The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-07-09

theatre, and if IN consonance with
the eachings of home life. a forth.
nate and happy change. Concur
rent with the labors of the school
room throughout the history of tbe
school life are the daily conned
and valuable lessons from oral
text books around the sacred and
endeared hearth stone where the
f1rst germ of thought had its first in
ception. Thus step by step, through
all the gradations of childhood
youth, manhood and womanhood are
there developed and matured as the
pest and most practical types of
their day and generation, and fitted
10 dignity and adorn any position
IN life, the trusted friend. the good
neighbor, the useful citizen, the in
corruptible patriot and the wise
legislator.
We have used this simple figure
as an illustration Of our conception
OF the different elements that are
essential to the usefulness. durability
and the true mission of Grange.
That these elements can be affair
able and successfully maintained,
and be made TO become the con-
trolling power in this country, we
are firmly convinced, else we should
have never espoused its cause. 1t
is true that scores and thousands,
despairing of its final success, have
dropped out of its'ranks, forgetting
that all organizations of whatever
character, political or civil, have
been primarily more or less expert
ments passing through more or
less extended pupilage before they
became permanent or fell to pieces.
The most deploratle feature about
the course of these former friends
and co-workers of the cause is that
it was taken in the face of the most
criminal and formidable combina-
ton of monopolies that ever con-
fronted the lives, the liberties and
property of the people. So en-
trenched are they in their position,
that they claim and act independ-
emily and in contravention of 'legis-
lative supervision" on the part of
State or National enactments. By
the lavish distribution of "free
passes" and other brides of a more
substantial and corrupting charac-
ter, they hold bound as willing and
as slavish captives to their chariot
wheels the thousands of Federal
office holders throughout every
State and Territory of the Union,
and the ten thousands of municipal,
county, district and State office
holders in the States. Nor are these
all. They have vast numbers of re-
cruits from every profession and
avocation in life, and without any
scruple, even invade the sacred pre-
cincts of the Grange, the only or
ganization founded on the eternal
principles of justice and right that
are checking or can check their
rapid strides to an oligarchy, or
government of warning factions.
Already there has been inaugurated
and repeated from the hoary
monarchies of Europe that sad state
of the most abject slavery wrought
by crushing taxation where ''the
rich grow richer and the poor
poorer"
1t may be thought that we are
depressing too much but not SO.
When an officer is deputed to fill the
ranks of an army it is right and
proper that he should inform each
recruit the duties that he will be re-
CURED to perform, the magnitude
of the issues at stake, the honor and
renown of dying for ones country,
or if victor and survivor, the blend
ing of the bay and the undying
laurel that will encircle his brow.
And so in regard to each and every
applicant that seeks admission with
in the gates of our Order. He or
she should be informed of the high
aud ennobling duties required of
each and all; of the sacred, peerless,
priceless mission of the Order; of
the magnitude of the strife tina:
would liberate the toiling millions
from the chains, the hydra headed
monsters of monopoly, aided and
abetted by vast army of dema-
gogues and time servers who are so
rapidly binding them hand and
foot; and finally of a victory greater
than any ever won by Cromwell,
Bonaparte or an Alexander, a
victory devoid of the blood and
lives of millions of victims, and of
the walls and cries of untold widows
and orphans. A victory of this
character should enlist not. only the
sympathies, but the active aid and
cooperation of every one who has
but a small modicum of patriotism
in his or her bosom.
But to descend from a general
outline of the subject to its details
and ask the question what are some
of the useful and attractive aids in
the prosperity and success of the
Order? We will first state what
we regard as model Grange and
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