The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-04-02
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
Meeting of the Business Managers of the
Southern Exchange.
Especial to Charleston World

.IesultS VI the meetlnS or the business
managers Of the Southern Alliance
exchange, which adjourned tonight,
are two resolutions.
One calls on the Southern farmers to
plant one-third less cotton this year
than last, stating that cotton now costs
S cents, and that another such crop as
this will reduce the price to cents.
The other favors a Gotten tie mill at
Birmingham, the product to be used by
the Alliance.
Geo. F. Gather, of Birmingham, is
chairman of the committee.
The resolutions also urge that women
be kept ont of the field, and their at
tentions confined to raising chickens,
garden truck, and other things to eat.
Ten States were represented, and
Chairman McCune of the national
committee was here.
NEW YORK STATE TO BE FORMALLY
ORGANIZED.
New YORK, March 25.-President
Polk, Of the National Farmers Alli-
ance, has issued proclamation stating
that New York State will be officially
organized on April %. The ceremony
will take place at some point in the
central part of the State, and it is said
that one hundred or more lc al Alli-
ances will be represented. The Alli-
ance officers affirm that New York
farmers have been joining the order by
thousands the past few months. The
Farmers League, having its headouar-
tiers at Springfield, Mass, outnunbered
the Alliance in New York State men,
bership until lately, but most of the
members of the League have now
joined the Alliance as we'll. The Citi-
zens' Alliance, the new political Or
ganization through which the Alliance
acts in politics, is also to be introduced
in both cities and rural districts in the
State. Branches will be organized in
New York city within a few weeks.
KANSAS ALLIANCE MANIFESTO.
TOPEKA, KAN, March 21.-The Alli-
ance has at last brought forth its
much talked of manifesto covering the
labors of the last Legislature. 1t has
been in process of preparation for two
weeks. 1t is addressed ITO the People
of Kansas" and says:
"The Republican politicians ofthe ma
tion were gathered in Topeka and our
footsteps were dogged by hired Hes
slams at every turn with offers of pelf
and political honors, butwithout effect.
The legislation of this session has not
resulted in what we desired to accom-
plish, nor in what the people would
have the RIGHT to expect from US had
we been in power in all the branches
of the State government, but we can
safely say in refutation of the charges
by our political enemies that we did
not consider or pass a single bill that
could in any way disturb the relation
of debtor or creditor, or jeopardize the
collection of debts or repudiate an
honest obligation. We can safely say
to every business man in the State of
Kansas, that we have tried to carefully
guard and protect the interests of the
people of our State. They will not fail
to see how unfortunate it was, and in
the future it will be, to have a Repub-
lican Senate whose only business or OBJ
ject is to obstruct honest legislation and
to checkmate the action Of the peoples
chosen representatives. We commend
this review to the consideration of the
people and candid world"
THE SECRETS OF THE ALLIANCE.
A Kansas Alliance leader who has
been looking around town for a few
days says it is true that the Farmers
Alliance is secret organization. ut
is secret" he says, ''just like Tammany
Hall and the big social clubs and
plenty of other societies in New York,
which transact their business in secret,
and don't let the outside world know
about their affairs. All the secrets of
the Farmers Alliance are known to
everybody who belong to it, and other
people are kept in the dark from mo-
lives of policy. There ere between
1000 and 1000 sub-Alliances in Kansas
and all Of them are secret in one sense,
hat is to say, outsiders are not allowed
IN their meetings and members keep
luiet about the proceedings. But every
body can learn all about the principles
and objects of the Alliance and its way
If doing things.
~ am not giving away any of our
Alliance secrets when I tell you that
We laugh at the stories printed in East
.rn papers about the terrible oaths that
ire taken by the members of the Alli-
lnce. We take no oath that would
care a hen. When a man joins the
he gives his pledge that he
believes in its platform, that be will
work with others in supporting it: that
when it puts up candidates at elections
le will support them, and that be will
lot reveal its inside business to people
Who do not join it. There is no blood
oath about that; there are no
Drilling or terrifying mysteries of initi-
.tion; there are no big panjandrums
q the Alliance; it is made up of plain
armers, whose secret operations are as
innocent as their crops"
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