The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-01-07

.bo came may be TO
6a' s snc of the National body,
tne iii afix the seal to same, pro-
F9o + corresponds in name and
nuo unt with the register which the
Sammittee filed with him.
~onanectfully submitted,
J. H. BEEMAN,
ELIAS CARR,
R. W. TUCKER,
J. W. REID.
p.so1ped. That so much of this re-
vt as requires the seal of the
Eational secretary, be stricken out,
20 the endorsement of the secretary
% 6n motion Bro. G. W. Macune be
lowed mileage and per diem the
same as other delegates.
IN motion Brother Evan Jones was
.uoued FIVE hundred dollars for his
IN motion Brother E. A. Gardner
nas allowed FIVE hundred dollars for
Sis services as Secretary, and Brother
Inn Tanner was allowed one hun
5rod dollars for his services as Treas,
urer.
On motion the convention proceed
ID to the election of the executive
sommittee. Brother G. W. Macune
Tas elected chairman of said com
mittee, for the term of three years;
BROTHER Alonzo Wardall for the
term of two years; Brother J. F.
TfIman for one year.
Committee on demands reported as
follows:
|, We, the committee on demands,
hereby recommend that this National
farmers Alliance and Industrial
Union appoint a national legislative
committee of two to act in concert
with a like committee of the Knights
of Labor, to the end of securing in
dustrial freedom.
2 That we recommend to the different
State organizations that they discuss the
Australian system of voting, and press
upon their State legislatures to enact the
or some similar system.
3, RESOLVED, That this committee recon-
mend that we press to the front as the
most important the three problems of
finance, land and transportation.
4. Resolved, That all internal revenue
tax and licences on tobacco be repealed.
5. ReS0Eved, That we condemn the
purchase of government bonds at a pre-
MUM, and demand that they be redeemed
and called in according to the law as pro-
vided in section 3693 of the Statutes of
United States. .
On motion, the city Of Jacksonville,
Florida, was selected as the place of hold,
ig the next regular session.
The following petition was received
and adopted:
ST.. LOUIS, Dec. 6, 1889.
70 the National alliance and Industrial
Union of AmerGca::
The undersigned, representatives of the
Alliance and Agricultural Wheel
Of Mississippi, hereby apply for a charter
for the Farmers Alliance and Industrial
Union of the State of Mississippi.
ROBERT @. PATTY,
FRANK BURKETT,
II. F. SMRALL,
/. II. BEEMAN,
Representing Alliance.
A. NJ. STREET,
F. NJ. BLUNT,
Sec'y State Wheel.
Representing Ag'l Wheel.
Committee on land made the following
report, which was adOpied:
Your committee on land submit the
report:
The total number of farms in the United
States is about 5000, 900; 1885, 900 are
Since 1880 there has been an in
2reaSe in farm renting to the extent of
twenty-five per cent. 1t is evident to the
most ordinary observer that the farms are
out Of the hands of those who
them. 1t cannot be urged that
his is the result of incompetency or idle
on the part of The tillers of the soil,
statistics show that the wealth of the
has, during the past twenty-five
years, increased more than n hundred
per cent. No other nation has ever shown
an enormous increase of wealth in
same length of time. All this increase
81 wealth is the result OF the active ener-
5eS of the producers. 1t is a peculiar
condition, that the producers of all this
have gradually grown poorer, but
JUL the cold, hard fact stares them in the
lace that they are not only not living as
.n6ey should, but their farms are gradually
from their grasp.
The natural and inevitable result of
laS accumulation Of wealth into the hands
u the capitalists, and at the expense of
Ae producers, is the establishment of a
and ariStocracy on the one hand, and
'ehant farmers on the other; such a sys-
as has obtained in many of the
European countries.
Your committee have had neither the
nor the facilities to prepare as ex-
.enslve a report as the Importance of the
subject demands. From the best and
most reliable authority we can obtain, the
mount of mortgaged Indebtedness resting
lpon the farms and homes of the people
5 not less than SIG, 1000, 600, 900. The in
crest on this vast sum at eight per cent.
annum is 81, 28O, 900, 900. This is the
tribute which the farmers Of this