The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1908-07-16
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Importance 70 them 70 understand thai
,hey are 10 he benefited Ia q financial
xAy Il order 20 inducs them 70 Do
come Interested enough 10 seek mem
bership 10 The grange,
However. very many people Who JOIN
tie grange from q purely mereehary
motive become ~ interested ID The 80
rlAl and educational features OF the
order that they wonder how they h'ea
"a long without these advantages ana
are not Gully willing but anxious 70
pat their shoulders TO the wheel ana
help 10 keep things moving such PEG
rlo would retain their membership
eyou though all financial benefits were
eliminated but n II had not been toF
he hope Of financial gain TO start win
We should never have had the oppof'
tunity 10 enlightcn them as TO the best
and most important object OF grange
/ membership
Tha grange being so much more pop.
/ nlar than twenty or even ten years
ago II Is not as necessary TO put the
financial benefits foremost 10 every
one we desire To have become mem
her as formerly. but at the same time
the grange makes more rapid strides
IN sections having a good, strong CO
lucrative insurance company which re
oulres grange membership TO be elisi-
hle 10 receive the benefits Of insur'
ance In proof OF this assertion we
have but 10 call attention TO sections
I IN this state where oranges once
strong and prosperous have become
dormant because the grange Insurance
companies IN an nnguarded moment
opeued wide their doors TO those out
sile the order. This alone appears 70
be positive proof that II Is necessary
10 sun keep prominent the hope OF
financial gain.
, II Is true there are other financial
benefits TO be derived from grange
membership Cooperative buying mas
been A great success In many localities
and no doubt has added very ma
+ terlaily toward increasing the grange
: membership In the declaration oil
: purposes promulgated forty years ag'
i we find that one Of the primary Oh
iec,s was 10 buy and sell together
!, or course the end in view was imam
;, cial gain People Of today are not 81
: very much different from those OF fort!
years ago, and II is necessary TO hol'
q ont about the same inducements to at
g tract their attention as then.
/ At the present time our honorable Or
der has advantages In It's favor a
against the odds OF forty or even tween
ty years ago. Now II Is very popular
and no one, no Hihtier "hnt PVn'aV
e he holds, thinks IT beneath his dignit.
e 10 become n member Of this great an'
n influential organization, but In tn
i early history OF the Order this was nc
so. and there were some people wh
became members In order TO receiy
V the hoped for financial gain and WI
= seemed fearful that their friend
y would ind out that they had becom
B. united with an organization OF farm
II ers, but that f. all in the past. Toda
y the entire membership is proud to ow
/ allegiance to an Order that has mao
the most rapid growth OF any orde
\ that has ever existed and one that ha
~ been of untold benefit to mankind ]
G. general and 10 the agriculturists !
'e particular. But Notwithstanding a
Y, this IL IL still necessary to keep
10 prominence, and there are hnanci'
benefits connected Herewith to kee
up the strong. healthy growth that "
a leslre W. ii. VARY.
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