Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1874 — Not To Be Laughed At. [ARTICLE]

Not To Be Laughed At.

Those who laugh at the Patrons of Husbandry, and affect to believe that they are an insignificant power in the land, will do well to study the statistics of the Order furnishedby our Washington correspondent. It seems that there are in all 20,788 Granges in the United States. lowa has the largest number of any State —2,000. Indiana comes next with 1,991, and Illinois can boast of 1,-51-3. It would therefore appear that there are at least three-quarters of a million of voters belonging to the Order, and in every State in the Union they doubtless hold the balance of power between the two parties. If they should choose to act 'in a body on political questions they could be absolutely the dictators of the nation. It will not do, therefore, to regard the Order lightly.— Chicago Times.