The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-09-05
AFTERNOON SESSION.

ing adjourned to meet at n o'clock.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The meeting was called to order at
one o'clock. W. W. Field, of Sac
county, offered a resolution declaring
it to be the sense of the meeting that
a district alliance should not be form
ed at this time, which was laid on
the table by a vote of 2O4 to 81.
A motion to proceed to form a dis
trlct alliance was passed and a COM
mlttee OF seven were appointed to
recommend permanent officers.
On motion, a committee of Statis-
tics was appointed with d. II. Talbot,
of Woodbury., chairman.
A committee on Alliance literature
was chosen; one member from each
county.
The committee on district officers
reported as follows: A. Westfall,
president; G. f. Mccormack, of
O'Bricn, secretary: Jesse K~ingsnorth,
of Monona, lecturer; Lewis Iddings,
or Monona, treasurer. Executive
committee: The president and secre-
tary, and A. IT. Alfred, of Plymouth,
D. W.: Mitchell, of Woodbury., and
Lewis Brewster, of Sioux. Vice-presi-
dents for each county were named on
roll call.
The committee on resolutions re-
ported as follows, which were en-
Enthusiastically adopted separately:
/. That we demand the abolition
OF national banks, and the substitu-
tion of legal tender treasury notes, in
lieu OF national bank notes, issued in
SUFFICIENT volume to do the business
or the country on a cash system; regu-
latlng the amount needed on a per
capita basis as the business interests
or the country demand, and that all
money issued by the government Shall
be legal tender in paymet Of all debts,
both public and private.
2. That we demand that congress
shall pass such laws as shall efTcctu-
ally prevent the dealing in futures of
all agricultural and mechanical pro-
auctions: pursuing a stringent system
OF procedure in trials, as shall secure
the prompt conviction, and. imposing
penalties as shall secure the
most perfect compliance with the law.
3. That we demand the free coin
age OF silver dollars, of 4124 grains,
and that the government shall loan
money to the people at rate not to
exceed 3 per cent. on the same Drinci-
pie that the Iowa school fund is now
loaned.
4. That we demand the passage of
laws prohibiting the alien ownership
OIL land, n that congress take early
action to devise some plan to obtain
all lands now held by railroads and
other corporations in excess of such as
is actually needed and used by them
and that all such be reclaimed by the
government, and held for actual set
Tiers only.
5: Believing in the doctrine of equal
to all and special favors to
none, we demand that taxation, a
tional or state, shall not be used to
build up n interest or class at the
expense of another. We believe that
the money Of the country should be
kept as much as possible in the hands
OF the people, and hence VIC demand
all revenues, national. state or
county, shall be limited to the neces-
sary expenses OF the government, eco
nOmically administered.
9. That congress issue a sufficient
amount of fractional paper currency
to facilitate exchange through the
United States mail.
I. That the means of communion
tion and transportation shall be con-
trolled by and operated in the interest
of the people.
8. That we denounce the Mckinley
tariff bill as grossly unjust to the tax
payers; the Lodge bill is designed to
deprive the people everywhere of their
right to control the election OF
their officers.
9. That United States senators be
by direct vote of the people.
10. Audit is further agreed, In or
der to carry out these objects, thatwe
will support for office only such men
as can be dependnd upon to enact.
these principles into law, uninfuenc-
ed by party caucus.
It2was yotedsthat the district. ALI