The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-01-21
THE CHANGERS.

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Withdrawal cards in Iowa are valid
for only six months.
The State Grange Of Colorado viii,
meet at Denver, Tuesday, January H.
Baraboo Grange, Wisconsin, has ar
ranged for weekly debates during the
} winter.
In some OF the oranges q "query
box" has been introduced. Important
questions are written on slips Of paper
tho secretary then passes the box, col
lects and reads them, and the members
of the grange who wish to do 30 give
their views upon the questions read.
H.. W. Lewis, W. NJ, Of Louisiana
state grange, in Il recent address, said
The state grange would greatly benefit
the educational interest OF our sons, by
giving attention to the donation OF lands
which was voted by congress to Louis
lana in 1862, for the purpose OF estab.
fishing an industrial and agricultural
school. We should demand that the
school be established at once, that our
sons may receive a literary and practi
cal education as farmers. This school,
where physical training will keep pace
with mental culture, is n OF the ne.
c~essities Of The times.
Speaking of the grange, q young man
remarked in u hearing, the other day,
that he didn't see how he could be bene-
fitted by joining it; he had no groceries
to buy, and was at no loss for social
privileges he believed it to be q good
institution for q certain class of farmers,
who could there receive advantages that
they otherwise could not have. Now
the gentleman is we'll educated, and
doubtless means we'll, and might be
useful rs n citizen if he could only take
q broader view of his duties as such.
This, however, is but another exhibition
of sbOrt.sightedness and general defect
of character, caused by the training
which farmer boys receive. His lot is
cast among farmers, and it is very APP
parent to observing minds that whatever
operate, for the good of that community
may benefit each individual /; yet he
clings to the old policy of doing nothing,
and Of embracing no movement unless
he can plainly see that he is to DO i'm
mediately benefited by it. Such a per-
SOD, until he can take a more enlarged
view Of things, would be of no use in
the grange; neither would he BIZ at
home there. Association and co opera
ton must henceforward be the rule of
farmers and laboring men, and the per-
feet practice of these requires the diffu.
sion and exercise of good healthful pub
lie spirit among them. -Dirigo Rural
The special committee on business
matters at the recent meetingat the Ohio
state grange made an excellent report, of
which what follows is part "Your COM
mittee unanimously agree that the solu-
ton of the question of funds, and the es-
tablishment of depots of supplies and
thus extending the business benefits of
the order, rests in the uniform organi-
cation of local stock companies at all
business centers where they can be
thus established and maintained. and
with the object in view OF having in
the reach of every patron a thorough
ly equipped agricultural implement
store, and to deal in salt, nails, fencing
and such other commodities as may be
deemed advisable from time to time, in
all cases adding to the price of the arti-
ole q sufficient per cent. to defray the
expense of the labor and cap
ital employed, thus making the bust
ness feature of our order, measurably
distinct and separate (though controlled
only by patrons) from questions of ju-
.risprudence, and the social and the edu-
feature of the organization,
it self-sustaining, and not a tax
lpon the members of the order, as a
body, but providing for the tax to fall,
where in justice and equity it should,
lpon the party receiving the benefit,
md preventing the injustice of taxing
me for the benefit of another, and plac-
ng us upon a footing to successfully
compete with organized opposition.
At the meeting of the Minnesota state
range, at Mankato, lately adjourned,
here were over 400 delegates. One
Hundred and forty-two subordinate
ranges were organized during the past
seal year. Master Parson states that
be experiment Of cooperation in buy
has proved successful. Efforts,
owever, to relieve farmers from the
ost of supporting middlemen, in sell.
ng, have SO far failed. The only end
aimed by the railway law suit Of last
inter is, that nothing more is heard of
hartered rights above Legislative power.
he failure of the law is not in itself,
mt in it's execution. Designed to re-
ieve farmers from unjust burdens, it
been turned against them, and made
source Of greater oppression than
efore. The farmers had no represen-
alton on the board of railway commits
This looked to him like a
'anton disregard of their interests. He
ooked to competition in transportation
s the sourceo of relief would make nav
gable all possible water-routes between
he east and west, and remove every
bstacle from the Mississippi. He
p~ecially advocated the Fox and Wis.
onsin improvement, and recommended
memorial to congress for appropria-
ions for the completion Of that and s
Their water-routes. He recommended
o operation in the building of store
ouses and the establishment of q
chool for orphans of deceased mem :
ers. Samuel Adams was elected mas
for the ensuing year: Lysander
ook, overseer George I Parsons,
and I. T. Smith, secretary.
he next annual meeting will be held ,
Minneapolis. - Western Rural. a