Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-02-09
Preamble

fdtrOnS OF f1uSDduurN
General Objects
l. United by the strong and faith
full tie of Agi iculture, we mutually
resolve to labor for the good of our
order, our country, and mankind
g We heartily endorse the motto !:
''In essentials, unity; in ropessentials,
liberty; in ell things, charity"
Specific Objects.
8. We shall endeavor to advance
our cause by laboring TO accomplish
the following objects:
To develop better and higher
manhood and womanhood among our
selves. To enhance the comforts and
attractions of our homes. and streng-
then our attachments to our pursuits.
To foster mutual understanding and
cooperation. To maintain inviolate
our laws, and to emulate each other
in labor, to hasten the good time
coming To reduce our expenses,
both individual and corporate. To
buy less snd produce more, in order to
make our farms self sustaining. To
dive, sify cur crops and crop no more
than we can cultivate. To conGsnse
the weight of our exports, selling
less in the bushel and more on hoot
and in fleece, less in lint and more ir
warp and wool To systematize oul
work, and calculate jntelligently or
probabilities. To discountenaice tbs
credit system, tie NOR gage system.
the fashion system, ard every other
system tending to prodigahty ant
bankruptcy.
We propose meeting together, talk
ing together, working together, buy
ing together, selling together, and, il
general, acting together for our mu
tual protection and advancement, a:
occasion may require. We shall avoit
litigation as much as possible by ar
bitration in the Grange. We shall
const ntly strive to secure entire har
mony, good will, vital Brotherhood
among ourselves, and to make ou
Order perpetual. We shall earnestl.
endeavor to suppress personal, local
sectional, and national prejudices, al
unhealthy rivalry, all selfish ambition
Faithful adherence to these prin
ciples will insure our mental. moral
social and material advancement.
Business Relations.
a. For our business interests W
desire to bring producers and con
sumers, farmers and manufacturer
into the most direct and friendly re
lations possible. Hence we must dis
pense with surplus of mid llemen
not that we are unfriendly to them
but we do not need them. Their sur
plus and their exactions diminish GU
profits.
We wage no aggressive warfar
against any other interests whatever
On the contrary, all our acts, an
all our efforts, so far as business
concerned, are not only for the benefi
of the producer and consumer, but ais
, for all the other interest that tend
bring these two parties into speed
and economical contact.
Hence we hold that transnortatio
companies of every kind are necessar
are intimately connected with our in
terests and harmonious action is mu
tually advantageous, keeping in vie,
the first sentence in our Declaratio
of Principles of Action, that "Indi
vidual happiness depends upon genera
prosperity. >
We shall therefore advocate fo
every state the increase in every prac
! ticable way, of all facilities for trans
porting cheaply to the seaboard, G
between home producers ard consun
ers, all the productions of our country
We adopt it as our fixed purpose t
.opea out the channels in nature
!, great arteries, that the life-blood c
commerce may flow freely
We are not enemies of railroads
navigable and irrigating canals, nc
: of any corporation that will advanc
our industrial interests, nor of an
laboring classes.
In our noble Order there is no con
murism, no agrarianism.
We are opposed to such spirit an
, ms nagement of any corporation {
, enterprise as tends to Cypress the pee
pie ard rob them of their just profits
We are not enemies to capital, b,
we oppose the tyranny of monopolie.
, We long to see the antagonism b,
: tween capital and labor removed b
common consent. and by an enlightene
craftsmanship worthy of the twentiet
. century. We are opposed to excessiy
salaries, high rates of interest az
> exhorbitant profits in trade. The
, greatly increase our burdens, and q
not bear proper proportion to tt
a., profits of producers. We desire onl
elf-protection and the protection {
i. every true interest of our land, b