The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-03-12
OHIO STATE GRANGE.
Platform of Primciples-ResO-
IuliOms Endorsing the WO-
mans Temperance Move.

ordinate oranges OF tne dlIIerenl
counties of the State, met in Xenia
week before last. The number ol
members in attendance WAS large,
and the meeting full of interest and
profit to the organization. We have
only room for the following declara-
ton of principles as presented by the
committee on resolutions:
"We, the Patrons of Husbandry,
in State Grange assembled, feelit our
duty to make a clear statement of
the principles that govern our ac-
ton.
Therefore, we de .lare that we are
bound together first, by the senti-
ment of brotherly love. Second, a
common interest in the prosperity Of
our agricultural pursuits. Third, by
the need of social reform, based up
on our rights as citizens of this great
republic, that we may enjoy all the
good designed by the fathers of a
liberal government, giving the larg
est liberty to the individual and citi-
zen generally. Under this rule we
believe that liberty is law, liberty is
truth, liberty is reason; that these
constitute the attributes of justice,
which shall be our motto. That JUS
tice is what we need and justice is
what we demand And while we
shall diligently search for it for our
benefit, we shall be equally careful to
extend it to others.
with justice inscribed upon our
banner, as our guide to social re
form, we shall claim, first, our social
rights as citizens; second, fair com
pensation for our labor in the field
and farm, through its products IN
the markets of the world; thirdly,
less hours of labor, that we may cul-
tivate our mental and moral faculties,
and recuperate the physical, SO as to
endure without injury the necessary
strain upon us in performing the
duties incumbent for our support.
Fourthly, as nature has in store
abundance for all, to satisfy the ear,
the taste, and the eye, we shall claim
full share for our enjoyment-from
the birds that sing, the flowers that
bloom, and all the luxuries that ma
ture can give. On account of GER
tain evils that now exist, we have
been excluded from the enjoyment of
these comforts by excessive labor,
that has been demanded of us to
meet our wants and necessities. All
of which evils may be classed under
the head of accumulated capital, on
the one side, drawing enormous in
terest in the shape of dividends on
stocks and bonds secured in multi
tudinous forms by shrewd and grasp
ing parties, for the purpose of feec.
ing us. They have had the privilege
of calculating the cost of first in
vestments, and then piling upon it
any amount that they might desire,
under the guise of chartered rights.
The extended patent right of which
is not the least.
"From these chartered rights have
grown frauds that threaten to sap
the foundation of our government.
Thus agents infest the legislative
halls with power in their hands, in
the shape of temptations more forci
BILE than the oath of Office, or the law
of the land. All of which is a gross
wrong, against which we protest, and
intend to use our moral force to for
bid.
"We demand that railroad and
other corporations shall not receive
on the capital invested more than a
just and lawful interest, and to secure
this that they shall charge only a just
and equitable rate for transportation
and travel.
"We demand that the fraud in the
extension of patent rights shall cease.
1--WE demand that the compensation
of officers of government-the men
who are sent to represent us-shall cor
respond to the compensation of the
labor in the field, the shop, and all
departments of trade. That while we
recognize their true value, we are un-
willing to support extravaganza in
any shape, and shall resist it with all
the moral force and frmness of our
nature, relying upon that grand mot
to of equal and exact justice to all:
therefore.
''ResoIoed, That we indorse the
principles as set forth at the late
meeting of the National Grange, as
follows:
Published in the News of Feb.
26. Ed
"Whereas, There seems to be no
one held personally responsible for
the good management of our common
schools-the foundation stone of our
educational system--and
"Whereas, The County School
Examiners have no power over the
welfare of our common schools except
to pass upon the qualifications of
teachers, therefore be it
EsResoIced, That in our opinion the
law should be so amended as to pro
vide for the election of competent
County School Superintendents,
whose duty it shall be to pass upon