Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1874 — The State Grange. [ARTICLE]

The State Grange.

This body, which will meet in this city on the 24th of next month, will have important business before it. Whatever the platforms of political parties may haye been, when they come to vote aye and nay on public measures public men are governed by what appears to them the general demand. While the Order is not a political one, it is composed of people having the largest interest in measures of political economy, who have to deal with them, and they have a right to be heard concerning them. The coming general assembly ,will be composed of three political elements, two so well balanced as to make it an object on their part to act conciliatory. The Patrons of Husbandry may not properly as an organization act as a separate political party, for class political parties are unwise, but the Order may properly deal with public questions, even take such action, and give such expression to public sentiment as citizens, as shall command both the respect attention of National and State legislatures.— lndiana Farmer. The press everywhere, and very naturally, resents a recent law i which it believed to menace its freedom.? This is instinctive; for the hand ot arbitrary power is first laid upon the press, which is the public tongue. Its freedom is the palladiuuref every truly free government, and its utmost abuse is not an evil, as great as the constraint of its liberty. — Harpers' Magazine, )