Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-20

! the Grange says TO them: We indorse Texas
! Farmer. and defy you 10 disprove single
/ charge II has ever made.
As The GAZETTE has done good deal
| along the same line, this action is also an
| Endorsement of it by that great conserva,
| tive order
Farmer Shaw is greatly elated over the
| positive stand taken by the Grange, and
feels that he has an invincible backing.
CAPT. w. Il. HARRIS.
! Special TO the Gazette
DALLAS, Tex, Aug 15.-Capt. W. H.
Harris, delegate from Dallas county TO
the state Grange, lately in session at Me
Gregor was caught by a GAZETTE reporter
as he passed through the city en- route TO
his home in Richardson.
Being asked what the Grange did at its
last session of public interest, he said:
well. sir, the reports rs published in
the newspapers give a pretty fair idea of
the present feelings of the Grange. To put
II short. the Grange met pulled the moss
of OF its back and resolved TO no longer re-
main silent and permit gang of adven-
turerS and frauds TO lead farmers into folly.
We have thrown down the gauntlet. and
propose to expose the miserable trickery
and subterfuges by which gang of oily
fellows are quilting unsuspecting farmers,
and thereby filing their own purses.
We'll, captain. who are these oily fellows
10 whom you allude,'
To be candid, | would not object to men
tiOning their names. but the. newspapers
couldn't stand it, Texas tOmfool libel law
IS against it. But the people are finding
them out fast enough to prevent the general
public from suffering. although they will
fleece Il large number of foolish Individuals,
and / expect are getting whack-upS from
the Republicans to break the South and
al, i n, i
state, New York
Are the oily fellows you speak Of cap
tain, advocates of the sub-treasury
Schemer
Yes. You may say in fact that the Al
lance. as now organized, constitute the
crowd against which the Grange has de-
clared war. The Grange, understand, does
not object to Alliance principles, because
they are Grange principles by another
name. But the Alliance as now organized
violates everyone of its principles Ii mas in
its ranks large number of good, honest
and conscientious farmers, but by its lead
ers putting upon themselves the mantle of
Grange and Alliance principles, 1t is being
drawn into chimericdl schemes for which
advocacy said lawSmiths are evidently re-
ceiving somebody's money, but. as the
Grange said in one of its resolutions last
week, the Lord only knows whose money
II IS. | want The GAZETTE to say to farm
ers all over Texas, that the state Grange,
by its duly accredited delegates, by its Of
ticcrS ana by its press, denounce most of
the men called Alliance leaders who are
going about the state advocating the sub
treasury bill as a set of visionary fools. or
else as men who are wilfully de-
ceiving the people with Il view to drawing
them into new party. The Grange has no
objections 20 urge against men who hon
estly advocate the sub-treasury or a new
party. II IS nOu-partiSan order. Men OF
any party or creed may be IN its member
ship. But the Grange does object to
farmers being gulled by men who are work
ing for themselves alone: men who have
never succeeded in anything until they
struck this profitable enterprise OF quilting
farmers and IabOring men. The Grange
knows these fellows. Most of this Alliance
and much Of its present rank and
file is made up of the political and atricult-
ural Off-scourng of the earth. In fact if
we should seine hades, another such catch
could not be made as now disgraces the lead
erShip of the Alliance SO-called. Most of the
anarchists. socialists. dead-heats and eX-
PEELED preachers and blacklisted men every
where III Texas seem 10 have taken refuge,
and generally as prominent Leaders in this
movement. Men who would not be toler-
ated upon social equality with one
tenth Of the farmers of 1eXas ara
going all over the state posing
as commercial. financial. agricultural
and political reformers. The Grange has. |
after deliberate discussion and thorough !
analysis. determined that this thing must |
stop. The Grange does not believe an in |
stitution which opens its arms to every !
species of moral deformity deserves the |
dignity of being called a farmers organiza- |
ton. II is a travesty and burlesque upon |
the farmers, and the Grange has deter |
mined to expose the socialistic auarchistic |
and dead-beatistic con- |
ylomerate. With this in view |
the late session of the Grange organized |
Our venerable and much loved worthy /
MASTER \. j. Rose, retired voluntarily |
after eleven years earnest service He is |
full OF years and honorS, and has the love |
and respect of all. We put in his place
Hon. John 3. Long, at present a member of |
congress, seconded by Hon. J. NJ. Mckin-
ley, state senator. Both are Young and
vigorous, fun of courage and determine
ion, and IL. full sympathy with the new
onward movement. The state will hear
rom them soon in no uncertain sound Let
he people keep hands off, now, and see
who will whip this fight-the conservative
md conscientious Grange, or a lot OF sell
,ut fellows, who have but one aim, and
hat is to get as much pay as possible, to
ieceive unsuspecting farmers, and draw
hem into ali sorts of commercial and polit-
cal folly"
1t is evident that there is music in the
.ir.' The people other than farmers. or
o-called farmers. will no doubt enjoy the
harmony.