Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1874 — The Business Phase. [ARTICLE]

The Business Phase.

There is scarcely any class of items which confronts the readers of- the daily news more frequently “ about these days” than the brief accounts of the organization of business enterprises by the Patrons of Husbandry. These simple news items, published as they are in all classes of papers, will be more effective in inspiring confidence in the earnestness and efficiency of the Order than all tne declarations that have beep sent abroad by it. Tiie next staggerer which will claim the consideration of those who doubt the stability of the order will be the financial success of these Grange enterprises. A good many people have indulged in forebodings as to the probable result of the Patrons undertaking to manage the business of buying and selling for themselves, and disposing of their products. The attempt on their part, all inexperienced as they are supposed to be in business matters, to do what has hitherto been done by men who “have had a life-long experience in the business” is pronounced rash in the extreme. But in the first place the farmers are not as inexperienced in business matters as they are represented to be; in the second place they are taking these matters not out of the hands of “those who have had a life-long experience,” etc., but of mere trickster* and adventurers. It is not a legitimate business that the Patrons propose to dispense with. They will be as little missed by the consumers as by the producers. Whatever oi business capacity and worth may be thrown out of employment by this commercial reform will readily find a more useful field in which it can operate.— Pacific Rural Press. x - ■