agreed TO report in favor
or making the Ayr cultural Bureau
seperale department. whose occu.
pant will be a mem Der of the Pres,
ldent'S Cabinet, thus having access
to his ear.
3D.. We have Agricultural schools
and colleges, with text books Oh
A Agriculture, where the sons and
daughters of toll can learn some
thing OF their heaven-b born future
vocation.
fth. We have taught woman, that
she is something mere than an an
tomaton, to move 10 the culinary.
laundry and nursery departments
OF the domestic circle at the bid
ding of her liege lord.
9th. We have learned more of
Parliamentary usages and regula
tons, as laid down by Jefferson and
Gushing, than our Iaboring fathers
knew Tor thousand years.
9Th. We have learned (where " e
had brains to learn) that we could
carry on our commercial business
on the Rochdale Co operative plan
and save to ourselves aud families
the fabulous per cent that builds
palatial residences for middle men
and robes them "in purple and fne
linon every day"
9TH. At the last session of the
Nstional Grange we had become OF
sufficient importance TO attract the
attention of the Lieutenant Presi-
dent OF the United States
SO much 50, that he invited the
mem bers of the said Grange to visit
the White House, which he occu~
pies pro tenn.
8th. Lastly, have we not captured
the leaders OF one of the political
parties since the defeat in Novem,
Der last?
Read the letter of the Hon. Jere~
milan S. Black, that is being pab-
lished throughout the country in
response to certain questions from Il
committee of the New York Cham
Der of Commerce.
Has any Granger ever take more
ad vanced ground in favor of Justice
to the working classes? And Judge
Black is said to be the abIest con
stitutIonal lawyer in America.
1t this be tue, has the learned
iurist just learned what the farmers
have been teaching for fourteen
years in their councils and their
Press, and which they have verified
by adjudication in the highest judi
cial tribunal in the country more
than four years ago?
These principles are as old as the
Government, yea older, says Chief
Justice Waite, for they are CON
tanned in the Common Law, on
which Statutory Law is based
But if our learned Judge came in
at the eleventh hour he must be ac-
cepted as an auxiliary, only, to as
sist our Grange leaders to advocate
the cause of the people.
But had we not better boil this
Grange coat the Judge is wearing
to see If the colors are fast? Re
member history repeats itself, and
the Trojans, to their sorrow, re
ceived a wooden horse within their
gates from their enemy.
And that our warfare for four
teen years has been against lawyer
leadership, and now that we are
within sight of the port, let us be
careful what Pilot we select to carry
US across the bar.
Will some Bourbon partisan wish
to read me out of the Grange ,or
my suspicion OF the sincerity of the
political leaders,
"A burnt child breads fire" is an
old but true saying, and our credu
l;ty in the sincerity of politicians,
lawyers, and demagogues is the
cause of our degradation and OPP
preston o-day.
If we could learn that sit is not
all that shines that is silver" it
would be an important lesson.
But | am taught in Holy Writ
that after the people embraced the
Truth, "a great company of Priests
were obedient to the faith
Thus we learn from the highest
authority that when the people
make new departures in the way of
reformauons, that the leaders will
soon fall into line, if prompted to
do so only through the love of 1.-The
loaves and fishes"
And but for the general opinion
heretofore entertained, (and the wish
was probably the father OF the opin
ion1 that the Grange would soon