The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-11-28
GRANGE NEWS.


in the United States is S,262, with a
membership Of 619, $50.
The Scio Grange last Saturday mi
tiated seven new members. IT is in
most prosperous condition.
Washington Territory has an order
called Industrial Co-operatives. 1t
is brother-in-law to the Grange.
All kinds of Changers blanks for
sale at this Office. We have just
printed lot of blank reports for Sec
retaries Of Oranges.
The Lane county Patrons of Hus-
bandry will have a grand union cele-
bration at Junction City on Dec, A.
next Thursday. Hon. Jno. Henry
Smith, of Harrisburg, will deliver
the Grafton, We predict happy
time.
Thomas FL. Merry, lecturer Of the
California State Grange of the Pat
rons Of Husbandry, advises the far
mers of Humboldt county to erect a
beet sugar factory, and turn their at
tention to the cultivation OF the sugar
beet.
Several explanations of what
"grange" means are going the rounds
of the press. From one quarter it is
illustrated in the following lines:
"And from the distant grange there comes
The elatter OF the thresher's fail"
From Milon's "Comus."
when for their teeming noclss and oranges
In wanton dance they praise the bounteous
Pan"
From Shakespeare;
81 wifi presently to st. Iuke's, where, in
| me moated grange resides this
Detected Marianne"
But all these have undoubted re-
ference to the genuine article. The
great Manikin poet, however, has
struck the hayseed politicians rela-
tions to Oranges in these lines:
~ man in whose accustomed range
The pasture has grown short,
Seeks then to browse another grange"
1t is fact perhaps not generally
known that farmers of the Roman
Catholic faith cannot join the Patrons
OF Husbandry without violating
principle Of their creed. The Catho-
lie agriculturists of Minnesota being
thus debnrred from taking an active
part in the anti-monopoly war now
raging in the West, and fearful that
their position might be misapprehen-
ded, have lately held meeting in
Qlmstead county, in that State, and
adopted q series q resolutions on the
subject, in which they SET forth the
'eason why they have not become
MEMBERS Of the Order, and express
he warmest sympathy with its fea-
ures except secrecy. Action was !
lso taken for the organization of an
pen society having like purposes in
lew.
Judge Garretson, National Depu- :,
who visited Oregon short time
go, spoke as follows to the Califor- !!
ia State Grange recently: "On 60 :
lg to Oregon he found 20 Sub
ranges ready to organize. They
IKE hold with will--they are bap- /
sed with the spirit of reform. He :
'und, 400 miles in the interior, q :,
rtile belt of country well populated, =
ith every natural facility for home
aking and fortune making, yet in q ;,
ost deplorable condition. The a
olumbia river is their only outlet to >,
o ocean. Its falls had been seized I
ION by n monopoly, the Oregon
cam Navigation Company, and \,
ese farmers there were bottled up /
ID corked in. While the govern !,
ent has been building railroads = =
d princely monopolies, it has neg =
'ted the husbandmen of tho north. !,
icy look to this jurisdiction to help =,
em secure an appropriation to open :,
Q Columbia river and to relieve :;
o Willamette river of the obstruc-
ms to navigation. He thanked the
'ange again for their greeting, and p
gged that while others wero labor w.
in the field he might be permit - -
10 retire to q fence corner" ~ ~