The anti-monopolist., 1875-12-30

SpeeCn OF non. cDeneZef RyreS, OF Mnne.
sofa, in the Cincinnati Conference OF
Farmers Mechanics and Laaorers, held In
September ast.-As taken by a Steno.
graphic Reporter.
In explanation it may be necessary to
state that the mechanics from the CEN
tral states made up.a majority, and con.
trolled the Conference. and were anxious
to coalesce with the Cleveland Move
ment, $50 called,) while the farmers of
the south and northwest, wished to pre-
serve the Conference, intact, but were
willing to Cooperate if thought proper
in the future Ed. Anti-Monopolist]
When the substitute for the last res
olution drawn by the committee, was
under consideration by the recent Gin
cinnati gathering, Mr.. Ayres, OF Mime
sofa, rose and said:
am the author OF the original resOlu-
ton. and claim the respectful attention
of this conference for q short time.
am standing now in the interests of
peace and harmony, and | am willing
to hold out the olive branch in one hand,
aud hesitate to hold the arrows Of con-
troversy in the other. | have gone in
this resolution, just as far as thought /
was required in the interest of peace
and harmony, ard hope our brethren
here will so entertain it. We who come
from the distant prairieS, am sorry to
say, did not bring with Us the quota to
which We are entitled. A host of fsrm-
ers whose hearts and sympathies are
with US were kept at home to secure
their crops. standing exposed as they
were to the devastating elements.
From the great state of Iowa, with her
three hundred thousand voters, there
are only three representatives, and two
of those representatives are ladies,
whose services were not required in
the harvest field. From the state Of
Minnesota, which reaches to the British
line-that noble state, which at the pres
ent time is studded with shocks OF golden
grain from its northern frontier to the
line of Iowa, only two men are here
Eighteen Of our associates in MinnesOta
and seventeen in Iowa had to stav a,
home.
VIC COkAS uOW u uCEC VIII u SKELETON
representation; but we repres ent inde-
pendent men. say represent but it
is not exactly represent They have al
lowed rs to speak for them, but they
are all independent men like ourselves.
We can not bind their actions by
resolutions. for they stand upon their
individuality. as we stand upon ours.
They are trying to rise to the highest
dignity of American manhood. that OF
personal independence. It is with rs q
labor OF love. and we have come down
here al our own expense. It was not
because pinching want or dire necessity
urged US here; tor although we want eli
We earn, yet comparative plenty blessesl
our ample fields, still, our sympathies
are with the telling masses of the csneral|
states. Those workingmen out Of
employment. with hard hesrtedl
masters holding the rod of terror and
oppression over them, touch our hearts
in cur prairie homes. While they say
1--WE want bread,s our graneries are
overfowing with il. While they say.
I've want money" we are giving our
wheat to mother England and her gold
or its equivalent was comieg to the
prairies. We need all we can get and
all we honestly earn. Yet, i every
greenback in the United States could =
annihilated, as the palace Of AladdIn