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laborers ill England, and showed how much they had already ac 

 complished by peaceable co-operation. Chancellor Lowe struck the 

 key-note of their position, when he said in the British Parliament: 

 &quot;Let us educate our new masters.&quot; D Israeli, speaking of the first 

 efforts of this patient, long-suffering class toward their own emanci 

 pation, said: &quot;We have long been mortgaging industry to protect 

 property, and the hour of foreclosure -has come/ 



The great watchwords of the time are education and association. 

 Both these desiderata are fully recognized in this organization, so 

 unprecedented in its growth, so beneficent in its aims, so wide 

 reaching in its influence. Of all combinations originating under 

 strong necessities for resistance, it is the least revolutionary, the 

 most patient and progressive. It is no part of our business to foster 

 enmities and widen differences between capital and labor but on the 

 contrary to learn how these can be associated into a true equality. 

 Capital in. the hands of educated labor is not one tool, but many, the 

 grandest piece of its complex machinery. Thejncreasing subdivision 

 and specialization of labor is a sufficient guaranty that the principles 

 of co-operation will never work adversely to the interests of capital. 



These views were amply and variously presented and illustrated 

 in their educational, political and social aspects. While the Granges 

 would never become political in a narrow and partisan sense, any 

 more than churches are, the speaker said he believed they were des 

 tined to become an immense power in the purification of our politics 

 by carrying into them a higher sense of responsibility, and the more 

 direct and constant influence of our best womanhood. 



^Resolutions complimentary to Bro. Daniel Clark, W. M. of 

 Oregon, and to Bro. N. W. Garretson, Deputy of the National 

 Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, were unanimously adopted. 



It was moved by J. W. A. Wright that the State Grange of 

 California include in its memorial to Congress a petition for 

 the requisite appropriations to improve the navigation of the 

 Columbia and Willamette rivers, as such improvement is ab 

 solutely necessary to relieve the farmers, who depend upon 

 them as commercial avenues, from the oppression of existing 

 monopolists. Adopted. 



The following resolutions were also offered by Bro. Wright: 



Besolved, That the State Grange of California is in full sympathy 

 with the mission to this country of Mr. Joseph Arch of England, and 

 that we cordially invite him to visit our Pacific Coast with a view to 

 bringing among us immigrants from the laboring classes of Europe, 

 whom he represents. 



Resolved, That the Committee on Immigration be instructed to 

 communicate this invitation to Mr. Joseph Arch, and report his 

 answer to the Executive Committee. Adopted. 



State Agent, G. P. Kellogg, and Mr. Walcott, of E. E. 



