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

States there has been by far the largest ac-
cumulat'on of wealth in the same length of
time. This being admitted does it not tell
us plainly what we have to do? Does il
not say n so many words YOU must no
longer rely upon the staple products of your
soil to make your State rich one, but must
work up those products into c'ories
(Which am proud to say is at last being
started all over the Cotton States thus be-
coming manufacturing and consequently
| commercial people7 Does it not say that
in this way in no long time your villages
will beCofne towns, your towns cities, and
that large proportion of your non produ-
| cling population would be set actively to
work in the mills, then to create demand
| for every vegetable and fruit as we'll as
| every edible animal nourished by the hand
| of the farmer.
In talking of emigration our attention is
too much directed TO field hands-when
the fact is there are TOO MANY of them here
now-altogether out of proportion with
| artizans and mechanics. We are diving of
too much agriculture, and nothing to help
| us digest it. This has always been true of
the Cotton States. They have ever been
one idea and one crop people, made so by
| their old labor system and continued since
| It's overthrow, because they knew not what
else do; nor do they see yet how or when
| the tide can be turned in their favor. when
| the necessary confidence can be secured to
| invite fair proportion of the surplus cap
| ital seeking investment, and labor longing
| for warmer chimes TO take Zip its abode with
them.
Upon this very essential point | have a
suggestion to make-and it seems a good
time to make 1t, since people having been
| led TO hope and believe that the remedy for
their troubles was to be found in political
changing success of one party over
another, have by recent events been cured
OF that idea--are now at sea as to what is
to be done-heXt, and are much better pre-
| pared to listen to reason and appeals to
| their own interests than ever before Now
| Is the time for self-exa -nination. to hold an
experience meeting to inquire whether or
not 1t would have done us any good had
| our hopes been realized, and 10 retraCe our
| steps even back to the close If the war and
| say at last what we ought to have said then
-to-wlt, that hencefol tn we will Offer no
! tactious opposition to the power 5 that he
! no matter by whom persOnate that we
| wish N earnest to shake hands with the
| Union sentiment OF the whole Countrv-we
propose to be law -abiding-to live cheer
fully under the same code that applies to
all alike, and show by word and act that
we cannot any more be led into anv kind
OF antagonism or rivalry with consrrva-
| tive sentiment which having been success
tul in saving the Union feels il ought TO
direct affairs till alt is quiet along the line
For what after all is the main object we
| have In view? Is it not rather to prosper
| than to govern? Surprising our most ar
| /
| dent desires IN politics accomplished would
not about ali it would have amounted to
ben to substitute one party for another
| to be ruled by one set of politicians instead
OF another-when neither promised to be
OF any use in et1ecting any practical bene-
fit to the masses of any section, North
| South, East or West? We must. work out
our own salvation if it is ever done and
| look no more to politicians for help, for all
experience shows to our sorrow especially
in this section, that thew are much more
ready and able 10 work their constituents
into troubie~-than relieve them of it after
they get there.
| We want capital, We say, to develop the
untold resources of our country; we want
! emigration, we say, to turn its welcome
| head to this hungry latitude-how can it be
expected to do SO till we who hold in our
| hands its future destiny shall show by word
and deed it shall be perfectly protected in
its legal rights when it does so? Notice has
all along been given that the South was in
! too unsettled a state for capital 10 seek an
| outlet in this direction-nor need any great
accession to It's population be expected till
| opinions were free and could be freely ex-
| pressed. 1t must be admitted this is natu-
raj and essentially just. 1t seems a good
i time now foftne sake of our future prosper
/ ~
whatever amendment experience seems to
| demand. Instead of making politics too
much of a business-the hour appears to
have arrived to make POLITICS subserve our
| business. Having tried one experiment and
| failed, that i by an alliance to a political
| party endeayoring to regain influence and
| power through its success. Suppose we
now try the one of no factious alliance at
all and cooperating with none except such
as advise the most national and conserva-
tive views and so to manage our internal
affairs as to be free of all intolerance
l am profoundly impressed with the
opinion that the day on which we adopt
this policy will be one from which our flu
ture prosperity will be dated Now that
slavery, the first great bugbear is gone, and
its successor in office, intolerance, has alb
dictated in favor Of liberal national spirit.
we shall feel ourselves and be felt as at last
reconstructed, and shall begin to receive
a proper share of investment that abund-
ant capital has all along been seeking every
where else except here.
SUBORDINATE ORANGES.
Subordinate Oranges should discuss not
only the best methods of farming and the
matters connected with the "house hold
and fireside," but all questions of bust
ness. POLITICAL, and economic significance,
which involves not only the prosperity of
agriculture but its future independence,
and responsibility as a profession
| will call attention to a few important
subjects out of the many that might be
suggested for discussion. TIL tine has now
arrived when we must turn our organiza-
ton to some practical use and this can only
be done by educa ting your members. Just
so soon as the American farmers are in.
formed of the unjust burdens they are com
PEELED to bear. because of their own indif-
ference, their sense of justice and of duty
will unite them Tor relief. 1t must be ad-
r2itted that farmers have never before at
tempted to combine for the protection of
their interests, except in isolated cases.
There is little doubt but that State Legis-
latures-with exceptional cases-and even
the Congress of the Nation would grant all
the just demands of the agriculturists if
properly made. But when did farmers ever
go before the law making bodies of the
land and ask for redress of grievances?
When committee of the National Grange
in 1873 waited on the President of the
United States he said to them. in substance,
Bankers, Merchants, Railroad Agents. and
representatives of other professions had at
different times called on him to further the