The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-12-24

ana PATRONS are not only allowed.
OUT tney are expected to discuss
them and to fully understand -
correct the abuses found CONNECTED
with them. and to do this worL !.
the caucus, the convention. or ths
oailot- box, as to them NAV se,.rn
best. Thou shall not rnnzzle ~.
mouth of the OK that treadeth ont
the corn" y
Fatrons have grown and trodden
out the corn for other neonle -.
enough, and now we ask this Ma
t'onai Grange to remove the n,uzzIe
Ineretore, your committee, in the
sPirlt OF the foregoing paper, and
IN accordance with the instruc,;ons
OF the Grange, offer the following
resolutions: :
.heSol0ed, That the Declaration
OF Purposes" upon the several
propositions contained therein. is
ana should be the rule and guide
OF our fraternity; and, upon politics.
as well upon all other matters. Pa.
irons are allowed and expected to
exemPlify its principles, and carry
into practical operation it's instruc.
tons, by such means as TO them
seem best calculated to advance the
interests of the Order.
BY order of Committee on Good
of the Order. D. H. THING, Chm.
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON
GOOD OF THE ORDER.
Worthy Master and Members of
THE National GRANGE: Your Com
mittee on Good of the Order are
deeply anxious, as doubtless are all
the member of this body, that the
waymarks set up this session shall
indicate real progress. Has our
advance during the past year been
what it should have been? Have
we realized, and at this, the end of
another Grange year do we realize
the ideal OF one year ago? Your
Committee believe that very few of
US are satisfied, and that none of us
realize our ideal. Why not? What
is the matter? Our principles are
correct, our work is commendable.
The toiling millions have great need
OF our services, and yet they do not
manifest an interest and scarce a
curiosity in our efforts. What is
the trouble? 1t seems to your Com
mittee that if we scrutinize care
fully the successes and failures
which have attended the efforts of
Patrons in their organized capacity,
we may be able to form a pretty
correct estimate of the causes which
contributed to these results.
All Patrons of long experience
in the Order will agree that when
it was first launched upon the sea
of life, cooperation was the great
distinguishing feature, which more
than anything else commended it
to the favorable consideration Of
farmers. All other interests were
already organized and united, and
IT was just as important that we
should stand together in defense of
our own as others for theirs. Others
were organized for a purpose, and
that purpose self-protection, which
farmers were the last to learn is the
first law of nature. The founders
of the Order, and its early apostles,
who went out through our land,
taught us that by uniting together
we might enhance our material in-
terests. This idea obtained in the
State, County and Subordinate
Oranges, and was generally acted
upon; and to-day, after more than
a decade has passed, we find that
where cooperation has been sue
cess the Grange has been success,
while where failure has resulted
Patrons have become discouraged
and disheartened.
If our premises and conclusions
are correct, it seems to us that the
National Grange can best make
itself felt for good in the rank and
file of the Order by furnishing the
Subordinate Oranges with instruc-
ton and advice which will enable
them to cooperate successfully in
business affairs. In other words,
realize to them, to some extent at
least, the promises of those who
first preached to them the gospel of
temporal salvation. Or, to adopt
the beautiful sentiment Of our Wor-.
thy Lecturer, Teach farmers how
to save the fruit of their toll and
make farm life more profitable /"
Do this, and you have interested
them in something real, tangible,
practical. No danger of their for
getting it. No danger of their
backsliding. Nothing ever did,
nothing ever will, succeed like sue.
cess. But, Worthy Master, right
here comes the trouble, and that is
to induce them TO make the attempt.
Successful cooperation pre-sup-
poses mutual confidence and per-
sonal honesty. 1t starts out with
the idea that each is to woi k for the
good of the whole, not that few
are to do the work, assume the re-
SnOnSibiIitv suffer the losses. and