The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1891-04-25
CECIL FARMERS CLUB.
Regular Monthly Meeting at Col. Ehoch
Soyes'.

-Nt1tS
The April meeting of the Cecil Farm.
ers' Club was held on Wednesday the
l55h inst, at Mt. Ararat farm, the beau
tiiul homestead of Col. Euoch Noyes,
near Port Deposit. At eleven O'Clock this
| a-President OF the club Col. NOyes il
the absence ot Joseph Coudop, Esq, the
President, directed The call of the roll al
members when the following responded
to their names Alan r. Magraw, Henry
s Coudon, Thomas g. Bond, Samuel Il.
Carson, Joseph Coudon (of Henry, john
r. Bond, Col. Enoch N0yes and Henry
| r. Torbert. The visitors present by H.
yita!ion were the Rev. w. W. Reese aud
Mr.. f. f. Ewing, Mr. Joseph Coudon
| 60! Joseph who had been detained by
the illness Of his mother, arriving Il few
minutes after the organization of TIE
meeting.
Before the transaction OF any business,
The Secretary formally announced the
death OF Mr.. Horace Duyckinck one OF
the charter members of the club, ard d
committee consisting OF Messrs. II. r.
| Torbert, Thomas G. Bond and s. Row
land Carson, was appointed to draft and
| report at the next meeting Of the club
resolutions expressive of the feelings Of
its wtmbors at the loss of So valuable
and faithful a member as Mr.. DnyCkiEck.
The unfinished business Of the meeting
being the discussion OF the remaining
financial resolutions of Col. Noyes, upon
| motion of Mr.. Henry 5. Cnudon it was
| decided to postpone the discussion of
| the resolutions until after the reading of
Col. Noyes' essay.
There being no reports of experiments
aud the essay being in order, Col. Moves
Submitted tie following paper upon the
Farmers Alliance as viewed from Il
farmers standpoint
GENTLEMEN-In introducing the sub
jact gwen me for an essay and to make
the subject, which Is the Alliance move
meut, perhaps more interesting, | will
call the clubs attention to few facts
and figures III connection with and bear
ing on the subject.
Facts and figures are particularly Sug-
gcstive at the present time, when the
word is passing along the line ftom one
end of the land to the other-how about
the Alliance movement. Has it come to
Stay or is it a visionary conception, a con-
dition that will disappear, when the
farmers come to their senses and realize
thai systems OF finance and government
are not in their line. If we judge the
movement by its strength aud magui-
tude, bringing the people of different
sections into one solid compact, burying
past prejudices ana this compact inGiud-
ing the molal and patriotic classes, it is
a movement which has come to stay. 4
and the political spokesman sec therein
nothing but disaster to the business
classes. Now wherefore this movement?
" { read that the County is enjoying
wonderful prosperity. TtaJ millions ap-
pear where thousands were heretofore.
That he country is rich in miliiDIaires
and their counter part the tramp, can
only say that the Alliance is looking into
this and finds that these conditions only
the exist, under a contracted condition of
currency, only when capital is eXacting
too much from the hand Of labor, ex
amplcs of this nature are not con
clusiou, they are 1T present a reality.
railroads GU d total income OF 81 0S9, 9-5,
sol, exact of labor, profit 1913, $50 1874.
Capital mostly nuproductive, alien,
owning three tilths OF the wealth and
numbering 81, 600 people pay oue-tenth
OF the taxes.
The balance of the people over 61,-
00O, 000 owning two-fiiths of the wealth,
pay ninety per cent.
And t 900, 900 farmers, owning one
fourth of the wealth pay eighty per cent.
OF tho taxes. There is $50, 600, 600 of
property invested ia this State escaping
taxation altogether.
The profits of our National Banks are
-, 900, 600 coo in the last decade. The
average wages of farmers and farm
laborers numbering about 100000,
is less than seventy cents day. Van
derbilt made more money from 1850 to
1885 than 1000, GOO farmers. The profits
of money loaners, mortgages, sEavers
and official pluEder were more than A.
600, 600 farmers, this from 1850 80 1855.
worse now.-Erom Ch'estiln Union.
1t cost in 1890 to run the Government,
IS "a per capita, or $1,000 per every
family. In 1860 it cost 81 16 per capita,
other statements can be given similar in
nature and effect. This is why the farm
els are organizing i'll alliances, it is
strictly defensive movement.
| viii say that the Alliance or Indus
trial Union, is not exclusively farmers
organization, farm labOrers, country mil.-
listers, country doctors and few otter
caIings are eligible to the order The
constitution of the Alliance fully ex-
plains its intents and purposes.
Article 81 reads, to develop better
state mentally, morally, socially and
financially. Article 65h, to suppress per-
sonal, sectional, local and National preju-
dices and unhealthy rivalry and selfish
ambition.
There sic other farmers organizations
in operation, having about the same
purposes il view and working nearly in
the same lines with the Alliance but not
Carrying the political weight OF the Alli-
ance.
The Alliance is political not plrtizAn
as appeared in our last election, all ;arn1-
ers' organizations have one object IN
view which is to improve the condition
OF the agriculturist, all labor organic
atious are conducted ii accord with the
Alliance, on the questions OF finance
taxation, transportation, banking, etc.,
making the Alliance the most powerful
organization existing at the present time
i'll this country. y great CromwelIian
movement in the interest of justice and
equality. Ii is well to consider the
reasons and motives Of this great up
rising OF the people.
Idle and careless explanations
are not sufficient, it calls for
something tangible, facts, truths, reali
ties, experiences. Political knowledge
gained by those actually engaged pro-
ducing the necessaries of life, by those
coming in contact with oppressive con
ditions, Determinations in the way OF