The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-02-19
NO MONOPOLY.

NO MONOPOLY.
Fourth For our business interests We
desire to bring producers and consumers
farmers and and manufacturers into the
most intimate relations possible. Hence
we must dispense with a surplus of mid
dlemen, not that we are unfriendly tO
them, but we do not need them. Their
surplus and their exactions diminish our
profits. We wage no aggressive warfare
against any other interests whatever. On
the contrary, all our acts and all our eff
forts, so far as business is concerned, are
not only for the benefit Of producers, but
also for all other interests that try to bring
those two parties into speedy aud econom-
zeal contact. Hence we hold that transpor.
tation companies of every kind are neees-
sary to our success; that their interests
are intimately connected with our inter
ests. and that harmonious action is matu-
ally advantageous Keeping in view the
first sentence in our declaration Of princi-
pies of action, that individual happiness
depends upon the general prosperity,
we shall therefore advocate for every State
the increase in every practicable way of
all facilities for transportin cheaply to
and consumers, all the productions of our
country. We adopt it as our fixed pur-
pose to open out the channels in Natures
great arteries, that the life-blood of COM
merce may flow freely. We are not enc
mics ofraiIroads, navigable and irrigating
canals, nor of any corporation that will
advance our industrial interests, nor of
any laboring classes in our noble Order,
there is no communism, no agrarianism.
We are opposed to such spirit and man
agement Of any corporation or enterprise
as tend to Cypress people and rob them
of their Just profits. We are not enemies
to capital, but we oppose tyranny of mo
nopolies. We long to see the antag0nis IA
between capital and labor removed by
common consent, and by an enlightened
craftsmanship worthy of the nineteenth
century. We are opposed to excessive
salaries, high rates of interest, and exhor-
bitant percent. profits in trade. They
greatly increase our burdens, and do not
bear proportion to the profits of the pro-
ducers. We desire only self protection
and the protection of every true interest
of our land by legitimate trade, and legit.
innate profts1 We shall advance the
cause of education among ourselves and
for our children by all just means within
our power. We especially advocate fol
our agricultural and industrial colleges
that practical agriculture, domestic
science, and all the arts which adorn the
home, be taught in their course of study.
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Efh-We emphaticalIy and sincerely
assert the oft repeated truth taughtin our
organic law, that the Grange, National
State, or subordinate,-is not politica
marty organization. No Grange, il true
10 its obligations, can discuss political OF
religious questions, nor call political con
venfions, nor nominate candidates, MOI
even discuss their merits in it's meetings
vet the principles we teach underlie al
| true politics, all true statesmanship. and
III properly carried ont, win tend TO puri
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