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of the State, that they should have worked so practically 

 and harmoniously toward the end sought. . 



IN OTHER WESTERN STATES. 



Kansas wheels into line with her Clubs and Granges, 

 Nebraska following close after. Iowa, with her grand con 

 solidation of Granges, striking blows as with a pile-driver, 

 already sounds in the ears of monopolies the knell that 

 betokens a speedy funeral. Minnesota and Wisconsin, with 

 their Clubs and Granges, are marching shoulder to shoulder 

 in the battle for human rights. Illinois, strong in her 

 amalgamated organization, is in the fore front of the fray. 

 Her sturdy shout rings out clear with every stroke of the 

 axe at the root of the upas tree of monopoly. Michigan, 

 Indiana, and Ohio, though feeling less the evils that are ex 

 perienced elsewhere, are working manfully for the good 

 cause. 



Every- where the jealousies that at first seemed to exist 

 between the secret and open organizations are gradually 

 giving way to the knowledge that, in the work in hand, 

 there must be no faltering nor looking back ; that each have 

 their legitimate sphere of action; and that each, however 

 many there may be, is necessary to the other. 



As the flint against the steel elicits sparks, so the friction 

 of mind against mind, at the Club and Grange meetings, is 

 developing not simply good debaters, but even orators whose 

 eloquent utterances have power to stir the masses to noble 

 efforts. 



To have been assured of this it was only necessary to have 

 attended the convention at Decatur, of the Illinois Farmers 

 Association, December 15, 1873. when for four days, hold- 



