St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-16
Statements by the Chief Officers Of
Their Operations and Purposes.
ARE FOR BUSINESS MERELY.
But all Candidates for the LEGISLATURE
Must Mount Their
Platform.
Special to the Globe.

interesting gatherings that the farmers
OF this locality have enjoyed.
AlonzO Wardall, president of the AL
lance Hail association and manager Of
the farm department of the Fidelity
Fire Insurance company, both of which
are branches of the Alliance work,
opened the meeting with an encourag-
ing report of the work being accomp-
lished by the association, and the
hearty support the farmers of the terri
tory were giving this enterprise. 1t
requires the efforts of the entire clerical
force to keep up with the work.
from 200 to 300 applications are
received daily, and risks to the
the first ten days of this month. The
association inSureS crops against hail on
the mutual plan, the limit of assessment
beng % cents per acre in any one year,
and limit the loss to IS per acre. Last
year the cost was 21 cents per acre. The
association has about 400 agents in the
field whose work for the present season
will cover the insurance OF crops for
10000 members.
THE FIRE DEPARTMENT
is backed by 100000 capital. Provis-
ION is made for dividing profits with
policy holders. 1t is conducted econom-
lcally and is the Alliance company.
MI. Wardall also explained the work
lngS OF the Alliance incorporated COM
pany, the headquarters of which are at
Aberdeen; the home office of the FL
deity being in Huron. The capital
stock of the company is 100000, di-
vlded into shares of $40 each; the
major part of the stock has been taken,
and the company is doing a successful
business. Hon. George 5. Crose, speaker
of the Dakota house of representatives
and a practical farmer of Hughes
county, is president of the company.
In fact all the officers and managers of
the various departments OF the alliance
are
ACTUAL FARMERS,
and good ones, too. The company
handles Immense quantities of coal,
agricultural implements, oil, twine. ETC.,
and give the members the benefit of low
prlces-that is, the farmer, if he be-
longs to the company saves the profits.
1t Is the purpose of the company to
establish mills, factories, packing
houses, ETC., in this project they are in
dead earnest"
Ii. l.. Loucks, president of the Terri
torial Alliance, in carefully prepared
address, explained the object of the
organization. Mr.. Loucks has been
three times chosen president of the
alliance, and is especially qualified for
the position. He congratulated the
members on the wonderful progress
made by the alliance; its influence is
being felt throughout the territory and
its benefits are realized everywhere.
There are between 600 and 700 sub
ordinate alliances in Dakota, and appli-
cations for new charters are received
q m tn 4l,a
will reach LOCO by the 1St of September.
Mr. Loucks says everything is work
ing harmOniOuSly ami to the eutire
satisfaction of all concerned. He urged
the farmers to remember that it de-
pended
UPON THEIR BALLOTS
whether the advantage gained be re-
tanned by them. Advised the support
only of men for the legislature that are
from nature, education and occupation
in sympathy with the needs of the
farmer, and who are willing to pledge
themselves in advance to vote for-with-
out change or amendment-the three
planks of the Alliance platform adopted
at the annual meeting in December,
viz:
Equal taxation.
Necessary legislation to secure free
market for farmers products; and
A stringent usuary law.
Bills covering the above points are
already prepared, and the fall campaign
will be made on these issues. Mr..
LauckS advised the farmers to work
within their own party line as far as
practicable, and to remember that they
are farmers always, and to insist on
recognition of their rights even if they
MUST ACT INDEPENDENT.
They should pay off their mortgages;
he could see no difference between a
Republican and a Democratic mort
gage.
The speaker explained the plan and
workings of the Scandinavian Elevator
company, of which he is the originator
and present president. 1t is not
called Scandinavian because patronized.
owned and controlled by Scandinavians.
but in compliment to the large class of
sturdy and successful wheat growers of
that nationality in Dakota and Mime
sofa: also for the sake of a distinctive
name. Its object is to place No. hard
wheat on the Eastern and European
markets without first having to pass
through the hands of elevator compa-
nieS and milling associations of Duluth
and Minneapolis, which, he claimed,
have robbed the farmers of the North
west of their good name and millions of
money, mixing and degrading their un-
rivaled hard wheat until it grades in
the Liverpool market but little more
than that of the soft wheat of In
dia. The speaker gave the elevator
men fearful scoring for their
evil practices, and demonstrated bv
quotations from the London Miller, that
they had willfully and maliciously
DEPRECATED THE PRICE
of Duluth hard in the past two years
"A cents per bushel.
The company iSto be composed of Da-
kota and Minnesota farmers at this end
and the British millers at the other, the
capital to be S2,000,000, half on each
side of the water, with their own eleva-
tors at Duluth, Minneapolis, Buffalo,
etc. The shares are $40 each. A large
number have already been subscribed
for, and May elevators in Dakota and
Minnesota have been offered. 1t is the
intention of the. company to locate
them at all principal wheat points in
time to handle good share of the CROP
this fall. 1t is the general impression
that Mr.. LOuckS is the man to carry this
project to success.
Attention was called to the fact that
certain papers were disposed to find
fault with the project, as it was likely
to force Minneapolis millers to pay
from 20 to 80 cents more per bushel for
wheat than they would otherwise pay.
This advance they
COULD AFFORD TO PAY
at the present prices charged for flour.
The kick he regards as a good sign
let 'em kick; it was their business; it
was the farmers business to get all he
could for his wheat.
A %l,4 1sf
dress the initiatory steps were taken
for placing warehouse in Huron and
Broadland.
Rev. John Allison, of Minnesota, also
addressed the meeting. He is gifted
orator, and has been engaged to lecture
for the alliance the remainder of the
month.