Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-04-24
OTHERS VIEWS
ATTACKS GRANGE.

Please allow me to make some com
ment on an unsigned article appear
ing in the Dispatch of SATURDAY.
April 10th. The article in question
was partial write up Of the meeting
of the Pomona Grange at Middleburg
last Friday, April 9. To one who is
| more interested in the uplift of the
farmers than furthering the cause of
! any organization, the meeting was re-
dictionary, as all Grange meetings arc
| under the leadership of H. B. Cald-
/ we'll, State lecturer
Mr.. Caldwell is master at his Job
AS has been said, he from memory
goes through the service beautifully
at a great rate, and his speeches
which he makes almost daily are fine
to the minimizing and careless. but to
those who wish to see the producing
class have it's place in the sun, his
words are hard and even cruel. Like
| ALL the leaders of the Grange he
breaches the doctrine that the farmer
must work out his own salvation. He
stands for the plan whereby the big
industrialist, corporations, and bank
ers get help from the Government,
but he wants the great producing
class to lift itself by it's own boot
straps.
The meeting at Middleburg was
packed to the ideas of Mr.. Caldwell,
for as master of ceremonies he called
on only those who were to his way
of thinking, to speak. These Grange
leaders say much about packing the
Supreme Court, yet they do just that
the farmer the servant of organized
wealth.
Mr.. Caldwell said the National
Grange was against the Presidents
court plan because all but six State
masters were against it. That is moth
ing new to any who reads the papers.
Because these State masters are
chosen because they can be counted
upon to stand by organized wealth.
They have no interest in the farmer
except to collect rent from him, for
all their interest is with those who
are living on what the farmer makes.
So they and all Grange leaders, seek
to keen the farmer where he can be
made to do their bidding. They are
too short sighted to see that if the
farmers income could be doubled all
of us would be benefited together,
and not just few as has been the
case. But when you speak Of giving
the farmer more for his labor the
leaders of the Grange cry Imitation -
1t is alright with thorn for the rich
TO collect tllrteei billion dollars per
year in interest from the people, for
that is not initiation, becau~e it goes
into the pockets Of organized wealth.
Last year when the Frazier-IIemke
I'LL was before the Congress seeking
to enable the debt burdene1 farmer
to keep his home Louis J. Tabor,
Master of the National Grange Oppos-
ed it saying he wanted sound money.
That is the same kind of money all
the big rich want. Mr.. Tabor made
that statement about sound money
when he knew about eight hundred
farmers were losing their homes and
farms eve~y month, and had been
| since the days Of Hoover and are still
| losing them at that rate here in the
fifth year Of our New Deal. All this
is going on while the Grange for
about seventy years has sought to
give the farmer sound money. l Won
der how much longer are the farmers
going to tolerate such leadership of
one Of their organizations? How much
longer will they be misled by talk of
Initiation" Sound money" and
! Sound policies" which is the stock
and store of Wall Street and it's