Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-04-10
THE FARMERS COUNCIL.
They Issue an Address, Appoint an Elk
ecut;ye Committee and Adjourn.

reconvened. at A. NJ. yesterday. The at
tendance was not so large as that of the
day before, many of the advocates of the
formation of new party having gone
home in disgust.
The following address was adopted unan-
imously:
To the Producers, TURNER'S and Manufacturers Of
fI1lUorraid: The farmers, in consultation in Sac
ramento. April sth and 9Th, having for It's OBJ
ject the devisement of means to reduce the on.
erous and grievous burdens OF taxation adopted
the following resolutions, which they submit to
your serious consideration.
There would seem to be no way of reforming
the,abuses now of great magnitude, existing in
our State and county administrations only by
legislative action 10 that END IL becomes the
taxpayer to take an active part i'll the precinct
primaries to see that the candidates for legisla-
tive honors be only men of experience and
ability, whose known past standing in the com
munity gives assurance that If elected they
will use their best and untiring efforts to formu-
ulate in law the principles contained in the fol-
lowing resolutions:
RcsolUed, That inasmuch as the price of the
products of labor and agriculture has fallen as
low or lower than in the Atlantic States, State
and county expenditures should be correspond
iagly reduced.
hesotred Thatit the sense of this Conference
that farmers should make it a point to attend
precinct primaries and endeavor to elect as del
egates to the Assembly and Senatorial Conven-
lions only such men as would use their en-
deavors to reduce public expenditures, and
thereby reduce taxation.
ResOlued, That State Commissions, established
for some claimed worthy purpose or other, but
which can be dispensed with, should be abol-
ished.
Resolved, That the Office of Reporter of Grim
inal Courts should be abolished, and that our
Courts should hold longer daily sessions, that
the public business might be expedited.
Rescued, That not less than eight hours shall
constitute an officers days work.
Res0lped, That the Vagrant Act should be SO
amended as to prevent abuses now grown up
under it.
Signed by F. B. Smith, William Johnston
Owen Tsi.tle, W. 9. BIZ ckwood, V. F. Frisbie.
Thomas Mcconnell offered the following,
which was adopted:
Resolred, That we are in entire sympathy with
the almost universal sentiment of the country
that the immigration of the Chinese should
cease entirely and that the General Govern
ment should take immediate measures to so
change the existing treaties as to effect that
end but while this is the sense OF the Confer
ence, we recognize that the Chinese now here
are here by reason of treaties of our own max
ing and are entitled to protection to the full ex-
tent of the power of our Government.
DIR. Caples introduced the following res
olution, which was unanimously adopted :
Resotred, That as American citizens, justly
proud of her history, of her sacrifices, of her
greatest and grandest illustration of liberty reg
ulated by law, we protest against all lawlessness
for or in the interest of any organization pre-
aeics against the integrity and supremacy of
she law.
In speaking of his resolution, DIR. Caples
said We find ourselves in troubious
times. He sometimes thought that the
period from 1890 to 1860 was that millen-
MUM we read of in the good book, but I'M
fortunately it did not continue for the
promised thousand years. To make the
parallel complete, the subsequent period
pretty nearly corresponds to that time
which was to succeed the millennium,
when the devil was to be unclaimed riot
run rife, and confusion reign. AT the East,
in Europe, everywhere, men seem to have
forgotten all about honor, truth and
justice; have turned their backs upon all
that is good pure and holy, and are de-
termined, apparently, to do the worst
good and true, we will do all in our power
in aid of individual rights, the support of
the Government, and the
MAINTENANCE OF LAW AND ORDER.
We must put down with strong arm
the evil-doer, no matter if he is among
those who occupy high places. Unfortu.
nately, aggregated capital, great wealth with
its lever, corporation, has turned the part
of tyrant and sought to secure special
legislation to build upon ill-gotten wealth.
Does it follow that we should commit a
second crime? Two wrongs never make
right. Let us punish the wrong-doer.
without distinction as to wealth or station
We have more to fear from the other ex-
IRENE than we have from wealth bac al
by corporations. The Chinese agitation
and kindred movements is moral disease.
eating at the very vitals of our civilization.
The origin, source and genesis of all these
agitations mankind will not recognize, but
1t is so simple that the smallest child can
readily apprehend-and that is, that values
cannot be fixed by statutory enactment.
All labor troubles grow out of the fact
that labor values cannot be fixed by
law. Our safety, security, maintenance
of order, Derpetuity ofgovernment depends
upon our maintaining the dignity and
supremacy of the laws of the land. Statu-
tory enactments cannot fix values, but we
are asked to establish a value for DAYS
work. The country is being wrecked and
desolated by the demand and the lawless
means used to enforce that demand Why
should they not ask with equal propriety
that value be placed upon a bushel of
wheat? Why are they different? WHY
should value be placed upon a days
work and not upon the product of your
labor? They regard the farmer as having
no rights, associated labor has them ali,
and their assumed rights they intend to
enforce at the point of the bayonet,
TRAMPLING ON ALL LAW
The farmer occupies middle position,
with aggregated capital on one side and the
associated irresponsible rabble on the other,
each striking at the fundamental life of
the nation, one in its endeavor to make
capital monarch, the other to tear down,
destroy and make everything chaos The
responsibility and dignity rests upon
us to preserve order and main
tain the Government. While some
are assaulting the law and rights
and interests of their fellow-men, the
farmer stands for law and order and the in
tegrity of the Government. He asserted
that without the restraining power of the
agricultural element of our population the
Government would not stand twelve
months. He said the assertion might seem
ridiculous, but he was convinced that if the
agriculturists could be removed from the
political elements anarchy, chaos and des-
potism would speedily result. The farmers
should realize the dignity and response
bility resting upon them, and see to it that
they redeem the pledge they have accepted
from their forefathers, and transmit the
trust unimpaired to posterity.
The following Executive Committee was
appointed Daniel Flint. DR.. Caples, G.. A.
HUI, Sacramento; Judge w. C. Blackwood,
z. Kelsey, Alameda; n Mertes, Placer; A.
Z. Roach, Santa Cruz: K. B. Smith, Contra
Costa; S. B. Wheeler, Amador: V. F. FRS
bic, Suffer; A. d. Nelson, Butte; L. F.
Aoulton, Colusa: W. P Parker, Solano; V.
Z. Bangs, Stanislaus; E. c. Carpenter, Ell
Dorado W. L. 0verheiser, San Joaquin; D.
n. Hershey, Yolo; S. 7. Coulter, Solano
J. M. G. Jasper, Yuba.
C. A. Hall offered the following resolu-
ton, which was adopted
Bcsolved, That it is the desire of this confer
ence that the different Oranges of the State of
California invite the farmers of their respective
localities to assemble in mass meeting at their
different halls on the last Saturday in June to
then and there determine if they shall instruct
the committee here appointed by this conference
TO call a Convention and it is further the sense
of this conference thasif they determine to cali
Convention, that it be called before any of the
party Conventions.
Elliott, of San joaquin, presented the
following resolution, which was adopted