The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-08-22

The Farm ers' AlIiance.

Farmers National Alliance, is not over
sanguine that New Jersey will ever be-
come a strong Alliance State. He has had
it in his mind to make a tour of the State,
but the organizations come into existence
so slowly that he thinks it would be a poor
advertisement Tor the fast-deyeloping order
for him TO go through New Jersey and be
attended with little or no enthusiasm.
About a year ago an organizer was put to
work and he did remarkably well i'll Mon
mouth County and succeeded in creating a
half dozen small alliances. The begin
ming was so favorable that the grand sec
rotary announced that he would at once
organize a State alliance. This has not
been lone nor is it likely to be accomplish
ed for the present.
There have been many wild statements
made about the strength OF the alliance in
thisS State. While There are upward OF
two dozen local alliances, their numerical
strength is small, and the exact number
| cannot be ascertained, nor will the execu-
tive officers give it fer publication. Their
best strength so far has been secured i'll
Monmouth County. They nave done some
missionary work in HunteTdon where
there are three local alliances. In South
| Jersey they have located three in Cumber-
land and five in Salem. They have no
representation in Camden, Burlington,
Gloucester or Mercer counties.
The progress of the new order in this
State is retarded for several reasons. New
Jersey has a State Board of Agriculture,
which is beginning To secure much coveted
legislation. 1t Is receiving State support
and is composed Of the best class of
farmers. 1t is an educational organization
and it's scope is SO broad tina it takes in
all the State organizations that are lab
to be of any assistance to the farmers.
1t embraces delegates from the
State Horticultural Society, the New
Jersey State Poultry Association, Ameri-
can Cranberry Association and the Patrons
OF Husbandry. Ii has taken many years
of constant agitation on the part of the
prominent agrIculturists To sec1re SO much
organization and to centralize it into one
active body. The Farmers Alliance can
only recommend itself to the farmers of
New Jersey on its very liberal political
basis. 1t declares in its prospectus that
the most essential refufmsmust come from
legislation 1t so happens that the State
Board of Agriculture has of late been
successful in securing much legislation of
a useful character.
The main political purpose of the ALI
ance is TO secure the passage of the Sub
Treasury bill. This is particularly de
signed to be of benefit to the farmers of
the South and West. 1t is doubtful
whether any one county in New Jersey
could secure the location of 4 Sub-Treas-
ury building even if wanted, because the
second clause of the first section of the
Sub-Treasury bill defines that the 100 or
more citizens of any comfy that shall pc
tition the Secretary of the Treasury re-
questing the location of a Sub-Treasury in
such county shall present written evidence,
duly authenticated by oath or affirmation
of the County Clerk and Sheriff, showing
that the average gross amount per annum
of cotton, wheat, oats, corn and tobacco
produced and sold in that county FOR the
last preceding two years exceeds the sum
of $500, 900 at current prices in said county
at that time.
The goods defined in the act are not the
staple products of the State, and sub-treas
ury warehouses wonld not be much in de-
mand here.
1t is expected that Grand Secretary Tur-
ner will effect his State Alliance between
election day and the organization of the
Legislature. 1t is then understood that
an application will be made to have the
Alliance represented in the State Board Of
Agriculture. 1t is expected that there
i'll be a hitch when the application is
made. The members of the State Board
have already had the question under ad-
visement, and this being known a cores
pendent asked Secretary Franklin Dye
what he thought would be the outcome of
the application of the Farmers Alliance
IOT representation Ill lIt Nldtc DOdiu. II
is possible" SAID Mr.. Dye, that these ap-
plications would be productive of some dis
c%ussion. 1t is known that the organ
ization embraces two objects; one is for
the general betterment of the farmer and
the other is a political purpose. 1t is also
a secret society. So far as that goes, the
Patrons OF H~usbandry is alsoa secret or
ganization. The law is not very specific
on the subject. II politics is the main
purpose of the alliance they ale not EMIT
led to representation in the State b oard. 1t
will be necessary for the alliance to show
how far they are an organization to inn
prov the condition of the farmer"
The PrOBIbifiOnfsfs
The Prohibition State Committee has is
81 d an address to their supporters in ref
erencc to the new ballot law. They de-
| clare in favor of the fullest reform. and