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necessary to our success, that their interests are intimately 

 connected with our interests. 



We are opposed to such spirit and management oi 

 any corporation or enterprise as tends to oppress the 

 people, and rob them of their just profits. We are not 

 enemies to capital, but we oppose the tyranny of monopo- 

 lies. We long to see the antagonism between capital 

 and labor removed by common consent, and by an en- 

 lightened statesmanship worthy of the nineteenth century. 

 We are opposed to excessive salaries, high rates of interest, 

 and exorbitant per-cent. profits in trade. 



We shall advance the cause of education among our- 

 selves and for our children, by all just means within our 

 power. We especially advocate for our agricultural 

 and industrial colleges that practical agriculture, do- 

 mestic science, and all the arts which adorn the home 

 be taught in their courses of study. 



We emphatically and sincerely assert the oft-repeated 

 truth taught in our organic law, that the Grange na- 

 tional, state, or subordinate is not a political or party 

 organization. No Grange, if true to its obligations, can 

 discuss political or religious questions, or call political 

 conventions, or nominate candidates, or even discuss 

 their merits at its meetings. 



We always bear in mind that no one, by becoming a 

 Patron of Husbandry, gives up that inalienable right and 

 duty which belongs to every American citizen, to take 

 a proper interest in the politics of his country. On the 

 contrary, it is his duty to do all he can in his own party to 

 put down bribery, corruption, and trickery; to see that 

 none but competent, faithful, and honest men, who will 

 unflinchingly stand by our industrial interests, are nomi- 



