St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-09-02
IN SECRET SESSION.

DQIlOQ.
IN SECRET SESSION.
A Declaration of the Principles of
the Wen AssembIed.5
Mr.. McGoughey then moved that the
committee go into executive session. MI.
Donnelly suggested that the general meet
ing would take a recess unit! $50 p. m,
and that the committee would meet in the
meantime. All retired except the members
of the Joint conference committee. The
committee was in session until o'clock.
Mr.. Donnelly presented long set OF reSo-
lutiOns, which the committee decided 10 alter
and amend considerably befne adoption.
Mr.. McGaughey was made secretary. There
was considerable talk over the proposition
to have a third party. MI Nell OF the
Grange strongly urged it, but Nj. Donnelly
thought it hardly advisable. Finally the
resolutions on the subject were drafted and
referred to subcommittee composed OIL
Messrs. Harrionn, MuZZy and Lan6.
After o. m. the conference got together
again when the subjOined resolutions were
adopted:
An Address to the People of Minnesota:
The State Farmers alliance. at its session in
MINNEAPOLIS held Feb. %. 1856 unanimously
adopted the following, among other reso-
lutiC.iS:
Resolved. That it is with pride we call the
attention of the farmers of this state to the
fact that the only remedial legislation which
the peOpIe have obtained. during tie past
twenty years. however defective ii may Yet
be, is due to the existence and la5ors OF the
Farmers alliance, and to the pubic opinion
which il has helped 10 create.
Resolved. That the alliance, while not
partisan association, is political in the sense
that il seeks to correct the evils OF niisgoVe:n-
ment through the ballot box; Ia its exist
cree has been rendered necessary - the fail
ure OF both Of tre great political parties OF
our state TO maintain The rights OF the people
against corporate ag-resS'o1
Resolved. That the Interests of all pro-
dIiccrs are identical the millions who Wors
on the farm find their chief market -'''id
natural allies among the millions who toll Ill
shop and factory The degradation ami ina
povelishment OF either class is IL direct blow
at the prosperity OF the other. The natural
enemies OF both are the men who i -
themselves upon the producers TO get some
thing for nothing.
Resolved That the sympathies of the farm
ers of Minnesota 60 out 10 tnc workinEUcn
of America in all legitimate efforts tn imP.n"a
their condition and maintain their st"nuins
as American freamon against the ihaucn -
which would trample them down into A-iltic
wretchedneSs. \ free governments the rd!e
of the mai rity of the people, and 1t cannot
endure unless that majority is educated, ca
lightened, virtuous, prosperous and con-
tented.
Resolved, That we call upon all pred
and all persons interested in the pro 'perItr
of the producers OF this state III town ana
cOuntry-upon all merchants, laborng men,
mechanics and pro.essO lal men-to unite
with US at the ballot box next November 70
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terest of the many against the eXactions Of
the few.
Fo2 CONSULTATIONS.
During the session of the STATE alliance, on
the 26th OF February. 1886, committee ap-
pointed by the Knights of Labor OF Minus
sofa consisting of McsSrs. j. P. Me au%hsy,
NJ Moran T. \. Clark, !. s. Rankin and J. 4.
johnson appeared before the sac alliance
and requested to be heard on behalf or their
organization. On motion this request was
granted. and after full and free consultation
it was resolved that a committee, consisting
of three members, should be appointed. on
behalf of the state alliance, to consist OF
Messrs. Ignatius Donnelly, Y. Fl. Barrett and
Washington MuZZy, whose duty it should Ge
to meet with the said committee on be all o.
the Knights of Labor. and to act with them
as a Joint committee of conference and CO.
operation on all matters where the interests
of the farmers and workingnen were identi-
cal and where they sought to maintain their
rights at the ballot box.
ADDRESS BY THE ALLIANCE.
On the Goth of May, 1856. the executive
committee of the state alliance adopted and
sent forth an address to the subordinate ALI
ances of the state, in which, among other
things, they said:
in one respect we confess we know not
what to do We do not desire to organize a
the other will present set of candidates that
we can indorse. But the signs are not lack
ing that the ring masters propose to capture
both political conventions; and thus, whether
the Republican party or the Democratic
party wins, monopoly will triumph. We still
hope for the best, but we shall prepare our
selves for the worst. To-day the machine of
government is in the hands of our enemies.
They have employed its great power of tax
alton to fill their own pockets under swindllng
tariff laws by railroad overcharges, by uSur-
ious interest, and by ring rObDerieS. They ma
uipuate and control the newspapers, the
mouth-pieces of public opinion. They elect
or corrupt, our legislatures and congress.
Our highest body, the United States senate,
has become the entrenched camp of mouOp-
DIV house of lords, house of milliOnalres
q gathering of railroad presidents and rail-
read attorneys, and the hirelngS OF every
iniouity that Expresses the people. Our pO-
nIlCal pdrlleS Odt tue oEuctS u
the barons of robbery. while the people are
fed on fair words Misgovernment has gone
Oh in this land, supplementing the oppres-
sion which exists in the old world, through
kings. emperors and missionaries, until great
numbers of our people are al
ready reduced to misery discomfort
aud turbulence. To break down the
price of labor at home, the enemies of man
kind have filed the country with importa-
tions of hordes of foreign laborers from the
most oppressed portions of Europe; and
these men. taught all their lives to regard
government of any kind as tyranny and all
property as robbery, have broken out in
bloody instructions, which have shocked and
alarmed the whole country. The machinery
of party in this state is in the hands of the
wealthy classes, and the wealthy classes have
to a great extent, grown rich at the expense
of the people. They have hundreds of the
ablest men of both parties in their pay; they
stamp out any man who cannot be controlled
by them; they pour poison into the ears of
the people through the daily press. Their
object is very plain and direct one: They
govern the people to rob the people. The
neople have the votes, but the ruling class
have the money and the cunning. The peo-
pIe must use their votes in a body and over
ride their cunning and their money.
THE JOINT MEETING CALLED.
On the 2sth day of July, 1885, the chairman
of the Joint committee of members of the
alliance and Knights of Labor received notice
that the trades assemblies of the laboring
men of Minneapolis and st. Paul had held 4
joint meeting on July %, 1885, and had re-
solved to request meeting of the Joint COM