Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-06-28
THE FARMERS ALLIANCE.
What the Organization 10 Doing
Throughout the Country.

A farmers institute bill has passed
both houses in Ohio. The institutes are
to have considerable financial help from
the state.
During the months of February and
March 435 alliances. subordinate to the
Nebraska State Farmers alliance, were
organized.
Within a recent week the sheriff oi
Atlantic county, New Jersey, has sold
200 farms to foreclose mortgages, and
over forty families have been eyicted.
The Nebraska alliance men petition
congress against the Window bill and
refunding OF bonds, and for free coinage
oil silver and currency up TO $50 pei
capita.
All petitions or memorials TO the
United States congress for alliances and
unions should be mailed direct to the
national secretary, j. Ii. Turner, No.
5ll Ninth street, Washington, ID. Z.
The convention Of the Ohio Farmers
alliance passed temperance resolutions
TO the effect that 1.-The saloon is a place
that every decent citizen Is ashamed tc
defend" but did not actually declare
for prohibition.
There are now seyentY-two lodges oil
the Farmers Mutual Benefit association
in operation in Harrison county, Indiana,
comprising a membership of over 1000.
The organization has thus far refrained
from meddling in politics, but 1T is in
timated that It will take a hand In the
fall election.
England loans Irish farmers $50, 600,
600 at az per cent. interest. The New
York Sun must regard the English a.
very wicked socialists. The funds
should be loaned TO English lords at J
per cent. and reloaned TO the Irish
farmers at 10 per cent.-that would be
the American plan and would Of course
avoid all danger Of socialism.
A Joint conference Of delegates from
Farmers alliance, Industrial union,
Farmers Mutual Benefit association
Industrial grange, Union Labor and
Knights Of Labor assemblies held a ses'
sion in Topeka, Kan, at which it was
decided to put full state, congressional
and county tickets in the field. An
other convention Will be called.
The farmers alliance and Knights oi
Labor are pulling together in New Jer'
sey, their main object just now being to
further ballot reform. Theyshave what
they call 1.-The industrial senate, repre-
senting 10000 wage workers of the state
OF New Jersey" and are trying to make
it very unpleasant for politicians who
do not help them in the matter.
The agricultural editor of the Gin.
cinnati Commercial Gazette, who has
been making personal observations foI
fifty years, prints a glowing eulogy OF
the railroads and an anathema OF dema-
gogues and unthinking clamorers, VINO,
by long time discriminating raillery,
have created an unhappy state of hos
tility between the railroads Of the coun-
try and the farmers.
One can hardly take up one Of these
exponents of political probabilities
without encounteriug a leading article,
the burden OF which is the Farmers al
lance. All Of which goes to show that
IL the brethren will hold themselves
solid and stand by each other and each
others interests the day IL not far dis
tant when srmer though he be, the
voter shall be a man for a that and q
that.
w. +. Loomis, of Missouri, writes. Il
was out in Kansas the first of the pres.
ent month. saw houses vacated and
large orchards destroyed by horses and
| rabbits where ] stayed all night.
wanted TO know what vas the trouble,
They can't pay their interest; corn /;
| cents per bushel. They prefer to lei
| their stock destroy the improvements
than let the money changers have
them"
A correspondent of the Indiana Far
mer, after describing how the govern
ment loans money to banks at l pei
cent, says: Again, the government
builds warehouses and gives warehouse
receipts for the distillers' spirits, which
command almost their face value in cur
rency Now, why can't the government
be as good TO the hard-handed farmer
as to the ~soft-handed banker and dis
tillerP"
The poor farmer cannot diversity hi:
crops while his creditors are demand
ing money and cotton alone will bring
1t. With more money in circulation
these debts could be discharged in
shorter time, for the productions Of the
farm would bring a greater price and
the demand would be far greater. The
manifold blessings that would attend
the adoption of our s~ub-treasury plan
cannot be estimated.
The iute bagging combination. it il
reported, has reached the conclusion
that 1t will be more profitable to dis
solve their league and seek incorpora
ton. According to the Boston CONNER
cial Bulletin eight companies, with q
rated annual capacity Of / 1000, 0Ot
yards, will be incorporated under the
laws Of West Virginia as the American
Manufacturing company. with a capita.
stock Of 81, 00cs coo. Fourteen mills will.
remain independent, with a capacity Of
80, 600, 900 yards.
The last Legislature granted the Far
mers' Cooperative company and oil
mill VI oEiHlus od-t tnc IoWrA VI ouulne
q banking. investment, lean and trus'
company to their manufacturing invest
ment. Their object is to lend money
to worthy farmers, SO they can make
cash purchases instead Of having te
deal on time. The Farmers alliance
has made a largo deal. They have in.
vested in a large tract of phosphate
lands in Florida, from which theiI
guano factory viii be supplied.
Colonel Polk, president of the Ma
tional Farmers alliance, has been push.
ing Senator Vance's warehouse bill be
fore the senate committee on agricul
ture. He asked for more currency. and
DIR. McCune de clared that the system
had proved feasible and practicable In
California, where the Granger bank, in
1889, loaned SO, COO, 600 on Certificates
issued to farmers on wheat deposited in
warehouses owned and controlled By
them.
The delegates who met at Norris.
town, Pa, TO form a farmers league
passed this among other resolutions
Resolved. That this union will demand
equalization of taxation of the mex
state Legislature; that we should not be
compelled TO pay tax on such portions
Of our property already covered BY
mortCa0e- and that WIZ should not M =