Political News Stories for Chickasaw County, MS

Date: 1887-08-24; Paper: The Clarion
Chickasaw County Grange and the A&M College

Preamble and Resolutions Read and Adopted by the Chickasaw County Grange at its July Meeting at Houlka

Whereas, the Legislature of the State did, upon the demands of the State Grange of Mississippi, Establish the A and M College in accordance with the agreement made and entered into by the State when the donation of the general government was accepted for the purpose; and

Whereas, the College is now looked to all over the nation as one of, if not the very best, of the kind in the United States, thus proving it to be a success; and

Whereas, We know that the ultimate elevation of the farming class to a higher place among the other classes, must be brought about by education, and knowing that the prosperity of every nation depends largely upon the intelligence of the wealth-producing classes, and that our college has been well managed, and that it is resulting in much good to the farmers of the State; and believing that complaints of extravagance in State aid are not well founded for the reason that the Board of Trustees (composed of as good men as can be found in any State, among whom is ex Gov Stone, whose administration, has been commended as economical in the highest degree) have in their report of recent date, suggested new and additional appropriations to the institution; therefore,

Resolved that we, the members of Chickasaw County Grange No 46, hereby call upon all honorable gentlemen, who may be called to serve their people as Representatives in the next Legislature to consider well the interest of the farmers of the State in this matter, and to cast their vote and exert their influence in favor of a proper appropriation for the A & M College at Starkville, and also the I. I, and C. at Columbus.

Resolved 2. That inasmuch as the establishment of these institutions can be justly claimed as some of the results of the laborers in our order, and that so far as we are able to learn no just complaint can be brought against them, we will therefore use our utmost endeavors to check the efforts that are being made to build up a sentiment against them.

Resolve 3. That we commend to our members of the Grange and the farmers, generally, the recent report of the Board of Trustees of the A and M College as a paper that should be read and studied and filed for future reference.

Resolved 4. That we do not claim or desire extravagant appropriations for our industrial colleges, but we do desire such appropriations as are necessary to their successful operation, and that so long as the farmers continue to be the greatest burden bearers in the payment of the taxes in the State, we will never be satisfied with less. S. L. Wilson
Requested to be published in The Clarion, Miss Alice T. Jones, Sec’y of County Grange.

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