The Grange advance., 1873-12-24
From Indiana Granger.
Grange Brevities.

Less law and more observance.
There are 10000 Grangers in Missouri
and !, 100 lodges.
Little leaks at the bottom let out what is
put in at the top.
on Tuesday.
Why should free people die ofexcessive
administration.
The Changers of Oskaloosa, Iowa, are
having a starch factory built.
light, simple, frugal administration is
the crying want of the times.
Don't loaf two hours at the town after
you have done your marketing
The money despotism of the country is
starving working men into resistance.
Pressing farm work does not now prevent
full attendance at the Grange meetings.
The farmers Of Davenport, Iowa, have
organized Farmers Insurance Company
The reason Connecticut has no Oranges
is that she is fully century behind the
times.
There are 2,946 Oranges in the Southern
States, South Carolina being the banner
State.
Farmers who join the Oranges have
broader sympathies, kinder feelings and
higher aspirations.
The Changers of Missouri have so con-
Quoted themselves as to win the respect of
everybody.
The people of Great Britain and Ireland
expended $500, 100000 for intoxicating
drinks in 1872.
Nothing has ever been developed that is
doing as much good for the farming COM
munity as the Grange.
Iowa has the largest percentage Of men,
bers and Kansas is the strongest in lodges
according to population.
Wise counsels and deliberate action will
make the Changers power for good in the
purifcation of politics.
The railroads of Illinois have combined
to resist the taxation Of the assessment upon
their capital stock.
Missouri is next to Iowa in the number
of Oranges and members.
The Grange council of Martin county,
Minnesota. have their own warehouse and
propose to forward their own wheat.
In the late Constitutional Convention in
Ohio, sixty -four of the members were law
yers, and only six of them farmers.
Great care should be observed in electing
competent and faithful officers for the
Oranges. Very much depends upon this.
There are eight Oranges in Canada If
they keep on they will capture the North
Pole yet, and discover the northwest pas
sage.
This government was instituted for the
purpose Of resisting the encroachments Of
power and the insatiate ambition Of wealth.
It is said that the Grange system is we'll
adapted to work great benefits to the half
farmed, down at-the-heels southern por-
tion of the country.
1t is said that widely circulated book
was written by the author at odd times
while he was waiting for his wife to tie her
bonnet strings.
Mr.. Smith, leader of the Farmers Move
ment in Illinois, has made himself sick by
his great labors during the recent campaign
in that State.
The acknowledged fact now is that the
institution of Oranges throughout the State
will tend to diversity and strengthen the
industry Of the State.
The word of Granger should be sterling
in every transaction, and pass as current
as the coin of the realm. So the word Of
every other man should be.
Farmers are not of6ce-seekers, but we
hope some Of them will get Office, and take
with them into places Of power the homely
ways, simple habits and economical traits
of their class.
The Secretary Of the Treasury cries out
for more taxation to keep up the revenues,
and the President wants fine mansions built
for Cabinet Ministers and Senators.
Government: officials are still crying out
for more expensive bureaus and Boards.
Would it not be as we'll to try and get along
with few homely stands and a few useful
slabs?
The Grangers Of California short time
ago shipped, through their agent, 4,4OO
tons of wheat in the splendid American
ship Three Brothers. We wish the ship a
speedy and prosperous voyage.
The Patrons of Des Moines, Iowa, are es-
tablishing Grange banking institution.
The State Grange will keep an immense
amount Of money in circulation at home by
arranging with home manufacturers. to
make farming implements.
The p-suckers of Minnesota sneeringly
call the anti-monopolists "potato bugs"
Our opinion is that those bugs will de7as-
tate the pap-suckers' fields worse than
their name-sakes do the potato tops. The
thugs" are on the march, and though
they work quietly they are industrious.
The Corning Glass Works have made for
the White House dozen champagne glass
and sauce bowls, dozen champagne glass
es, 6 dozen hook glasses, dozen sauterne
glasses, 4 dozen claret glasses, 6 dozen
sherry glasses, dozen cordial glasses, 8