The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-02-26
THE NATIONAL GRANGE.
Declaration of Principles and
Purposes of the Patrons of
HusDandry.

Purposes of the Patrons of
Husbandry.
ST. Louis, February 1.-THE Ma
tional Grange, to-day, after the trans
action Of some minor business, re-
ceived the report of the Committee
on Resolutions, presented by Mr..
Wardlow, of Florida, and adopted it
unanimously. 1t is as follows:
profoundly impressed with the
truth that the National Grange of
the United States should definitely
proclaim to the world it's general OBJ
jects, we hereby unanimously make
this declaration of the purposes of
the Patrons of Husbandry:
'Tirst-United by the strong and
faithful tie OF agriculture, we mutual
ly resolve to labor for the good of
our order, our country, and mankind.
"Second- We heartily endorse the
motto, In essentials unity; in non
essentials liberty; in all things chari-
ty.'
"Third-We shall endeavor to ad-
vance our cause by laboring to &C
complish the following objects: To
develop better and higher manhood
and womanhood among ourselves; to
enhance the comforts and attractions
of our homes, and strengthen our at
tachments to our pursuits; to foster
mutual understanding and co-opera-
ton; TO maintain inviolate our laws,
and to emulate each other to labor
to hasten the good time coming; to
reduce our expenses, both individual
and corporate; to buy less and pro-
duce more, in order to make our
farms self-sustaining; to diversity
our crops, and crop no more than we
can cultivate; to condense the weight
of our exports, selling less in the
bushel and more on hoof and in
fleece; to systematic our work, and
calculate intelligently on probable
ties: to discountenance the credit
system, the mortgage system, the
fashion system, and every other sys-
tenn tending to profigacy and bank
ruptcy. We propose meeting to-
gether, talking together, working to-
gether, buying together, selling to-
gether, and, in general, acting to-
gether for our mutual protection and
Advancement, as occasion may re-
quire. We shall avoid litigation as
much as possible 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
perpetual, we shall earnestly endeav
or to suppress personal, local, sec
tional and National prejudices, all
unhealthy rivalry, all selfish ambi-
ton. Faithful adherence to these
principles will insure our mental,
moral, social and material advance
ment.
HFourth-For our business inter
est we desire to bring producers and
consumers, and farmers and manu-
facturers, into the most direct and
friendly relations possible. Hence
we must dispense with surplus Of
middle-men; not that we are un-
! friendly to them, but we do not need
them: their salaries and their exac-
tions 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 business is concern
ed, are not only for the benefit OF
producers and consumers, but also
for all other interests that tend to
bring these two parties into speedy
and economical contact. Hence we
hold that transportation companies
of every kind are necessary to our
success; that their interests are init
mately connected with our interests,
and harmonious action is mutually
advantageous, keeping in view the
first sentence in our declaration o.
principles of action, that individual
happiness depends upon genera
prosperity. We shall, therefore, ad
vocate for every State the increase II
every practicable way of all facilities
for transporting cheaply to the sea
board, or between home producers
and consumers, of all productions o
our country. We adopt it as our Tx
ed purpose to open out the channels
in natures great arteries, that th'
life blood of commerce may flow free
ly. We are not enemies of railroads
navigable and irrigating canals, no
of any corporations that viii advanc
our industrial interests, nor OF an.
: laboring classes. In our noble OF
der there is no communism, no agra
rianism. We are opposed to such
spirit and management of any col
: poration or enterprise as tends to OF
e press people and rob them of thei
lust profits. We are not enemies c
capital, but we oppose the tyranny G
monopolies. We long to see antaG
|, : onism between capital and labor r'
: moved by common consent, and b
and enlightened statesmanshl
worthy of the nineteenth centur!
l. We are opposed to excessive sa
) aries, high rates of interest and e.