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INDEX 



83; letter to Producers' Convention, 

 130 note 2; appoints railroad commis- 

 sioners, 136. 



Panic (1857), effect on railroad construc- 

 tion, 9. 



Panic (1873), effect on agriculture, 20; 

 effect on railroad regulation, 101; 

 ascribed to Granger laws, 232 note 4. 



Parks, member Illinois constitutional 

 convention, 129. 



Parsons, master Minnesota State Grange, 

 address, 163 note i. 



Patent rights, abuses, 18; reforms de- 

 manded by Grange, 119. 



Patron of Husbandry (Columbus, Miss.), 

 289, 326. 



Patron of Husbandry (Memphis, Tenn.), 

 328. ' 



Patrons' Advance (Batavia, O.), 328. 



Patrons' Benevolent Aid Society of Wis- 

 consin, 273. 



Patrons' Bulletin (Georgetown, Ky.), 



325- 



Patrons' Centennial Encampment Asso- 

 ciation, 300. 



Patrons' Cooperative Bank (Olathe, 

 Kans.), 271. 



Patrons' Cooperative Corporation (Port- 

 land, Me.), 266. 



Patrons' Gazette (N. Y.), 327, 350. 



Patrons' Gleaner (Emporia, Kans.), 324. 



Patrons' Helper (Des Moines, la.), 324. 



Patrons' Mutual Aid Society of Elmira 

 (N.Y.), 272, 351. 



Patrons' New York Business Directory, 357. 



Patrons of Husbandry, see Grange. 



Patrons of Industry, 305, 307, note i. 



Patrons' Parliamentary Guide, 318. 



Paul, G. H. t Wisconsin railroad com- 

 missioner, 1 86. 



Pearson, J. M., Illinois railroad commis- 

 sioner, 145 note 3. 



Peck, G. W., ed., Wisconsin, 334. 



Peik v. Chicago and Northwestern rail- 

 road, 210. 



Peffer, W. A., Farmer's Side, 332; " Far- 

 mers' Alliance," 338; " Farmers' De- 

 fensive Movement," 338. 



Pennsylvania, agricultural condition, 4; 

 Grange statistics, 45, 51, s8ff., state 

 grange organized, 63; railroad legisla- 

 tion, 200; Grange stores, 266; bibliog- 

 raphy, 320, 326. 



People s Independent party (Calif.), 98, 

 99, 197. See also Independent party 

 movement. 



People's Paper (Chicago), 323. 



People's party, 309. 



People's Reform party (Wis.), see Inde- 

 pendent party movement. 



Periam, Jonathan, Groundswett, 74 note 



2,317,339. 



Periodicals increase in circulation, 287. 

 See also Newspapers. 



Peters, A. H., " Depreciation of Farming 

 Land," 332. 



Peto, S. M., Resources and Prospects of 

 America, 332. 



Philadelphia (Pa.), Greenback conven- 

 tion, 98 note 3; Centennial Exposition, 

 120; session National Council Sover- 

 eigns of Industry, 306. 



Physiocrats, fanners hold similar theo- 

 ries, 1 6. 



Pierson, C. W., " Granger Movement," 



339- 



Platform, National Grange, 63-65; Inde- 

 pendent parties, 86, 90, 94,95, 100, 101. 



Politicians, join Grange, 71. 



Politics, in South, 5; railroad influence, 

 13; and farmers, 34-36; effect on 

 economic problems, 36; reform party, 

 advocated, 53; discussion in Grange 

 prohibited, 58; at close of Civil War, 

 80; recent, 309-312. 



Pomona granges, provision for, 65; 

 establish cooperative stores, 240. 



Pontiac (111.), 87. 



Pope, C. C., Railroads are Private Prop- 

 erty, 348. 



Population, increase in West (1860-80), 

 25; surplus after Civil War, 25, 26. 



Populist party, origin, 309, significance, 

 310; bibliography, 332, 333. 



Portage (Wis.), state grange reorgan- 

 ized, 54. 



