Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1874 — Join the Grange. [ARTICLE]

Join the Grange.

The St. Paul Anti-Monopolist has the following conclusion of a sensible article on the subject of farmers not providing sufficient amusement for themselves or their families. It will bear reading and “Come, brother farmers, the remedy for sad tvives and empty pockets is in your own hands. It is the Grange, wisely and intelligently used. , “ Remember that every dollar stolen from you by politicians; every dollar stolen from you by the railroads, is another pang added to the hearts of your wives; another grief or want installed in your households. Increased prosperity means increased means of comfort M hy should you slave and toil until your whole phvsical and nervous forces are prostrated; why should you live on rude, hard fare; why should you w-ork until you are unable to think or read, or enjoy the ordinary comforts of life, Yvhile the fruits of your industry are gobbled up to enrich the knaves around you ? ‘ They toil not, neither do they spin; and yet I say unto you that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of theses “ Oh, fools! fools! to believe that prosperity lies in unthinking muscles rather than in thinking brains. Would you rate the brawn of an ox higher than the mind of a man? Come up out of the house of bondage and take possession of the promised land.”