The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29
BLUE EARTH CO. ALLIANCE.

BLUE EARTH CO. ALLIANCE.
Pursuant to the call issued by it's
President, P. McGraff, Esq, the Blue
Earth Co. Alliance assembled at
Mapleton on the 21st inst. There
we're present delegates representing
the following Alliances:
Sterling Centre, No. So; Lyra, No.
491; old No. 3, OF Good Thunder;
Mapleton, No. -; Beauford, No.
36; and Maple Bush, (Mankato) No.
40.
Considering the prevailing of a
snowstorm, theattendance of farmers
was good, and what was lacking in
number was made up in interest and
a determination to continue the Blue
Earth Co. Alliance, remembering,
that it was early in the work, and
that it's first efforts and recommends
ton are now engrafted into practi-
cal measures and laws giving relief
to- farmers; for this organization
was first in the state to ask for mea-
sures OF relief as to r. R. rates and
grain inspecting, and for the regula-
tion OF our dairy market.
The following resolutions were
adopted:
RESOLVED, by the Blue Earth Co.
Farmers Alliance, in Co. convention
assembled:
THAT we reaffirm the platform
OF principles adopted by tbs Alliance
at Good Thunder, March, 1882,
which was the frstorganized demand
in the state, for the railroad and
grain legislation, which was after
wards enacted, and which has been of
great benefit to the producers of the
state. But if we are to maintain
what has already been gained and
enacted, new safeguards for the
producers against the greed and
rapacity OF corporate monopoly, in
creasing vigilance and continued
organizations are absolutely neces-
sary.
I've therefore call upon the
farmers OF this county for renewed
activity and interest in their local
alliances, and to organize new alli-
ances where necessary, believing that
such action may do something to
resist the present tendency, which is
steadily reducing. the American farm
er and Aborer to the condition OF
tenants and se1fs and is aiming a
fatal blow at the continued existence
OF free government.
3.-That we .denounce the present
system OF dealing in options, and
gambling in the grain and produce
OF the country, as demoralizing and
pernicious in the extreme. That by
setting aside the legitimate laws of
supply and demand it has heretofore
been the means ~of destroying a large
part OF the foreign demand for our
wheat, and we.ask Congress for the
enactment of "a law declaring such
gambling to bea crime and punish
able as such.
4.-That the present law for grad
ing and inspection of grain, and the
railroad laws,of the state are unsatis-
factory, and need amendment; that
il such amendment is to be made in
the interests Of the producers. I'VE
must see that the members elected to
the nextlegislatune are men ofcharac-
ter, and integrity who will place coun-
try before party, public good before
private interests, and without malice
towards other interests; we shall
unfiinching!y demand that the aVar-
ice and greed of corporate wealth
shall not furthers encroach upon the
demands OF the producing and labor
ing interests of the country.
A petition praying Congress to
enact laws to stop grain gamblingat
our large commercial centres, was
was then presented to the meeting,
directed to be signed by all alliance
present, and forwarded to Hon. John
Lind, member OF Congress for this
district.
President Geo W.Sprague, of the
State Alliance, Was then introduced.
and delivered an able and instructive
which was listened to With
attentive interest after which the al
lance adjourned to meet in January,
1890, time and place TO be left to |
President MeGrOff.
steele Co. Democrat:
IN this hyperion age of our
boasted national intelligence,
when every American citizens
bosom swells with a pafdonable
pride over the knowledge that |
his voice, in the formation of
laws for his own welfare and |
his own government, lis aspotent
3E a crowned and mitro1 mon