Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1904-02-25
NATIONAL GRANGE POLICY.

Hon. Aaron Jones' Reelected Master.
Fall List of Officers.
The session of the national grange
held at Rochester was one of much inn
portance not only to the Order of Pa
irons of Husbandry, but to the agricul-
tural class in general AS outlining
the position and working policy Of the
grange the resolutions adopted were
significant They indicate that the
high officials of the Order are awake
to the needs of the farmers and are
endeavoring to secure for them such
legislation and other benefits as shall
give agriculture its rightful position
among the great productive industries
of the world.
or the resolutions that most clearly
define the public policy of the national
grange and will determine the line Of
action of the legislative committees
throughout the twenty-eight states rep
resented these may be mentioned: That
reciprocal tariff relations should be
maintained in the interests of farmers
with those countries that consume the
agricultural products of the United
States; that our agricultural products
should be protected as well as our
manufactured articles that since Il
small percentage OF farmers SONS and
daughters are able to attend state ag-
raultural colleges the grange should
favor the establishment of county or
district agricultural high schools; that
alleged excessive charges on railroads
for CARRYING the mails as compared
with those eXacted from express COM
panies should be investigated by the
legislative committees; that rural free
mail carriers should receive as much
pay as city mail carriers; that the es-
tablishment of postal savings banks
should be advocated: that the legisla-
tive committee should persist in its en-
deavors to procure legislation favora-
BILE to the parcel post system; that
good roads" legisla ton. as outlined in
the Brownlow bill, should be favored,
and that a federal law should be en-
acted to protect the grape growing in
dustry from imposition and fraud
Many other resolutions were adopted.
particularly with reference to the work
within the Order. 1t was voted to re-
move the national secretary's Office
from Washington to Tippecanoe City,
O.. Grange headquarters will be eS-
tablished at the st. Louis exposition.
The next meeting of the national
grange will be held ut Portland. ore.
The following officers were elected:
Master, Aaron Jones, South Bend,
Ind; overseer L. c. Atkeson. Morgan
town, w. Va: lecturer. \. j. Bachelder.
Concord. \. H.: steward, j. a. New
comb, Golden, Colo; assistant steward,
George w. f. Gaunt, Mullica Hill, ~.
j.; chaplain. w. II. Thompson, Liberty
Hill, S. c.; treasurer, Mrs. Eva w. Nc
Dowell, Rome, n. y; secretary, c. Nj.
Freeman, Tippecanoe City, o.; gate
keeper. b. c. Patterson. Torrington.
Conn; Ceres. Mrs. Martha Nj. Wilson,
Magnolia. ILL.,: Pomona, Mrs. Emma NJ.
Derby, Woodside, Del; Flora, Mrs.
Pauline S. Raine, Monticello. Mo-; lady
assistant steward. Mrs. Laura L. Raap,
Martinez, Cal One member OF the
executive committee is elected each
year for term of three years. c. J..
Bell. East Hardwick, VT. was re-eiect-
ed. The other members of the commit
tee are f. t. Norris of New York and
f. 4. Derthick of Ohio.
There was never such demand for
grange literature and never so many
newspapers running grange depart
ments as now. The membership is in
creasing so rapidly that publishers find
1t good business policy TO use at least
column of grange matter each week,
| Tredonia (N. " grange held its thir'
ty-fifth annual election recently. II
was the first grange organized in the
state of New York, or in the world. fol-
that matter. Mr.. Z. +. Dodge, who
was elected lecturer, was the first mas
ter of this grange.
Fruitland grange of Delaware i
"the y1other OF masters" as il We're. L
has furnished three masters for th,
staff grange and more are in training,
PENNSYLVANIA added 5000 new mem
bers' to its roll of Patrons. This yea
Stain Master Hin asks for 1000