The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-06-19
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES.



A meeting of the Minnesota Farmer o'a'e
Alliance was held in Mankato few days ago
The attendance was quite small
President G. M Sprague, of Fillmore county,
stated that the object of the meeting was to con-
suit and determine what measures looking 10
the relief and advantage of the farmers are
needed, and how monopolies were to be over
thrown what combination and organization
was needed to accomplish
On motion Of Gen. W. G. LIE Due OF Dakota
county, Lysander Cook of Blue Earth, nj. L.
Edwards of Marshall county, H. A. Swain OF
Rice county, e. D. Cornish of Blue Earth
grange, were appointed committee on resoiu-
tons. The following committee was appoint
cd on revision of the constitution: Col A. M
Burdick, Clay county; c. II. Brown, Fillmore
county; William Muzzy, Otter Tail county; IT,
W. Day, Mcleod county; ]. s. Englerth, Blue
Earth county.
There were many brief addresses from time
to time and much debate by Col J. Burdick,
Gen. LIE Due, j. Diamond, Mankato, and 9TH
ers.
The committee on platform reported series
of resolutions, demanding free and equal rights
to the full enjoyment of the fruits OF their Ia
bors and necessary to their happiness and
prosperity; recommending the securing as
their representatives in and for all mumclpai,
county. state and national governments the
election of men who shall be pledged to i1dellty
and the enactment of equal
and Just laws; no break over
demanding taxation of railroad lands held by
companies surreptitiously, in such manner at
to escape taxation but which have him actual
1xv on nrfyent
determinations, demanding that puphc iahds
shall be saved for the people and not sold TO
ANYBODY in large amounts, stating that ltls the
duty of congress to put the department OF aSrl-
culture upon footing of equality with the
other departments of this government, the I'M
portation of contract labor and of foreign,
pauper and criminal assisted, so called I'M
migrants from any and all countries Is con.
demned as an outrage on the spirit OF
our institutions and on the generous
hospitality of our country statlpS mat tne
state board of immigration of Minnesota IL
no longer necessary or advisable, and should
be abolished and the expense saved to the TAX,
payer: That the existing tariff laws need and
should Immediately receive such revision ana
such reduction from time to time, OF surplus
receipts as will relieve the people Oh llle pha
den of anv and all unnecessary taxauon. L nat
the agricultural interests of this state demand
an open market free from all discrimination
by railroad and elevator companies, ana
guarded from the control of boards OF trade
and wheat rings, and that wheat Transportation
should be at the lowest possible rate
Other resolutions were adopted that 1t Is I'M
constitutional to tax one class of population to
enrich another class, however speclous and
plausible may be the pretenses under which II
is done, that we are opposed to the doctrine
that the tariff shall be constructed, not
with view to revenue mainly, but to en-
rich the capitalist engage in mining and man
ufacturing at the expense of the capital en-
gagged in agriculture, that the labor engaged III
agriculture in this state is'fAmerican labor
and needs encouragement" as much as that OF
the mill and mine owners OF the East, ano
that the best encouragement the government
can give it is relief from the burden OF unjust
and unnecessary taxation
The alliance elected the following officers fol
the ensuing year:
President-George W. Sprague.
Vice President Washington Muzzytatlarge
G. H. Brown, First district; d H. Morse, sec
ond district: Hiram Van Wart, Fourth dis
trict: r. M. Profsfeld. Fifth district
Sacretary-George w. Haugh.
Treasurer-A Marty
Iecturer-A NJ Burdick.
Ignatius Donnelly delivered short address
in which the hard-ships of the farmers were
set forth with great deal of vigor. The next
meeting of the Alliance will be held In 1888 at
ST. Paul