The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-07-25
beard OTAgrIcuMure

Mas Htlu i'll NJCAlllSIci y HAL Oh w tu1tS-
day afternoon. After the reading and
last meeting, a further report of
the experiments to ascertain The
relative worth of phosphoric acid secured
from bone and that secured from South
Carolina rock was made, showing a slight
difference in favor of the bone.
The following resolution offered by Jas.
Summerill, stirred up an amin ated dis
eussion:
WHEREAS, At the last meeting of the Asso-
citation While the approval OF the minutes OF
the previous meeting was under consideration
a motion prevailed by an almost unanimous
vote to strike out IL resolution, and
WHEREAs, such procedure Is wholly with
out sanction OF parliamentary law ana unsup-
ported by example OF legislative or deliber-
atlve assemblies, there fore be it
Resotrea, That the aforesaid resolution be
ana Is hereby restored 10 the journal.
The resolution above referred to is as
follows:
R~esotued-That the sub-treasury plan adopt
ed by the Alliance, is best adapted
to alfcrd farmers relief and that we suggest its
endorsement by the Governor and Legs Ia
ture.
G. P. Atkinson, of Palatine, said that the
expunging of the resolution WAS an indigni-
ty to the 200 members of the Alliance in
Plttsgrove; spoke at length on the merits
OF the sub-treasnry bill, and asked, it is
policy for this organization to antagonlze
his body, which is of such great benefit to
farmers.
Jas. j. Summerill spoke of the unparlia-
mentary manner in which the resolution
had been disposed of. President Coles
admitted that he had since discovered his
mistake in entertaining the motion to ex-
punge, but the result would have been the
same, as the sentiment of the majority
UaC nnI,nsal ~ tho rac1l,fipn
Adam S. Graf moved that the resolution
offered by Mr.. Summerill be laid on the
table, seconded by j. w. Dickinson. Mr..
Crafts motion Prevailed by a vote of 10 to
10.
Mr.. Summerill then asked that the chair
restore to the minutes the resolution that
had been unlawfully expunged, but Chair
man Coles stated that he had no authority
for such procedure.
&. z. Atkinson then offered the follow
ing:
Resoired-That the Salem Co. Board OF Agri-
culture are in sympathy with the efforts Of
the Farmers Alliance 10 bring relief To the
farmers In their depressed cond ition through
the sub treasury bill.
j w. Dickinson moved to amend the
resolution by striking ont through the
sub-treasury BILL" as he was not in favor
of that plan. Mr.. Atkinson said that as
the sub treasury plan was the essential
plan of the Alliance, endorsement of the
Alliance would necessarily include the
plan. The efforts that have been made to
day To cut off discussion on this sub
ject, correspoEded With the Efforts made
ey the Democrats in the South and the
Republicans in the West to crush out the
organization. j. Walter Pancoast spoke
in favor OF the original resolution.
The mntinn tn armand Uac ga rri.A NV q
vote of - to IS and the resolution as
amended was adopted.
Franklin Dye, Secretary of the State
Board was then introduced, and after con-
graduating the Board on the large audi
ence, gaye an excellent talk on '1he signs
of the times for Agriculture" OF which
the following is the substance.
As the weather-vanc on yonder barn indi-
Gates the direction of the wind, and the rising
or the falling of the barometer is a prophecy
of hat the weather will be, so there are signs
in the onward movement of current events
that to the observing person indicate, to some
extent at least, what the future conditions OF
business and society Will be. Though all
persons living under one government consii-
tute one people or nationality, they have not
h~omogenity of interests except in the more
general sense. Homogeniiy of interests COM
prises more to those who are engaged in the
same calling as the members of one family,
than exists between persons engaged in diff
ferent callings. Hence in the strife for sue
cess by those engaged in the several ~callings,
though under the same general government,
the one that secures to itself the greatest adj
vantages will progress more rapidly than the
one falling to secure such advantages, and
when, irrespective OF the rights of others, UNI
men seeking frequently their own
personal ends quite as much as they do the in
terests of the trade to which they belong. Sc
cure more than their rightful share of public
patronage and protection, some, II not ali the
other trades and caliings, must suffer to the
extent ofthe unjust advantages secured by
the one. This statement, | think. needs no
argument to prove. When by careful meth.
DDS and honest practices some men succeed to
greater prosperity than their fellows who are
enterprising. they are entitled 10 1t, and
he same is true of all those engaged in the
same calling. hen through lack of fore
thought, plan, wise management. economy,
push, the members of one calling fail of sue
individually or collectively, they alone
are to blame and should not expect to secure
he sympathy and help OF others by finding
with those who have earned and are en-
titled to success.
N DIV lnto hla liik4Al u q SbN0
ment is TO give all law-abiding citizens an
equal opportunity to success. Both Its home
and foreign policy should be regulated so hs
to,pive the greatest good to the greatest num-
Der OF its people all the time, while eNacting
no more from them than is necessary to secure
prosperity and peace, and the good citizen
will not ask for himself or his class more than
he is willing to have given 10 his neighbor
the other trades also. So the law-m making
and executive powers OF our land. from the
lowest 10 the highest in the government,
hould be scrupulously careful to conserve
5 IKE all the interests necessary to II ational
al and prosperity. If any are neglected, and
especially If a national industry, one OF itself
TO the prosperity Of the whole people,
is suffering, the canse should be sought and
the remedy applied forthwith. for II one men,
Der suffer all the other members will sooner or
later suffer with 1T. And this is the strong
for the province and limit OF gov
eminent named above.
No other people. it is thought, are blessed
with 50 noble and benefioent a form of gov
ernment as the American people have, and in
the main 1t has been W ell administered. II
abuses have arisen that have become oppres-
sive, 1t is not the fault of our form of govern
ment. but rather the work of classes and
eliques who are perverting the dement's which
are for all to their own selfish purposes secur-
ing the protection of law while perverting 1t.
From some snch causes as the above named
have come in part The present depression in
agricultural affairs. To review the past In de-
tail would require much time and would cover
our history for the past % years. This VIC can
not now do, but let us notice Il few OF The dis
eouraging signs of the present, and also some
of the encouraging signs for agriculture.
The first diseouraging sign l VIII mention
has been and is an undue haste to get rich.
This mania seized some of our people imme-
Qfately after the war and a. numbers of large