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with colonial laws placing restrictions upon the planting of 

 tobacco. 1 



Another way in which southern granges proposed to advance 

 the agricultural interests of the South was by encouraging 

 immigration. Nearly every state grange in the South and 

 many of the local granges undertook some scheme in this direc- 

 tion. 2 For example, the state grange of Alabama in 1874 had 

 a pamphlet prepared containing information furnished by the 

 subordinate granges with regard to the resources of each county. 

 In several of the counties of Arkansas, the granges appointed 

 joint committees to collect and publish information designed 

 to attract immigrants. 3 A grange in Mobile County, Alabama, 

 issued a pamphlet in German, setting forth to immigrants of 

 that nationality the desirability of settling in southern Alabama. 4 

 Nor was interest in this subject confined entirely to the South, 

 for the state grange of Iowa resolved in 1873 " that the immi- 

 gration of skilled farm laborers should be encouraged, and we 

 hail gladly all proper arrangements that foster this enterprise." 5 



MISCELLANEOUS INFLUENCES AND ACTIVITIES 



As a result of the sudden prominence attained by the Grange 

 in the middle of the decade of the seventies, all sorts of move- 

 ments and " reforms " sought its support and alliance. About 

 1873 a new wave of temperance agitation got under way in 

 western New York and Ohio. This movement, which ulti- 

 mately led to the organization of the Women's Christian Tem- 

 perance Union, seems to have been social rather than political 



1 C. M. Andrews, Colonial Self-Government, 213. 



8 State grange proceedings: Alabama, ii. 6, 12, 14, 17, 26, iii. 21, 28; Arkansas, 

 v. 6, 18; Louisiana, iii. 19; Maryland, i. 9, 13; Mississippi, v. 6-9; North Carolina, 

 ii. 21, iii. 29, iv. 17; Virginia, i. 33, 35. 



3 Wisconsin Statesman, August 21, 1875, p. 3. 



4 This pamphlet is entitled: Mobile County, eine passende Heimath fur den 

 deutschen Farmer. Bericht uber die Einwanderung nach Sud-Alabama besonders 

 der deutschen Farmer des Westens, vorgelegt in der Gulf City Grange no. 68, Patrons 

 of Husbandry, nach einem in der am 25. Juni 1874 abgehaltenen Versammlung 

 gefassien Beschlusse. See also a pamphlet prepared by a Grange committee en- 

 titled: History, Description and Resources of Darlington County, State of South Caro- 

 lina, 1874. Copies of both of these pamphlets are in the Library of Congress. 



6 Iowa State Grange, Proceedings, iv (1873). 



