The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-02-09
About Rate
Regulation

Movement" lyive ago
The period of the contraction of
currency following the initiation incident the civil
Of the elements that brought about period financial
depression that felt especially by the farmers of the Mississippi
Valley During initiation period high prices they had bought
farms credit and developed them expectation continuation
the of high prices for farm products which existed during and
followed the When lower prices and financial depression
farming community felt especially There discomfort and
anxious hoping and seeking for remedy
This gave rise the phenomenal spread OF organization
TIusbandr though generally spoken gran
gers" or Th Grange" because the lodges local bodies Of the
ganzaton, called oranges word originally meaning farm
with its farmhouse and other buildings Though the Patrons of u
Landry organized in 1867 its phenomenal spread at least the
middle did begin until years later When the farmers
began to feel the pinch of prices their products and seek
Tor relief the Oranges OF the Patrons Husbandy offered con-
discussion seemingly practical
organization and united effort and many believed
ed For time the feeling prevailed that the retail dealer the mid
deman by his profits absorbed uneared increment that robbed
the farmer of the just rewards of his labor and Grange stores
species cooperative merchandising spang up everywhere
these still though they have entirely lost their
original character and though sometimes still cooperative in their
methods have entirely changed the basis their constituency The
Alliance Texas 1876 those
On the Patrons HuSDandry though having more direct sociological
and aims spread second cooperative and
cooperative efforts the agricultural portions OF the country
But large proportion of these Grange stores failed
convinced the farmers that whatever effect the ddeman
whole cause farmers difficulty This led "Grange"
look farther and elsewhere Politics. economics and potcoecono
trovered Efforts organize the farmers and generally the pro
Gce[S INTO one Poa party TO gam me renedeS ior the ms G
however to the extent OF Introducing economic questions and discus
s1ons into politics to an extent never before known and which has
since grown much and widely.
Following uy of the grange store"
The belief that the railroads. by their charges unust taking
from the farmer the legitimate earnings OF his industry Then began
the long legislative fight in Legislative OF
railroad different and different localities the agen
ces that made the fight different In places there
distinctly Granger always successful but always influencing
the other parties In some case the granger influence captured the
Republican organization and the Democratic In other
places the old parties sought strengthen themselves by adopting
some OF the tenes of the Granger Movement"
fight railroad regulation
CPCIV 1Pa
Railroad and Warehouse Commission established for the purpose
regulating preventing discrimination The railroads
ed the fight the courts and first apparently successful
ment In Illinois the Granger Movement continued the fgbt in
the legislature election Justices Of the Supreme
Court 1t won in both places
The Legislature revised its legislation the objections of the
Supreme Court and the Supreme Court reconstructed upheld in
principle legislation The litigation growing Of
principle Of regulation was upheld
These known law citation The Granger Cases and
distinct adjudication the celebrated Dartmouth
Case OF earlier period the nsuar Cases OF later do
Though they have been modified details and
OF similar nature have been determined the Granger Cases are
still studied as the deciding in principle.
Though the Granger Movement accomplished many other things
perhaps by modification OF long held pudces and opnnon
and certainly notifications Of demands than
been embalmed in the literature of the Bryce his American
Commonwealth devotes considerable it References
and its influences in conemperaneous literature 1t
had its influence the drama and 1t introduced the Ian
gage several words and idiom that bid fair be permanent
But the great work the Granger Movement did introduce
into politics. economics and sociology not introduce Them
give them place they before
principle that the part with the control of the agencies
created by society itself which minister the service of the people
The cable this morning that Ohio has enacted law fixing
the maximum railway passenger at two mile But
the Granger Movement that made this possible the original
mum rate in most states established by the Granger Movement it
sell, being three cents mile.
The House Representatives Congress passed the rail
road regulation bill But the Granger Movement that
opened the way to this measure
In its day the Granger Movement the Grange and the
Granger all objects rdcue Their
be socalc They were denounced attacking only
Presidents rate regulation efforts far beyond anything the
The order Of tbe Patrons of TTubandry H I 5e enrod ~