The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1881-09-01

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b.ch Is more distinguished for The Al
armony and ouphouy Of its sen o.
snces than fos arguments and lacts %
I'd 60 great master Of ihetorIcs.
writing ne our friend the Major, that I,
frequently end myself carried away N,
~ The beauty OF his metaphor until O
PAUSE and enquire what is 10 ail ]
about. SO now upon review ! ind [
he substance Of the complaint 90 De 1
hat Cspt Darden in representing the
objects and purposes Of the Grange /
as now being recognized, "has de-
parted from thatlofty plane that made
The Order so powerful, so grand and
80 illustrious, when the Hon. W. l..
Hemingway was master Of The State
Grange" /
That is to say when the Grange
could meet and discuss the method OF
rsising pumpkins and potatoes, and
of repairing fences and cleaning out
bitches, and Of preparing ine dinners
for tie entertainment OF politicians
and their friends without censure
from political machine masters-but
alas how the mighty has fallen-this
GREAT and useful order that promised
to be the "hewers Of wood and draw
ers OF water" for The rest Of mankind
has presumed to dabble in politics as
though they had anything 10 do with
/ the laws and government
Now Major who would have thought
that YOU would have been so illiheral
after having Toasted so often at our
/ bountiiul table and borne testimony
to the skin Of our women folks as the
finest caterers in the world, that when
we presumed 10 return tie eompli-
ment by setting down to your table,
that instead OF offering US any OF the
chicken pic you should only have
slapped US in the face with handful
OF sauer kraut. 0 fe, &c, Major, upon
your Gratitude, gallantry and hospi-
talitv, and if this is the way your
thinking machine grinds It out, we let
: you know that wehayeQne ofour OWE
] only o little rusty for want Of use
e which We can scour up, so you may
prepare to close your Eill as We can
afford to patronize an establishment
that feeds us on bran and husk blu
= truce to this.
r The moin proposition Of Capt. Pu
n Darden as ] undeTsiand IS, That or
. allegiance to party sould be subordi
nate to ourselves and to Whatcye
} tends to promote the general wei
E, fare and advancement of society
,g The Grange leaves us to judge 0
n these MEASURES and to carry politics
reform into whatever political asso
citation we may be attached. If W
n are denied these privileges then indee
,r are we "hewers Of wood and drawer
> ofwater." But why shall We be denie
II these privileges ? Is it that othe
organizations exist to which It !
y claimed that we owe allegiance pari
ID mount to the allegiance that we ow
the Grange, end that the doctrines {
= these organizations are IN conliC
with this reform in the Grange, IN {
much as they deny our right TO que
70 ton their DEGREES "Ah, we must Nc
be think for ourselves"
I'd Our Order has meyer sought to I
. aggressive but has only asked to |
represented and that only for defel
y siye purposes. We ere opposed
class legislation, recognizing and In
cu.oating that doctrine Of polite
s. economy which teaches that the GOO
We OF one is the good of all, and the co
ur verse that the coed Of all is the GOO
of each, vet this is not sufficient reasC
why we should trust entirely to 9th
I" hands the representation OF our eI
iis tire interest, for who among us
= this age Of moRopolies, rings, fau
- tons and parties, is so stupid as not
y peceiye that these undeniable trutl
''' are often artfully used 10 cause sui
mission to expressions and wrong
ne rather than for the advancement
it truth and justice.
ar, I believe Capt Darden to be hone
he and SINCERE as ! also believe the Maj
!, to be, and although the former mi
have transcribed the bounds Of
re authority aud mission by yenturiI
IRE upon that great sea of what may ha
ye appeared to the Major as party pc
zee ties, yet from q patriotic standpoi
- il assumes more of a moral and ri
tional than partisan character, Al
'ss hence becomes q question where
s" the wellbeing Of society rises abo
tic party allegiance, and therefore
cd legitimate question for discussion
! the Grange. The questions / he
y allude to are those TO which the NJ
'st jor evidently aludes where be sa
be they twill open the gates OF the Il
az known whether it be the deluge
- communism or the deluge again
which we found refuge in 1875"
This 10 imaginative, beautiful al
poetic, but is 1t solid reason al
sense? Please explain. The cat
y / presume are shut-what have
'st done to open them-simply this
n 10 the opinion Of some old foGies th
as We should have a eIree ballot ana
Ia honest count" and again, If tho
r gates are shut won't they keep 0
y everybody but those who are IN, 81
ng the logical sequence Of it oil is til
fr if the outs get IN then the ms W
al get out, and then the country will
he ruined, and somebody will get out
the ark they found refuge in
Gu ls75--a very nice place 10 be SUI
be But, seriously, the age OF passi
for obedience has gone by--men VIII n
he always submit to present evils rath
So than ay to those they know not
= The only nation where this doctri
= of passive obedience ever to,
ne much root has been the most fruit
~ 4. in its violations. Early in the histo
nc Of England the naughty baFons vie.
ed magma charter from the hands
IL King John at Runymede. Atanoth
{. period the Commons abolished 4
- courts Of star chamber aud high COZ
n mission, imprisoned The lords, impe
he ched the King, and brought Charles
N. to the block Even the down tro,
Nv den serf of Russia have discarded d