ur attachments to our pursuits. To foster mutual
understanding and co-operation. To maintain inviolate our laws, and
to emulate each other in labor, to hasten the good time coming. To
reduce our expenses, both individual and corporate. To buy less and
produce more, in order to make our farms self-sustaining. To
diversify our crops and crop no more than we can cultivate. To
condense the weight of our exports, selling less in the bushel and
more on hoof and in fleece; less in lint and more in warp and woof.
To systematize our work, and calculate intelligently on
probabilities. To discountenance the credit system, the mortgage
system, the fashion system, and every other system tending to
prodigality and bankruptcy.

We propose meeting together, talking together, working together,
buying together, selling together, and, in general, acting together
for our mutual protection and advancement, as occasion may require.
We shall avoid litigation, as much as possible, by arbitration in
the Grange. We shall constantly strive to secure entire harmony,
good will, vital brotherhood, among ourselves, and to make our
order perpetual. We shall earnestly endeavor to suppress personal,
local, sectional, and national prejudices, all unhealthy rivalry,
all selfish ambition. Faithful adherence to these principles will
insure our mental, moral, social, and material advancement.

For our business interests we desire to bring producers and
consumers, farmers and manufacturers, into the most direct and
friendly relations possible. Hence we must dispense with a surplus
of middle-men, not that we are unfriendly to them, but we do not
need them. Their surplus and their exactions diminish our profits.

We wage no aggressive warfare against any other interests whatever.
On the contrary, all our acts and all our efforts, so far as
business is concerned, are not only for the benefit of the producer
and consumer, but also for all other interests that tend to bring
these two parties into speedy and economical contact. Hence we hold
that transportation companies of every kind are necessary to our
success, that their interests are intimately connected with our
interests.

We are opposed to such spirit and management of any corporation or
enterprise as tends to oppress the peopl