The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1874-02-20
NATIONAL GRANGE.
Its Broad Platform OF Principles.
[From the St. Louis Glode.

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The Committee on Resolutions,
through its chairman, Mr.. Wardfaw,
Master of the State Grange of Florida,
submitted the following Declaration OF
Purposes, understood to have been
drafted by Mr.. Wright, Master of the
State Grange of California:
! 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:
GOOD OF THE ORDER.
1. United by the strong and faithful
tie OF agriculture, we mutually resolve
to labor for the good of our Order, our
country and mankind.
9. We heartily indorse the motto
"In essentials, Unity; in non-essentials,
Liberty; in all things, Charity.'
SPECIAL oBJECTs.
3. We shall endeavor to advance our
cause by laboring to accomplish the
following objects:
To develop a better and higher man.
hood and womanhood among our
selves.
To enhance the comforts and attrac-
tions Of our homes, and strengthen our
attachments to our pursuits.
To foster mutual understanding and
corporation.
To maintain inviolate our laws, and
to emulate each other in labor to hasten
the good time coming.
TO reduce our expense, both individ-
ual and corporate.
To buy less and produce more, in or
der to make our farms self-sustaining.
TO diversity our crops, and crop no
more than we can cultivate.
To condense the weight of our ex-
ports, selling less in the bushel and
more on hoof and in fleece.
To systemize our work and calculate
intelligently on probabilities.
To discountenance the credit system,
the mortgage system, the fashion sys-
TEN, and every other system tending to
prodigality and bankruptcy.
We propose meeting together, talk
ing together, selling together, and, in
general, acting together for our mutual
protection and advancement, as occa-
sion may require.
possible by arbitration in the grange.
We shall constantly strive to secure
entire harmony, good will, vital broth
erhood among ourselves, and to make
our order perpetual.
We shall earnestly endeavor to sup
press personal, local, sectional and ma
tional prejudices, all unhealthy rivalry,
all selfish ambition.
Faithful adherence to these principles
will insure our mental, moral, social
and material advancement.
BUSINESS RELATIONS.
4. For our business interests we de-
sire to bring producers and consumers,
farmers and manufacturers, into the
most direct and friendly relations pos
sible. Hence we must dispense with a
surplus of middlemen, not that we are
unfriendly to them, but VIC do not need
them.
Their surplus and their eNactions
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 con-
cerned, are not only for the benefit of
the producer and consumer, but also
for all other interests that tend to bring
these two parties into speedy and eco
nomical contact. Hence we hold that
transportation companies OF every kind
are necessary to our SUCCESS, that their
interests arc intimately connected with
our interests, and harmonious action is
mutually advantageous. keeping in
view the first sentence in our declara-
ton Of principles of action that :Indi-
vidual happiness depends upon general
prosperity we shall, therefore, advo-
cate forevcry State theincrcase, in every
practicable way, of all facilities for
transporting cheaply to the seaboard,
or between home producers and con-
sumers, all the productions of our coun-
try. We adopt it as our fixed purpose
to "opcn out the channels in natures
great arteries that the life-bIood of
commerce may flow freely"
| We are not enemies of railroads, nav
! igable and irrigating canals, nor of any
corporations that will advance our
industrial interests, nor of any laboring
classes.
In our noble Order there is no COM
munism, no agrarianism.
We are opposed to such spirit and
management of any corporation, or
enterprise, as tends to oppress the peo-
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