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the mechanic. If the lately-established Order of Patrons 

 of Industry should do for the working classes of our cities 

 what the Patrons of Husbandry have done and will do for 

 our rural population, the united strength of these organiza 

 tions will become a power for good absolutely irresistible; 

 and they can sweep from the land the last vestige of cor 

 ruption and fraud, even to the cleansing of the Augean sta 

 bles of party politics and &quot;ring&quot; jobbery. 



HOW THE PATRONS PREVENT LAW SUITS. 



Lawyers make our laws, and in framing them it is not 

 strange that they should so arrange them as to make the 

 most capital for themselves. As now con 

 stituted, the majority of our legislative 

 enactments are such a mass of verbiage 

 that none but an adept, educated to the 

 art, can unravel the tangled skein. In 

 deed, so intricate are they that even the 

 lawyers themselves, nay, even our best 

 judges, are not able to pronounce upon 

 their meaning with precision. 



Many of the Granges have incorpora 

 ted into their constitutions a clause bind 

 ing the members, when differences arise 

 between them, to submit their cases to ar 

 bitration. Here is a beneficent expedient 

 that, if rigidly adhered to, will save to the members not only 

 enough to pay the working expenses of the Grange, but also, 

 in the course of a few years, to stock each organization so 

 electing with a library amply sufficient to meet all their 

 ordinary wants. 



In some instances this method of settling disputes has en : 



