Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1873 — Farmers’ Granges in Missouri. [ARTICLE]

Farmers’ Granges in Missouri.

iTelflS * lll excrF to the battle ground of the farmers against the monopolists. During the pastnffxhnontlis meetings have been has been rap-idly-but qirietly extewlingr—Nearly’ one hundred amt eighty granges of the order of Patrons of Husbandry have been organized, and before the first State convention, which is to. be hel l next month at Knob Koster, in J-nhnson county,"is assimilffcil,' it is -F+m+jd+Hhe number will exceed two hundred. At present there is a reprei sentatlon of the order in every ligfii cutttTi’aPcountj’ tnTlie“St-de. .and tlie’ membership which lias been gathered without respect to partv, represents the better class of our agriculturists. On the 10th of June three hundred granges of the Patrons of Husbandry are to be re presented at a co t: ven tio ti tu be held iir Mmiint PfeasahT Tovva, and addressed by Governor Carpenter.' These announcements give some idea of tlie vigor of the movements, but its res'tltsecan only be conjectured.— As al present constituted, it proimsi s ! infinite good to the class for whose beneilLiLlras- bedw -i+rst+ltiteii’-btTrthhr .will be the case only so. long as the politicians arc held at Jong arm’s length.—St. Louis Democrat.