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Year: 1879

The defeat of Senator Thurman, of
Ohio, is lamented by all true patriots
throughout the country. 1t was defeat
of the cause of the toiling masses, and was
brought about by the money of the ma
tional banks and rail road companies The
Harrisburg (Penn.) Patriot makes the
following comments on Senator Thur
mans defeat:


But what contributed more than any,
thing else to the defeat of the able and dis
tinguished senator from Ohio is little con
sidered. Senator Thurman had the cour-
aoe to grapple with the Pacific railroad
monopoly in behalf of the people. While
charging enormous rates for freights and
passengers and sharing enormous profits
the monopoly evaded by every artifce its
obligations to the people whose money
constructed its road. Senator Thurman
prepared the bill to bring the monopoly
to book and compel it to provide a sink
ing fund for the liquidation of its obliga-
tons to the government. By his energy
and perseverance through session after
session of congress the bill at last became
law, and the law has been sustained by
decision of the supreme court of the
| United States.


In estimating the causes of Senator
| Thurman's defeat this great service to the
country should not be neglected. Had he
been less faithful to the public cause he
would not have brought down upon him
self the hostility of the powerful Pacific
railroad monopoly. In order to revenge
themselves for the future of the presence
in the senate of a statesman who has COM
PEELED them to make settlement with the
people, the managers of the monopoly
poured their money into Ohio to corrupt
the elections. Their success is shown in
the immense increase of the republican
vote in the cities of the State by which
the democratic majority in the Legislature
was overthrown. Had Senator Thurman
proved himself Indifferent or careless in
regard to the public interests he would not
have been molested by the power of the
monopoly. In the return of Sherman or
Garfield it has nothing to fear. The de-
feat of Senator Thurman is intended as a
warning to other senators and representa-
tees who may be disposed to initiate his
courageous example, for the Pacific rail
road monopolists have not yet abandoned
the hope of evading their obligations tc
the government and people. In the de-
feat of the Ohio senator one serious obsta


Gle to their success has been removed


Before and since the Ohio election the


New York organ of Jay Gould has poured


upon his head every epithet of abuse tina
hatred and malignity could suggest Blu


the real motive of this personal rancor i


studiously concealed under pretence o


hostility to the financial views of Senate
Year: 1879

Your Grange is well organized force
of from fifty to one hundred and fifty
sturday Patrons of Husbandry. Let US
hear what you are doing. Surely you can
not be letting so much power, that may
be used for good, run to waste; you would
not go and bury the talents of all those
good brothers and sisters who have en-
listed in the farmers cause and who each
have work to do? Are harvest feasts
and election of officers the only events
worthy of being noted and reported? And
must the principal theme on these occa-
sions be the description of ones feelings,
Immediately after hearty celebration of
the harvest feast? Is not much attention
given to the feeding propensities, too an
imal? Why not strike the higher keys
that will ''develop higher manhood and
higher womanhood," in accordance with
the expressed Declaration of Purposes of
the Patrons of Husbandry?


A hundred, or even fifty, of the best
men and women from among the active
working farmers, trained as they are in
the Grange to act together make a splen
did working force, fully capable of
achievements worthy of the high aims of
the Order. Doubtless most of the Grang
ers in the State are at this time making
arrangements to be well represented at
the approaching meeting of the State


Grange; to contribute their part to make
the Patrons Mutual Aid Society a strong
and we'll established institution; to aid the
State Store if it needs it, and are laying
out work for themselves for the coming
year the execution of which will give the
members increased self-respect and a
higher standing as compared with other
classes. Though we enumerate it last,
perhaps the first thing these active
Oranges do, in view of the necessity of
keeping up full pitch of enthusiasm and
earnestness, is to secure the constant aid
of the Dirie0 Rural, by seeing that every
member has it and all others within their
Jurisdiction who ought to be members,
to keep up a steady glow Of interest
within and bring in recruits from without.


The influence of example is powerful
and if those who are doing these things
will not hide their light but make known
what they are doing, their good works
will be initiated by others and the con-
tagious spirit of emulation will seize the
whole and lift them into higher and bet
ter region of thought, action and results.
If there are some who are stronger in
spirit, higher in purpose and have wider
range of sympathies than others their ev-
eryday lives should be made an lifting,
oul-strengthening influence for the en-
couragement of those who are weaker
Dirigo Rural.
Year: 1879

The cheering tone of the Grange press
in all parts Of the country is exceedingly
gratifying and encouraging, and indicates
that the farmers are becoming aroused,
and are determined to make their organi-
zation a complete and glorious success.
The country will be surprised at the num-
Der of dormant Oranges revived during
the year and now actively at work,
when the Secretary makes his report
at the approaching annual meeting
of the National Grange If the Order in
other States were in as healthy condi-
ton as it is in Mississippi, it would soon
recover lost ground. We think there will
now be decided improvement in all the
States-an improvement so marked, in
deed, that its most inveterate foes will be
forced to acknowledge that the Grange is
not failure.
Year: 1879

The communication which we recently


published from Mr.. D. !. Sloan, of Nor
cross, in regard to the cotton factory at
Westminster, S. c., has attracted consid-
cradle attention not only at the South but
all through the North, and many persons
have visited the mill whose testimony in
duces us to believe that the people of the
South now have it in their power to take
long step forward in the direction of that
prosperity which must spring from diver
sified industry. Among those who have
recently visited the South Carolina facto-
ry is Capt G. F. Al<ers, of La Grange, and
in an article printed in the Reporter of
that place he confirms every statement Of
the correspondent of the Constitution
The machinery of the mill is simple and
cheap, and by setting it up in the neigh
| borhoods throughout the cotton belt, the
value of the staple can be increased fully
100 per cent, particularly when we take
into consideration the amount of money
saved on bagging, ties, packing, weighing


storing, shipping, etc. The factory now
in operation at Westminster, of which we
shall speak more at length in another ar
ticle, spins the cotton direct from the seed
bv means of machine know as the Glenn.
ent Attachment, and is run by seven wo


men and boy. Its capacity is between
four and five hundred pounds of seed cot


ton per day, and the yarns manufactured
sell in New York at an average of I6.
cents The cotton is taken from the cir
and brush and comes out in roll, and New
| York dealers say that threads made by thi


process class a great deal higher thar
threads made from compressed cotton


Not particle of lint is left on the seed, a


in the ordinary gins. We are inclined t.
believe that this method of preparing th'
staple for market solves the problem TO
Year: 1879

The New York World, an open suppor-
ter of the Money Power, and which ad-
mits into its columns the advertisements
of notorious swindlers whose influence
upon the family circle is evil and evil only,
is getting circulation by the thousands
among the farmers of the South. 1t is
probable that few of these farmers are
members of the Grange or ever thought OF
subscribing for and reading Grange
paper Will farmers never learn to sup
port their own papers and make them
strong and efficient, instead of contrlbu-
ting to building up the journals that are
conducted in the interest of those classes
that rob and oppress them?
Year: 1879

No organization of any class in this
country ever had greater obstacles to over
come than the Grange. At the very out
set it was met by the fiercest and most un-
scrupulous opposition of the merchants,
railway companies, and the middlemen of
all kinds and degree, who assailed it with
ridicule, with abuse, and with the grossest
Misrepresentation. The great majority of
the political newspapers, owned or con-
trolled by the merchants, lawyers and
professional politicians, were the ready
instruments to push the war upon the new
movement-a war in which falsehood and
treachery were employed with unprece-
dented zeal and audacity.


But the most fol mdable and dangerous
opposition came from certain classes that
had slipped into the organization who
were hostile to the principles and purposes
of the Order, and large numbers of plan
ters and editors of agricultural journals
who looked with jealousy upon a move
ment that.was bringing out new ideas and
calling new men to the front-men who,
under the old order of things, had been
kept in the background. The object of
the merchants and politicians who joined
the Order was, to speak the truth in plain
language, either to make it subserve their
interests or to destroy it. AS a rule, these
classes failed to realize any considerable
personal advantage, but the evil effects of
their connection with the Order was such
that it will take years of hard work by
the true members to eradicate them.


The agricultural journals and the lead
ing members of the old farmers clubs re-
garded the new movement with extreme
disfavor They had controlled the farmers
as a class in all agricultural matters, and
were not inclined to give way to new men
who had quietly submitted to their rule SO
long. These editors and these farmers
clubs that were made up mainly of veal
thy planters, merchants and lawyers, never
had any real sympathy with the toiling
masses.


But all these hostile classes combined
have not been strong enough to destroy
the Grange. That they dealt it some tell
ing blows here and there, and greatly re-
tarded its progress in some of the
States. is most true. But the organi-
zation has been kept intact, and the true
men who have been placed in the lead are
not only restoring confidence in the move
ment, but are rapidly regaining lost
ground. The simple facts that the revival
of dormant Oranges is of daily occur
renee and the circulation of the leading
Grange papers rapidly increasing, are suf-
fcient evidences that the Order is not only
a fixed institution in this country, but thai
its progress in numbers, strength and infiu-
ence was never so steady and healthful.
When we consider the obstacles tina
have been overcome and the powerful and
dangerous elements that had to be weedec
out the true friends of the Grange may
we'll take courage and engage in the worE
with renewed zeal
Year: 1879

the South. 1t enables the planters of each
neighborhood to add the industry of man.
ufacturing to the business of cotton-rais
ing, and at a profit that will more than JUS
tify the small investment to be made; and
within the course of the next year or two,
if we do not mistake the purpose and en-
terprise of our people, there will be atleast
one hundred of these factories in opera
ton in Georgia. Wherever there is grist
mill, planning mill or saw MILL a yarn fac
tory can be added without an increase of
power and very little increase of cost
We have gathered some facts and figures
in regaid to the Westminster mill which
we propose to present to the readers of
Tile Constitution as occasion may war
rant.
Year: 1879

The increase of membership and real
progress in the Grange the coming year
will be just what we make it. There is
not one earnest Patron who cannot add,
at least one more to the Order, or who
cannot add to and largely increase the in
terest by working for the circulation of
Grange papers. We hear a good deal
about the opposition of other classes, but
our own apathy and difference are our
deadliest foes. If we can kill these we
need not fear anything else.
Year: 1879

Every earnest member of the Order
who receives this copy of THE PArRoN
can easily induce five or more of his friends
TO subscribe for it. If he will consider
that the press devoted exclusively to the
interests of the Grange is its strongest
support, and that his interests will be di
rectly and benefcially affected by the sue
cess of the Grange, he will surely make
the effort
Year: 1879

The tennessee State Grange will meet
in February. AS officers for the next term
will be elected at this meeting and other
important business transacted, County
and Subordinate Oranges should be TAX
ing steps to be we'll represented. We will
publish the full proceedings of this meet
ing Immediately after adjournment.
Year: 1879

The members of the Order in those


States whose State Oranges meet in De-
cember, should take immediate steps to
secure full attendance of delegates. The


Order is gaining strength in most of the


States, and there seems to be a general
awakening of farmers to the importance
of sustaining the Grange and making it
more efficient. Full meetings of the State
Oranges would have a good moral effect
at tlaio tirsao,- not only in giving foIn ara
force to this sentiment but greater weight
to the measures that will be adopted for
the good Of the Order. We need able,
active, earnest men to devote their time
exclusively to thorough canyass of the
States, and where the Masters of State
Oranges can engage in this work, they
are the men that should be called to it.
We hope there will be movement in
every county to send delegates to the ap-
preaching meetings of the State Oranges.
Year: 1879

AFTER the 4th of March, 1870, the Re-
publican party OF the South will be with
out representation in the Senate, with the
solitary exception of Senator KELLOGG
They have q right to demand, and they do
ask, that Mr. CoRRGN, legally elected to q
seat in the Senate, shall there give his voice
and vote in aid of Senator KELLOGG and in
their behalf Shall they be left without
representation and without political weight
in any body except in the Republican NOM
mating convention of 1880? Their votes in
that convention are likely to be of some inn
portance, and if that is to be the only place
where they can exert their influence, they
are likely to make the most of it.
Year: 1879

THERE would be less opposition to the
anli-Chinese bill fit did not establish bad
precedent in the matter of treaty violations.
No one in this country can justify that iea-
ture Of the bill, any more than they can the
preposterOus claims of the Chinese to pro-
lection and all the privileges Of citizenship,
as well as some of its rights, while they re-
fuse TO become citizens. If the Chinese
would only become voters in this country
their usefulness as political factors would
insure many friends to them. As it is now
they come into direct competition with the
personal and business interests of our bona
fde fellow-citizens, native and naturalized
engaged in the varied employments OF
manufacture, agriculture, and more menial
labor, and the natural result is very strong
prejudice in favor of the latter. The theory
of all this is that the Government is in duty
bound to give preference to its own friends
over the casual interlopers-" foreigners" in
the true sense of the worldwide come to the
United States to earn n living, but who do
not renounce their allegiance to the govern
ment from which they are driven by starva-
tion, or by which they are permitted to be
sold like so many chattels.
Year: 1879

TO The Editor Of The National Republican:


SIR; VIII you allow one who has never taken
an active part in the discussion Of political af-
fairs, but has always regarded them as Of the
most vital importance little space in your
valuable paper TO try to explain the lack OF
wisdom Of those who so bitterly oppose he


These men, and they belong TO both parties,
Year: 1879

THE Cleveland Herald feelingly remarks
that "BEN BUTLER will be out of job in
"a few days" This is a mistake. There is
n certain dark agency which always finds
something for idle hands to do"
Year: 1879

THE few Senators who have hoped that
the CoRBIN case would never be called up
will now have an opportunity to make a
record for themselves. An anxious and
scrutinizing public will watch that record
to see how much influence those recreant
hopes may have upon it,
Year: 1879

The Memphis Appeal is still engaged i'll its
futile effort to whip General BRAGG back into
the party traces 1t continues to call him a
" Western popinicy and crack-brained
"slanderer" There is enough of the mule
about BRAGG to make him kick back and
become all the more stubborn under this
kind of lashing.
Year: 1879

SENATOR BLAINE is the author of the
word Stalwart, or, rather, Of its application
to Republican partisans as a signifcation of
their sturdy adherence TO fixed principles
He is also the author of the Teller Com
mittee, so to speak, and of many other COM
mcndablc partisan ideas which have proved
to be pertinently useful.
Year: 1879

THE Philadelphia Times ventures the
opinion that the passage of the Brazilian
mail appropriation in the Senate by such
an emphatic majority is great triumph
for those who are disposed to do something
toward putting our commerce on its legs,
as opposed to the policy of sitting down
and doing nothing while our industries are
prostrate aud other nations are engaged in
fierce strife over the trade that legitimately
belongs to the United States, and which,
once in our hands, would do so much to-
ward revival of prosperity.
Year: 1879

Reformer at that It doesn't appear that
he has done anything since then to lose his
reputation for uprightncss, although some
of his former Democratic admirers now
seem to he afflicted with q recently discov-
cred belief that he isnot as able man rs his
successor; at least they seem to be more
afraid Of Il. c. than they were of !. G.
Year: 1879

THE PUBLIC WILL HAVE TO ABANDON the idea
that Hendricks does Lot know his own mind
"You may stack the Bible as high as you
/ will swear from the topmost down that I
won't take the second place." meaning thereby
that he would not accept the nomination for
vice president.
Year: 1879

In the Plotzen Lake which is not far
from Berlin. and the dep-h of which is very
considerable, reaching in some parts TO
over ninety feet, an interesting attempt
has been made 10 raise sunken vessels. The
method, which is the invention of Herr
Eldncr, q Vienna civil engineer, consists in
APPLYING carbonic acid in the following
manner: In an empty balloon bottle half
filed with sulphuric acid, surrounded with
Bullrich's salt, Is fixed; the bottle Is de-
stroyed by turning screw, and the two
substances mix and produce carbonic ACID,
which fills the balloon. II is obvious that
when this apparatus is brought into opera
ton in the hull of q sunken ship the effect
must be, if a sufficient number OF balloons
are filed TO raise the vessel. In the ex-
periments on the PlotZen Lake, a small
vessel or boat weighing several hundred
weight, was first sunk. A diver then
went down with the necessary apparatus,
which he set in operation in the interior
of the ship. Hardly had he done so before
the vessel began TO rise to the surface where
it was maintained by the balloon.
Year: 1879

Never exaggerate.


Never point at another.


Never betray confidence.


Never wantonly frighten others
Never leave home with unkind words.
Never neglect 10 call upon your friends.
Never laugh at the misfortune of others.
Never give promise that you do not full
fill.
Never send preseut hoping for one In
return.


Never speak much of your own perform
ances.


Never fail to be punctual al the time ap-
pointed.
Never make yourself the hero of your
own story.


Never pick the teeth or clean the nails In
company.


Never fail to give polite answer to q
civil question


Never present gift saying 1t is OF nc
use to yourself.


Never read letters whick yeu nay Emo
addressed to sthes.
Year: 1879

Robt. Iugersol in his lecture on Skull"
says: i want to live so that when | die
my children can come to my grave and
say: Here lies man who never willingly
gave US one moments pain" What a
grand and noble sentiment. Such were
the principles which actuated the HAMMELL
& LEWIS PROPRIETARY Co., of Chicago,
when they decided to place on the market
their line Of proprietary goods; among
which may be found Our" Lightning
Liniment, for all pain in man or beast;
Our" Vegetable Cure for Catarrh FOR all
Throat, Bronchial. and Lung affections,
and Our" Ladies Friend for the many
diseases peculiar to the female sex. AS
before stated, it was the desire of this
Company to place on the market a line Of
Remedies which In time to come would
shed honor and renown upon their origin
ators. and from present indications they
have succeeded admirably.
Year: 1879

A legal gentleman met brother lawyer
on Court street one day last week, and
the following conversation took place:
We'll, judge, how is business? Dull,
DULL | am living on faith and hope"
Very good, but l have got past you, for
I'm living on charity. Boston Courier.
Year: 1879

What his wife said: She said she did wish
John could find something that would cure his
fever and ague. He was all worn out with it,
and that nothing that he had tried had done
him any good. He should take Reeds Gilt Edge
Tonic 1t never fails to subdue the most OBJ
stinate cases Of fever and ague and 1t is equally
effective In all malarial and bilious fevers 1t
is an agreeable. wholesome and invigorating
tonic.
Year: 1879

and excites distrust toward the party en-
gaged In this work Of revolution. The
direct tendency OF this Democratic policy Is
to disturb confidence, dsarm enterprise,
cripple our industries, and thus take em-
ployment aud bread from the workers, for
the reason that when revolution In any
form shows it's head capital and enterprise
retire to seclusion, and employment and its
rewards are nowhere to be found, and the
workers of the country are brought to grief
After passing through o series of financial
crises which had entailed great suffering
upon the laboring classes, when resumption
was achieved and steadily maintained, con-
fdence began to return to the marts of trade
and business, and it began to put on the air
Of hope and increased activity. The
country had the promise Of revival
of business, but when the Democratic
party assumed hostile stand toward the
Executive and the laws of the country, and
threatened to starve the Government unless
they could be permitted to disarm it of the
power to enforce its own laws and protect
the rights Of the people by every constitu-
tional agency, that promise was dimmed
and the business heart sank back into dis
appointment and disgust ut this fresh out
rage. The hope that inspired the business
heart Of the country In February last be-
gan to fade in March, when the Democratic
programme was promulgated to the coun-
try, and the policy of that party began to
take shape under its inspirations, and II
has grown weaker daily ever since. 1t is
now too late for the Democrats to check
the mischief they have inaugurated by any
makeshift. They must meet the people on
their own reconstructed platform of state
Rights and stand or fall by the issues they
have created and presented to the country


No shifting of scenery-no change OF actors
can disarm the plot of this comedy OF
errors of It's mischievous character and ten
denotes. The Democrats have selected their
parts in the political drama, and now the
play must so through as they have put il
OH the stage