New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-11-28
COMPOSITION or THE BOSTON GRANGE.

LETTER FROM GENERAL DEPUTY ). g. ABBOTT-rBa
GRANGE NOT FORMED or GRAIN sPEcULAroRs-
ITS ESTABLISHMENT IN STRICT CONFORMITY WITH
THE CONSTITUTION OF THE ORDER.
To the Editor or The Tribune.
SIR: | have read with much interest tho
several letters OF your in relation TO tho
Grange the Farmers Movement in the West. In his
letter OF recent date observe reference 10 the Boston
Grange and Is used in connection with 1t. It
Is explain briefly what your correspondent says he
does not know, viz. the reasons which actuated me In
organizing that Grange. that / write. Probably no
Grange ever yet organized has received 1.-THE Of the
gratuitous advertising which that one has Aud this
would be OF complaint had IL been done truth
fully But this was not the 10 was called In nearly
all the papers Grain specuators' Grange" Com
mercia Grange" or something 20 the same effect The
facts are that tho Grange was formed with 10 mem
bers'hve only being engaged In commission busine@
"A OF them being as legitimate members or persons
whose occupations did not subject them TO objec-
lions as members OF the Order. The qualifca-
ton for membership LAID down In orr Constitution
reads thus ANY person interested In agricultural pur-
suits" of certain age and complying with the rules &c.
may become a member IL will be observed that THIS 70
very broad qualification and II may well be asked, as
1t often u.s. Who has not interest nagricuiturei And
those men being anxious TO make their influence fels
upon tho transportation question, now leading Gues-
ton with Order thought they could be useful IN as
ssting us upon that question: and this was leading
motive with themiin becoming MEMBERS and the aid
which thought and still think they might render To
in this direction was one OF the reasons Wheh
influenced me In receiving them.
And further well Knowing as did that the order In
Iowa was employing precisely that class OF men To
handle their goods in Chicago and York, and be-
eypg that the order must employ them In cities upon
the seaboard establish the same class OF houses
there U has always occurred to me that 10 nave AGENTS
there who were members OF the order would be Tar
better than employ those who not members ana
who have no interest in tue Patrons Of Husbandry, ex
cent 10 fleece them far as they can.
Your correspondent states that the order nave snen
agents in Ncw-York and Chicago J AJAX, How can they
inure us by being members more t1an II they arc mott
And il the rule but actual farmers are 10 Oe
tolerated AS members not few Of the members 0t the
National Grange must be expelled well as thousands
OF members all parts OF the country ST. Louis has
Grange not whit better than the Boston Grange.
Bur II has been industrOusiy advertised as that
nm Boston, and therefore, nothing known OF u abroad
In organizing the Boston Grange, do not thlhk haVo
violated the Constitution, aud am not alone ~ thls gpn
ion for consulted prominent men or the order before.
hand ana have possession several letters felred
since sustaining and cOngratuatng me IN tnat WOrh IN
the strongest terms make this statement u let ths
public know my reasons and because 80 much mas Deen
said and written about the Boston Grange -
Springfield Mass, Nov. Il, 1873 J' u ABboIT'