[FRIAM] ethical dilemma

[Steve Smith]

Official poster of The Grange

The two lower-left corner vignettes almost slipped by me:   in
particular the "fleece you all"


On 2/5/21 1:42 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
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> Steve writes:
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> < The Patrons of Husbandry, or the Grange, was founded in 1867 to
> advance methods of agriculture, as well as to promote the social and
> economic needs of farmers in the United States. The financial crisis
> of 1873, along with falling crop prices, increases in railroad fees to
> ship crops, and Congress’s reduction of paper money in favor of gold
> and silver devastated farmers’ livelihoods and caused a surge in
> Grange membership in the mid-1870s. Both at the state and national
> level, Grangers gave their support to reform minded groups such as the
> Greenback Party, the Populist Party, and, eventually, the Progressives. >
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> And we suspected, to swap partners.  Life is hard out in the country,
> you know.
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> Marcus
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