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Grangers' And Veterans' Convention

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Parent Issue
Day
29
Month
August
Year
1873
Copyright
Public Domain
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St. Louis, August 27.- An immense meeting of veterans of the Mexican war and of grangers was held to-day at Sweetspring, near Brownsville, Mo. Nearly 15,000 people of the surrounding country, many coming great distances, are said to have been present. A good many prominent men, including meinbers of the Legislatura and members of the press, were in attendanoe. Thomas B. Allen, Master of the State Grange, opened the Granger part of the meeting with a speech, in which he ridiculed the lack of interest bestowed on the farmers' movement at the outset. But it had now beoome a great power, and attracted attention from all quarters. He believed that the farmers were the noblest class of people in existente, and it was time that they had something to say about public affairs. The Grangers are growing. Before January there will be 24 States prominent in the movement. He warned monopolists not to orowd them, or they might make them go too far. Maj. G. W. Gilson, of St. Louis, addressed the meeting of veterans, after which a committee was appointed to prepared an address to Congress on the subject of pensions. The meeting was in the shape of an immsnse barbecue, and a jolly good time was had.

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Old News
Michigan Argus