The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1874-10-22
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ABROAD.

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alton is divided into four departments of
Law, Education, Health, and Economy
and Trade. The session lasted eight
days. The inaugural address was de-
livered by the President, Lord Rosen-
berry, young Scotch Lord of q, with
liberal and expanded views.
He pronounced squarely for compul-
sorry education. Among the upper
classes, he afiirms-and the point is clev-
erly put-compulsion already exists,
more stringent than any legislature can
frame. The compulsion is moral, and
the penalty on the disObedient is extinc-
tion. But to all classes alike he would
apply a law which would secure them
the blessings of education. In addition
to good general education he would in
sist on, first, general instruction in econ
omical principles, on which he counts to
put an end, among other evils, to strikes,
which workingmen would then discover
10 be an unscientifo method of arranging
their relations with employers. Strikes
are rare in Germany, he urges, where ed
ucation is general-in Wurtemberg, for
instance, where everybody over 10 can
read and write, absolutely unknown,
while the worst strikes have occurred in
Belgium and France, where 80 per cent.
of the population can neither read nor
write; second, the state must supply
sound technical education, such as shall
fit producers for production and distrib-
utors for distribution The want of this
menaces the manufacturing pre-emin-
ence of England.
This TRUTH like all truths, is not new;
the alarm-bell has been ringing for years.
Prof Tyndall in 1867 said, 81 have long
entertained the opinion that in virture
of the better education provided by Con-
tinental nations, England must one day,
and that at no distant one, find herself
outstripped by those nations both in the
acts of peace and war" We are living
now riotously and recklessly; we are con-
suming far more coal than we need; we
are spending selfshly the rightful heri-
tage of our posterity. Instead of this,
our anxiety should be to husband our
powers and to educate our people, for.
we have no new dominions to explore
our island is no more capable Of expan-
sion than quarterback. We should
look the future boldly in the face.
He urges cheap and good dwellings for
the laboring poor and advocates their
improvement and elevation.
Returning, however, to the artisan
class, Lord Rosenberg calls on them to
do their proper part in elevating them
selves by applying the principle of
union, which he declares to be the great
watchword of our age. For his main
illustration of its advantages he
turns, as often elsewhere in his address,
TO the United States, and you will, dare
say, be interested in the picture drawn
by foreign hand of certain freshly
organized American institutions:
Nowhere has the multiplication of
unions been more extraordinary
than in the United States. The very
names of some of them are quaint
enough-the Advocates of Justice, the
Knights of Honor, the Sons of Toll, the
Brethren of Labor, the Sovereigns of In
dustry. But incomparably above these
there towers the gigantic association of
the Patrons of Husbandry, commonly
called the Grange a great agricultural,
cooperative, Independent union. Its
progress has been amazing, Its first
Grange or Lodge was formed in the last
month of 1867; there are at this moment
10000, with 1871 ,226 members. At the
end of the year it is certain that they
will have 10000, with 100000 members.
The order is practically identical with
the agricultural population of six states,
and with two-thirds of the farmers in
ten others. In Missouri alone there are
said to be $50 Oranges; they are max
ing way in Canada. Pennsylvania began
the year with six lodges, and at this mo
ment she has 800. Why this enormous
increaseP The answer is simple, for it is
alleged that membership adds 30 per
cent. to the income of the Grangers.
The Californian Grangers have their
own feet, and ship their corn direct to
Liverpool, by which they saved $2,OOO,-
900 in freights in the year 1878. Their
vessels bring, as return cargoes, tea, cof- |
fee, sugar, silk, and other commodities,
which are retailed to members at cost |
price; and system is being organized
by which their ships shall return with
loads of every foreign article which the
members may need. They are thus an |
independent mercantile nation. But
they are more. They have social, reli-
gious, and political, as well as a cooper
alive aspect. They have a secret pass
word, Senewed annually, Grange banks,
Grange pillow manufactures, Grange gro
cery stores, besides Grange poems and
Grange burial services. They declare
that they are going to labor for the good
of all mankind, of which they intend to
raise the standard. They mean to Sc
cure obedience to the laws and general
brotherhood and on the other hand to
suppress fashion, bribery, and selfish am
bition. Their very success has made
them run into extravaganza, but that
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