Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-07-27

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bureau of animal industry is made on
the same terms as last year, when
gives the department full powers so
far as it can be legally done. The APP
propriation for the study of hog chol-
era was reduced to $4,000, as it was
not believed that more could be adj
vantageously spent on this work In
one year.
Now let the Senate pass the bill that
almost unanimously passed the House,
making the Commissioner of Agricul-
ture a member of the Presidents Cab
net. and surely the Grange will have
glory enough for one year.
Farmers will have better realiza-
ton of their power after reading the
discussion in the House of Representa-
tives at Washington on the bill TO
create an executive department of
Agriculture. Congressman McClam-
nv. of North Carolina, hits the nail
souarelv on the head when he speaks
of the farmers as this great host who
have in their keeping every political
possibility of this government This
statement deserves TO be kept con
stantly before the agricultural public.
Why? Because for years it has been
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could not hold together, and could rule
not accomplish anything. The fact
is. the followers of agriculture could
every department of the government
were it necessary. Fortunately it is
not necessary, but it is imperative
that farmers have just sense of their
political Importance, and see TO it
that their interests do not suffer at
the hands of State and national legis-
lators. There is healthy improve
ment in this respect, and the time is
coming when FARMERS will be far more
appreciated in every way than they
are to-day.
The Rural Vermonter makes the fol-
lowing good points:
"A first-clasS Granger is generally
an exemplary citizen and good farm
er.
AT the present time farmers are
mending the fences around their
farms and politicians are putting up
the bars to keep them there.
I'VE believe it is the positive duty
of farmers to take an active part in
politics, but we do not believe this
duty consists in whooping and voting
just as the party managers dictate
Let the farmers dictate part of the
time and tell the other fellows when
to whoop and how to vote.
THE Grange is not a political or
ganiZation. but it is an organization
which is power for good in the enact
ment of wise laws for the benefit of
the people. But its influence and
power would he largely increased if
majority instead of a minority of
farmers were active members of the
organization.
Wise laws, judiciously admins
tered, lie at the very foundation of a
nations prosperity. Self-constituted
lawmakers, machine politicians,
rarely enact proper laws for the whole
people. They become selfish, AFRO
giant and avaricious, and misuse their
power for base and unjust purposes.
1t is the positive duty of the people
to see that such men are removed,
and efficient, patriotic lawmakers are
put in their places. The great body
of the people consists of farmers, and
if they properly discharge their duties
as citizens they will regulate this law
making power by selecting proper
persons for lawmakers, and hold
them responsible for the proper dis
charge of their duties. Farmers can
not do this without organization of
some kind.
Resolutions complimentary to Sen
ators Plumb, Vest, and Reagan, were
adopted by Pleasant Valley (Cowley
county, Grange. There is no better
way TO openly approve their meritori-
Gus acts, and there is no better way to
prevent bad legislation than to de-
nounce it openly.
a small boy, required to write a SEN
tence containing the word ''hominy,
produced the following:
"Hominy marbles have you p
A young man explained recent
runaway by saying that he was driv-