River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-02-10
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The following resolutions were sent
| to the legislature last week and have
every appearance Of meaning business.
| To the Honorable the Senate and Assembly of the
| State of Wisconsin:
WHEREAS, 1t is a well known fact that farmers
are suffering many grieYous wrongs by the enact
ment of laws in the interest of moneyed mOnopo-
| hes and against labor in all its branches but es-
| peeally upon the agriculturalist; and,
| WHEREAS, Petitions have been circulated ask
| ing congress to pass an interstate commerce bill
| securing equal privileges in transportation of
| freight and against determinations also bill to
protect innocent purchasers of patent right arti-
| cles from prosecution for royalty by fraudulent
vendors; also bill to create proper income tax
on all wealth arising from interest aceruing upon
| invested capital, in proportion to the taxable
| property of the farmer and mechanic; therefore
| be it
| Resolce9, By the Wisconsin State Grange that
we, the representatives of the order of patrons OF
husbandry petition the legislature of the state Of
| Wisconsin, now assembled, to memorial congress
to pass said laws at this session OF congress and
| that each senator and member of congress from
this state be supplied with a copy Of such memo
rial at the earliest possible moment and be asked
/ to give it such attention as will materially as
| sist in the passage of such laws
! By order of the Wisconsin State Grange.
| IL. L. HUXLEY, Secretary
| To the senate and assembly of the
| state of Wisconsin
Resoired, By the Wisconsin state grange, in
session jan, 1881 that representatives in the
| state legislature be solicited and strongly urged
| to favor just and proper appropriation to the
| agricultural department of our state university,
| for the purpose Of enabling that institution to
make scientific experiments in the cultivation and
manufacture Of amber and other varieties of sugar
| cane that can be successfully cultivated in this
state, that proper sum be appropriated by the
| legislature TO carry out the resolution and for
building so.
II. L. HUXLEY,
! Sec. Wis. State Grange.
To the honorable the senate and assembly of
| the state Of Wisconsin:
WHEREAS, we, the producing classes look with
much concern on the aggressive tendencies mani
Tested and put in practice by the railroads of the
state of Wisconsin, well rs elsewhere, at the
| enormous charges made by them for the moving
of the products of the producer to market there
by absorbing nearly one-third of the entire crop,
thus robbing the producer of the profits Of his
| honest labor; and
WHEREAS, The supreme court of the United
States has decided that the people have the power
| by law to control and regulate the rates of fare
| and freight, and to establish proper rate where
| by the railroads may be enabled to earn a fair
remuneration, according to the true value of the
! capital invested. In the construction and equip
ment of the roads for general business but no
| more: therefore be it
Resolred, By the Wisconsin State Grange, that
petition be sent to the legislature asking that
such law be enacted that viii place the railroads
under proper restraint and made subject to law;
also to establish proper rate per mile for fare
and freight as viii be just and proper between the
people and the railroads and to prohibit all dis
ordinations in freight between the different
stations on the railroads; that uniform rate per
mile be charged on all the different classes of
freight to all persons doing business any rail-
road in the state, to the end that all will be
treated uniformly and equal.
(Signed) H. f. HUXLEY,
Sec Wis. State Grange.