558 THE GROUNDSWELL. 



Agricultural Colleges, and the Press, as the great levers of 

 progress, in making mankind and womankind thoroughly 

 humane and enlightened. 



One very significant resolution of the Iowa State Grange 

 is: &quot;That we specially urge upon our brethren the duties 

 of fraternal arbitration in settlement of all difficulties with 

 out resort to legal tribunals.&quot; 



The address of the Master of the Iowa State Grange 

 contains the following precepts which the Executive Com 

 mittee were instructed to publish in a circular for the use 

 of the brethren and others : 



First, the family relation or so 

 cial phase as represented in the 

 the Subordinate Grange. The 

 needs of farmers in this direction 

 are plainly apparent to all. The 

 Grange gives that social culture 

 so much needed in our isolated 

 condition. In the Grange room 

 we meet to strenghten those social 

 ties without which life is shorn of those enjoyments which vitalize exist 

 ence and make labor become ennobling and honorable. The American 

 people, and more especially those of us who follow agriculture as a 

 profession or calling, pay too little regard to the social enjoyments. 

 Coming into a new country, strangers to each other, urged on by the 

 absolute necessity of making from the soil, homes and a standing in 

 the community, we put all of our lives into the material work before 

 us, forgetting that any life purely material in its character must be 

 -practically a failure. The Order of the Patrons of Husbandry aims 

 to meet this want, and our past though short experience has shown 

 us that in this direction alone it is worth infinitely more than it 

 has cost. 



The second phase of our work is the intellectual and educational one. 

 No organization in the world has ever before opened such a field 

 of opportunity for the men and women whj ava.il themselves of its 



