The Arvada enterprise., 1911-08-31
THE GRANGE

Grange in 1874.
The Grange is an organization for
the moral, social and financial ad-
yancement Of its members; also for
the promotion Of agriculture and
other kindred pursuits. by inducing
cooperation among farmers and
those interested for their mutual
benefit and Improvement. The
Grange is working to accomplish this
by developing better manhood and
womanhood among the farmers; by
increasing the comforts and attrac-
tions of the farm home; by sys-
tematizing farm work, and acting
together for the mutual protection
aid advancement of its members.
One Of the most important prin-
ciples of the Grange is that of CO.
operation. In the past a great deal
has been done along this line by
purchasing coal, potatoes, flour. etc,
in car load lots, in this way getting
things at a lower price; also selling
| is being done throughout the Grange,
as the Fruit Growers and Honey
| Producers Associations are doing
through their associations.
| AS it Is now in farm communities,
one man has a few beef cattle,
another has dairy COWS, another has
| horses. still others, wheat and hay;
each one has a different interest,
making it difficult and expensive to
market crops. If the Changers and
decide what would be the best for a
main crop and all join in that for a
principal product then all would
have similar interest, all could
work together and our community
would become known for that parti
cular crop, just as Greeley is cele-
brated for its potatoes or Rocky Ford
for its melons.
You do not find railroads and
express companies see-saWing. They
pull together. So do manufacturers,
merchants, and SO must the farmers
While the Grange does not permit
of the discussion Of religious sub
jects or partisan politics in its meet
ings, yet it favors building up q
| better country church. and better
understanding OF County, State and
National Legislation is obtained by
means of the discussion of proposed
laws.
The Grange endeavors to suppress
all personal, local, and sectional
strife, all unhealthy rivalry, and all
| selfish ambition; to bring producer
and consumer in direct relation,
thereby dispensing with middlemen,
and save their profits; and to relieve
any brother or sister sick or in dis
tress.
Among the many things accom-
plished by the Grange are: The rural
mail delivery, of such great benefit
| to the farmers; the many expert
ment stations that are assisting the
|
raising of Agriculture to the rank of
a department on par with the army
| and navy; the Interstate Commercial
commission, and the pure food laws
as first enacted.
At present, the Grange is working
for the Parcels Post and Postal Saw
ings Bank, and against the Canadian
Reciprocity, giving protection, as it
does to manufacturers, but none to
! farmers. Some years ago the Grange
came to a unanimous agreement up
on the tariff issue, viz: Tariff for
all, or tariff for none" If the far
mer must pay the tariff on manu-
factured goods then he insists upon
| tariff protection upon grain, eggs,
potatoes, fruits, horses, etc.
The Grange has been unitedly pro-
testing against the proposed in
crease of postage rates on papers
and magazines. Education must be
| free and the more free the better.
The Grange has always stood for
better rural schools. In Oregon,
through Grange influence, industrial
training is being introduced in the
rural schools as one means of cor
recting the tendency to educate away
from the farm.
In the Grange the young people
Of the farm have the very widest
field for the development and en-
ioyment of their social natures. thus
sffurding a solution of the desertion-
of-the-farm question, especially by
its best crop-the boys and Girls.
A member of the Grange in good
standing can take out insurance In
the Grange Mutual Fire Insurance
company, which was organized in
Colorado sixteen years ago the first
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