The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-11-23
COLLEGE FOR
FARM BOYS
GrangerS Think Present
Institutions Too High
Toned
More Adequate Education

The National Grange in session
at Atlantic City, by resolution, took
a decided stand upon the question
of immigration. 1t urges that
Congress be asked to consider
whether a modification or existing
exclusion laws would operate to
relieve the present extreme scarcity
of farm and domestic labor. The
delegates also made a part of the
record their approval of the re-
moval of the tax on alcohol to be
used for other purposes than as a
beverage; to enforce more stringent
ly the laws against oleomargarine;
to have theState and National Gov
ernments instruct labor commissions
to direct immigrants to the farm
lands to avoid congestion in the
cities; favoring legislation protect
ing timber lands and the reforesta-
ton of all cut-over lands, and sug
gesting a removal of part or whole
of the tariff on logs and timber.
Colleges which ale not aristocrat-
ic and exclusive, where farmers
sons may learn the practical
things in agriculture, are demand
ed by the grange. The indirect
indictment of the insufficiency of
the present institutions of learning
was embodied in the recommended
tions cf the Educational Committee.
The grange advocates agricultural
colleges, the creation of country
schools of agriculture similar to
those which are in successful opera
ton in Wisconsin and elsewhere,
and the introduction of instruction
in agriculture by correspondence
1t also believed in cons nsolidating
country schools and the use Of
teams to take children to the school
and home again, a plan that is ex-
tending through the West.
From Kentucky came a vigorous
deunciation of the American saloon
in resolution presented by F. P.
Wolcott, the head of the State or
ganization, which declared that
"the grange hereby renews its feal-
ty to temperance in all things, and
that the degrading American saloon
ought to be carefully and rigorous
ly guarded until it can be abolished
and in the meantime be made and
held to its strict responsibility for
the harm it does, and that it be-
lieves that every community should
be empowered by law to vote every
saloon from its midst" Just what
his neighbors will say, as the reso
luton would affect one of the i'm
portant industries of his State, does
not bother Mr.. Wolcott,
Recognizing President Roose-
velt's vigorous prosecutions of the
land. .grafters in Washington State,
the delegate from that Common
wealth reported that the farmers OF
his State heartily approve Of the
Presidents campaign against fraud
and graft in the various Govern
mental departments and especially
give him their moral support aud
commentator in his Investigations
in land THEFT and to the frauds in
the Department of Agriculture"
A new attack on lite insurance
companies came from Missouri, c.
Q. Raine fathering the resolution
which says: That the National
Grange condemns and brands as
criminal any attempt to influence
legislation or the control of the vote
of legislators by the use of money;
that all officers or others who use
the funds of insurance companies
for personal gain are embezzlers
and should be punished under the
law; that any contribution by the
officers OF the company to further