The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-03-07
MISCELLANY.
PATRONS OF HUsBANDRY.

PAIKUNS UE HUSBANDRls
tiOnal Grange---MeInorial to the Cot
tom States.
The following Declaration of Purposes.
reported by the Committee on Resolutions.
Mr., Wardlaw of Florida, chairman, was
unanimously adopted by the National
Grange pf Patrons of Husbandry at IFS re-
cent session i'll 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:
GENERAL OBJECTS.
1. United by the strong and faithful tie of
Agriculture, we mutually resolve to labor for
the goodjof our Order, our country and man
kind.
MOTTO.
9. We heartily indorse the motto: g In
essentials, Unity; in non-essentials, Liberty;
in all things. Charity
SPECIFIC OBJECTS.
3. We shall endeavor to advance our cause
by laborfng to accomplish the following OBJ
jects:
To develop better and higher manhood
and woIfanhood among ourselves.
To enhance the comforts and attractions of
our homes, and strengthen our attachments
TO our pursuits.
To foster mutual understanding and coop
Grafton.
To maintain inviolate our laws, and to en-
ulate each other in labor to hasten the good
time coming.
To reduce our expenses, both individual
and corporate.
Tobuy less and produce more, in order to
make ouf farms self-sustaining.
To diversity our crops, and crop no more
than we can cultivate
To conlense the weight of our exports, sell
ling less in the bushel and more on hoof and
in feece.4
To systematize our work and calculate in
telligentHy on probabilities.
To discountenance the credit system, the
mortgage system, the fashion system, and
every other system tending to prodlSality and
bankruptcy.
We propose meeting together, talking to-
gether, buying together, selling together, and, ,
in general, acting together for our mutual
protection and advancement, as occasion may
require. -
We shall avoid litigation as much as possi-
BILE by arbitration in the grange.
We shall constantly strive TO secure entire
harmony, good will and vital brotherhood
among ourselves, and TO make our order per-
petual.
We shall earnestly endeavor to suppress
personal. local, sectional and national pre-
judices, all unhealthy rivalry, all selfish am
bition. .4.s
Faithful adherence to these principles will
insure our mental, moral, social and material
advancement
BUSINESS RELATIONS. t
4. For our business interests, we desire to
bring pr}dueers and consumers, farmers and
manufacturers, into the most direct and
friendly relations possible. Hence we must
dispense with surplus of mediterranean
that we are unfriendly to them, but we do not
need them.
Their surplus and their exaetions diminish
our profits.
We wage no aggressive warfare against any
other interests whatever. On the contrary.
all our acts and all our efforts, so far as busl-
ness is concerned, are not only for the beneht
of the producer and the consumer, but also
for all other interests that tend to bring these
two parties into speedy and economical con-
tact. Hence we hold that transportation COM
panies of every kind are necessary to our sue
cess, thai their interests are intimately con-
nected with our interests, and harmonious ac-
ton is mutually advantageous. Keeping in
view the first sentence in our declaration OF
principles of action that " Individual happ1-
ness depends upon general prosperity" we
shall, therefore, advocate for every State the
increase in every practicable way, of all
facilities for transporting cheaply to the sea-
board, or between home-pFoducers and con-
sumers, all the productions of our country.
We adort it as our fixed purpose to "open
out the channels IN natures great arteries
that the Hfe-blood Of commerce may now
freely"
We arg not enemies of railroads, navigable
and irrigating canals, nor of any corporations
that viii; advance our industrial interests, nor
of any laboring classes.
In eur noble Order there is no communism,
no agrarianism. ss f
We are opposed to such spirit and manage
ment of any corporation, or enterprise, as
tends to pppress the people and rob them of
their just profits.
We are not enemies to capital, but we OPP
pose the4tyranny of monopolies.
We lons to see the antagonism between
capital and labor removed by common con-
sent, and by an enlightened craftsmanship,
worthy Of the nineteenth century,
We are opposed to excessive salaries, high
rates of interest and exorbitant per cent.
profits in trade. They greatly increase our
burdens and do not bear a proper proportion
to the profits of producers.
We desire only self-protection and the pro-
lection Of every true interest of our land by
legitimate transactions, legitimate trade and
legitimate profits.
EDUCATION.
We shall advance the cause of education
among ourselves and fer our children, by all
just means within our power. We especially