Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1874 — What the Grangers Have Done. [ARTICLE]

What the Grangers Have Done.

Thv Influence of the Grangers’ movesrysiatffsrsiiai omms of every monetary institution In this country. It has brought fictitious, inflated values down to real values. It has pat a strap to the operations of stock gamblers ana swindlers. It has brought many down from the hfch suite on wlilch they have been taking colossal strides to the solid earth, where they walk very much as other oommon mortals. It has stopped the spirit of speculation. It has given credit Its death blow. It has made more wary and cautious every business man. It has poured hot shot into the auks of corrupt rings, unUl their number* are thinned and they are left harmless for evil. It has put a stop to extravagance and recklessness in the expenditure of money for private or public purposes. It has killed off the whole race of salary-grabbers. It has made the very word “ back pay” ignominious. It has been more effective in slaying politicians than Samson was in slaying Philistines. It has filled the very air with the spirit of reform. The year of 1878 will be a memorable one. A new era will date from it It was inaugurated by the farmers. But the work which they set out to do has only begun. There is an Augean stable to cleanse. The purity that existed in the early days of the Republic must be restored. Every farmer must gird up his loins and prepare to bear his part in the contest against the corruption of the times.— Burnt World.