How The Granges Are Educating The Farmers

Until lately the farmer read a great deal that gavo him but little intelligenoe regarding things in which he is most interested. He read his party paper, which of course showed that his party was pure and all other parties corrupt. He saw but one side of the quostion, and, as that was in accordanoe with his own prejudices, he ooncluded, as most people do, that it was all right. It was a olear case that when his party was in power, taxes were not high, and it was equally clear that when some other party held the management, the country was going to the bad as fast as possible. The grange has wrought a decided chango in the character of the information that reachesthe farming community. The statistical facts of the grange are not biased by party prejudice or preference. They are facts - well authenticated faots, - colleoted without regard to what political party they condemn or sustain. The farmers have long known that they were loaded with taxes to raise money which went they knew not where nor for what. The grange is looking into these things froin a non-political stand-point, and the picture presented is not gratifying. The salary question is exainined, and the taxpayer finds out that thousands of officeholders are receiving salaries a long way in excess of the services rendered. The grango bas found out that monopoly sohemos are always intonded to victimize the people ; that tbe watchword of party is a snaie and delusion ; that party platforms are made to be broken ; that party papers only teil the truth when it wül advance their own interests or damage those of their opponent. Whatever else may be said of it, the grange is certaiuly a disseminator of a class of reliable information which it is important the farmer should possess. - Ex.