Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-20

National Farmers Alliance and Industrial
Union, recognizing the grave and respon-
sible duties resting upon Us as farmers and
citizens and members of our beloved order.
the Farmers Alliance, hereby present Tor
the careful consideration of our brother Al
lance farmers the following preamO ole and
resolutions:
/ Whereas, the Farmers Alliance has been
organized TO the end that its members
might become educated in the science of
7 economical government, AID 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 IN
tercst; and
Whereas, our beloved order, the Farmers
Alliance, was founded for the express pui-
pose as set forth in our constitution to
bring about the above most important re
suits, and that this education and union
should be brought about in 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 and special
favOrS 10 none"; and
Whereas, we declared to the world
through the Alliance that we would make
no war upon any of the legitimate interests
of our country; and
Whereas, we We're assured when we en-
tered the organization that no one should
be ostracised for opinions sake. ana re
fused admittance into or turned out of the
order on account of any belief he might
hold on political questions: and
Whereas, we felt assured that this or
ganiZation would be directed and controlled
ny farmers who We're honest men any who
would labor to unite the farmers of our
common country who We're divided by the
war; and
Whereas, we now find that the purposes
and objects of the order have been defeated
and the organization detected and turned
from its original purpose and intention i'll
the following manner ana ways:
/. By violating the plainest principles
and declarations of our constitution, by ad-
vocating and declaring in favor Of the sub
treasury and land loan scheme and the gov
ernnent ownership of railroads.
2. BY debarring persons from member
ship and Office for opinions sake.
3. BY putting men in important Offices
and keeping them there, vino are known
and have proved themselves to be dishonest.
mercenary and corrupt, and have continued
them in such offices.
4. BY falsely ard maliciously deuouncing
the just and honest chosen representatives
of the people who have been elected to serve
in public trust, although the honesty and
fidelity Of such public servants have been
proved by long and faithful service.
3. BY trying to direct and turn the organ
izations of the farmers and labOrerS of our
age-the protective tariff syStem-and to
commit them to the national curse of class
legislation.
.. BY placing in the highest official posi-
tons of our national and state orders men
who are not farmers, nor have any interest
i'll farming, but whose only interest and
ambition is to keep the farmers in the de-
pressed condition they now are, to the end
they may draw their salaries from them,
knowing that the depression of the farming
class IS necessary 10 keep up an Organize
ton of this character.
Z. By some of the leading officers of the
order, both state and national, consorting
with the enemies of good government
against the true interests of the people, and
corrupuy endeavoring, by dishonest meth
DDS, to fasten upon the people the protect
i've tariff and railroad COMMUNICATIVE of
the evils that the Alliance was created to
put down and destroy.
S. By private individuals in the Alliance,
through corrupt and mercenary motives.
buying up the state and national official or
gans Of our order thereby ceGtralizing the
power of this organization and that of the
millions OF farmers in it for the purpose of
the persona ACKNOWLEDGMENT and political
ambition and corrupt ends of these men.
g. By changing our order from its non
partisan character into partisan body, by
applying partisan political tests to member /
ship and office-holding in our order and by /
declaring IN statute passed at Ocala, De- 1
cember, 1880, and by proclamation Of our
national president, that when the majority 4
OF the National Alliance promulgated any /
political principle, demand and heresy, that /
every Alliance man mus subscribe to and .
conform to such political principle: there /
fore be it
Resolved, that we denounce the sub
treasury and land-loan schemes and govern
mental ownership of railroads as violations
of the first principles of good government,
as paternal in their character, as central
izing in their tendencies, and if enacted
into law would create such horde of ma
tional office-holders as would fasten the
clutches of the party in power upon the
threats of the people so strongly that the
voices of honest, patriotic citizens would no
longer be heard in the control OF govern
mental affairs
We further denounce these measures as
being violation of the constitution of our
beloved order.
That we denounce c. ". Macune and his
corrupt methods, together with the acts of
his tools and henchmen, as being disgrace |
10 the order and 4 stencil in the noStrils OF. i
all honest men who know of their corru
lion and villainy. and thus point out to the
order by continuing such men as this in
power they are enabled, by betraying US
and our interests, to most effectUally chain
Is to the jUggernaut cars of monopoly
We further demand that those men who
ire not farmers be removed from the ma
.ional and state offices Of our order, and