Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-12-11
ALLIANCE DEMANDS.
The First Six Settled Points of the
Brotherhood of Farmers.
ABOLITION OF NATIONAL BANKS.
Prohibition of Speculation In Futures-Free
Silver COinage-No Alien Ownership
No Favored CIasses-Government
Railroad Control.

OCALA, Fla, Dec @-Early III Ino
forenoon session of the Alliance 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
al banks. We demand that the Government
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 efectually 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.
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.
dan ND fho< aTrr
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 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 Government
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,
remove the abuses now existing, we demand
the Government ownership of such means
of communication and transportation.
Colonel Livingstone, of Georgia, Of
fered a 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..
Macune, Harry Brown of Georgia, Har-
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 its first meeting upon some city
either in Indiana or Illinois
Delegate Carr, of North Carolina, pre-
sented a 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. s, 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 The memorial
continues:
When your honorable bodies take into con-
sideration the alarming extent to which
adulteration and misbranding of food prod
ucts are practiced by INSCRIPTIONS and dis
honest manufacturers and dealers, it would
seem that your constituents are not asking
too much when we urge you to make without
unnecessary delay such legislation as will
afford millions of farmers of the United
States ample protection against the cupidity
and dishonesty of those who are engaged in
foisting on the public impure and unhealthy
food and drugs. The Paddock pure food bin
is general and National in its scope and af-
fects the farming interests OF every State
and Territory in the Union. 1t does not in.
Toks tbs bower Of the 6oTernmenf for tha'