The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-12-19

Of property. The farmers are willing 10
beer their fair share Of the public burden,
but are not willing that the Yalue Of
farm property should be atlil further
deprecated by added burdens OF taxation,
either for road building or for any other
purpose.
Master Gardiner reported the proceed
ings OF the National Orange and the
recommendation for national legislation.
The recommendation for state lssisla-
tion are:
First--Anti trust law ana provision
for state inspection Of all corporations.
Second-Secure law on taxation that
viii compel all property to bear It's just
proportion Of taxation.
Third-Pure food law.
Fourth-Provide state railway commis-
sion with full power Of fixing maximum
rates of freight and passenger service on
all railways subject to their jurisdiction.
Fifth-Such a revision of the fees and
sa iaries as win place them on an equit-
able basis.
Changing conditions and more exact
Ing future demand . more thorough
practical education among the farmers Of
our state. No industry has been more
affected than agriculture through educa-
ton. Agricultural colleges offer opnor-
tunlties for q hiaher sducation for the
young men to become the progressive
farmers OF the future. The Maine Board
of Agriculture 10 doing grand work In
giving the practical demonstration OF
knowledge, drawn from tns college and
experiment. stations, through It's insti.
tutes, and its scope should be broadened,
that 10 may bs able to perform the full
measure of los usefulness in disseminaJ-
ing knowledge. All attempts to take the
control of the board from the agricultural
people should be resisted by every true
friend OF agriculture.
TRUSTS.
This great question is one OF absorbing
interest to all. The industrial peopis are
intensely interested. and upon Its final
settlement depends the material welfare
Of the masses OF the people. In the past
young man with ability or energy could
with few dollars engage in business
and grow with the business until he had
secured competency. The tendency OF
the present Is to destroy this privilege by
consolidating the business OF the country
into gigantic corporations. 10 show the
position of the grange upon this great
economic question 1 quote from the ad-
dress OF Worthy Master Jones, who re-
affirms the position unanimously taken
by the National Grange In 1899. He says,
with one more years experience it
would now seem to me that the National
Grange should go one step farther. and
urge an amendment to the constitution
of the United States in clear and express
terms empowering Congress with the
right and authority to regulats corpora
lions.
wish to express my sincere thanks 70
the members or the order, who have been
so uniformly kind to me during the
year; no one realizes more fully than
my short nomings. yet every act of mine
has had for its purposes the best welfare
of the order. have endeavored to per-
form my duty without bias or prejudice
and whatever mistakes have been made
have been errors of Judgment rather than
of intention. During the year have spent
one hundred and thres days in the grange
field. L hat have been unable to answer
all calls was because OF my own affairs.
During the evening session occurred
the roll call OF counties for Introduction
OF business to be referred without debate.
Master Gardiner exemplified the unwrit-
ten work OF the order.