Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1873-06-20


of peace, less than one mill on the dol
lar was appropriated directly for the
interests Of agriculture. Is it not high
time that these things shenld be looked int
| BY those who have the great burden Of taxa
| tion to bears
We propose that the ax-gatlierer shall not
as in 1871, be paid nearly forty cents ON the
dollar for collecting the internal revenues OF
| the country, or 81, ,225,362 for collecting
SIS, 81, ,3ss 20. as is shown BY the report OF
| tile Fifth Auditor OF the Treasury for that
| year.
We propose, after having given bonus of
| 100000 inthis county Of Solano, to aid in
building railway, that we have right to
claim some justice from the managers in the
adjustment of fares and freight; that they
shall not, as they have done, charge the peo-
people Of our county fare of So from San
francisco to Batavia, distance of 81 miles.
while the outside wayfarer can go from San
Francisco TO Sacramento, So miles for So,
over the same road.
We propose to see why it is that, while
freights are to day being carried from Sacra-
mento to San francisco by competing seeaf-
era for ST. 0per ton, a distance of 125 miles
and at profit at that-we must be charged
from 81 to $6 per ton from VaeaYille and Va
ca station, OF Elmira, tc San Francisco, dis
tance of less than 60 miles. and why it is that
at one time they charge as much for running
a car 30 miles as at others for 60 mites.
We propo e that those railways that have
been built with the bounty of our county and
our national Government shall pay the same
pro rata tax on their full value that our far
nlers have to pay on their farms, especially as
every farmers tax Is heavily increased each
year to pay the very railway bonds that
helped this railroad into existence.
We propose TO carry cut the spirit and
letter OF the resolutions adopted unanimous
ly by the Vacayillc Grange..on the 26th of
April last. # 4
propose to Go all thls-anl now? Not
by organizing a political party, unless we
are driven to it as dire necessity, as a last
resort In self.defense, to foil the intrigues
and Vaccinations of the political tricksters
and grasping monopelsts, who strive, and,
alas, too often succeed, in subsidizing our
Legislatures and national law-givers with
corrupt Credit Mohiiier swindlers and by the
grossest bribery and corruption. But we
propose to apply remedy; by supporting
no man Tor any position of public trust, no
matter what Ha ay be his professions or party
affiliations, whose integrity and honest in
stincts and well-earned reputation are not
III. - Al
to brihe or approach.
We propose to study and discuss, make
experiments Il d compare notes as to the
best modes of making our farms productive,
the best crops to produce, the best modes OF
tilagc; i'll other words, TO make ourselves a
practical, scientific. working college of hus-
bandry, where our SOFAS and daughters may
be trained to know something of the nature
and progr IS of the great industry which lies
at the foundation of all other industrial pul-
suits within the knowledge and scope If
men.
We propose, besides all this, in admitting |
the fair, pure type Of woman TO our councils, t
TO cultivate the social virtues among our
patron associates; and, in the terse ard |
beautiful language of the preamble to our
the ultimate object of this +
organization is for mutual instruction and (
to tighten labor by diffusing
4 knowledge of its aims and purposes, ex-
oand the mind by tracing the beautiful laws
she Great Creator has established in the
universe, and to enlarge our views of creative
wisdom and power" And while our ritual
S void Of all sectarian dogmas or political
/: is lofty and ennobling in tone
md sentiment. with all the beauty and SIM
,lleity OF gospel truth.
Much else we propose to do, that 1t is not
nor necessary now publicly to de-
lare, but which, in due time, will be de, ell
ped in the progress of our honest labors for
he good of the public in general, and of the
armer's interest in particular.
This is the kind of revolution we are In
ugurating and intending to carry on.
We propose, ere we close this brief outline
f what we, as Patrons of Husbandry, under
his new departure dispensation, propose TO
10 In the great work before us, to refer
riefy to the progress this popular institution
making in our country. Its onward pro-
.ress, for the past twelve months, has been
unparalleled in the history OF any like under
aking. AT the close of the last year, 1S72,
he number of Oranges, as reported by our
,ationai Grange, at Washington, was as fol-
,ws: Illinois. 65 Oranges Missouri, IA do;
indiana, 3s do; Kansas, u do; Iowa, 652 do;
Alabama, 5 do; South Car lima, 100 do;
tennessee, do; Ohio, 6 do; Mississippi,
5 do; Michigan, s do; Nebraska, 40 do;
.ouisiana 8 do; Georgia, 2 do; Virginia l 9
o.; Minnesota, 46 do; Kentucky, l do; Ar
ansas, do; Wisconsin, d do; Vermont,
. do; New Jersey, l do; Canada, 8 do.
And now to this list add California with
ay fifteen Oranges 1--WE shall soon have, we
oubt not, fifty, making twenty-five States
/ which Oranges have already been organiz-
d. And in all the oranges the number of
lembers has rapidly increased since the COM
of the present year. Missouri is
aid to have increased It's number from IA to !
90 oranges Iowa from 652 ;o.nearly 1000, !
nd they claim to haYc over LOG, 900 members.
he total numbers in the several oranges i'll
be United States is reckoned to be over
900 600, some estimates claim 800, 900.
LII some Of the Western States the Patrons
wn large portion of the grain ELEVATORS,
nd manage their own forwarding and trans L
ortation business. They are manufactur- !