The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-04
JMBUs, MISSISSIPPI, JUNE 4, 1881.

class of men and give it to others.
They can make it cost more to
tradsport a ton of butter from
Vermont to Boston than il does
to transport the same guam
tity from Iowa to the seaboard
How is this condition of things to
be changed, for there is to be a
change and it will we trust be
brough about by peaceable means
and not through h the agency of rev.
olution, but to peaceably solve these
questions the people must be ava
kened, informed, educated, and
this can no where be better or more
effectually done than in the Grange
These matters must not only be
talked about in the National and
State Oranges, but in every Subor-
dinate Grange in the Order till
every live Patron is fully instructed
in the matter.
Then let there be demonstrating
and petitioning, and then let there
be an appeal to the ballot box. The
working men of the country must
not only talk and petition and re
mOnstrate but he must make his
power felt in his vote. Bot as at
present constituted, there is no
hope in either of the great political
parties. Both are manipulated and
controlled in the interests of the
corporation and both as far as iii
rection and leadership are con
cerned, are fearfully corrupt. The
experience of the past proves this
and shows that within either party
rirUrU efrvSe vvirU nave bCCI CIT
trusted with Legislative powers who
can be bought with money. The
only hope is with the people, as yet
the means are unCorrupted, let us
hope that they are incorru ptable
and let Us hope ere long they may
be able to break away from the
thraldom of parties and act as indie
pendent freemen for the promotion
or their own interests so far as those
interests are in harmony with the
principles of right. The National
Grange has sounded the note of
warning and our State Grange has
echoed the sound. Let us cooperate
with them and thoroughly agitate
the matter, let every Subordinate
Grange do this till those in power
will be more than willing to heed
the warning.
AS an auxiliary and a worker
in the cause in which we are en-
gagged, we need the press, but un-
fortunately like the parties then.-
selves the partisan press is CON
trolled by the corporations. We
can expect and receive no help from
them. Farmers should support
those papers which the monopolies
do not control and' w hich are devo-
ted to the interests of the working
classes. Why do they not do this?
l confess to feeling of discourage
ment when [ behold the indiffer-
ence of farmers in matters which SO
nearly concern their welfare, and
sometimes lose patience when | re-
fleet upon the opportunities of the
Grange as a means of educating its
members in these matters, and at
the same time behold the indifer-
| ence, the inertness, the deafness,
the inactivity of so many of them,
seemingly determined to spend no
time and no thought upon these
matters, or any other matter of inn
portance; allowing month after
month to pass with no educational
work but spending the time upon
trivial affairs; seeking for nothing
but to be amused and holding out
no inducement for attendance upon
the meetings but the idea of having
a good time. Such course does
not warrant the paving of a high
price for a hall, and will not in any
great degree influence either legis-
lation or the tran ,portation compa-
nies, and will not help us to attain
the objects which we are striving
for.
Henceforth let US co operate hear
tilv in making the educational work
the great work. Let every thing
else be made subservient and aux.
illarv to this, let US try to realize
the great work which the Grange
has to do, and thus help to lighter
those ''burdens not his own" which
the farmer is now bearing.
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