Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-07-13

practlce WhaC they nave been talking abort
At the next meeting of the National Granno
there will be presented a report from the
special committee, of which, State master
Davie. of Kentucky, is Chairman, preparing
the way by which all the degrees of the Order
can be thrown open to all fourth degree MEM
bers of the subordinate oranges, thus re-
lieving the Order of the aristocratic features
of the institution.
w. S. Hume, State lecturer of Kanses
writing to the Spirit Of Kansrs, notices the
great success OF the grange cooperative
stores, in that State. AT the Ottawa Granoo
store, Patrons are saving one and IL half
cents per pound in shipping their butter
(%tub-packed by themselves) through the
agency. Walking cultiyators are sold at
the store for So less than the other stores
are selling at. Sulky plows are selling for
$40 less. At Garnett they were preparing
to start 4 store on the Rochdale plan. The
grange store at lola. started with a small
capital, has been very successful The d.
rectors expect to declare a dividend the
first quarter. The Patrons of johnson coun-
ty have organized a cooperative association.
We desire here to call the attention of Pa
irons to the inconsistency of connecting the
two terms joint stock and cooperative, in
either writing or speaking on the
business feature of the Order. The prin-
ciples expressing the two terms are the OBJ
posite of each other. Under the joint stock
principle, all the profits or dividends are
paid to capital. Under the cooperative
principle {that is, the Rochdale), but a small
part Of the profits go to capital, much the
larger part being declared in dividends
OF purchases, if q store on labor and trade.
interest. Vt H...f
Ex-Governor Seymour will enlighten the
Changers of Herkimer county, New York,
on the mysteries of sub-soil blowing, on the
81 OF July.
No Patron can improve another, each one
must improve himself. The human mind
like the human body assimulates it's own
TODD from the hands of another who may
place it before him.
Bro. A. B. Smedley, Lecturer of the
National Grange, is snow in Kentuckey speak
ing for the good of the Order. We hope he
will have large crowds to hear him.
Push your young Patron" to the front,
and let them talk, in this way you will raeis
up orators to defend the institution and have
active workers who will some day be ranked
among the humanitarians and philosophers
of the race.
The sisters of the Grange should never fail
to attend and show the lukeWorm brethren
their duties as members of our order. Their
finer sensibilities add much to the improve
ment of men, and make them feel that ac-
ton is needed to keep them advancing.
There are two kinds of Patrons, just as
there are two of men Or two kinds of bees
-one workers and the other drones-ot course
each know their position and occupy it. But
hope, as the world progresses and adj
Vaces, any drone who reads this will do the
The following suggestive extracts, taken
rom the Sovereigms' Cooperative Bulletin, are
applicable to members of all coop
eratlye societies: Competitive
by organized capital must give
way to cooperative commerce, controlled
by an organized market. X
There are many truths upon which we can
Ill agree, and once together, these will indi-
'ate and point out a line of action upon
which we can all unite. X X
The small amount of truth we each of US
ave, we must put together; make all we