, 1874-04-03
THE FARMERS.

4unTtcf2y mCCItME OF the N1rshn4
County {rll.> Anti-Nlonopoly Asso-
Ciusi0n.
To tho Editor 0f Ths Cafcaao Tribune:
SIN: Tho MarAhall County Antl-hfonopoly
Association hold Its third quarterly meeting at
Lacon on Saturday Inst, President Groon In tho
chair. Secretary Atwood raad the minutos Of
tho lust meeting. Tho regular business was
postponed I'LL tho mcatipg should bo addressod
by W. A. McNoighan, who said that there were
only nluotcon farms in Ford County that woro
not mortgnged; nino-tontha In Mclean County,
were mortgaged, aud throo-fourtlls In Livingston
sa IL s 4sssd s0 s a s ae 5 5 bsSss s last s
corn, and was not worth q dollar more
than when ho started; that ho would like
to know how tho5 20 bonds aro to bo redeemed in
gold or groonbacks; that Congress- had dcrna-
tional-Danking syatem WAS only squeezing pro-
ocss, which lad ruined tho groas North west;
TINT ho would not udviao any Communicate out
broak Or ylolont measure Of my kiud but ho
tlons Of ths day simply on tholr merits, ana chal-
tioas s undoriaid tho question Of
cheap transportation 90 we'll Us tho
other; that 30 long ~ NO woro represented in
Congress- by seyenty-four Or soyonty-sovon Ea-
tional-Dank mon, .we would just SO long havo
National-Dank notes for our currency, paying
on their circulation lonncd out on our
tic ferrys, of Michigan, and ali other monopo-
lsts, logislato for us. 10 long would wo pay a
the iron manufacturers mako our lava, Just
80 long will our railroads have to pay high duty
on all iron thoy necessarily uAo. Ho advised the
farmors TO look to their own interests, do their
own thinking, md 10 no longer dcnngogned:
Tho speech was vol received by a wall-fillod
house Of tho "hay-seed" men from all parts Of
| tho county.
at the conclusion Of tho speech tho regular
business was taken up. q. G. Green was ap-
pointed, on tho part Of Marshall County, for tic
| Congressional Committoe. John G. Faris, MIL
ton Wobbor, and George ": limerick were al,-
| pointed Committee on Resolutions, mud reported
! tho following, which wore adopted:
:Essolsed, That ws domand Of Congress tha repeal
of tho National Banking 1aw and to Substitution Of
lcgal-tender currency directly from tlo National
Treasury, interchangeable at tho option Of tho holdcr
exceeding 65-loo per cent per al.nun, a TINT they
he put III circulation iu rcdooning outs ling inter-
| Iesoired, That wo do not approve Of the passagc
by Congre5s Of any law. appropriation, charter Of
any corporation, that 1nuy be embraced In eny omni
bus blu; but TINT overy act should stand on is osvn
| merits.
Cy Is Brown, David McDonough, George W.
| Mead, A. s. Myers, snd james T. Thompson, Of
Betlo Plain, wore appointed o County Central
and William atwood, as Committee to procure
! speakers for the next mooting. On the part Of
| Marshall County, g. g. Greon Was authorized to
! neet tho state "Auvisory Doard." consisting Of
tho Presidents Of each county iu the etats,
which will meet in Bloomington on tho 9th day
| of May noxt.
II was further ordered that thoao proceedings
ho published in tho county papars,, tho Prairie
Farmer, Cn1oAoo Tn1nuNu, mud Times and TINT
q copy Of the resolutions bs acnt to tho Hon. G..
L. Fort. I. g. GREEN, presldout.