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Patrons of California will cordially co-operate with them in any 

 measures that can secure our mutual interests. Your welfare is 

 ours. Success and happiness attend you, our brother from Iowa, 

 on your return to a joyous home. May your useful life long be 

 spared, that you may continue to labor, as we are sure you have 

 among us, with an eye single to the good of our Order. 



To you, brothers and sisters of San Jose Grange, we return our 

 thanks for the courtesies you have shown us during our session. 

 With all my heart, I thank you for the handsome and valued testi 

 monial of your regard. 



To all of you, my brother officers and friends, at this parting hour, 

 my feelings go out in earnest sympathy and fraternal love, strength 

 ened by the memories of the past. Believe me, I shall ever be will 

 ing to labor with you in any part of our symbolic field for the suc 

 cessful accomplishment of our purposes. Let us remember, my 

 brothers and sisters, &quot; a good name is rather to be chosen than 

 great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold.&quot; 



Accept my thanks for all your fraternal kindness toward me. 

 God bless and preserve you all, and grant continued prosperity to 

 our cause. 



Brother, I cheerfully transfer to you the gavel, as Master of the 

 State Grange of California. 



Worthy Master Hamilton made some feeling and appropriate 

 remarks on taking his seat. 



Dr. E. S. Carr, Professor of Agriculture of the- California 

 State University, (Worthy Lecturer of Temescal Grange), gave 

 an interesting address, a portion only of which we are permitted 

 to present to our readers : 



In coming before the Patrons of Husbandry, I lay down the role 

 of instructor, and sit as a learner in the common school of experience 

 as a fellow laborer with you for a common end, viz: the advance 

 ment of the industrial classes. I have been about the State a good 

 deal in pursuance of my duties as Agricultural Professor in the 

 People s University, finding more opportunities to learn than to 

 teach, and I have learned much of the difficulties you have to con 

 tend with; perhaps I have seen more plainly than you could your 

 selves that the greatest was the lack of ready, trained intelligence in 

 meeting those difficulties, or in other words, allowing the brains of 

 others to use your hands for their own, rather than your benefit. 

 Here as elsewhere, labor has been a blind giant, conscious of his 

 strength, yet impotent to use it for his own advantage. And here 

 as elsewhere, the giant s eyes are opened at last, to see how little 

 mere strength is worth, without skill to direct and utilize it. 



Dr. Carr then proceeded to show that &quot;education&quot; must go into 

 the ballot, before the laboring man, even in America, could maintain 

 his personal and industrial rights; because it is the key to order and 

 organization. Intellectual faculty is capital; it is a blessed and most 

 hopeful sign of the times that men are organizing everywhere, not 

 only for relief and protection, but for improvement and social unity. 

 The speaker drew a vivid picture of the disabilities of agricultural 



