The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1890-06-27
THE FARMERS ALLIANCE.
What the Organization Is Doing
Ihroushout the Country.

A cooperative store has been estab'
lished al Neville. la.
A farmers institute bill has passed
hoth houses in Ohio. The institutes are
to have considerable financial help IRON
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 OF
Atlans.c county. New Jersey, has sold
200 farms to foreclose mortgages, and
over forty families have been evictcd.
The Nebraska alliance men petition
congress against the Window bill and
re%tunding of bonds, and for free coinage
OF silver and currency up to $50 per
capita.
All petitions or memorials to the
United States congress for alliances and
unions should be mailed direct to the
national secretary, }. h. Turner, No.
5ll Ninth street, Washington. u. Y.
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 to
| defend" but did not actually declare
for prohibition.
There are now se~ventY-two lodges OF
the Farmers Mutual Benefit association
in operation in Harrison county, Indiana,
| comprising a membership of over 1000.
The organization has thus far refralned
from Modelling in politics, but it is in
timated tina 1T will take q hand In the
fail election.
England loans Irish farmers $4,000.
600 at 319 per cent. interest. The New
York Sun must regard the English as
very wicked socialists. Tho funds
should be leaned to English lords at ]
per cent. and reloaned. to the lrisb
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 hold a ses-
sion in Topeka, Kan, at which 1T was
decided to put full state, congresslonal
and county tickets in the field. An
other convention will be called.
The farmers alliance and knights OF
Labor are pulling together in New Jcr.
sew, their main object just now being to
further ballot reform. They have 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 i'll the matter.
The agricultural editor of the Gin
cinnati Commercial Gazette, who has
been making personal observations fol
fifty years, prints a glowing eulogy OF
the railroads and an anathema OF dema'
eogues and unthinking clamorers, VINO,
by long time discriminating ralllcry'
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
opponents of political probabilities
without ]cncountering q leading article
the burden OF which Is the Farmers al
lance. All of which goes TO slow thai
if the brethren will hold themselves
solid and stand by each other and eacf
other's interests the day Is not far dis
tant VII IL arm r Tough he be, Thu
voter shall he a man for a that and a
that.
w. +. LOOMS, of Missouri, writes. .
was out in Kansas the first OF the pres
emit month. ] saw houses vacated ant
large orchards destroyed by horses an
rabbits where ! stayed all night.
wanted to know what was the trouble
They can't pay their Interests; corn i
S cents per bushel. They prefer to le
e their stock destroy the improvement
than let the money changers hay
n them"
A correspondent of the Indiana Fal
mer. after describing how the govern
ment loans money to banks at ! pc
~ cent, says: Again, the government
II builds warehouses and gives warchous
II receipts for the distillers' spirits, whic
command almost their face value i'll Gu
n rency. Now. why can't the governme1
DO as good to the hard-handed farmt
g as to the soft-handed banker and di'
~tiiler9"
~ Tho poor farmer cannot diversity h
- crops while his creditors are dcman'
n ing money and cotton alone will brir
it. With moro money in circulate
;s these debts could be discharged in
= shorter time. for the productions OF II
>, farm would bring q greater price ar
=. the demand would be far greater. III
VI manifold blessings that would after
~ the adoption of our sub-treasury plf
cs cannot be estimated.
The jute bagging combination, it
us reported, has reached the conclusit
ir that it will be more profitable to di
or solve their league and seek incorpor
re ton, According to the Boston CONNIE
n cial Bulletin eight companies, with
RI rated annual capacity of 100000
1s' Yards, will be incorporated under Il
nc laws of West Virginia as the Americ;
80 Manufacturing company, with a capt.
stock of 81, 900, 900. Fourteen mills W
Nv remain independents, with a capacity
80, 900, 600 yards.
n The last legislature granted the Il;
id. mers' Cooperative company and
lie mill of Griffin, Ca. the power OF add,
q a banking, investments loan and trt
in company to their manufacturing invc'
.es ment. Their object is to lend mon
90 to worthy farmers, so they can ma
.re cash purchases instead of having
In deal on time. The Farmers allan
re has made a large deal. They have
,r- vested IN a large traCV VI pHospHd
lands in Florida, from which thu
of guano factory will be supplied.
IRE Colonel Polk, president of the \
tional Farmers alliance, has been pu.
ng ing Senator Vance's warehouse bill
a,y fore the senate committee Oh agric
ture. He asked for more currency, n
fth DR.. McCune declared that the syst
he had proved feasible and practicable
/ n California, where the Granger bank,
re- 1882, loaned So, 600, 900 on cartifca
vas issued to farmers on wheat deposited
On warehouses owned and controlled
by them.
lhd The delegates who met at Norl
town. Pa, to form a farmers leag
passed this among other ~resolutio
Resolved. That this union will dem;
,ol- equalization of taxation of the n
her state legislature; that we should not
compelled to pay tax on such porti,
OF our property already covered