The Newtown bee., 1896-01-31

NO community can afford such home for family, as that we have in our minds, 50 long az it is governed by igno- rance and prejudice and political trick cry. A misgoverned town is known by it's bad roads, miserable schools, and numerous saloons. People seeking homes for their souls as we'll as for their bodies do not select such towns to settle in. The highest power of the so- cial unit is concentrated in the ballot. Every man is endowed, in this country, with the right and duty of government. If the town is not desirable place for a home, it means that there is something the matter with the ballot in that town. It means that there is something wrong with the social and moral life of the community.
 IN MAKING A HOME FOR THE SOUL as well as for the body the patrons of husbandry must wield the bower of an intelligent and pure ballot.
 The Grange is not political machine. There is no place for the demagogue in it. But if every instructed husbandman lives and votes up to the ideal which our principles inspire in us, there will be 8 revival of patriotism in this land some day, and political corruption will pass away, and the science of government will make every town and village fit place in which to dwell. The chronic vail of the farmer is that ''there is no money in it." Perhaps not. But what is the use of money if you have all you want without it. | You cannot eat your cake and keep it too. If you have beautiful home, and all that such a home imples,- home for the soul as we'll as for the body, "a home surrounded with the refinement of intelligence and taste-a home of peace and plenty, home which has it's centre in happy social circle, home in town ruled by 1 intelligence and moral integrity, home in touch with all that is best in our high est estate of Christian civilization-why should you be anxious to lay up money. l The craze to lay up money grows out of very different ideal, and reverses the whole order Of life. Ia order to have home for the soul as well as for the body a man must first have soul as we'll as body for which to make a home. In other words the kind of home seeks will depend very much upon the kind of soul that seeks it.
 The man who despises intelligence, and cherishes prejudice, who makes light of society organized for mutual improvement, and has no care3 for the welfare of the town and the State; who makes slaves of himself and family and strips his farm of beauty and fertility, for the sake of present gain, and robs his home of leisure and comfort and con- venience that he may have money in the bank, is not the sort of citizens we are looking for. Such farmers there are, WHOSE FOWLS AND PIGS OCCUPY THE
 FRONT YARD,
 whose buildings are painted only by the winds and storms, who would destroy the finest shade trees on the place to save time in getting firowood, whose children go to school as little as the law will permit, and who will vote for the man who will insure him the best job Such men may have money in the bank and they may not: but verify they have their reward: and when some dis3oute bank officer, or some stupid epeculator has squandered their ll-gotten wealth, what have they left to console them :? Yes, there are such farmers, whose wives and children are the least cared for of all the animals on their farms. But the true patron of husbandry knows very well that such farmers as those have not yet learned even the best way in which to make money, to say nothing Of making good home.
 1 used think that a tight-fsted and narr0w-m minded farmer had the smallest soul on record, and I am not quite sure that l have changed my mind yet I have known some farmers who seemed to me to have pretty small souls, not withstandipg they lived in pretty good houses.
 Once, when as student, 1 was selling books in an isolated part of the country, 1 came to the house of Baptist deacon. He was a farmer, and well to do. It was after dinner time and I was tired and hungry from long, hard tramp. Could 1 get something to eat? Some bread and milk would suit me. The deacOn's wife set on bread and milk and few small peaches. 1 ate and was sat- istied. How much should I pay? The deacon with solemn deliberation said as he scratched his head ''I only want what is due, and what is right, and that do want. You may pay me II cents." paved the amount required, but the deacon did not buy any book. That was in Rhode Island. Rhode Island is small state, if I was born there. 1 knew a farmer, in Rhode Island, who was an old man when I was neighbors begun to talk about moving machines, he declared that he wouldn't have one of lem on his farm, for such | things only made folks lazy" I knew another farmer who would never raise | any cucumbers or lettuce or relishes of 1 any kind in his garden, because he said they only sharpened the appetite so that the family wanted to eat more of other kinds of food.
 THAT CASE WAS IN CONNECTICUT. We shall hardly expect I suppose to find any such cases as these in Our Grange Homes. Such farmers are not