Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-05-01
Report of Ears. Hall as State Sollc-
ttor for Alliance Relief Com
nittee.
KNIGHTS OF LABOR MILWAUKEE

Machinist Badger sLodge.... 10 0OI
Custom Tailors Union. ...... 5 7Ol
Machinist Lodge. 80. ......... OOI
Citizens Alliance. .20Ol
Typographical Union. S 0ol
Twp. f. M. b. A. Pana Ills... IL col
Relief Committee {" {" -. $50
Mrs.Metz. Wapella 49, 35
Twp. F. NJ. B. A. Seymour Ind. 4 Is
Collection Baptist Church Sey-
mour Indiana. 900. 571
M. E. Prayer Rooms. ......... 81
Relief Com. Seymour, Ind -. 25 90
Relief Com. 80. 5l8 90
Total. l03Y AS
Besides the above, [ secured do
nation from Carpenters Union through |
their council, which donations the I'm
ions forwarded directly to the State |
Relief Committee, consequently an,
not prepared to give the exact amount,
but understand that it was something
near $50 % perhaps amore, Also the
local Alliances of Ills. through my In
tluence sent donations ! had nothing
to do with the funds except to give re-
ceipts and send duplicate to State Sec.
and keep corresponding stub for my
own protection, These all come from a
book furnished me by the State Com
mittee to whom I made a strict ac-
count,
The committee at Milwaukee, ap-
pointed by the mayor after ten weeks
of hard work on my part, elected a
treasurer who received all monies paid
in by the different solicitors. appointed
by the above committee.
When called on this treasurer for a
report heStold me he had forwarded
the S518 90 contributed, to the "Dorcas
Society" a. Huron. and two ofthecom-
mittee tof fpur) told me they had new
er been :yasulted in the matter. Twas
not only disappointed, but felt that a
great injustice had been done. l felt
that after had sacrificed time, salary
at home and in Nebraska, health and
whatever ability 1 command, that the
farmers in my own county should have
their share of this money.
AS travelled the streets night as
well as day, through snow. sleet, rain
and mud, under all circumstances, so
weary could scarcely walk. this
encouraged me to persevere, "it will
help keep our brave people in the state
and thus Increase the value of your
property as we'll as mine.''
The past eleven weeks have been
crowded with the hardest work Of my
life. But l have not felt at all like a
"beggar"
found5no necessity to tell of the
privations of cur people, for it is al
ready widely known though people
everywhere went who are supporting
friends and helping tide them over.
The greatest injury to the state that !
found was the denial OF the situation
NV business has been to show that So
Dakota is worth saving-using all the
eloquence and enthusiasm l could com
mand to convince people that we have
the grandest state in the union and
the most wide awake people in the
world, and I believe we have. l know
200 families who are only waiting the
outcome of this summer to turn theil
steps Dakotaward. l tried to convince
some of them that the Springs was tht
garden spot.
followed in the wake of Kansa.
and N Nebraska solicitors, who had re-
ceiyed handsome donations, and don,
deny their need of help.
took up this task shrinkingly, took
it up as a duty, not for office in the al
lance nor out of it. Am not a mem
ber of the organization; don't know a:
l shall he as am very busy fighting
the greatest monopoly of all, the liquor
traffic, for which I understand | wa
black-bailed in the Alliance at thu
Springs. | went out knowing that
was to receive nothing for my services
My horses are without grain same a
yours, have received nearly my shar
Of slander, which affects me nearly a
much as ."water poured on the back o
a gooss", am perfectly happy If w
can only hold our own asa state, an
intensely interested in the labor prob
lem as suppose every true American
| is. feel it the duty of every one VIII
can say word, pray prayer, or SIM
song to better the condition of hu
manity to walk right along IN tina
path of duty. That is the platform o.
which stand and all the politics
nave in the meanwhile, "sink Q
swim, live or die, survive or perish
am for South Dakota.
Nettie C.llall,