Objects Of The Grangers

At a recent picnic of farmers in Missouri, Mr. T. E. Allen, Master of the átate Grange, delivered a somewhat elabórate spech, in the course of whiuh he described some of the objects of the organization as follows : " First, and not among the least, is its social feature. Heretolore we have been too ieolated and scattered. We have seemed to take no time for recreatiou, sooial amusemens, or the proper enjoyment of lite. We have too much given ourselve6 up to digging and delving in the ground, and uursing petty prejudices that from mole-hills grew in time to mountains, estranged us from each other. This organization brings us into close contact, encourages a spirit of fraternity and sociability - makes us, in fact, better acquainted with each' other. This feature alone, if properly attended, would be worth the trouble and expense of sustaining the organization. But this is not all. The organization has an educational feature We encourage schools for our children, but. some of us, although too oíd to go to school, are deficiënt in education. Every grange is a school for mutual improvement, in which we endeavor to encourage each other to read, to think, to investígate, and to discuss subjects that pertain to our own interests in a familiar way. We expect thus to teach our peoplo to do their own reading, thinking, investigating, independent of leaders. ' We expect them to throw aside all prejudices of a political er religious character, and to discuss questions coolly, calmly,' dispassionately, with an honest intentioiï to search after the truth. If we have lost caste, and there is any real or iust cause for other classes of people to look down npon us, it has been our own fault, and results from the want of social and iutellectual culture. We have been allowing others to do our reading, thinking, speaking, voting, law-making. We have been executing the laws by proxy instead of doing it ourselveB."