The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1888-10-18
CIRoULARLErTER.
To the Members % The Warmers AHA
ance 81 Mississippi.


method Of addressing you through /
your various County aud Subordinate |
organizations upon a matter which WE
deem Of vital Importance to Won indi-
vidually and collectively. For the !
first time since our organization you
are called upon TO exhibit your valor
in doing battle against our avowed
enemy-monopoly-to prove your de-
votion to the principles upon which
our organization is founded. In every
warfare, especially in those in which
defeat means slavery, oreEen weaken
ed powers for future resistance 10 an
enemy whose Interior object i reduc-
ton TO a state but little removed from
serfdom, aud must finally eliminate
In abject dependence. It is expected
of every soldier that he win grid him
self with the whole arnor necessary
TO successful resistance aud manfully
battle for that which secures to him
the enjoyment of the right aud for the
discontinue Of the enemy which de-
MES him this inalienable privilege.
II is we presume. well known 10 the
members Of our organization that
there has been formed during the
present year a trust whose object is to
destroy competition. limit production
and increase the price Of what is us
ually known as jute bagging, an arti-
Gle which has been almost exclusive
~ used by the producers of cotton for
years past in wrapping aud making
marketable the product.
BY the formation Of the trust and
the increase in price demanded for
this article a tax has been levied upon
the people engaged in the production
of cotton amounting to millions Of
dollars. We appeal to you to resist
the imposition of this iniquitous trib-
ute and by the methods which we will
suggest, it not unfrcquently happens
that that which is intended to injure
results in benefit and we believe that
the efforts Of the bagging trust intend
cd to impose upon US unjust tax, will
in the end, be means of liberating
us from the yoke of monopoly. The
Vaccinations and methods of monop-
olists are, by this exaction made man.
itest and the minds Of the people are
directed to the consideration and prop
er understanding of trusts and their
questionable ways Of doing bushes.
by which people suffer. The over
throw Of any system long observed OF
the departure from any custom which
time has sanctioned aud especially one
of such magnitude as wrapping a cot.
ton crop Of six or seven million bales
cannot in the fact of its vastness b.
expected TO be entirely changed in ON,
season. We believe however that by
united efforts Oh the part of those in
terested, We can place ourselves with
in the next year in position OF indie
pendence ofthis foreign product-jute
We therefore appeal to you tounite II
the formation Of joint stock oompanie
for the establishment of factories t,
manufacture a substitute for jute bag
ging.
The Committee appointed by tn
State Alliance at It's late meeting Il
consider the feasibility Of such an en-
terprise report favorably and sugges
plan by which such measure ca
be inaugurated We are authorize,
to say to you that the business mem
bers of the Alliance regard our effort
with favor and express not only vii
lingncss but an anxiety to co-Operat
with US in this enterprise. To accom-
plish the defeat of this trust which
successfully done we believe wi
greatly lesser the danger Of encroacf
ments Of similar combines IN the fl
ture, and give to our people eOnfidenC
in their own strength and 70 inspir
them with reasonable assurance ths
deliverance may be obtained and il
dependence secured, united eflOl
must be employed. We must fee
that this wOl K Of deliveranee from el
listing aud threatened evils and pla'
ing ourselves in an attitude Of inds
pendence Is one in which every men
Der ofour Organization should contrib
ute his part. II is proposed and spec
tally requested that this letter be carr
fully read and considered at the fir
meeting Of your Alliance, and if yo
have no regular meeting before vot
County Alliance assemblies that yol
President call meeting to consid'
this matter, that book be procure
mud that axerv t,nrnbef Ne urwa1