The Somerset reporter., 1904-12-29
Maine Changers.

The closing session of the Maine State
Grange WA held In City Hall, Lewiston,
Thursday evening. There was a large
attendance and the meeting WAS most
enthusiastic one. The report of thu
committee on resolutions was the most
important business. The resolutions for
an investigation of Shiloh equal suffrage
and a communication for resubmission
of the prohibtory law were indefinitely
postponed.
Among the resolutions passed were
the following:
The members of this order believe thai
wild animals and civilization in its high
eat forms cannot exist side by side. We,
therefore. demand that such animals
shall receive protection only on the wild
lands, which comprise more than two
fifrhs OF the total area OF our State.
Recognizing the Importance of indus
trial education for the great majority Of
young people this State Grange respect
fully asks that u department for agricul-
tuIal education be established In the
Normal schools Of the State, that those
who are to teach in the schools OF the
State may fully be trained for their
duties.
This State Grange favors the teaching
OF agriculture In the Normal schools of
he State, to the end that the students Of
those institutions may be prepared to
teach agriculture In the common schools.
Rpcogniz X the rights of our citizens,
conditions have become such, that IL is
necessary for the protection OF both life
and limb, that laws be enacted for the
protection of the same.
k., II hot rot a
Grange now in session instruct its legis-
lative committee to prepare and present
at the next session of the Milne State
legislature bill endorsing the automO-
bile laws of the State Of Massachusetts
with the following amendments.
Frrst-Fo impose fine for first offense.
Second-ro suspend license In addition
to fine for second offeuse.
Resolveu: All revenue received from
fines, registrations and licenses shall be
turned In 10 a public highway fund.
Resolved, That our State Grunge now
in session instruct its Legislative commit
tee to prepare ard present at the next
session of the Maine State Legislature,
I bill, asking for an appropriation sutii-
cient to start system OF State nigh
ways, emanating from three or more
important centres, TO other important
centres. Said highways, when lacking
in capacity, shall be rebuilt under
system of permanent construction, with
limitations sufficient to accommodate
both horse and horseless carriage.
Resolved, Tina our State Master issue
n pamphlet to all subordinate and county
oranges, setting forth the advantages Of
a State sy stem of highways as believed
to compare we'll with the new postal
system OF K. F. D., whereby the public
gets great deal more and a better ser
wee for the same money.
Said pamphlet to contain all resolutions
passed by State Grange appertaining to
public highways; also to BE- aceompan-
led by petitions, soliciting the cO-opera-
ton of the public, both in and out of the
order, asking both the House and Senate
to act favorably upon the bill, that 1t
NAV become law.
In consideration of the large and in
creasing number of blind people In Maine
many Of whom are poor and in needy
circumstances, believing il 10 be one Of
the first duties of The State to provide
for its poor and unfortunate, and know.
ing the value OF educ ltion to this class o
citiz'us. particularly the young, and
especially of industrial education, and
also in consideration hat the city OF
Portland has agreed to donate a lot il
said city OF the value of seven thou
sand dollars or more, and that sub.
scrip'ions have been received by W. j.
Ryan guaranteeing the payment Of five
thousand dollars or more, We, The Maint
State Grange. in convention assembled,
do hereby indorse the efforts which art
being made to establish in Portland, Me-.
the Maine Industrial School and Home
for the Blind, and earnestly recommend
such legislation, accompanied with the
appropriation Of spch reasonao ole sum as
may be needed to aid and assist in the
Establishment and maintenance OF the
same.
In consideration Of the great danger
to our dairy industry which is sure to
result from the manufacture and sale OF
artificial butter, by the repeal of the
Grout bill,
he 1t hereby resolved, That the sec
rotary of the State Grange prepare
petitions demonstrating against the re-
peal of said bill, and send them TO the
secretaries OF every subordinate grange
In the State, directing them to secure as
many signatures of their friends as pos.
sible, and transmit at their earliest pos
sible convenience to the members in cor.
yIeSs from their respective distric :.