The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-08-27

August l., lS0''
To The Members Of the Farmers Ali
ance and Industrial Union, and OF
the Farmers and Laborers' Union
of the United States:
BRoTHERs:-Thisc communication IS
for the purpose Of informing you that
there will be held in the city Of st.
Louis, State of Missouri, on the third
Tuesday Q5th day ofSeptember, 1891.
meeting OF the Alliance brothers OF
the United States, who are i'll accord
with the resolutions passed at . meet
ing recently held IN the city Of Fort
Worth, Texas.
The objects Of the Fort Worth meet
ing are fully set out in the resolutions
adopted by that body hereto appended.
The undersigned were elected an ez-
ecutive committee to make all arrange
ments necessary for the convention re-
ferred to above.
We have corresponGed with the gen-
eral managers of a number Of railroads,
and find that they are willing to give
greatly reduce rates upon their roads
to all delegates attending this meeting.
A basis Of representation will be fixed
at three delegates from each and every
county in the Jurisdiction of the Ma
tional Alliance.
Reduced hotel rates will be secured
in the city of st. Louis, and all mem
bers of the order are cordially invited to
take part in making this manifestation
of the farmers OF this country grand
success.
This meeting, as will be seen from
the Fort Worth resolutions, is protest
On the part Of thelovers ofthe constitu-
ton Of the Alliance against seeing that
organization prostituted by body of
men who have no interest in farming
and whose love for the organization is
limited by the amount of personal gain
they can get out Of it.
This is an effort on the part OF the
conservative members and real farmers
of our order to emancipate the Farmers
Alliance from the control Of scheming
politicians and designing demagogues.
That we will succeed in this effort we
entertain no doubt,
We especially ask that all newspapers
in the United States will reproduce this
communication with the appended reso-
lutions.
Communications addressed to Hon.
W. S. McAllister, Canton, Miss; Hon.
Will L. Sargent, Rayner, Tex; or to
U. S. Hall, at Hubbard, Randolph
county, Mo-, will be promptly ans
wered.
Yours fratcrnally,
U. S. HALL, Chair, Hubbard, Mo.
w. S. MCALLIsTER, Canton, Miss.
w. L. SARGENT, Rayner, Texas.
Committee.
RESOLUTIONS.
We, the anti-subtreasury members Of
the National Farmers Alliance and
industrial Union, recognizing the grave
and responsible duties resting upon US
as farmers and citizens and members Of
our beloved order, the Farmers Alli-
anee, hereby present for the careful
consideration of our brother Alliance
farmers, the following preamble and
resolutions:
Whereas, the Farmers Alliance has
been organized to the end that its mem
bers might become educated in the
science Of economical government, and
that we might become more united in
our action, having been divided through
the Influences of the war, while we
have ever been united in Interest; and
Whereas our beloved order, the Far
mers' Alliance, was founded for the
express purpose as set forth in our con-
stitution to bring about the above most
important results, and that this educa-
ton and union should be brought about
in a strictly non-partisan sense and
manner; and
Whereas We declare to the world in
our constitution that the Alliance
would ever advocate "equal rights to
all AMI special favors to none;" and
Whereas, We declared to the world
through the Alliance that we would
make no war upon any Of the legiti-
mate interests of our country" and
Whereas, We were assured when We
entered the organization that no one
should be ostracised for opinions sake,
and refused admittance into or turned
out Of the order on account Of any be-
lief he might hold on political ques.
tions; and
Whereas, We felt assured that this
organization would be directed and con-
trolled by farmers who were honest
men, and who would labor to unite the
farmers of our common country who
were divided by the war;and
Whereas, We now find that the
purposes and objects Of the order have
been defeated and the organization de-
lected and turned from its original
purpose and intention in the following
manner and ways:
l. By violating the plainest principles
and declarations ofour constitution, by
advocating and declaring in favor of
the sub-treasury aad land loan scheme
and the government ownership ofrail-
roads.
>. BY deharring persons from mem
bership and office for opinions sake
3. By putting men in important