The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-04-05

the township of Vasa, and that its
experience proved that insurance
could be thus securely effected at a
cost Of about 60 cents for each ST.
600 insured, or even less; and that,
by this plan, the sending of money
to pay for insurance out Of the
country was avoided. 1922 ;.
After, some discussion on motion
Of Bro. Herbert, Bros. J. B. Smith,
A. A. Burkhardt andJ. A. Anderson
were appointed a committee to pre-
pare a plan for organizing such
associations, to report to the next
meeting. a:5 .s1 "
Bro. Herbert moved that the Pa
irons of this county shall have a
Centennial Fourth of July celebra-
ton.
The motion was carried and Bros.
Kruger, Sargent, Herbert, Bunch
and Simmons were appointed a CON-
mittee, to cooperate with a CON-
mittee of one from each subordinate
grange, to select a place and plan
for such celebration. and the dele
gates present were requested to lay
the matter before their respective
oranges.
The time having arrived Bro.
Young was called upon for his ad-
dress to the grange, and, on its con-
clusion he was requested to publish
the paper in the Grange Advance,
with the proceedings of the meeting.
The following i, the address,:
ADDRESS OF H. II. YOUNG.
Worthy Master and Sister and Broth.
er Patrons:-Not approaching the cir
cumstances to surround me on this oc-
casion, fear that the paper I have pre-
pared is too lengthy for your time and
patience. I will, therefore, omit u por-
ton that is not strictly relevant, so as
not to detain you unnecessarily.
You know that Archmides is accred-
tied with the remark that, if he could
find place upon which to rest full
crum for his lever, he coul;i move the
world. I recollcct being required to
revere the old philosophers memory be-
cause of this saying, but had he left be-
hind him no other evidence Of an extra.
ordinarily intelligent and well-trained
mind, fear that this boast would hard
ly have descended to us, for, upon ana
lying it, we find that it contains no in
dication of remarkable sagacity. II is
simply hasty utterance, only notice:
able because of the audacious thought
which prompted it; for, if there had
been an available fulcrum, the old gen.
tleman's ability to lift and apply his
lever is open to doubt, to say the least.
IMPORTANCE OF INDIVIDUAL EFFORT.
AS general princip pie, however, this
saying of the father Of mechanism is
true in relation to the moral and social
world, if not to the physical. A single
man may move the entire civilized world
socially and morally, and, what is more
to the purpose, he can find fulcrums and
levers already prepared and applied.
He has only to furnish the power to
move them. History affords US too
many instances Of this to permit us to
entertain doubt about it. Every man
who has labored sincerely to promote
the welfare of his fellow men has, in
some measure, lifted the entire world;
and society has only reached its present
height Of material prosperity, mental
culture, and social enlightenment by
the slow process Of the eleyating inau-
ences exerted by comparatively few in.
dividuals.
WHAT TO EXPECT FROM THE ORDER.
What, then, have we right to expect
from the application of the united efforts
of one and a half millions of Patrons of
Husbandry! Won't they give this old
world an astonishing hoist, if they all
do their duty? Why, it makes the brain
reel to think Of the results ola single
effort! "Higher than KITE don't be-
gin to express the altitude which may
be attained. But we must RENE mber