Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1890-09-04
DEMANDS OF THE FARMERS.
Platform Adopted by Their Congress a
Council Bluffs.
lCouncil Bluffs. Iowa. dispatch.l

Council Bluffs.
Council Bluffs, Iowa, dispatch.l
At the National Farmers Congress,
the following platform was unanimously
adopted:
Resolved, That the Farmers Congress So-
mands that national taxation be limited TO
the wants of the Government, economically
administered.
ResOlued, We demand Of Congress the pass
age of such laws as will effectually prevent
the buying and selling OF agricultural and
mechanical products with the sole view OF
settling the difference between the market
value OF such products at the time OF pur-
chase and the time of contract delivery.
ResOlUcd, That our Representatives be re-
quested TO provide such appropriations as
. r,sy 10 necessary TO carry such resolutions
into effect.
gress request Congress to pass a bill giving
free transmission through the malls to re-
ports OF State boards of agriculture and
State boards of horticulture.
Resolved, That, believing In the doctrine
of equal rights to all and special privileges
to none, we demand that our national legis-
lation shall be so framed as not In the flu
turc TO foster and build up one industry at
the expense of another, and we further de-
mand the removal of the heavy tariff tax
from the necessaries of life that the poor OF
our land must have, and placing the same
upon the luNufleS OF lie CnaJ the wealthy
can do without and not suffer.
WHEREAS, Water route competition Is a
most important feature I'm the regulation
and cheapening of transportation charges
upon our products for distant markets. and
the least liable to the control of combines
and pools; therefore,
Resolved, That we demand of Congress
most liberal appropriations for the improve
ment, by all practicable means, of our inte-
rior water ways which shall make them, In
stead of sources OF disaster and destruction
10 large sections OF the country, useful as
great highways for the uninterrupted COM
merce and trade of our people.
Resolved, That we favor the election of
United States senators by vote of the people.
Resolved, That this Congress demands the
amendment of the patent law so that the
exclusive use OF an invention be limited To
ten years.
Rcsolucd, That at the Columbian Exposl-
tion, TO be held at Chicago, I'm 1893, the
agricultural and horticultural interests OF
the United States should be most prom
inently and grandly represented, and to
that end IL Is recommended that tho va
rious State Legislatures make liberal ap-
propriations for the creditable exhibition of
the agricultural and horticultural resources
of the respective States.
Resolved, That a committee OF three be
appointed to confer with the Secretary OF
Agriculture and to urge the matter upon
the attention OF Congress-.
The discussion OF the national flower
occupied good deal OF time. At one
time the golden rod had IL, but Congress-
man Weller went out and got with
cred, struggling sample OF golden rod,
that looked as IL It had grown up
through the paving-stones OF the street,
and exhibited IL as a fair specimen,
which caused some OF the Eastern and
Southern men, who were unacQuainted
with the beauty of the plant, to go over
TO the pansy, but the golden rod was
finally adopted as the national flower.