The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-25
FROM TEXAS.
Caldwell County.

Editor Patron: Some time ago | prom
Used to send you a club of ten names for
your valuable paper, and as | have been
kept close at home working my crop l
have had no chance of seeing or mixing
with the farmers. I herewith send you
$40, without any names, to help you with
the Boom FOR THE PATRON" and if
never send you the ten names all right so
far as you are concerned; but l am sure
the names will reach you in due time, for
THE PATRON never fails to be welcome
visitor after its first introduction to farm
ers and | am fully satisfied that it is the
most effective means we can use in defence
of our noble Gr ange cause.
Our able leaders are doing good work,
and great enthusiasm, follow their visits in
all localities and our outer gates are
crowded with applicants for admission
into the Grange, all of which we are glad
to see And with such able advocates as
the Order of Patrons of HusbanGry now
have in the field and the amount of work
they are doing it is strange to me that any
farmer in the United States will throw his
weight and influence against his own inter
est and that of his own class / am of the
opinion that if the tillers of the soil could
be induced to take and read agricultural
and Grange papers, such as The Pa
IRON, that in less than five years we would
have solid 81 ange organization all over
our land and that we would then be re-
spected on account of our strength, and our
occupation would be considered an honor
able one, as it should be, and our sons
would not be driven from their homes and
farms to seek other occupations simply to
get rid of the odium that attaches to the
name of farmers in the South. By organ
ization we can educate our sons and
daughters and make them the equal of any
in the land, and all we need at this time
is more education, more organization
among the farmers. We have the num-
bers, we have the muscle, and we have the
brains, all that is needed now is the devel
opment of the means we possess and the
victory is ours.
Farmers, do you want to be free and to
free YOUR posterity? If so, strike off the
shackles of oppression that have been
weighing you down for long time; rally
around the Grange flag with your friends
and help them to carry out its principles as
laid out in its Declarations of Purposes,
and all this is yours and much more.
Why not farmers organize and co-ope-
rate? Other professions and occupations
do so, and ii works well for them, and
can see no good reason why it should not
do so for US. But they say it is impossi-
BILE to organize the farmers. Well, that
may be so, know they are pretty well or
ganized around here and there are none of
them that am acquainted with that ever
think of giving it up.
But then we pay for and read THE PA
IRON out here in Texas, and / am of the
opinion that if it, or some other good
Grange paper, was taken and read by the
| farmers, that organization and coopera-
| ton would follow. And right here l would
| like to persue a thought that bears on
my mind, but for fear it might be rniscon-
strued and taken as political theme,
| will pass it by for this time.
l am proud to see that Texas stands to
| the front in the number of clubs sent in
| under the request of Boom for THE
PaTRoN." Did say proud? yes, that is
what said; but wishevery other State
| in the Union had excelled her, for then
our paper wou.d have been what it should
| be, and all of us would be the benificiaries
Awaiting and watching and working
| for the accomplishment of the purposes
| and ends for which the Order IF Patrons
of Husbandry was designed, am,
Fraternally, H. NJ. DAUGHERTY.
Prairie Lea, June II. g..