The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1874-03-11
PATRONS OF HUsBANDRY.

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DECLARATION OF PURPOSES BY TIL
NATIONAL GRANGE.
The following Declaration Of Pur
poses, reported by the Committee
on Resolutions, Mr.. Wardlaw o.
Florida, chairman, was unanimously
adopted by the National Grange o.
Patrons of Husbandry at its recent
session in St. Louis:
PREAMBLE.
Profoundly impressed with the
truth that the National Grange of
the United States should definitely
proclaim to the world its general
objects, we hereby unanimously make
this Declaration of Purposes of the
Patrons of Husbandry: 'g asi
GENERAL OBJECTS. @
1. United by the strong and faith
full tie of agriculture, we mutually
resolve to labor for the good of our
Order, our country and mankind.
MOTTO.
2. We heartily indorse the motto :
Sin essentials, Unity in non-essen-
tlais, Liberty in all things, Charity"
SPECIFIC OBJECTS.
s. We shall endeavor to advance
our cause by laboring to accomplish
the following objects:
To develop better and higher
manhood and Womanhood among
ourselves.
To enhance the comforts and at
fractions Of our homes, and strength
en- our attachments to our pursuits.
To foster mutual understanding
and cooperation.
To maintain inviolate our laws,
and to emulate each other in labor
to hasten the good time coming.
To reduce our expenses, both in
diYidual and corporate.
To buy less and produce more, in
order to make our farms seif-sas-
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- TO diversity our crops. and crop
no more than we can cultivate.
To condense the weight of our
selling less in the bushel
and more on hoof and in fleece.
To systematic our work and cal
culate intelligently ON probabilities.
To discountenance the credit svs-
tenn, the mortgage system, the fash
ion system, and every other system
tending to prOdigality and bank
ruptcy. -
We propose meeting together,
talking together, buying together,
selling together. and in general.
acting together for our mutual pro-
lection and advancement, as occasion
may require.
We shall avoid litigation as much
IS possible by arbitration in the.
grange.
We shall constantly strive to Sc
cure entire harmony. good will and
gital brotherhood among ourselves
and to make our order perpetual.
We shall earnestly endeavor to
suppress personal, local, sectional
md national prejudices, all unheal-
ny rivalry, all selfish ambition.
Faithful adherence to these prin-
siples will insure our mental, moral, |
locial and material advancement
BUSINESS RELATIONS.
1. For our business interests, we |
lesire to bring producers and con.
Iumers. farmers and manufacturers,
nte the most direct and friendly re-
atoms possible. Hence We must
dispense with surplus OF. middle
nen- not that We are nnfriendly to
hem, but we do not need them.
Their surplus and their exactions
our profits.
We wage no aggressive warfare
gainst any other interest whatever.
IN the contrary, all our acts and all
'ur efforts, so far as business is
are not only for the bene.
t of the producer and the consumer,
ut also for all other interests that
end to bring these two parties into
peedy and economical contact. /
Lence we hold that transportation
of every kind are neces-
ary to our success. that their inter-
SITS are intimately connected with
ar interests, and harmonious action !
mutually advantageous. Keeping
j view the FIRST sentence in our dec
ration of principles of action that
Individual happiness depends upon
sneral prosperity" we shall. there
re, advocate for every State the
crease in every practicable way, ,
all facilities for transporting
leaply to the seaboard. or between
,me producers and consumers, all !
e productions Of our country. We
lopt it as our fixed purpose to
open ont the channels in natures
eat arteries that the life-blood of
immerce may flow freely 7
We are not enemies of railroads. c
.vigable and irrigating canals, nor 1