Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-12-02

The total number of Oranges in
existence in 1874, was 2l,l83.
The receipts of the National
Grange for 1874 were S929,533, and
the expenditures $l8O,885. 1t is
estimated that the Changers have
$l8,00O,O00 cash capital invested in
their verious enterprises, which, in
clude railroad and steamboat lines,
banks, fire and life Insurance COM
panies, coiton-gins and mills, packing
houses, Touring mills, elevators, gran
warehouses, machinery manufactures,
shipping associations, founderies, tan
neries, cheese factories, etc.
The Commercial correspondent says:
among the rank and file powerful
reform movement has been initiated,
whose objects are as follows: Linn
Itation of the power of the higher
Oranges reduction of dues and fees,
and the return to members of all gen.
erous SURPRISES; abolition of the high
er degrees, o. their throwing open to
all members; simplitication of the
ritual. There are some men in the
Order, like the Grand Master,
Adams, and Master Allen, Of Mis-
souri,, who desire to make the most
of their class privileges, and to coerce
into silence and submission all people
and papers that DO not think and say
precisely what they wish. They have
set themselves against the people, and
will be smashed The Order is anti
hmoticau Ill constitution. Thus the
National Grange was first made up of
some government Jerks at Washing
same little ring kept itself in the
place to which it had elected itself.
fhe last dodge was, when too many
elective and representative members
began to get into the National Grange,
to create Senate Seventh Degree
Of Ceres. Thus, when member
Of the ring was repudiated and
retired from tie National Grange, in
stead of stepping down and out he
stepped up and in, becoming a MEM
Der OF the Senate, without whose APP
proyal the action of the National
Grange was void This was coming
it little too strong even for the sim
PIE, and long suffering American farm
Il. and now the Reformers insist that
AL degrees above the furth (the equiv
alent of Master Mason be abolished.
Or thrown opon, so that any member
Of the Order will be eligible to any
Office and can attend any of its de-
alterations. This they will surely
carry. Last year the State Grange
almost unanimously rejected very
cheeky amendment proposing to make
certain founders members Of the Ma
tional Grange for life and so strong
is the feeling that Master Allen, of
Missouri, tue hottest advocate of
Granger aristocracy, has been instruc-
ted by his Grange to vote for Grange
reform. The dues and fees will also
be reduced, and the surplus returned,
So that the National GHhge will have
no dangerous funds on hand. No
smplification of the ritual is expected
at present, but ultimately there will
be but one degree in the Order, the
feature of secrecy-which shuts out
the Catholics, Baptists and Quakers,
aud all who are conscientiously CD
posed to membership in a secret
society-removed, and the Grange
practically resolved into a series Of
independent country cooperative
CARNATIONS, having a State Grange
merely for consultation and uniformi-
ty, and National Grange wholly in
expensive, and limited in its functions
to being mere bureau of record.
Indeed, plans for independent and
simplitied Oranges have already been
made public in Michigan"