The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-12-08

year. The correspondence became so
large soon after the Ocala meeting that
| was compelled to rent a monograph
or hire extra help, which to have been
effective would have cost from $50 to
81 per month.
To make the Office expenses as light
as possible | rented the monograph for
$85 for one year, by the use Of which
the services of another man vas dis
pensed with, at a saving Of from 5000
to 5000.
A great deal of this correspondence
came asking questions and for litera-
ture, which if it had been supplied as
asked for would have been thousands
of dollars.
Basing my calculations upon my cor
respondence, I am fully convinced that
our membership has improved 100 per
GEN.. in the knowledge of the princi-
pies of Our Order during the past year,
and had all the States responded to the
call for a propaganda fund as did South
Carolina untold good could have been
accomplished. While | have compar
atively no reports from the State Sec
r~ctarieS for the year 1892, | am salts
fed from my correspondence and the
representations at State NEE sings, that
our membership has increased at least
100, 900 during the past year. You Will
know from the facts that have already
been brought out here, that [ have re
ceived complete reports from only two
OF three States, therefore am unable to
make anything like a report of our
total membership that would approx
mate correctness.
Judging from past experience, | am
fully convinced that the good of the
Order demands that our National Con
stitutiOn be so amended that every
State can and must make a full and
complete repO t by the first day of
November Of each year; therefore |
would respectfully recommend that
the Constitution be so amended that
the State secretaries will be required
to base their annual reports upon the
July reports of the county secretaries,
and that the State secretaries be re-
quired to make their reports and re
mittances promptly to the National
Secretary by the first day of November
of each year. | would also recommend
that the clause in the Constitution
tending the day of final settlement by
the State secretaries to the first day Of
February be repealed, as it has only
brought confusion and trouble. Since
our lCtSt 1IlCtbIlIS L liza l%Sl4CN GfC Ia
tiers to subordinate organizations in
the States Of Minnesota, Arizona, New
Hampshire, Iowa, Wyoming, WisCOn-
sin, Delaw ne, Idaho, Ohio, Oregon,
Washington, New Jersey, and New
York, and have issued State charters
to eight States, as follows: New York,
Iowa, Wisconsin, Delaware, Ohio,
Oregon, Washington and New Jersey,
Wyoming and Idaho are we'll under
way and will organize State Alliances
in the near future.
[ submit with this report a balance
sheet of my books, which shows the
face of my books. I will not go into
the details of said report, AS al 1.-THE sub
ieCtmatter therein has been thoroughly
examined by your Executive Board, |
and will be properly shown in their re-
port.
In conclusion. l would respectfully |
urge that the delegates, on their return
to their respective States, see to it that
all the State secretaries make full and
complete reports, with remittances
the amounts due on per capita dues by
the first day of February next, as 1t
will be impossible for our national off |
GERS to discharge Their duties unless |
this is done.
Summing up the whole matter, we
should be proud of the record made
during the past, and if none but the
true and tried are put on guard wecOn-
fdently hope that the results of our
next years labor shall be greater than
in the history of our organization.
All of which is~respectfully submitted. |
J. Il, TURNER, Sec'y-TI cas-.
On motion, the report of the secre-
tary was received and paced on file. |
and such portion of this report as has |
reference to constitutional changes was |
referred to the committee on cOnsti-
tuition and by laws.
The report of National Lecturer Viii |
let's vas received, and such portions as
had reference to the co operation and
lecture system wer referred to proper
committees.
To the Supreme COunciEOfthe National
Farmers Alliance and Industrial
Union:
BRETHREN:-In presenting this, my
annual report, permit me to say we
have again assembled il National
Council to review the past andprepare
for the great future that awaits us. 1t
is our duty to critically examine the
work done during the year just closed
for the purpose of strengthening the
weak places, concentrating our forces,
and above all to perfect our organiza-
ton and drill it's members in their line
of duty. The field of operations has
been enlarged and extended, and the
necessity for each Individual member
being made fully acquainted with the
exact situation is both apparent and
and imperative. The part that is to
be played in our national history by
this organization is con ;eded by all
close observers to be of the utmost i'm
portance. With a knowledge of this
sounding loudly in our ears, a failure
in the future would bea sin, chargeable