The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-12-18
NATIONAL FARMERS ALL
ANCE.
Third Annual Meeting.

This body met in Meridian, Miss,
on the 5th inst. The following States
were represented: North Carolina,
South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia,
Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky,
Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Missouri,
Kansas and Indian Territory. Vir-
ginia and Florida not represented.
President Macune's message was
clear, bold, comprehensive, patriotic
and statesman.like. He discussed
the two classes of anarchists IN this
country; the wonderful growth Of
our order; the organic union with the
Agricultural Wheel; the question as
to the admission of the Northern
States into our order; statutory laws;
revenues representation the judiciary;
printing; crop reports; exchange plan;
National exchange; bagging factories;
legislation; labor organizations and
other matters of interest and impor-
lance to the order. The message will
appear in full in cur paper next week
and we are sure that our readers will
not disagree with the opinion We
heard universally expressed that it is
an able document.
Three days of the session we're con-
sumed in maturing a basis of consoli-
dalton between the Farmers National
Alliance, the National Agricultural
Wheel, and the Farmers Mutual
Benefit Association. A constitution
and bylaws was agreed upon which is
to be submitted to the various State
Alliances for ratification. If ratified
by t~hree-fourths of the State Alliances,
then the consolidation is effected and
the new order will be known as The
National Farmers and Laborers'
Union of America, and will hold it's
first meeting in the city of St. Louis.
The officers elected and who will then
assume the duties of their respective
Offices, are: Evan Jones, Texas, Presi-
dent; Isaac McCracken, Arkansas,
Vice resident; A. E. Gardner, Ten
nessee, Secretary; Lynn Tanner,
Louisiana, Treasurer. This order
will have an aggregate membership of
over 1000, 900 men.
The Alliance reelected it's old
officers unanimously, who will perform
the duties of their respective positions
until the States shall have ratified the |
new Constitution, and that fact has
been officially announced.
Much important legislation was
effected. Among the measures bear
ing most directly on the interests of
the farmers, we mention:
LIST. A plan of cooperation among
the cotton growers of the South by
which they must raise all needed
farm-supplies at home, and through
which they will agree as to the market
ing and handling Of their cotton. This
plan was suggested and based on a
memorial of a farmer, Mr.. W. S.
Stewart, of Mecklenburg county, N.
G., and presented by President S. B.
and which will probably
place the name of Mr.. Stewart in the
lead of n of the greatest commercial
reforms ever known in history. If
the cotton farmers of the South will
heartily cooperate in prosecuting the
plan, it will place them beyond the
gamblers in that commodity.
I'd. The establishment of a National
Alliance organ in the city of Wash
D. G. 1t is established through
The liberality and enterprise Of ten
wealthy members, and holds the same
relation to the National Alliance that
,he State organs bear to the State
Alliances.
Sd. A demand for the adoption of
plain, practical textbooks in our COM
non schools OF the elementary prin-
;iples of the science of agriculture.
4th. A National committe on legis-
alton, State and National, with State