Smyrna times., 1876-02-09
mise eEI021 e OWS.
What the Changers Believe.
THEIR DECLARATION OF PURPOSES.


States should definitely proclaim to the
world its general objects, we hereby, unani-
mously, make this Declaration of Purposes
of the Patrons of Husbandry:
i. United by the strong and faithful tie
of Agriculture, we mutually resolve to
labor for the good of our order, our country |
and mankind.
2. We heartily indorse the motto: ain |
essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; |
in all things, charity"
8. We shall endeavor to advance our |
cause by laboring to accomplish the follow
ing objects: To develop better and higher
manhood and womanhood among ourselves. |
To enhance the comforts and attractions of
our homes and strengthen our attachments |
to our pursuits. To foster mutual under |
standing and cooperation. To maintain |
inviolate our laws, and to emulate each
other in labor to hasten the good time
coming. To reduce our expenses, both in
dividual and corporate. To buy less and
produce more, in order to make our farms
selfsustaining. To diversity our crops, and
crop no more than we can cultivate. To
condense the weight of our exports, selling
less in the bushel and more on hoofand in
fleece; less in lint and more in warp and
wool. To systematic our work and cal
culate intelligently on probabilities. To
discountenance the credit system, the mort
gage system, the fashion system, and every
other system tending to prodigality and
bankruptcy. Wepropose meeting together,
talking together, working together, buying
together, selling together, and in general
acting together for our mutual protection
and advancement, as occasion may require.
We shall avoid litigation as much as possible
by arbitrationin the Grange. We shall con-
stantly strive to secure entire harmony,
good will, vital brotherhood among our
selves, and to make our order perpetual.
We shall earnestly endeavor to suppress
personal, local, sectional and national pre-
judices, all unhealthy rivalry, all selfish
ambition. Faithful adherence to these
principles will insure our mental, moral,
social and material advancement.
t. For our business interests, We desire
manufacturers into the most direct and
friendly relations possible. Hence, we
must dispense with a surplus of middle
men, not that we are unfriendly to them,
but we do not need them. Their
surplus and their exactions diminish
our profits. We wage no aggressive war
fare against any other interests whatever.
On the contrary, all our acts, and all our
efforts, so far as the business is concerned,
are not only for the benefit of the producer
and consumer, but also for all other in
terests that tend to bring these two parties
intospeedy and economical contact. Hence
we hold that transportation companies of
every kind are necessary to our success,
that their interests are intimately connected
with our interest, and harmonious action is
mutually advantageous; keeping in view
the first sentence in our declaration of prin-
eiples of action, that " Individual happi-
ness depends upon general prosperity, y
we proclaim our settled conviction that we
cannot expect to help ourselves in any form
that involves the injury of others. We
shall, therefore, advocate for every State
the increase in every practicable way, of al
facilities Of transporting cheaply to the sea
board, or between home producers and con
sumers, all the productions of our country
We adopt it as our fixed purpose to "oper
out the channels in natures great arterie
that the life-blOod of commerce may flow
freely" We are not enemies of railroads
navigable and irrigating canals, nor of an.
corporation that will advance our indus
trial interests, nor of any laboring classes
In our noble order there is no communism
no agrarianism. We are opposed to sucl
spirit and management of any corporatio
or enterprise as tends to oppress the peopl
and rob them Of their just profits. We ar
not enemies to capital, but we oppose tn
tyranny Of monopolies. We long to Sc
the antagonism between capital and labc
removed by common consent, and by a
enlighted craftsmanship worthy Of tn
nineteenth century. We are opposed
excessive salaries, high rates Of interes
and exhorbitant per cent. profits in trad
They greatly increase our burdens, and
not bear proper proportion to the prof
of producers. We desire only selfprote
ton and the protection of very true intere
Of our land by legitimate transaction
legitimate trade, and legitimate profits.
We shall advance the cause OF Educ
ton among ourselves and for our childre
by all just means within our power.
especially advocate for our agricultural an
industrial colleges that practical agricu
ture, domestic science, and all the al
which adorn the home, be taught in the
courses of study.
5. We emphatically and sincerely asse
the oft respected truth taught in our {
ganic law that the Grange, national, stat
or subordinate, is not political or par
organization. No Grange, if true to its {
legations, can discuss political or religio
questions, nor call political convention
oo,ds.lafoe NOR avats diao,