St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-01
STATE FARMERS, ALLIANCE.
A Call for a Meeting at Minneapolis
Feb. "a.

The Minnesota State Farmers alliance
will assemble at the State university, Min
neapolis, Feb. "a, at 10 a. IN. The follow
ing call is issued through secretary of the
alliance, Mr.. George w. Haigh Of Bingham
Lake:
In issuing this call for the next annual
meeting of the state alliance we employ the
opportunity it affords to briefly summarize
the work you have accomplished since your
organization, and especially since you have
become sufficiently strong TO be factor in
shaping the legislation OF your state. We
would first impress upon you the fact that
through your organization and concerted
action has come all the advantages you have
reaped from recent LEGISLATION. While the
laws you have been instrumental In enacung
are not all you deserved, or had reason 10 ex-
pect, yet brief retrospection Of the condi-
ton of the farmers of this state prior TO the
passage of the laws in question, will convince
you that you have already accomplished
much, that you have strong
REASONS FOR PERSEVERANCE
and an assurance that you will ultimately
command that respect TO which your position
and strength entities you. Before you began
to exercise your influence upon the legisla-
ture OF the state, you and your brother farm
ers were absolutely enslaved by powerful and
unrelenting monopolieS. You were deprived
of all commercial rights in disposing OF the
products OF your 1dfHns. III SSlllug your
wheat, every avenue of trade was closed
against you save those guarded by some
monopolistic association, which was exacting
it's enormous tributes in the form of low
prices, dishonest weights, unfair grades and
merciless dockage. You were hopelessly dis
eliminated against by every railroad in the
state, and at law or in courts you had no re-
dress. You were denied even the poor privi-
lege of fighting your monopolistic masters:
there was no one to even listen to your ear
nest protests against your great wrongs.
Now, by reason of your organization and
efforts, a great change has come.
COMPETITION WITH MoNoPoLIES
is possible and easy. In many parts of the
state the 'ltte fiat warehouse" a creature
of your present law, has driven monopoly's
agents from their midst, added to the profit
of surrounding farmers, and emphasized the
justice of your principles and the potency of
your work. Railroad determinations have
been made in law-what they always were in
fact-a crime, and their extortions have been
much modified, though not yet satisfactorily
regulated. 1t is safe to say that recent re-
auctions in freight charges, through the
operations of the law as administered by our
railroad commissioners, VIII aggregate a
large annual saving to the farmers of the
Northwest. Yet it should be considered
more as an earnest of what tits possible to ac-
complish through legislation than as an en-
tirely satisfactory result. You are no longer
INSCRIPTIONS weighing and grading of your
wheat. In short, you must see many advan-
tages you now have as compared with the
recent past. Notwithstanding all the advan-
tages we have pointed out, our
RAILROAD AND W AREHoUsE LAWS
are yet defective in several points, and this
fact renders the continuance and strengthen
ing of the alliance in this state an imperative
necessity. To relax a single effort now is to
lose all the ground we have gained. Outside
of the law you have also realized many of the
advantages of organization, and, taken alto
gether you have everything to inspire you to
greater effort in the future. We trust you
will be impressed with the value of the work
you have done and the Importance Of that
yet to be done, and that this will move you to
come together at our annual meeting in large
numbers and with an earnest determination
TO maintain your ground until you have &C
complished that for which you were organ
lied. In conclusion we want to congratulate
you upon the growth of your order during
the year and upon its present activity
He'd Wing Board of Trade.
Special to the Globe.
RED Wing, Mimi. Jan. 31.-Friday
evening meeting was held at the city
council room to reorganize the board OF
trade. The president, ]. NJ. Hodgman,
having resigned on account of i'll health,