The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-03-13
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Pennsylvania STATE GRANGE.

The executive committee OF the
State Grange was in session in Har-
rlsburg Thursday night until after
midnight and Friday morning gave
out a statement in which they call
the attention of the Governor and
the Secretary of Agriculture to the
neglect to use $4,000 of the $4,000
appropriation for the proper repre-
sentation of the State at the Charles
ton Exposition in exhibiting the agri-
cultural resources of the Common
wealth.
The Grange commends the efforts
of Forestry Commissioner Rothrock
and calls Secretary Of Agriculture
Hamilton to task for ignoring the
provision of the law creating the de-
partment OF agriculture which pro.
vdes for the discussion of the sub
ject of taxation at the farmers insti-
tutes. The Henry oleo bill is COM
mended and protests are made against
the ship subsidy and irrigation bills.
The statement of the Grange in
full follows:
"On the question of good roads the COM
mttee reatiirms its position advocated at the
last session of the Legislature, namely, that
the state should collect special fund for
road improvement by taxing all personal and
corporate property and distribute the same
10 the several townships of the state in pro.
portion to the number of miles Of public
roads in each.
''In this connection we commend to all
interested in road improvement the address
OF the secretary of this committee presented
at the Buffalo International good roads con-
gress, and obtainab.e free from the United
States Department of Agriculture, public
road inquiries bulletin No. II.
"The severity Of the recent freshets and
the immense damage done thereby call forci.
bly, to mind the needs for the preservation of
our forests and we recommend that farmers
and others plant forest seeds and trees on
hillsldes and rough and waste lands, which
in time would hold the SHOWS and rains from
sudden flow and prevent soil from being
washed away. In this connection we desire
TO specially commend the good work done by
our forestry commissioner, DIR. J. T. Roth
rock. And we would urge upon people gen.
orally greater care and assistance in prevent.
ing forest fires.
1--WE respectfully call the attention of the
present Secretary OF Agriculture to the law
creating the department of agriculture
wherein provision is made requiring the pres
entatlon of the subject of taxation, and re-
gret that he has ignored the request of the
State Grange, the State Board of Agricul-
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fusing 10 provide for the discussion of the
subject of taxation at our farmers institutes.
1--WE also call the attention of the Gov
ernor and the Secretary of Agriculture to
the act of the Legislature appropriating $35,-
600, of which SIS, 900 was set aside for a
state agricultural exhibit at the Charleston
Exposition, and would inquire why this pro-
vision OF the act has not been carried into
effect, thereby showing the agricultural re-
sources of the state. We condemn this neg
lgence and ineficiency as being on par
with the failure of the enforcement of the
oleomargarine laws.
''We hereby enter our protest against the
expenditure Of the SIS, 600 for any other pur-
pose than that provided for in the act.
''We urge the United States Senators
from Pennsylvania to use all honorable
means to further the passage of the House
measure providing for the election of United
States Senators by direct vote of the peo-
pie.
I'VE hereby thank the members Of the
House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
who voted in favor of the Henry oleo bill
and urged its passage through the Senate.
''We again enter our protest against the
passage of the irrigation and ship subsidy
bills.
"We insist that the Grange platform of
tariff for all or tariff for none, be carried
out in the adjustment of our import duties
on cur new foreign possessions, and re.
duciion of duty on farm products shall be
followed by corresponding reduction on
manufactured products"
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