The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-02-19
COLUMBIA, S. G.
Thursday Morning, February 10, 1874,
The Platform G. the Grange.


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Tho FlAaFoFm es .he Grange.
TIE declaration ef principles by the
National Grange, adopted unanimously
at its recent meeting at st. Louis, is q
document which contains many we'll
expressed truths. all convergiug tow ards
friendly and profitable cooperation on
the part of the patrons in work, talk.
purchase and sale. While all are
good, we notice one or two of the pur.
poses expressed in this document as
more especially applicable to the cotton
producing South: ''To diversity our
crops, and crop no more than we can
cultivate. TO condense the weight Of
our EXPORTS" &c.. Sc. The profits Of
our agricultural system would be greatly
enhanced by the adoption of this rule.
If aimed directly at its faults, it could
not hit the naiYon the head more truly.
We shall never be prosperous until this
advice is, practically carried out. And
when -%e ooudense the weight of onr
exports, by exporting the manufactured
articles of cotton, we add to it's value
both by decrease of expensive and use
less weight. und by giving it such shape
as will bring nearly double the prico Of
the raw staple. 1t will be the golden
age OF prosperity in the South whom We
raise our own supplies, diversity our
crops, diminish the cost OF transpol to
tion by manufacture. which will give at
!aae same time the incstimAble advantage
of employ ments to labor otherwise IN
employed, and a marvellous cuhunce-
ment to the raw material.
The grange enunciutes wholesome
principle in declaring that it is not con-
stitated for party or political ends. This
general statement is we'll qualified by
the specification which follows, that its
principles uni!ezlio all true politics aud
all true statesmanship, aud if properly
carried ont, will tcnd to purify the poll
tical atmosphere Of the whole country.
Members Of the grange rccog nize party
%So''y. Lively Poioh 10 CApcClcu "
stand by his country's best interest, and
that he will seek in the party to which
he may belong. by notwithstanding iu
it bribery, corruption and treachery,
aud by seeking to exalt to official and
responsible positions only those who are
competent, faithful and honest men, aud
those who recognize peculiar obliga.
lions, to sustain the industrial interests.
Again, the grange essays not tue i'm
practicable role Of dispensing with mid
dle-men, but only the surplus OF mid
dlemen, who diminish legitimate profits
by extravagant exactiCn' So, with re.
gard TO transportation, the grange an
nounces its policy to be to cheapen it in
every practicable way i'll restricting rail
roads. canals and corporations to legiti.
mate profits and efficient service.
The feature of relief to members of
the orota~.s.cc:c go ="hc -2- he IN enff,r-
ing or want, rehects generous aud
manly spirit. The sense Of appreciation
OF the worth of woman, rs expressed in
the platform. and in the part to which
che is admitted in tho councils and mem.
bership OF the order, is in beautiful har-
mony with tho whole system, which
strikes. after cursory examination, as
philosophical and practical at the saroe
time. and throughout abundantly hu.
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