The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-01-22
THE CHANGERS.

Withdrawal cards in Iowa are valid
for only six months.
The State Grange of Colorado viii
meet at Denver, Tuesday, January Ii.
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 !;
the secretary then passes the box, col
lects and reads them, and the members
of the grange who wish to do SO give
their views upon the questions read.
II. ". Lewis, W. NJ, of Louisiana
state grange, In a 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 one of the ne
cessities of the times.
Speaking of the grange, a young man
remarked IN our 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 IL to be a good
institution for a 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 well, and might be
useful as q citizen if he could only take
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 ap-
parent to observing minds that whatever
operates 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 be i'm
mediateIy benefited by it. Such a per-
son, until he can take a more enlarged
view of things, would be of no use In
the grange; neither would he be 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 dlffu-
sion and exercise of good healthful pub
lie spirit among them.-DiTigO R1trGL.
The special committee on business
matters at the recent meeting at 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-
Gle q sufficient per cent. to defray the
necessary 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 iu
risprudence, and the social and the edu-
cational feature of the organization,
making it self-sustaining, and not tax
upon the members of the order, as q
body, but providing for the tax to fall,
where In justice and equity it should,
upon the party receiving the benefit,
and preventing the injustice of taxing
one for the benefit of another, and plac-
ing us upon footing to successfully
compete with organized opposition.
At the meeting of the Minnesota state
grange, at Mankato, lately adjourned,
there were over 400 delegates. One
hundred and forty-two subordinate
oranges were organized during the past
fiscal year. Master ParsOn states that
the experiment of cooperation in buy
ing has proved successful. Efforts,
however, to relieve farmers from the
cost of supporting middlemen, in sell
ing, have so far failed. The only end
gained by the railway Law suit of last
winter is, that nothing more is heard of
chartered rights above legislative power.
The failure of the law is not in itself,
but in its execution. Designed to re-
lieve farmers from unjust burdens, it
has been turned against them, and made
source of greater oppression than
before. The farmers had no represen-
fation on the board of railway commits
sioners. This looked to him like a
wanton disregard of their interests. He
looked to competition in transportation
as the source of relief would make nav
igable all possible water-routes between
the east and west, and remove every
obstacle from the Mississippi. He
specially advocated the Fox and Wis
consin improvement, and recommended
a memorial to congress for appropria-
tions for the completion of that and
other water-routes. He recommended
co operation in the building of store
houses and the establishment of
school for orphans of deceased mem
bers. Samuel Adams was elected mas
ter for the ensuing year; Lysander
Cook, overseer George I Parsons,
lecturer, and 7. T. Smith, secretary.
The next annual meeting will be held
at Minneapolis Western Rural.