The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-12-19
ALLIANCE DEMANDS.

Abolition Of National Banks and tho Free
Coinage OF silver.
OcALA, Fla, Dec a-Early in the
financial policy of the order came up
for discussion under the report of the
committee on legislation. This report
as to the financial policy, contained the
| following amended demands:
First-We demand the abolition of Nation
| nj banks. We demand that the Governments
| shall establish sub treasures or repositories
/ in the several States which shall loan money
| direct to the people at a low rate of interest,
| not to exceed per cent. per annum, on non
| perishable farm products and also upon real
| estate with proper limitations upon the
| quantity of land and amount of money. We
demand that the amount of the circulating
medium be speedily increased to not less
| than $50 per capita.
second-we demand that Congress shall
pass such laws as shall effectually prevent
\ the dealing in futures on all agricultural
and mechanical products, preserving
stringent system of procedure in trials such
| as shall secure the prompt conviction of Of
tenders and the imposition of such penalties
as shall secure the most perfect compliance
with the law.
| Third-We condemn the silver bill recently
| passed by Congress and demand in lieu
thereof the free and unlimited coinage Of
| silver. G.
Fourth-We demand the passing of laws
| prohibiting alien ownership of land and that
| Congress take prompt action to devise some
| plan to obtain all lands now owned by aliens
| and foreign syndicates, and that all lands
now held by railroads and other corporations
| in excess of such as is actually used and
needed by them be reclaimed by the Govern
ment and held for actual settlers only.
| Fifth-Believing in the doctrine of equal
rights to all and special privileges to none.
we demand that our National legislation
shall be SO framed in the future as not to
| build up one industry at the expense of an
| other. We further demand a reduction of
the existing heavy tariff from the necessities
| of life that the people of our land must have.
| We further demand a just and equal system
| of graduated tax on incomes. We believe
that the money of the country should be
| kept as much as possible in the hands of the
| people, hence we demand that all National
and State revenues shall be limited to the
necessary expenses of the Governments
economically and honestly administered.
| SiXth-We demand the most rigid, honest
| and just State and National Governmental
control and supervision of the means of
public communication and transportation,
and IL this control and supervision does not
| remove the abuses now existing, we demand
the Government ownership of such means
of communication and transportation.
Colonel Livingstone, of Georgia, Of
fered resolution amending the first
section of the demands so that the vol
ume of currency issued should not be
| less than $50 per capita of the entire
population, which was agreed to-
Speeches were made by Davis Of
Kentucky, Wade of Tennessee, DR..
/ Nooupn uor, Qro,y, - Hor-
ry Brown of Texas, and the demands of
the National Farmers Alliance and In
dustrial Union were adopted by vote
Of seventy-nine to nine.
At the afternoon session Mr.. Wardell,
of South Dakota, moved to reconsider
the vote by which the Alliance pro-
tested against the passage Of the cleo
tions bill, stating the reason for this
motion was feeling that this protest
would retard the progress of the Alli-
ance in the North and West and would
be considered partisan. -
Mr.. Hall, of Missouri, moved to lay
the motion on the table, which was
agreed to-56 to 80. Those States vot-
ing against the tabling motion were
Illinois, Texas, Indiana, South and
North Dakota. There was a divided
vote in Arkansas, Missouri, West Vir-
| ginia, Nebraska and Kansas
Washington was abandoned for the
place of holding the next meeting and
the National legislative council will de-
eide at it's first meeting upon some city
either in Indiana or Illinois.
Delegate Carr, Of North Carolina, pre-
| sented O memorial of the National
Farmers Alliance to the Congress of
the United States with reference to the
Conger lard bill now pending. This
memorial recites that the delegates ask
that Congress enact as soon as possible
Senate bill No. 8, 991, known as the Pad
dock pure food bill, which was intro
duced by Senator Paddock, Of Nebraska,
at the instance of the Farmers Alliance
of that State for the reasons that the
delegates believe that If the bill be-
comes law it will prevent adulteration
and misbranding of food preparations
and drugs, now so largely and generally
practiced to the great injury Of the agri-
cultural interests of the country, the
health of the people and the morals of
the business public. 81
Some short speeches followed the
introduction of the memorial and the
convention adopted the following resolu-
tions amid tremendous applausei
Resolved. That we are opposed to the
Conger bill and that we favor the passage of
the Paddock pure food bill.
The remainder of the afternoon ses-
sion was chiefly devoted to inside mat
tiers relating to the Alliance.
At the night session resolution was
passed favoring the establishment Of
postal savings banks A committee was
appointed to arrange for good summer
encampment, time and place to be fixed
hereafter. The National executive
committee was authorized to formul ate
plan for a mutual life association and
to report at the next annual meeting.
At o'clock a. m. the meeting ad iourned.
Just before the noon adjournment a
resolution was passed indorsing the
sub-treasury bill as it now stands in
Congress and calling upon Congress to
pass it promptly. As the bill now stands
it does not include provision of loans
on land, but this feature does appear in
the formal demands as adopted. This
is seeming contradiction, but it is ex-
planned to mean that the passage of the
present sub-treasury bill would afford
partial relief and later on the loan feat
ure would be more easily secured than
at present