Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-04-10
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
THE KANSAS ALLIANCE.

THE KANSAS ALLIANCE
RESOLUTIONS Adopted at the Closing ses-
sion of the Kansas State Farmers All
ance.
The meeting of the State Farmers
Alliance of Kansas closed q three days
session at Topeka with the following
proceedings:
A resolution was adopted instructing
the State president to send to all the
sub-alliances printed petitions asking
Congress to loan money to the farmers
of the country on land at rate of inter
est not over four per cent
The committee appointed to devise
WAYS and means for relief from present
conditions submitted the following re-
port, which was unanimously adopted:
WHEREAS, The last Legislature was elect
ed on demands that were in the interests OF
the farmers; and,
WHEREAS, We believe that such acts they
did pass were adverse in effects to the farm
ers' interests, namely: the usury law and the
law making it a penal offense to remove any
property from mortgaged premises; and,
WHEREAS, They refused to pass any law in
regard to alien ownership of lands in the
State and refused to pass a law reducing the
salaries of officers as well as a law for the
publishing of school books by the State, or
any law tending to relieve the condition of
our people,
do not believe that we could gain any thing
by a special session of the present Legisla-
ture; and,
WHEREAS, 1t Is given as the opinion OF
eminent jurists and published in the lead
ing papers, tn at no relief can be had from
the enactment of any form OF redemption
law; and,
WHEREAS, The mortgages on the farms Of
our State have heretofore been exempt from
taxation, while the mOrtgagor has been
taxed upon full valuation of his farm with
out regard TO his indebtedness thereon /;
therefore, be it
Resolved That a constitutional amend
ment be submitted to the people for their
action thereon, giving the Legislature
power to enact laws eXempting hOmesteads
up to a certain valuation from taxation and
increasing the taxes in the proper proper
ton on land owned by aliens. non residents
of the State, syndicates and corporations
sufficient to supply any deficiency caused
by the above exemption; and
WHEREAS, We believe the results can best
be obtained by a reversal of.the present
methods of electing our lawmakers, there
fore be 1t
Rcsolred, That we will no longer divide on
party lines, and will only cast our votes for
candidates of the people, by the people and
for the people.
WHEREAS, We believe tho greatest and
most permanent relief will come from the
enactment of law similar to that proposed
by Senator Stanford, of California.
Therefore, we demand that our Senators
and Representatives work and vote for the
passage of such a law, and would respect
fully suggest that the interest on all loans
made in each State be guaranteed by such
State to the General Government, and that
the State require q like guaranty from each
county on all loans made in such county ;
and
WHEREAS. Another means of immediate
relief would be that the surplus now lying
idle in the National Treasury be appro-
priated for public giving en-
ployment to labor and putting the money
into the hands of the people, where it prop
erly belongs.
Therefore, we demand that the Govern
ment proceed to the construction of a
double track line of railroad from some
point in the agricultural portions of the
West, commencing not farther east than the
Mississippi river, with view to a final con
struction to the Atlantic seabOard and a
like line from the great lakes to the Gulf OF
Mexico, and that the cost of the economical
construction of these roads be made the
basis on which all freights and fares shall
be regulated.
Resolved, That the speedy control of the
legislative and executive departments OF
our State and National governments by the
industrial classes uniting their strength at
the ballot box 10 an imperative necessity,
and to secure this result we most earnestly
invite the Knights or Labor, trades unions
and Trades assembly of all the incorporated
cities of the State to unite with us in helping
to secure the demands herein set forth.
The report was signed by NJ. A.
Householder, chairman.
The following resolution was referred
to a committee of three with instruc-
tions to give the subject matter the most
careful consideration and report at the
regular meeting of the State Alliance
at the October session.
We demand the repeal of all laws giving
district courts jurisdiction in foreclosure OF
real estate mortgages, and also deprivine
all courts of the power to execute orders OF
sale in such cases. 1t being understood that
whenever the circumstances of the people
will permit, the Legislature is competent to
pass laws which will once more set the
courts in motion.
Notice was taken by the Alliance OF
the manufacturers of farm implements
who in answer to the demands of local
dealers refuse to sell through the ALI
ance exchange, but try to force the
farmers to buy of the retail dealers at
an additional cost, the resolution says,
OF twenty five to seventy-fve per cent.
1t was resolved that the members of the
Alliance would refuse to buy from any
dealer the farming implements made by
any concern that will not sell to the
State agent of the Alliance at the low
est wholesale prices.
The following resolution in reference
to report of the Alliance meeting which
appeared in the Kansas City Times was
adopted:
The Kansas City Times having published
the statement that this convention declared
in favor of a constitutional convention, say
ing that relief can be had only by a cOnsti-
tuition of the people, for the people and by
the people of the state, we can not close this
report without officially contradicting this
statement. Not only was no such resolution
adopted, but no such proposition was even
introduced during the session of the con-
vention.
Secretary McLallin says the whole
meeting was harmonious and the ut
most good feeling prevailed A spirit
of determination animated every mem
bav rraSeuk and all seemed to be in