The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-05-22
The County Grange.

The following report of the recent meet
ing of the county grange at Hartford, re-
ported expressly for the TRUE NoRTHERNER,
should have appeared in our last issue, but,
unfortunately, it did not reach us in time.
The county grange met at Hartford on the
9Th inst, with full attendance. The
programme was for an open session IN the
afternoon, with essays and discussions,
and an address by A. N. Woodruff in the
evening, but, on account of hurt received
the day before, Mr.. w. could not be present,
and Hon. j. j. Woodman was invited to ill
the time. Our health does not permit us to
be out in the night air, SO we are unable to
report the drift of his speech, but can con-
fidently say time is never wasted by any one
while listening to Mr.. Woodman, on any
topic. He always manages to say some
thing that causes his listeners to take a
broader view of life.
The paper in the afternoon by G. b.
Whitcomb, on farmers rights, called out a
spirited discussion. One right of the farmer
is to be better represented in the legislative
halls. OF course the tariff was one horn of
the dilemma, TO which Captain Hendryx
gave firm grip, and fastened to it his free
trade mantle, all CORY and covered with
battle scars. Ans. Reynolds assisted in
tOllcS,
grangers or on-grangers who could not be-
lieve that all America needs to make her pros
porous and happy, is free trade What is
the loss of few millions of dollars to the
wool growers of Michigan, compared TO the
inestimable gain on the low price paid for
shoddy manufactured in prosperous Eng
land, and shipped to this country in such
quantities as to destroy every mandatory
in the land? Oh! how far-sighted those
free traders are in their benevolent desire to
furnish cheap clothing for the poor Ameri-
can laborer! But there is another horn TO
this tariff dilemma, and when the Master of
the National Grange firmly grasped this
knotty protuberance with his sinewy hands,
and in earnest, measured tones, stated such
facts as even the enemy could not gainsay
we breathed freer, for we felt that the cause,
| so vital to the interests of the American La
borer, had strong defender, and that right
must prevail, for "Truth is eternal and liveth
| evermore" Our amusement was complete
| when an outsider, one of those very intelh
gent men who intend some day, to become
grangers, very deliberately arose and ex-
pressed great establishment and disappoint-
ment to learn that the head granger advo-
Gated class legislation. He thought one grea,
principle of the grange was to secure equal
rights to all which nothing but free trade
| would give. He sat down in the full con
viction that he had wound up that argument
when the tall form of our champion slowly
arose. and in five minutes stated the situa
ton, showing it so clearly and forcibly, that
the free trade man begged the privilege To
explain, which he tried to do in such man
ner as to make his side seem ridiculous.
These open meetings are full of interest
and instruction. Courtesy is extended to all
Hartford is now a temperance town; we
could see it in the very walk of her citizens,
smell it in the atmosphere, and feel it in our
blood. Long may she wave.