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laboring classes, reformation in economy, and the dissemi- 

 nation of principles best calculated to encourage and 

 foster agricultural and mechanical pursuits, encouraging 

 the toiling masses leading them in the road to prosperity, 

 and providing a just and fair remuneration for labor, a 

 just exchange for our commodities and the best means of 

 securing to the laboring classes the greatest amount of 

 good; we hold to the principle that all monopolies are 

 dangerous to the best interests of our country, tending to 

 enslave a free people and subvert and finally overthrow 

 the great principles purchased to the fathers of American 

 liberty. We, therefore, adopt the following as our decla- 

 ration of principles: 



1. To labor for the education of the agricultural 

 classes in the science of economical government, in a 

 strictly non-partisan spirit, and to bring about a more 

 perfect union of said classes. 



2. That we demand equal rights to all and special 

 favors to none. 



3. To endorse the motto, "In things essential, 

 unity; and in all things, charity. n 



4. To develop a better state mentally, morally, 

 socially and financially. 



5 . To constantly strive to secure entire harmony and 

 good will to all mankind and brotherly love among our- 

 selves. 



6. To suppress personal, local, sectional and 

 Xatonal prejudices; all unhealthful rivalry and all selfish 

 ambition. 



7. The brightest jewels which it garners are the 

 tears of the widows and orphans, and its imperative com- 

 mands are to visit the homes where lacerated hearts are 

 bleeding, to assuage the sufferings of a brother or sister; 

 bury the dead, care for the widows and educate the 

 orphans; to exercise charity toward offenders; to construe 



