The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-01-07
EDITORIAL T

= Bro. G. T. Richardson, of Earps-
boro, N. O., calling in to renew his
ST subscription, says that he always raises
his own molasses and likes the crop
better every year. He says it is an
excellent substitute for brown sugar,
IN preserving, &c.
There is an earnest interest
among the members of. our order in
the subject of insurance. We are
enabled to say that a system of in
surance, for the use of the whole
order, will be presented in the near
future, which is pronounced by those
competent to judge, to be most ad-
mirably- adapted to the wants and
wishes of our people.
x 1t is claimed that an error &C.
ours in the proceedings of the St.
Louis meeting rs published elsewhere
in this paper and as it appears in
other prints. That a substitute was
adopted in lieu of Sec. 20 of the
Statutory Laws. That matter is be-
ing investigated by the proper author
ity and will be corrected, if an error
has been committed.
x The employees of our Office
worked hard and faithfully during
the year just past, and we're entitled
to the usual respite, which is almost
universally accorded, hence we issued
no paper last week. We roll up our
sleeves and start into the years work
before us with a determination to give
our kind friends q better paper during
1890 than ever before.
y Our readers would do we'll to
file this issue of The PROGRESSIVE
FARMER and preserve it carefully as it
contains the Constitution and statu-
tory laws adopted at st. Louis and
other very important acts of that
body. Let every member of the
order study the Constitution and laws
carefully. Read and re.read the re-
port on the monetary system which
was adopted. The last issue and this
one contain the full proceedings Of the
St. Louis meeting.
x The State Grange of Kansas,
which met recently in the city of To
peka, appointed a committee to confer
with the Farmers Alliance of that
State to arrange, if possible, for har-
monious and united action of the two
bodies. It was also ordered that the
demands of the St. Louis Convention
should be submitted to the subordinate
Oranges of Kansas for ratification or
rejection. And thus the great reform
movement is going forward with in
creasing force and power.
= The National Grange and a
number of farmers organizations have
called for the Superintendent of the
y. S.. census to collect and report in
the next census the amount of in.
debtedness, mortgages, ETC., which
hang on the farms of the country. It
will be seen by reference to another
column that Bro. G. W. Macune, the
able and vigilant Chairman of our
Executive Board, waited on Mr..
Porter in person, and obtained from
that official the promise to include
these important items in his next re-
port. A good days work for our
Executive Board.
The semi-annual Word and
Secret Work of the National Farm
ers' Alliance and Industrial Union
will be sent out at an early day. The
new Constitution and Rituals will also
be ready for State Secretaries in a
short time. The Ritual will contain
a form of prayer for use in opening
and closing the meetings and also a
form of burial service. The Consti-
tuition and statutory laws will be pub
lished in connection with an order of
business, and a simple form of parlia-
mentary law for the use of the order.
These publications will appear in neat
and durable style and will be sold to
the brotherhood at cost through the
State Secretaries.
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