Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-15


dice the offspring of ignorance, is dead and
buried, and even to the eve of the last day our
chorus shall be, "For justice all place Is tenn
pie and all season is summer"
| The farmer, of all men, should be the kipdest
aud best cultivated. There is nothing in plow-
ing the fields in tending the hocks in looking
on the sunny slopes covered with roses, violets
and DAISIES to make men degraded or hard
hearted.
ANY man who has a home and loves it and its
occupants, is ready to work for all the happiness
earth can give. And the perfume of flower
bedecked fields encourages to greater effort, as
well as lghtens the toll and the heart of the
toiler. And, dearsbrothers and sisters of the
National Grange, now that the kind word has
hope, been fifty spoken let us join in the prayer
that when the labors and pleasures Of this ses-
sion have gone into history, and we take you by
the hand, giving and receiving, in some cases
Tor the last time, the Patrons grip, and with
faltering tongue, quivering lip and Iear-swollen
eye attempt to say Heavens richest blessings
on you, good-by,' then may we also be able to
say. and to- say truthfully, each to the other,
We'll done" Thus may our welcome be, and
become your well done.
And so long as the ivy hugs the oak or the sea
skirts the shore. we promise fealty to the Ma
tlonal Grange and to the Order of Patrons OF
Husbandry.
F. II. Brigham, Grand Master of the Ma
tional Grange, called upon Mortimer White
head, of New Jersey, the Lecturer of the
National Grange, to respond to the elo-
quent words of welcome by the Master OF
the State Grange.
Mr.. Whitehead is an eloquent gentleman
and his address was full of beautiful pas
sages, and he was frequently interrupted
with applause. He said he came from New
Jersey, where the broad Atlantic washes its
eastern shores, to the grand State of Cali
fornia, whose western shores are washed
by the peaceful Pacific. The words of well
come TO the members of the National
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not feel like strangers. The sons of all the
States in the Union came here years ago
and assisted in building up this great and
proud State of California, therefore we all
feel deep interest in this commonwealth,
and feel that we are not strangers. He
said: We on the Atlantic shores, like
yourselves, cultivate fruits. We have our
mountains and hills, our valleys and plains,
where dwell millions of happy husband
men. When we landed in California we
felt that your Golden State itself extended
us welcome, and one touch of the grip Of
the Granger makes the whole akin.
Zone month ago the Knights Templar
from every State in the Union met in the
city of Washington. None made so fine an
appearance or received so generous an ova-
ton as those from California. They came
under the banner of the Cross, represent
ing the Crusaders of old. They met at the
National Capitol, they greeted and they
parted.
Just so we have gathered in the beautiful
Capital City of California under the name
of the farmer, under the banner of Ceres
We come as the representatives of a great
army, an army of peace, but whose veto.
ries are greater than those of wer. We are
building up its manufactures, building up
its every institution that is in the best in
terests of our country. The Granger has a
great and broad field of labor. We work
not only for the good of our Order, but for
our country and mankind. We are edu-
eating the farmer to save for wife and home
part of our harvest yield. One of the
grandest features of the Grange is educa-
ton. knowledge is power, it always has
been, and always will be as much for the
farmer as for those in other vacations OF
life. He has mind and muscle, brains and
lands, and it pays him to cultivate one ac
well as the other. In the past some one
else had the brains and the farmer had the
muscle, and were called the horny-handed
sons of toll.
1--WE are not a political party Politics
nor partisanship discussions are not al
{ lowed within our Order, yet we are edu-
eating the electors of this great common
wealth so they can better use the elective
franchise, and all over this broad land we
are making better Democrats and better
Republicans. The ballot in the hands oil
an illiterate man is as dangerous as a gun
in the hands of a child
I'm the Grange one receives an education
that enables him to cast an intelligent bal
lot for the good of his family, his class and
his county.
1--WE desire to impress upon the member
ship the importance of seeing that none
but honest men, and those only who will
uphold our best interests are elevated to
office; inside of our party if we can, out
side of our party if we must.
cat least fifty members of the next Con-
gress owe their election to the discrimin-
ating vote of the intelligent Granger We
are blowing, sowing and reaping all over
this broad land.
1--WE, as Changers, are opposed to aliens
owning lands in this country. A man who
does not swear allegiance to the stars and
stripes should not be permitted to own any
of our broad and fertile acres. We are
unalterably opposed to alien landlordism.
We are in favor of putting up the bars
against indiscriminate foreign immigration.
We do not want the paupers of Europe.
Let US put little tariff upon the importa-
ton of this kind of raw material. If they
commence to throw their bombs and incite
mobs then we will have fund to draw
from of their own creation and will not
have to call upon our taxpayers for con-
tribution to suppress them. We are in favor
of a revision of the naturalization laws of our
country which now places the ballot in the
hands of the foreigner before he can speak
our language and they are driven to the
polls like SO many cattle and vote grievous
burdens on you and l. Let them stay in
our country twenty-one years, as you and I
did, and as our boys must do, and by that
time we will have educated all the Com
munisms, socialism aud deviltry out of
them before they are able to vote.
Faith, hope and charity are corner stones
of the teachings of the Grange. and temper
anee one of the chief lessons taught. The
teachings of the Grange all have tendency
to make US better 10 ourselves, our families,
our neighbors, our country and our God.
We labor only for those things that build
up and make our country great"
In the absence of Governor Waterman,
Marcus D. Boruck was called upon by Mr..
Johnston for an address.
Mr.. Boruck said he regretted the fact that
the Governor was not present to welcome
the National Grange to California The
chief executive, he said, had important
duties in another portion of the State, and
was unavoidably absent. After extending
to the visiting Changers a welcome to the
Inequalities of California, the speaker gave
an interesting history of the origin and
growth of the Order of Patrons of Hus-
bandry in the United States.
Grand Master Brigham then called upon
Governor Luce of Michigan to respond.
Governor Luce is man apparently about
60 years of age, hale, hearty, well preserved,
, and fluent and eloquent speaker. Lack
of space prevents giving his remarks in
full, which were patriotic, full of Wit and
humor, which were frequently interrupted
with rounds ofapplsuse. He said agricut-
! ure was the basis and foundation of the
prosperity of the American Union. 1t is
the basis of every other interest of the
country.
!, 1t is only few years since the city OF
Chicago was burned. Iron and stone
buildings burned down-meited in e fire
hotter than that which we are promised in
purgatory. Ruin, ruin was on every hand
and everywhere. He had visited it many
times since, and the great city is built up
stronger, grander. more beautiful than
. before, on the profits of the farmers pigs
and corn.
We must give agriculture the first place
in all our varied industries. The product
of the farm whitens the oceans of COM
merce; it gives us the balance of trade, and