The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-04-27

Master Wright, Of California, f1Aa ahfT 81
the Declaration Of Purposes Of the Ma
tional Grange" and Worthy Lecturer
Thompson, we're entertained, yesterday.
at the Knickerbooker Grange, No. 154,
Patrons of Husbandry. Among the en-,
tertainers were Worthy Master Moore.
editor of the Rural Ne,o l,orler, Post
Masters Well and Munday, Overseer
Wilson, Secretary Naughton, Prof. Hal
leck, Brother G. Edwards Lester, author
of .The Glory and Shame of England, s"
and Sisters Halleck, Naughton and Bene-
dict. Grand Lecturer Thompson said:
IL see before me brother and sis
ter-Professor and Mrs. Halleck-who
became Grangers Mt the same time that
did, in 1866, when there were only
twenty Oranges in the United States,
and connection with the infant order
was almost disgmceful. American farm
ers, until recently, have ignored the
principle that is moving the world-the
principle Of association. Their indi-
naturalization was the cause of their sub
lection to almost every other interest.
Six years ago. no manufacturers dealt
with US directly; no elevators or ware
houses were owned by us, and no banks
or insurance companies were controlled
BY us. Now, in one State alone, there are
thirty-eight fire insurance companies:
and more than half Of the elevators and
warehouses in Iowa and Wisconsin are
under our control.
Furthermore we have agents in
every section of the country to whom we
ship our products, and from whom we
receive prices forty or fifty per cent
higher than those we used to get from
local buyers. In consequence Of the
fnirness of our treatment by these agents,
who are bound by the ties of brother
hood and hesvy money bonds. tho Pa
irons of Husbandry saved SIS, 600, 600 in
1873; $l2,O0O,OO in 1874; and, accord
ing to present indications, will save ut
least $40, 100000 in 1875, Six years ago
there were ten Oranges; the next year
there were thirty-eight; the next thirty
nine; the next 10, 900; the next 90, ,OO0
Now there are fifteen Oranges joining
our ranks daily, and we number 1,5OO,-
0oO. Our experience is pointed proof
that women are worthy members Of every
union. We haye4O0, 900 of them among
US, and we ought to be qualified to give
an opinion of this kind"
Past Master Wright said: 81 heartily
endorse what our Worthy Lecturer has
said. The Grunge movement began in
complished some important results in
behalf Of agriculture. Our State Grange
was formed when there were only 4,5OO
subordinate Gnnges in the whole coun-
try. We now have 243 subordinate
Oranges. with q membership of 20, ,OOO
We have saved between 1000, 900 and
S5, ,0oO. 600. The Changes have also
brought neighbors together, who, al
though living only . few miles apart,
were almost strangers. We have the
'Grangers' Bank of California with n
crpital of $5, OOO, 600, which is doing good
service; and the Farmers Fire Insurance
Company, which insures our property
ut one-third of the former rates. We are
completing business association on n
basis of 100000. We do not expect
these corporations to manage all our af-
fairs, but merely to establish healthy
competition. We have done much to
re-unite the sections sundered by the
war. "-Ns,o York Sun, 21st.