The Grange advance., 1874-11-18


and kind feeling betaceen the North and South.
opening Lessons for the Iowa Grange
School.
The Grang, has often been called a
school for grown people, but it has been
left for the Iowa State Grange to seize
the idea and make it a reality. Under
the above heading the able Secretary of
the Iowa State Grange, in the Patrons
Helper, says:
The executive committee of the State
Grange, having under consideration the all
important work of the education of our
people, desire to inaugurate system of in
struction in all our Oranges. They have,
therefore, proposed and arranged in order,
three general questions, with such divisions
as seem natural and proper.
| The committee recommends that in all Of
our Oranges these questions be carefully
considered and fully discussed, and that the
discussion be conducted in such manner as
not only to interest, but to instruct as well,
and that each member be induced, if posi-
BILE, to take part in the discussion. Let
those who may hesitate to give their views
Of the question in the form Of speech, do
so by written essay, thereby calling out,
utilizing and augmenting the latent talent
Of our people. The questions are arrang-
ed and presented with the recommendation
that, at the meetings of the Grange in No.
vember, the first question be considered.
For the month Of December, use the second
question in like manner, and for January
the third.
! Let it be understood, also, that the school
Of each Grange will be open for earnest and
telling work on the first day Of November
next. ~:
MAIN QUESTION, for November, l874:-
Is cooperation in business desirable?
Sub. Questions IL. Can it be made avail
able among the producing classes in manu.
featuring, transportation, insurance and
mercantile business?
2. What are the best practical meth
ods?
! MAIN QUESTION, for December, l874:-
What benefits have been secured to the pro-
ducing classes through the organization of
the Orders Of Patrons Of Husbandry?
Sub-Questions IL. What benefits in the
matter Of social culture and enjoyment?
| 2. What benefits in the matter of inan-
cial and material advancement.
8. What benefits in the matter of such
education as relates to methods Of farm
practice?
4. WHAT benefits in the matter Of such
education as relates to public affairs, to
knowledge Of finance and to the increased
influence Of farmers as class?
5. What benefits in the matter of gener-
al welfare?
MAIN QUESTION, for January, 1s75:-Is
the control Of railways and other transport
tation companies by law correct in princi-
pie?
Sub b-Questions IL. Is there any class of
citizens or any interest which is above the
law?
2. Has the large amount of aid, given
to the railways by the State, and by the
people thereof, been used to carry out the
purposes for which the same was intended
Why cannot the same questions be
taken up and discussed by the Patrons
Of Minnesota Following these ques.
tions, as preparatory to the work of an
other year, might follow regular series
ofquestions on subjects relating to farm
work. We believe that the discus
sion of such questions would lead to
cooperation between the farmers on
one side and, the mechanics on the 9TH
er to build up home manufactures, and
thus to solve at once the difficult ques-
ton Of transportation by bringing the
consumers aud producers to be next
door neig
If our people in the West would talk
more on such subjects, and put their
capital and their wits together to build
industries at home, that will add to the
wealth Of the State, give employment to
more people, and run less after visionary
political hacks, who are just going to
make everybody wealthy by some legis-
lative enactment, all would be better off.
These cooperative home industries
cannot do otherwise than add to the
wealth of the farmers in whose near
vicinity they are located, and they can
be regulated by the giving or withhold
ing patronage. .=r.4.> ....
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