Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-02
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE D1srArcH.i


when agriculture languishes all other
industries Decline" was the motto stretched
across the rear OF the speakers stand in the
Amphitheater to-day. 1t was "Grange
Day." From farm and field in every part
of the adjoining country came the "patrons
of husbandry" to celebrate their annual
visit to ChautauQua. Nature smiled upon
her sturdy sons of toll and gave them perfect
weather for their reunion. Before the su n
was up they began to arrive. and
by noon the ground literally swarmed
with honest faces whose look OF
pleasure fully told the appreciation of their
holiday, and returned manifold thanks to
the Assembly Association for its liberality.
What a jolly, whole-souled crowd they
were-mingling everywhere. enjoying
everything. At noon they gathered in
shady hooks about the grounds, brought
forth the bounteously filled lunch baskets
and ate with relish the delicately prepared
morsels of the good housewife.
1t was a great and apDreciative audience
that filled the Amphitheater to its utmost
capacity when Vice Chancellor Vincent
stepped forward at IL A. M. and announced
President Lewis Miller as the officer of the
day.
A HEARTY WELCOME.
President Miller began in his pleasant
way to tell of his boyhood days in the coun-
try, and when he was through he left the
impression that he was firm friend Of the
farmer and that Chatauqua gave them a
hearty welcome. He introduced Mr.. w. Z.
Clifford, Master of the State Grange of New
York, who made short and pointed speech,
! Of oh
| gan, who said:
81 ask you to lay aside everything else,
and consider me as 1 am and have been all
my l1ie, a farmer. Upon agriculture de-
pends every other industry. Chicago,
| Phnnix-like, arose from her ashes
through the profits of her pork, and
grain The time has gone by when the in
| dividual is anything. Machinery has taken
his place. The farmers are isolated in their
homes and slow to organization. We saw
the lawyers and doctors, the ministers and
laborers organizing to gain skill and infiu-
ence. Why, up in our State, where the
people have the hay fever they have organ
| lied hay fever patient association. The
grange, when it was organized, was strangely
misunderstood. We have not the advantages
of the learned professions. In holding the
plow there is little mental quickening.
Merchants are brought in contact with fel-
low merchants and their capacities stimu-
lated.
OBJECT OF THE GRANGE.
Our only object is to improve the farmer,
his wife, his son, intellectually, socially,
and for the purpose of bettering his financial
condition and political power. know the
difficulties that confront the farmer in his
rural home. l say in the presence of men
of all kinds that it requires as much ability
to conduct q farm as any other business.
There are no rules or books for the farmer;
he must ,,use his experience and judgment;
he must be a man of ready, active resources.
Daniel Webster, Americas greatest man,
| gained his knowledge from associations with
other men. Go thou, farmer. and do like
| wise,
I'VE do not use the cradle now, but the
reaper and the binder. You must broaden
out and use the golden opportunity. gain
knowledge of your business and the affairs
of your nation. 1 believe there is differ
ence in the grades of sinners, and the worst
| grade of sinners is the man who lets his
| farm wear out. 1 found my farm in a state
of nature in 1S49. and it raises better crops
now than ever. 1 have never used any COM
mercial fertilizer.
A RICH FERTILIZER.
|
can use on any kind OF land, and which the
| more YOU use the more you have Mix
brains with your soil; don't be stingy with
your knowledge; give it to your neighbors
and let them help you in turn. The highest
| morality and virtue are found in our rural
homes I do not mean TO say that all
farmers are saints and all people in the
cities sinners. If ever the great evil of the
LIQUOR traffic is to be overcome it must be
done under the shade of the green trees of
our farms by organized effort.
"We have no trouble about your voting
| in the country. 1t is to meet the ballot box
| in the cities that our statesmen are puZZling
their brains. IF you farmers, no matter if
YOU are as good as Saint John, do not at
| tempt to allav crime and vice you are
not doing your duty to your family and the
nation. Do not forget there are other joys
besides of works. Get joy from association.
| Don't say when night comes that you are too
tired, but 90 with your boys and girls to the
! social circles"
THE CAUSE OF HARD TIMES.
Mr.. Luce accredited the bad times for the
| farmers to the low prices. "It is not over
production that makes low prices. We
| farmers have no money, but the country is
making money. It is the combination of
| capit / that does it, and it is the duty of
| the farmer to combine and meet these COM
blnations. The greatest trust is the Stan
dard Oil Company. They have accumu-
lated $500, ,OOO. 900 more than they deserve. 1
am willing that these men should be re-
warded for their genius, but when they 90
beyond oil and control 80 of the industries
| of the country it is time to call stop.
What we want is public sentiment to rally
against these monopolies."
| Upon the platform were gathered the
leading agriculturists of the State, and
among them, prominent because of his
presence, for he could tell you no more
about agriculture than New Hampshire
| farmer about the ways of Wall street, was
the Lieutenant Governor of New York
State, Jones, of Binghamton, stroking his
| long white moustache.
The afternoon meeting was even larger
than the one in the morning, if that were
possible. Master Clifford presided and in
troduced the Hon. Gerald C. Brown, OF
| PENNSYLVANIA, as the first speaker. He
spoke of the great benefit to be derived
from the grange in education, and said:
NOT A POLITICIAN.
sIn spite of the fact that have been in
troduced as a member of the State Senate OF
| Pennsylvania, I am a farmer and not q
politician. I chose the profession of q
farmer in preference to that OF a lawyer.
My father told me, MY boy, you'll never
regret your choice but once, and that will
be all your life.' This is true to great ex-
tent, but it ought not to be so. A state OF
depression exists to greater or less extent
throughout the country. IF there is free
trade for farm products there should be free
| ln Co..