The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-06-19
RESOLUTIONS OF THE INTER-
STATE CONVENTIONS OF
@F- - FARMERS.

at Atlanta, August 10th, 1887:
Your committee cannot too strongly
urge the great and vital importance of
organization among the farmers for
their mutual advancement and protec-
ton, and that each neighborhood in
these States should have a strong or
ganization of such character as may
best promote their interests. ..
Reso2ued, That a committee Of five
be appointed to prepare and issue an
address to the farmers, embodying
the, views of this convention as to the
course to be pursued by them in the
future so as best to conserve their in
.terests and promote their prosperity.
Mr.. Arlington, of n. Cit is very
short and | will ask immediate action
upon it without references: .,gr-
WHEREAS, We, the farmers of the
South in Interstate Convention as
sembled, believe the Office of Commits
sioner of Agriculture at Washington
to be of sufficient dignity and import
ance to. warrant his elevation to a
position of Cabinet officer: Therefore
be it .sr
RESOLVED, That our separate delega-
,tions through their chairman are
hereby instructed to memorabilia their
respective Congressman to use their
best endeavors to ecure the passage
of the bill now pending, which has
this object as its end" Adopted,
Mr.. Ramsdell offered the following
resolution:
Recognizing the fact that the
laborer is Worry Of his hire and i'm
pressed with the idea that the produ-
cling classes are in the fullest sense
the laborer,' and believing that the
prosperity Of the government and of
the people depend OF the general in
telligence of the people, therefore belt
Resolved, That a committee of one
from each State here represented be
appointed on education, whose duty
shall be to consider the subject of edu-
cation with more special reference to
the producing classes, and to formu-
late plans for promoting among said
classes, by easy, economic and salts
factory plans, higher literary, scien-
tifc, technical and industrial educa-
ton, and to report the result Of their
deliberations to the next meeting of
this Convention" Adopted.
Among the many evils under which
the agriculture Of the South is labor
ing and among the serious obstacles
to it's progress is the crop lien and
.chattel mortgage system; 10Y being a
part of the business methods of large
portions of the States here represented.
Therefore be it "
Resolved, That this Convention
urge upon the farmers. throughout
the South the pressing Importance of
bringing to bear upon the Legislature
Of their respective States all legitimate
influences which may tend to give
speedy relief to u farmers and final
abolition to this pernicious and ~ruinous
system" .,s.
The committee on resolutions re-
ported favorably on the following,
which were adopted:
WHEREAS, The National Banking
Act was conceived and enacted in a
time of great national emergency, to
meet a then imperative demand for
assistance to the general government
in the need Of civil war; and
WHEREAS, All those conditions have
long since passed, and yet the law re-
mains substantially as originally en-
acted, and does not in some respects
meet the requirements of an agricul-
tural community, which has to rely
almost entirely upon land as security
for the loan Of money, which security
the national banks are prohibited from
accepting; and
WHEREAS, The cotton States of the
South need capital to develop their
resources, and the farmers the facilities
for borrowing money at a low rate of
interest: Therefore, be it
Reso5uea |, That in the opinion of
this convention, it is expedient that
the national banking act be so amended
as first to repeal the tax now existing
on the issue Of State bank circulation.
Second, by repeating that clause of
said act as prohibits national banks
from accepting land as security for the
loan Of money, and
Reso7ued 2, That the Secretary of
this Convention be instructed to de-
liver a copy of these resolutions,
attested by the signatures of the Presi-
dent and himself, to the chairman of
each State delegation here present,
with the request that he will transmit
a copy to each member Of Congress