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is an especial field of usefulness for the Grange at the South. 

 It would be just the school, combining the esthetic with the 

 practical, in which to educate the freedmen, who, having 

 just emerged from slavery, requires every possible agency 

 for informing, refining, and elevating his untutored nature, 

 and fitting him for his duties as a man and citizen. 



NO GEANGES SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGES. 



It has also been flung in the teeth of the Patrons that no 

 German Granges have been established. With the same 

 truth, and to-^he same point, it might be observed that there 

 have been no Irish, nor French, nor Swedish, nor Dutch 

 Granges established. The fact is, there should not be, except 

 in certain special localities, or in settlements sufficiently 

 large for organization, where the inhabitants have not yet 

 learned to speak our language. In such exceptional cases 

 the ritual should be translated into the language required, 

 that the perfect affiliation of all farmers might be secured. 



Where the community of any nationality is sufficiently 

 strong to allow the formation of a Grange, although they 

 might speak English in the most imperfect manner, there 

 could be no objection to dispensations therefor. Indeed, 

 being subordinate to the National and State Granges, it 

 would help to cement and bind together the whole with a 

 still stronger bond of unity, and in a closer brotherhood. 

 It is to be hoped that the Order will work strongly in this 

 direction, granting dispensations in every language, if need 

 be, that is spoken in the United States. 



It is unquestionably true that all the foreign nationalities 

 in our midst, and especially the German, who are naturally 

 imbued with a strong fraternal feeling, prefer to join bene- 



