The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-14
LEON COUNTY ALLIANCE.
It Does Not Indorse the Sub-Treesury
Scheme.

TALLAHASSEE, FLA, July 12-R F.
Rogers, president Of the Florida alliance,
saw the published report of the Leon county
alliances ''ysrdstick" and that they would
hold mass meeting here July 10 to meas
ure candidates by its demands. he came
here at once, and was present at the mass
meeting Thursday, making ringing speech
against any such step.
President Rogers remarked TO the MORN
ING NEWS correspondent that as soon as he
read the demands of the "yardstlcA' ne
knew that the destiny of the Florida ALI
ance was hanging by slender thread, III
the hands of some of the members mere,
and that he determined to save it.
The mass meeting did not ratlfy the pup
lished ''yardstick, but appointed COM
mittee of three to formulate a modest ap-
peal to candidates, not demand of pledges
from them, as the proposed measure was.
All reference TO the sub-treasury bill and
railroad commissions was cut out
Pre- ident Rogers said to the MORNING
News correspondent that the alliance
should not be made a political machine as
long as he was at its head; that it was the
policy of the alliance not 10 antagonlze the
moneyed interests of Florida or to dabble
in politics, but to work for the advance and
betterment of the laboring masses.
The MODlfIED I AhDSllCh'
The modified ''yardstick" was adopted by
the mass meeting, submitted TO President
Rogers, and was approved by him officially
The following is the adopted ''yardstick"
in full:
l. The advocacy and support of all measures
for the reduction of county, state and national
taxation, asserting that all taxation should be
based upon a just and uniform system OF
equalization, operative alike upon capital and
labor that all bear equally their just proper
lions of the burden, and that taxation should
be levied for revenue only, and then under
rigid system of economic and JudlclouS admin
istration of government.
. That in the revision of the present protect.
i've tariff, the burdens now resting on the agri
cultural and laboring classes shall be reduced
to a fair and equable basis. not 10 exceed the
requirements OF the government economically
administered.
g. To advocate the passage of laws that will
effectually prevent the creation of trusts and
combines. and prohibit speculation that seeks
to interfere with prices of prime necessities and
agricultural products.
A. To persistently and continuously oppose
the perncious system of contracting the clrcu-
lating medium of the country, as now con-
Quoted by the national government
5. To adhere to the doctrine that railroads
are subserVient to the people, and that they
should remain competitive, not for given points
or localities, but for the whole people and the
entire state.
g. To advocate and support measure for the
free and unlimited coinage of silver, and to SO
change the monetary system of the country as
will relieve the existing depression of agri-
culture
T. The policy of the alliance is that the public
officials are the servants and not the masters of
the people.
8. We appeal to all persons seeking political
preforment and to all lovers of good govern
ment to indorSe the policy herein set forth.
F NJ BUNKER. Chairman.
n w. EPPEs, Secretary.
Approved: R. F. ROGERS, President.