Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-12-01
OTHERS VIEWS
DABNEY GRANGE PASSES
RESOLUTIONS

1ONS
To the Editor:
My dear Mr.. Dennis, please publish
the accompanying resolutions. Sure
ly this Grange does not know the
sentiment of the State Grange or that
or Hoey Legislature. If they did
they would know the utter futility of
asking anything at their hands for
suffering humanity. Neither bunch
cares any more about human suffer-
ing than heather cares a brute.
The crowd who runs both are stepped
IN the ideas Of old Southern aristo-
cracy which believed God made a few
to have all the good things of life
While the many produced them. But
those of us who are trying to follow
the teachings of the Galilean Social
list don't believe any such stuff hence
these resolution and continual fight
until the victory is won and all men
know the truth which alone can make
them free.
Sincerely yours,
JAMES H. WRIGHT.
Henderson, N. c. Nov 20, 1886.
A resolution adopted by Dabney
Grange Nov. "a, 1886 petitioning the
State Grange to use its best efforts
to have the next Legislature pass
law giving our aged citizens pension
of not less than thirty dollars per
month.
Whereas there are many people in
our State who by reason of old age
and disease have no means of sup
port and because the product of their
working years was taken from them
by the conniving, unscruplous, greedy
rich; and
Whereas it can be nothing but just
ice that these rich be now taxes in
order that those who produced their
wealth may have the bare necessities
OF life; therefore be it
Resolved, by Dabney Grange No.
739, in regular session Nov oath, 1886
that it is the sense of this Grange
that North Carolina should pay its
halt OF a thirty dollars per month
pension to our unfortunate INDECENT
fellow beings; and be it further
Resolved. that the State grange in
Its next session which convenes in
Raleigh i'll December 1886, be and is
hereby earnestly requested to use all
its power and prestige to have the
next legislature which meets in Ra-
leigh in January next, approximate
sufficient funds to pay to each man
and woman in North Carolina who
is unable to earn a decent living a
pension of at least thirty dollars per
month, half of which the Federal
Government has already appropriat-
ed; and be it further
Resolved, that a copy of this reso-
luton be sent to the secretary of the
State Grange ard copy to the Hen
derson Daily Dispatch.
S. B. Crews, Master.
Oxford N. c.
JAS. H. Wright. Sec,
Henderson, N. c.
resolution, by Dabney Grange
seeking fair deal for all the people
of North Carolina.
whereas the voters of North Caro-
INA, by big majority, on November
5rd, voted amendments to the consti-
tuition giving the legislature the DOW
er to tax incomes up to 10 per cent
and to exempt from taxation one
thousand dollars of the value of
homesteads; and
whereas the plutocrats of our State
through their newspapers and speak
ers are already saying the maximum
Of 10 per cent must not be taken
from the income of the rich nor a
thousand dollars be exempted from
taxes on homesteads; now therefore
be it
Resolved, by Dabney Grange No.
159 III regular session Nov 10th, 1886
that it is the sense of this Grange
that the maxim of 10 per cent be
taken from the big incomes, and that
at least $4,000 value of homes be ex-
empted from any tax; and be it
further
Resolved, that the State Grange in
session in the city of Raleigh Decem-
Der 1895, he and is hereby earnestly
requested to Use all its power and
prestige TO defeat tho enemies of the
farmer and working man IN the next
Leg lSlature, in seeking to anuul the