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municates them to its respective subordinate or local 

 Granges. The local Granges, through their individual 

 members, carry these measures into effect, and thus we 

 have the whole Order working for the accomplishment 

 of one object. It is easy to see that when the Order 

 shall embrace the entire agricultural class, as it now 

 bids fair to do, its power to accomplish its objects will 

 be irresistible. 



The Grange then constitutes itself the protector of 

 the farmers and their interests, and thus at the outset 

 appeals to their sympathy and secures their co-operation. 

 Its acts being the results of the combined wisdom of its 

 members, it is clear that the protection it offers will be 

 enlightened and efficient. Its deliberations ensure the 

 avoidance of rash and hot-headed action. Nothing is 

 done until all means are discussed, and the best and 

 most suitable secured. The farmer is conscious that he 

 has powerful and unscrupulous enemies, and that he 

 urgently needs protection against them ; as a member 

 of the Order he can secure the accomplishment of the 

 object nearest his heart, and self-interest prompts him 

 to be a Patron of Husbandry. 



The Order has, as we have said, clear and well-de- 

 fined views of the evils from which the farmers are 

 suffering, and its chief object is to remedy them. It 

 claims to be the best judge of the wisdom and efficiency 

 of these measures, and declines to allow the farmer's 

 enemies to decide the question for him. Such opposition 

 as it has met, has come from the monopolies and their 

 supporters ; but as one of the objects of the Order is the 

 destruction of these gigantic frauds upon the people, 

 this opposition is natural, and was to have been ex- 

 pected. 



