The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-03-21
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National Grange Of the Patrons Of Hus.
bandry.
DECLARATION OF PURPOSES.
A meeting of the MARYLAND State
Grange Patrons of Husbandry was
held in Baltimore last week. Repre-
sentatives from 81 Subordinate Oranges
were present. This county was repre-
scented by j. H. Baldcrston, of Advance,
No. J., and A. H. Bristoe, of Cecil, No.
3. Other members were also in attend
ance.
Jos H. Balderston was commission
ed as Deputy to organize Oranges in
this county, from whom any further in
formation can be obtained His adj
dress is Colora.
The following is the platform of the
Order, laid down at the National
Grange meeting at St. Louis recently:
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 Husband
ry:
GENERAL OBJECTS.
l. United by the strong and faithful
tie of Agriculture, we mutually resolve
to labor for the good of our order, our
country and mankind
2. We heartily endorse the motto
" In essentials, unity; in non-essentials,
liberty in all things, charity"
SPECIFIC OBJECTS.
8. 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 ourselves.
To enhance the comforts and attrac-
tions of our homes and strengthen our
attachments to our pursuits. To foster
mutual understanding and cooperation.
To maintain inviolate our laws, and to
emulate each other in labor to hasten
the good time coming. To reduce our
expenses, both individual and corpor-
ate To buy less and produce more,
in order to make our farms selfsustain-
ing. 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
probabilities To discountenance the
credit system, the mortgage system, the
fashion system, and every other system
tending to prodigality and bankruptcy.
We propose meeting together talk
ing together, working together, buying
together, selling together, and in gen.
eral acting together for our mutual pro-
lection and advancement, as occasion
may require. We shall avoid litigation
as much as possible by arbitration
in the grange. We shall constantly
strive to secure entire harmony, good
will, vital brotherhood among ourselves,
and to make our order perpetual. We
shall earnestly endeavor to suppress
personal, local, sectional and national
prejudices, all unhealthy rivalry, all
selfish ambition Faithful adherence to
these principles will insure our mental
moral, social and material advance
ment
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 posi-
bic. Hence we must dispense with a
surplus of middlemen, not that we are
unfriendly to them, but we do not need
them. Their surplus and their eXacta-
tons diminish our profits.
We wage no aggressive warfare
against any other interest whatever.
On the contrary, all our acts, and all
our efforts, so far as business is concern
cd, 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 economical
contact. Hence we hold that transport
tation companies of every kind are ne
cessary to our success, that their inter-
ests are intimately connected with our
interests, and harmonious action is mu-
tually advantageous, keeping in view
the first sentence in our declaration of
principles of action that Individual
happiness depends upon general pros
perity.'
We SHALL therefore, advocate for
every State the increase in every prac-
ticable way, of all facilities for trans
porting cheaplv to the seaboard, or be-
tween home producers and consumers,
all the productions of our country.
We adopt it as our fixed purpose to
"open out the channels in natures
great arteries that the life blood of COM
merce may flow freely
We are not enemies of railroads,
navigable and irrigating canals, nor of
any corporation that will advance our
industrial interests, nor Of any labor
ing classes.
In our noble order there is DO COM
munism, no agrarianism.
We are opposed to such spirit and
management of any corporation or en-
terprise as tends to Cypress the people
and rob them of their just profits. We
are not enemies to capital, but we OPP
pose the tyranny of monopoles. We
long to see the antagonism between
capital and labor removed by common
consent, and by an enlightened state
manship worthy of the nineteenth cen
fury. We are opposed to excessive
salaries, high rates of interest, and ex-
orbitant per cent profits in trade. They
greatly increase our burdens, and do
not bear proper proportion to the
profits of producers. We desire only
self.protection, and the protection of
every true interest of our land by legi-
innate transactions, Legitimate trade,
and legitimate profits.
EDUCATION.
We shall advance the cause of edu-
cation among ourselves and for our