INDEX 



383 



Western Rural (Chicago, 111.), 324, 329- 



Western Stock Journal and Farmer 

 (Cedar Rapids, la.), 324. 



Wharton, Francis, " Retrospective Leg- 

 islation and Grangerism," 347. 



What Greeley knows about Farming, 168 

 note i. 



Wheat, over-production, 7; shipment 

 from California to Liverpool, 8; sta- 

 tistics (1866-80), 28-34; bibliography, 

 333 , 334- See also Cereal production, 

 Grain trade. 



Wheel, agricultural organization, 304; 

 bibliography, 338. 



Wheeler, H. C, secretary Illinois State 

 Grange, 48; calls Producers' Conven- 

 tion, 127. 



White, Horace, editor, Chicago Tribune, 

 321. 



Whitehead, Mortimer, " The Grange in 

 Politics," 340; " Patrons of Husban- 

 dry," 340; Silver Jubilee, 340. 



Whitman, J. D., Iowa Grange agent, 

 243; obtains Werner harvester patent, 

 268. 



Wilder, D. W., Kansas, 335. 



Wilkinson, J., organizes granges, 51, 54. 



Willamette Farmer (Salem, Ore.), 328. 



Williams, W. L., organizes granges, 51, 



55- 



Wilson, W. D., organizes granges, 49, 55; 

 secretary Iowa State Grange, 50. 



Wilson, W. H., publisher Grange Bulletin, 

 322. 



Windom, Senator, chairman interstate 

 commerce committee, 217; attends 

 cheap transportation meeting, 219; 

 asks cooperation of Northwestern 

 Farmers' Convention, 220. 



Windom committee on transportation 

 routes, farmers appeal to, 112; ap- 

 pointed, 217; investigations, 220; 

 resume" of report, 221; Report, 347. 



Winona and St. Peter railroad v. Blake 

 161, 211. 



Wisconsin, farm mortgages exchanged 

 for railroad stock, 10 note 3; frontier 

 line, 25; farmers' convention, 78; 



political situation (1865), 80; Reform 



party, 89, 90, 92, 96; interest rate, 106; 



Patrons of Industry, 305; bibliography, 



321, 329, 334, 34i, 348, 350- 

 Wisconsin Agricultural Convention, 



opposes repeal of Potter law, 193. 

 Wisconsin Granger (pseud.), "The 



Grange and the Potter Law," 234, 



349- 



Wisconsin Granger (Madison), 329. 



Wisconsin Patrons of Husbandry, early 

 granges, 45, 5J growth, 54, 59, 89, 

 181; statistics, 58 ff.; political activ- 

 ity, 89, 92, 96 note 3; support Potter 

 law, 96 note 3; agitation for railroad 

 regulation, 182; decline, 192; business 

 agency, 248; manufacturing, 269; 

 insurance, 273. See also Wisconsin 

 State Grange. 



Wisconsin Post (Shawano), 329. 



Wisconsin Railroad Law, 192, 349. 



Wisconsin railroad regulation, Reform 

 party supports, 96, 99, 181; early 

 attempts, 179-181; Grange advo- 

 cates, 181, 182, 190; Potter law en- 

 acted, 183; provisions of Potter law, 

 184; anti-pass law, 186; commissioners 

 appointed, 186; attempts to enforce, 

 187-189; cases in United States Su- 

 preme Court, 188, 210, 21.1; campaign 

 against, 189, 191-193; Quimby amend- 

 ment, 191; Vance law substituted for 

 Potter law, 193. 



Wisconsin River, improvement advo- 

 cated, 112. 



Wisconsin State Grange, organized, 50; 

 reorganized, 54; advocates: uniform 

 text-books, 104; compulsory educa- 

 tion, 104; taxation of railroads, 105; 

 regulation of interest rate, 106; patent 

 reforms, 119; railroad legislation, 182 

 officers recommend candidates for 

 railroad commission, 186; upholds 

 Potter law, 190, 193; establishes 

 agency, 248. 



Wisconsin Statesman (Madison), 329. 



Women, in Grange, 41, 43, 281; suffrage 

 for, 121; dress reform, 299. 



