Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1875 — Page 7

The Illinois State Grange.

gpnisioriELD, 111., Jan. IS. The State Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry assembled here to-day. There are about 350 delegates in attendance. The sitting has been in secret and the only matter that has been given the public is the address of Master Golder. which is as follows: Brothers and Sisters op tup. State Grange: I have great pleasure in reporting to you a healthful and prosperous state of the Order, both in this State and throughout the country. Tlie period of novelty in its history has passed. It has settled into its place in the family of forces which are working out the results of advancing civilization. No considerate person who has witnessed the wonderful awakening among the industrial class which we represent, effected chiefly through the efficient agency of our Order, can but recognize its power for usefulness, and, as I verily believe, its tendency for good. We do not deny for it the imperfections which pertain to all human agencies, and we claim tor it the virtues which spring from high resolves and philanthropic purposes. In this we would exhibit that modesty which is ever becoming, even to the greaiest and best, and that eels-assertion which is the symbol of real strength and the condition of success. The Order is not declining as some have affected to believe, and as some have studiously reported. A column on the march may he less demonstrative than when forming and organizing. The reports of the Secretary, Treasurer and other executive officers will disclose to you in full the condition, numerical strength and resources of the Order. Quito a number oT contiguous Granges, which are small alone, have; upon application, been consolidated —a procedure which I have regarded with favor and tried to encourage. A strong Grange, covering more territory i 6 undoubtedly better than two weak ones. Some find fault that the Grange has not done more. This complaint usually comes from that class who have themselves done least. “ The gods help those who help themselves.” This is a co-operative institution. It is not designed to relieve any individual member fronTeffort or labor, but to make his efforts and labor more efficient by means of union with his fellows. A single individual is powerless to correct many abuses from which we as a class have suffered, and from some es which we are still suffering. All unjust burdens we can, by uniting, throw off, and much of the positive good we hope for can be attained bv a like combination of strength.

Some do not give us credit for what we have done. They say that the pecuniary benefits claimed —such as the reduced cost of supplies, as agricultural implements, sewing machines, etc., have come to outsiders the same as to us; that these reductions would have come anyway. Now this, undoubtedly, is in part true. Outsiders have received great benefit from our work. But this is natural, desirable, and to lie expected. We have complained of the large percentage of profit paid on many of our supplies. This has come, to an extent, at least, from the multi tude of middlemen; the large amount of capital invested on which profit must be paid, and the small amount of work and business dope in proportion to the unmber of men employed and the investment of capital. Relief can come to us only by fewer men doing the given amount of Work, and a given capital doing a greater amount of business. When the number of middlemen shall have been reduced to the measure of our needs and the per cent, of their profits be made to correspond somewhat with that of ours our cause ..cl complaint i» this direction will be eTilled. .T This can be accomplished, however, only through out efforts. And we need not look for a speedy victory in this direction. The enemy in many cases is playingpdssum, rather than dead. Combinations made against you are not destroyed, but dormant. The appearance or belief of weakness or weariness on your part will be the signal for their own awakening and activity. The position of subordinate Granges toward partisan polities is, on the whole, as satisfactory as could be expected, considering the diverse views on that subject. Much has been conceded on Doth sides for the sake of harmony. lam quite confirmed in my former views expressed o* that subject. The nature of our Government lays upon every citizen the obligation ot au intelligent and active participation in public affairs. No one should be less a citizen because, a Patron, but the contrary should be the ease. His zeal, his energy, and his conscientiousness should be increased thereby. Let us notfarget that that the leading object in our organization is improvement in our special calling, improvement in the modes and processes of cultivating the soil, as well as. the disposal of our products. The discussion of these subjects should be frequent and thorough. The Grange is the primary school of the Order. The gradations expressed in County Grange, Slate Grange and National are only the higher steps in the planß and necessities of our work. We seek pecuniary advantages through our organization, not as an end, but as a means for the accomplishing of a higher and more important work, viz.: the elevation of our class in the social scale, the increase of intelligence with its corresponding benefits, the dignifying of labor and the ennobling of all industrial pursuits. For the most part we are both capitalists and laborers. We are interested in the efficient employment of capital as we are in the just reward of labor. In our plans of work we embody the principles of co-operation which have received approval of the highest intelligence of the age. It remains for us to show that we possess the patience, the perseverance, the skill, the intelligence and the honesty to conduct to a 'successful issue an experiment which is receiving the benedictions of the best and wisest men. Pull together! should be the banner-word of the organization. The Order lias sometimes reminded me (pardon the homely illustration) of a half-doze* pairs of green steers < yoked to a breaking plow. Tiiev pull forward, backward, every way. ©tie might at first despair of ever haying a ser viceable team. Time and effort, however, overcome the übstiuaey even of green steers. Some jnay indeed prove incorrigible and tbey~ are turned out and delivered over to the butcher. So if perchance we discover the lack of 6kill and training of professional orsganizers, I believe we have the strength and endurance of the ox, and. we shall surely break up the turf-bound soil which has so long typified one class. It is hard, very hard, for many to cast off old and established notions and accept anything new. Some seem unwilling to investigate, even for fear they may discover they have been advocating error. They seem to forget that it is a sign of greatness as it is of goodness to follow the truth wherever it leads. Again selfishness, which is the essence of barbarism itself, seems to bold the . control over many. They cannot rise above self or look beyond the present. They do not know , the meaning of benevolence, nor can they make any sacrifice for posterity. It is easy to show that the greatest blessings we enjoy we owe to others —acquired through their sacrifices, bought perhaps by their blood. Does anyoue believe that the present good was adequate compensation for the sacrifice of comfort, property, and lives which Were the price of American liberty? Others make the low state of public morals, the general corruption and dishonesty, an excuse for their own inaction, or perhaps their active opposition. I acknowledge with shame for the human race, and for the high atate of civilization claimed for this country, all the truth there is in the charge. I know even the apostolic band had its Judas, hut it would not be just to condemn the twelve on necouht of the sin and shame of qne. Human nature rema bs the 6ame it ever has been? I expect to witness, the development of tb# spirn of Judas even among the brothers, but my faith in the good and true still reiuai'JsMunshaken. Let us not charge upon the many the sins of oae. Let us look up, not down. The best way to acquire charitable views of out brother is to labor for bis good. We shall i, seemo:e ot the good in the world as we inake sacrifices for it. 4

I commend the following words, takenjrom an address of the Master of,the State Grange of California. They seem to be words of wisdom and sound advice on the subject to which they relate: “ I look to the influence of the Order to accomplish some social reforms which all classes nqed alike. Money has come to exert, and probably always will exert, a powerful influence in establishing social grades In the community. “Honestly acquired it is the proper reward of industry, and the enjoyment of tho luxuries it brings is to its possessor an undisputed right. The attempt through pride to appear what we are not indicates a weakness of character, if it is not a positive sin. Fashion has gained sway over us. For the sake of appearance we incur expense and make sacrifices which our incomes do not warrant. All honest accumulations of property come through abstinence. The man who spends his entire income from year to year can never become independent," and is likely sooner or later to come to want. The loudest complaints against the tyranny of capital are often made by that class of laborers whose opportunities for accumulation have been the most favorable. This is no argument in defense of abuses of which There are many and which it is our duty to combat. This wo can do successfully only by the mastervbf the principles of trade and commerce, both in their theory and application. The masses of our class need better general education aud especially better business education. We cannot fight oue enemy successfully till we understand the details of his | position, the nature of his weapons and of his defenses. We can cope with monopolists whether of money, manufacture, transportation, or politics only when we can command intellectual and business ability equal to theirs. We must lift ourselves up to a level with them in these respects ; we cannot pull them down to us.” ~~ “ In the struggle among the industrious we ask for no special privileges or special consideration. We ask for ourselves only what we demand for all —the protection of our rights. Much evil has been done iu this country byspecial legislation. Wealth is virtually voted out of the pockets of one class into those of another; and need I add that we have usually been the chief sufferers and have meekfy borne it, pay, even have delusively embraced the instruments of torture. Capital and labor both have their rights; moreover, their rights are identical. Special legislation in favor of either is, on general principles, inimical to the prosperity of both. The question of insurance is one of magnitude and universal interest. I am satisfied from the opportunities of observation I have had that one law authorizing the formation of county and town' insurance companies on the mutual plan meets in a large degree our wants. These seem to give full average satisfaction at much less cost than ordinary insurance. lam disposed to recommend the appointing of a committee* to secure the careful preparation of a blank form of organization under the law—the same to be kept for distribution when applied for. The best legal talent should be secured for this work.

I do not refrain from discussing other topics, such as the transportation question, banks, the currency, because our interest in these questions is waning, or because they are becoming of less importance to us. The public inind, it seems to me, is making progress toward enlightenment on these questions. I see no signs of a yielding of some of the claims of monopolies. These, as well as other interests, are beginning to see that rights always imply obligations. The ground of their existence is the public good. They were endowed with extraordinary powers and received extraordinary privileges for an equivalent which they promised, viz., the public good. Equity would demand that a failure to furnish the equivalent should work a forfeiture of their right. The regulation of monopolies by laws, just and discriminating, I believe is a necessity, which the immense power and overbearing arrogance of these institutions is demonstrating. I believe a by-law of the State Grange should be adopted regulating the time (in the absence of any action of subordinate Granges on the subject) during which a Fatron may retain membership, being in arrears for dues. There are social evils to be remedied, economical abuses to be corrected, civil and political equities to be accomplished, and there probably always will be; but we have the shaping of our own destiny. The responsibility of our own condition, both at the present and in the future, rests, and will ever rest, upon ourselves. All disputes arising in our Order ought to be settled within our gates. Litigation is a sorry way to secure justice, especially between brothers. Surely the teachings of our Order suggest a more satisfactory mode. The pressure of official work upon your Master has rendered it impossible for him to answer all calls upon him. His best efforts have been, and are, at your disposal. I feel an absorbing interest in the weliare of the class with which my whole life has been identified. I regard the farmer’s calling the most noble, the most dignified, and the most independent of all the industrial pursuits. To be successful the farmer must love liis calling. There are no inherent difficulties preventing the profits of his labor and his capital from being commensurate with the efforts and skill put forth. I address these words of greeting to you in the spirit of hope and high expectation as to tlie future usefulness of our’Hlrder. Nobody can destroy us but we ourselves. May the vantage ground already gained be improved to the future advancement of the interests of our class and of true civilization. May the aunual assemblage of the Patrons of this great State be characterized by the harmony that should distinguish a meeting of brothers—the patience which is necessary to overcome difficulties —the wisdom which is equal to meet the greatest responsibilities.

Large and Small Ears.

Large ears, as has been observed, hear things in general and denote broad, comprehensive views and modes of thought; while small ears hear things in particular, showing a disposition to individualize, often accompanied by the love of the minute. Large ears are usually satisfied with learning the leading facts of a case, with the general principles involved—too strict an attention to the enumeration of details, especially all repetition of the more unimportant is wearisome<to them. People with such ears like generally and are usually well fitted to conduct large enterprises, to receive and pay out money in large sums, in buying or selling would prefer to leave a margin rather than reduce the quantity of goods of any sort to the exact dimensions of the measure specified, and in eiving, would prefer to give with a free hand and without too strict a calculation as to the exact amount. Small ears, on the contrary, desire to know the particulars of a story as well as the main facts; take delight often in examining, handling, or constructing tiny specimens of workmanship; are disposed to be exact with respect to inches and ounces in buying or selling to the extent at least of knowing the exact number over or under the stated measure givqn or received. People with such ears would, in most cases, prefer a retail to a wholesale business.— Phrenological Journal. The following directions are givdh for detecting some counterfeit fifty-cent notes now in circulation: On the counterfeit the lock of hair in the corner of Dexter’s forehead touches the other hair at each end, while in the genuine it is a “ C” shaped lock, and touches only at the lower end. Don’t shut a child up in the, dark to punish him. The dark doesn’t hurt him a bit, and he generally manages to kick in a door-panel and twist the knob off.

Talk With Grangers.

To those who have joined the Farmers’ Movement; those who are Patrons from a sincere and earnest desire to protect, instruct, to elevate the farmers so that they may be able to meet any and ail other classes, at any and all times; that they may claim the right to be represented as weU as taxed, and of speaking for themselves wherever their interests are concerned; to those well-meaning brothers and sisters we will with all seriousness put a few questions. Are you doing all in your power to advance the interests of the Order to which you are confidently ’ooking for such results ? Do you endeavor to strengthen your Grange by inviting and trying to persuade all Eersons suitable for membership to join? •o you aim to inform yourself so that you will be able to show them that, in common with yourself, their only hope is in co-operation, and that there is not the remotest hope of successful co-operation without organization ? The organization you now have is perfect and full of power if it is wisely managed and sufficiently prized; it is everything you desire if you, in return, but do your duty to that. Organization, however, of itself is inanimate and only prepares you for the work I you must certainly perform, or you are only an inefficient element that tends to weakness, and not strength. Let every member, of both sexes, be fully impressed with the idea that there is work for each and all to do; there is no avenue to success in this movement, and through this organization, even, except by work. If all do their duty their desires are within easy range of possibility and their fondest hopes may be realized. On the other hand, should members, as soon as the novelty of initiation is worn off, become sluggish and cold, certainly no progress can be made. It is only by keeping the importance of the movement constantly in view, never forgeting the fatal consequence of letting the fires on the altars go out, or even burn too low, through indifference and neglect of those who are most interested and on whom it alone depends for sue-’ cess. Do you realize that if the present movement fails, in the interests of manhood and labor, it will be utterly impossible to ever rally again? If the Order disband now we shall wholly lose confidence in ourselves, become thoroughly demoralized and further weakened by our failure; we shall then be the unresisting and easy prey of those from whose clutches «ve vainly thought to escape. Capital will then indeed be king, with absolute and undisputed sway, and laboring humanity will then bend and groan beneath its heavier burdens with none to hear their cries and pity their oppressions; with no appeal from the cruel fate that remorselessly follows them except in bloody revolution. And this even affords no hope; the history of the Communists and breadrioters is but the history of failure—strugging for a foothold among humanity, they have but sunk themselves in deeper degradation. The only hope is in the Grange. There is no escaping the conclusion; we all know it; let us, therefore, in the name of justice and country and posterity to come, rouse up, fire our hearts with new zeal for the work that must be done if this new sun is not to go down leaving us in darkness and utter despair. —Dirigo (Maine) Rural.

Circular of the Woman’s National Temperance Convention.

• We publish by request the concluding portion of the circular issued by theabove convention at its recent session in Cleveland. The whole circular is too lengthy for our space: To the Women of the United States of America: Dear Sisters : * * * To epitomize the matter, we borrow tlie following statement of facts from the report of a committee of clergymen representing one of the largest ecclesiastical organizations of the country: “ Intemperance is causing a constant drain of property. This is equal every year to all that has been expended in church enterprise since the landing of the Mayflower. Counting the loss of time of the intemperate, this outgo of the nation’s property would load a train of wagons, with a ton of gold to each wagon, thirteen miles long. Poverty and suffering everywhere result to the lower claves. Among the very highest classes usefulness and genius are quenched in the rum glass. Grog-shops are ten times as frequent as both churches and schoolhouses. To the want of improvement of the lower classes we must add a ninefold commission of crime. “ The imbecility, insanity, idiocy, ignorance and wickedness of the nation are largely due to this cause. The care of these and other classes of sufferers imposes unjust burdens on good citizens. Our personal liberty is violated, our homes and very existence is rendered unsafe.” To the sisters, wives and mothers whom we address, we scarcely need, suggest those uncatalogued agonies, none the less universal, the legitimate and inevitable results of strong drink; the fair form and promise of genius worse than blighted, maddened and brutalized; the army of wretched inebriates a hundred thousand strong, yearly recruited from the flower of our firesides; domestic misery in high and low places; broken hearts muffled under costly apparel; sad, weary hearts hid behind the semblance of a smile; or haggard, gaunt and unmitigated woe of women worse than widowed, and children whose heritage is a curse. But while we invite attention to the facts that must clearly indicate the enormity and prevalence of me evils of intemperance, we wish to say that our hope of ultimate success lies in prevention rather than cure. We plan and labor especially for the young, and in this aspect of the case it is only by the co-operation of every woman that it will prove a succes's. With women, as mothers and teachers and makers of public sentiment, rests the final and complete triumph of all social reform. Everywhere her hand can cheqk the incipient evil. The invincible Hannibal was brought at of nine before the altars of the gods to swear eternal enmity to Rome. So let us pledge our children at the altars of our faith against this mighty Moloch. It has be'en more than indicated that the recent temperance movement is wholly religious. Two forces had hitherto been brought to bear upon the suppression of intemperance. The one, moral suasion, stood uppn too low a plane to reach a high result, a plane outside of vital godliness; the other,'legislative action, wjiicli, however judicious and humane, can never be enforced beyond the moral sense of the community. And so men held perforce for a while above their level, fell

yet lower in the reaction. But wdman, when she laid her hand to the work, recognized in this spirit of evil "the kind that goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.” While we recognize as* friends and co-laborers all who are earnestly striving by whatever legitimate means to advance the cause, what we recommend, and what we adopted as the basis of all our methods, is faith in God. Women of America, we have thtislaid before you as well as we may in so b/ief space the designs and plans of the temperance work as proposed to be carried on in combined effort. And again we ask your co-operation. Let no one cast aside this appeal until she has solemnly answered this inquiry.: “.Have I no duty nor influence, nor responsibility in this matter?” Is there no trembling soul far or near waiting for your outstretched hand? If it seems so, still give your sympathy to the work for the work’s, sake. The flower knows not what becomes of its fragrance, so we know not how far and wide our influence may be diffused. And tc others thaft Esther it may be said, “ For if thou altogether boldest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to this people from another place; but tliou and thy father’s house shall he destroyed; and who ,knoweth whether thou art come to the kiagdom for such a time as this.” In the quiet and seclusion of our households, washing the feet of the weary and helpless ones, we scarcely feel ourselves a power for either good or Ill; but the hand of every woman is upon the lever that moves the world; and its upward progression through the instrumentality of women, in great moral and religious enterprises, is one of the sublimest spectacles of this eventful time. Such in substance is the design and plan of our temperance work, and we invite, to our aid, in its presentation, all who desire and labor for the interest of humanity, our national prosperity and the "honor of God. E. E. Marcy, Evanston, 111. A. F. Leavitt, Cincinnati, Ohio. Mart C. Johnson, Brooklyn, N. Y. Cleveland, November, 1874. Several letters deposited in the Richmond (Va.) Postoffice, evidently written by children, plainly indicated that they, anticipating the annual visit of Santa Claus, wished to remind him of what they mostjlesired. One of them was directed “pSanta Claus, Greenland, North Pole.” Another was directed as follows: “ Santa Claus, sleigh drawn by eight reindeers.” An open letter, directed simply “Santa Claus,” reads as follows- “ Mr. Santa Claus, a big wagon—not so very big—four wheels, two packs pop- , crackers, a Mother Hubbard book. Willmer.” “ Nellie wants a carriage and a baby and some candy. I wants a baby and candy, a little story-book. Isabella.” —lt is estimated by the best judges that the crop of cotton this year at the South will reach at least 4,000,000 bales or 2,000,000,000 pounds. At 15 cents a puond—the price anticipated for it —the goodly sum of $300,000,000 will jingle (we wish we might hear it) in the pockets of our citizens, of which $225,000,000 will come from abroad, mostly from England. —2V. Y. Mail.

Pianos and Organs.

Fine new rosewood pianos for S3OO. Fine walnut organs, six stops, $125. Good second-hand pianos, $l5O to S2OO. Reed’s Temple of Music, Chicago. —The medical students at the colleges in Cincinnati are estimated to be worth to that city, financially, $120,000 to $150,000 per annum; that is, they spend about that amount in the city. Yet they do not liva at all, extravagantly, if the statement may be accepted that a club of them summed up all their expenses at $1.50 per week each. They are not sought after as hoarders in private houses, it is said, their appetites being unusually keen and persistent.

Modern Women.

It Is a sad commentary upon our boasted civilization that the women of our times have degenerated in health and physique until they are literally a race of invalids—pale, nervous, feeble and back-aehy, with only here and there a few noble exceptions in the persons of the robu-t, buxom ladies characteristic of the’sex in days gone by. By a very large experience, covering a period of years, and embracing the treatment of many thousands of eases of those ailments peculiar to Women, Dr. Pierce, of the World’s Dispensary, Buffalo, N. Y., has perfected, by the combination of certain vegetable extracts, a natural specific, which he does not extol as a cure-all, but one Which admirably fulfills a singleness of purpose, being a<most positive and reliable remedy for those weaknesses and complaints that afflict the women of the present days This natural specific compound is called Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription. The following are among those diseases in which this wonderful medicine has worked cures as if by magic and with a certainty never before attained by any medicines: Weak back, nervous and general debility, failing and other displacements of internal organs resulting from debility and lack of strength in natural supports, internal fever, congestion, inflammation and ulceration and very many other chronic diseases incident to women not proper to mention here, in which, as well as in the cases that have been enumerated, the Favorite Prescription effects cures—the marvel of the world. It will not do harm in any state or condition of the system, and by adopting its use the invalid lady may avoid that severest of ordeals—the consulting of a family physician. Favorite Prescription is sold by dealers in medicines generally^ Opinions op 'The Press— The Texas New Yorker says: “An old Scotch physician once said to one of his patients: ‘ Keep your feet warm, your head cool, and your bowels open, an’ there’s little “ ilse” can harm ve.’ This aphorism is full pf wisdom, and expresses exactly what Dr. Walker’s California Vinegar Bitters will do for you. We speak of what we know from nearly two years’ practical experience in the use of thi9 indispensable family medicine. Its office is to attack a lazy, torpid liver and impart new life to this vital organ—a proper flow of bjle and a prompt discharge of effete matter. A good .digestion and appetite are restored to the sufferer. Pure blood, the ‘ liffe of the flesh,’ is secured, aDd the patient soon feels himself a walking electrical battery. Good health is more precious than fine gold — Vinegar Bitters restores it, and therefore, above price. The jpan wliqi discovered it is. a philosopher and a benefactor of his race 18 * • Thb most stylish collar, that is worn now is the Improved Warwick. It fits better than any other on a low-cut shirt. All the edges being folded, and the surface looking so much like linen, we recommend till to try it- Ask your gents’ furnisher for the Improved Warwick. - 8

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