The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-02-18
FROM TEXAS.


we have seen anything in the col
umns OF your much welcomed pa.
per pertaining to the interest Of the
Grange in Falls county we feel thai
we are doing ourselves and the Pa
irons cause an injury. to remain
silent. Hence we use this oppor.
tunity to say that we are out in the
light, and the way promises to
grow brighter still. There never
was time before in the history OF
the Grange that the farmers were
more fully and sensibly aroused to
their duty than now.
The farmers are educating them
selves in their own interest, real
izing the truth that they can do for
themselves many things which they
have heretofore paid others to do
tor them at very great sacrifice to
their interest. God grant a general
revival with the agricultural class
in this much desired spirit, and
soon the crown of success will be
ours to cherish. When we reflect
of the past condition of the Grange
in Falls county, and say that twelve
months ago there was only two
dropping Oranges in the county,
namely, Gena Grange and one at
Golindo, whose. gavels were heard
to sound as though they were tap
ping on the door of some secret
cell, resounding, seemingly, death
like knell to the Patrons cause for
ever, we can scarcely realize the
truth of there being ten working
Oranges in the county to-day, five
of which are in perfect trim and
composed of the best material in
the county. Yes, our ranks are
being filled with intelligence and
true moral courage, braced with
pecuniary aid sufficient to enable us
to push straight forward and meet
the enemy on equal ground. Yes,
amid all the bowling syndicates of
our country, we have come to the
front to take up the liberties and
rights that are ours under the con,
stitution of this Republican Gov
eminent, by uniting our class as
unit and conforming to the true
principles of cooperation in order
to better enable us to do business
for and through ourselves, thereby
saving the profits of our labor, sur
rounding our households and farms
with such comforts as are necessa-
rily essential to true happiness and
contentment. BY this we are made
more efficient and powerful in the
agency of cur business affairs in
life.
Farmers, will you heed the cause!
are you not standing in your own
light, and that of your dear wives
and children, to affiliate where you
can find no interest? Most certainly
you are. Why not come. then and
mix your joys and cares with peo-
pie who have an interest alike in
the same avocation of lite? We are
learning to transact our own bust
ness and to do many other things
Of vast importance to our interests
as farmers. This is duty incum-
bent upon the agent of every agri-
cultural household in the land It
is our prerogative to revert the
many unjusr expressions imposed
upon US by the people who elicit no
tavors for the farmers, -the very
bone and sinew of the Nations
life. Can you imagine the graft
tude that would exist with the CO.
workers of the great universal farm
if united in our Grange cause by
ties of everlasting brotherhood If
If so, come along and work with us,
with all your might and strength,
to vindicate the farmers cause and
assist in elevating that class of peo-
pie who deserve to stand ahead and
foremost in all things. We see
many who are devoted to the
Grange and adhering to its princi-
pies, though but few years ago
were poor and in debt, almost in
solvent, who to-day are free and
unincumbered, buying and paving
cash for all they need, and enjoying
all the comforts that life can reason
ably give. Had they not become
members of the Order, woulo they
have reached this degree of COM
fort in life so soon, if ever? l dare
say, they would not. We are
taught principles that if we will
subscribe to we can never fall into
the rear of success. Let us nurture
the hope that e'er long we will see
every co-worker of our Order, and
all farmers, and others whose SYM
pathies arewith us, gathering around
the alter of their devoted household
and farms all the refreshments that
the mind and stomach can digest.
reposing on the banquet of luxuries
not now known to them, thus to
abide in sweet peace, solace and
prosperity, with good will to all
mankind. We desire to enhance
or accumulate these objects by the
work of our own honest arm of
self-dependence,-each working in
unison and for the welfare of each
other.
Yes, Bro. Worthington, we feel
that we are greatly indebted to
your valuable paper for a good deal
more than we can ever repay. Your
never firing zeal has won for you
many thousand warm hearts. We