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96 HOW THE CLUBS BECAME GRANGES. 



On the second day, the Committee on Resolutions reported 

 the following, which were adopted : 



Resolved, That the rates charged for freights over the railroads in 

 this State are ruinous to our agricultural interests. 



2d That in our opinion the corporations operating these roads, 

 being the creations of our laws, are, and should be, under the con 

 trol of our statutes, and that the maximum rates of freights should 

 be so fixed by statute as to prevent extortion, and leave the pro 

 ducer a margin of profit on his productions, and that way freights 

 be charged only in proportion to the distance the freight is sent with 

 the charge for through freight. 



3d That if we find it impracticable under present management of 

 such roads to obtain a fair reduction of such freights, we will agi 

 tate the subject and insist that the railroads built by the money of 

 government shall be operated by the government in the interests of 

 the people, rather than by private persons for personal aggrandize 

 ment. 



4th That as these matters are political, we will so far make this 

 a, political body as to cast our votes and use our influence for such 

 men for our State Legislature as will carry our views into effect. 



5th That inasmuch as the farmers of this State find them 

 selves a prey to moneyed rings, in the matter of grain sacks, we re 

 fer this matter to the Executive Committee of this body, with in 

 structions to consider the propriety of utilizing State-prison labor, 

 either at San Queutiii or Folsom, in the production of a sufficient 

 number of sacks each year, for our home consumption, to be sold to 

 the farmers at their actual cost, thus saving the profit now made 

 from us by dealers. 



6th That our Executive Committee also consider such other 

 remedies for the wrongs we now sustain in that regard, as shall, to 

 them, seem practical. 



7th That there being less tariff on the raw material for sacks, we 

 can and ought to provide ourselves with the manufactured article 

 without paying any margin to mere dealers in sacks. 



8th That our Executive Committee consider and propose a plan 

 for the organization of co-operative banking, which shall put the 

 farmers of the State in the possession of means sufficient to protect 

 themselves from the rings formed by capitalists to appropriate to 

 themselves the profits of our industry. 



9th That the Executive Committee be requested to propose some 

 plan for the co-operation of farmers in each locality in the sale of 

 their products and the purchase of necessaries, with a view to retain 

 among the producers the profits now made by mere dealers. 



10th That our Executive Committee also consider and provide a 

 plan for stowing grain and other farmers products, with a view to 

 enable farmers to retain their crops till they can get for them the 

 hihest market value. 





The Committee on Communications presented a very able 

 paper, by Mrs. J. Preston Moore, delegate from the Oakland 



