The advocate., 1891-12-30

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make report TO this body what progress
has been made by their agency as 500
as practical.
| Brother Kinds, of Florida, introduces
a resolution on business cooperation
which was referred to committee on goo,
of the order.
A resolution by Mrs. Mccormick, o
Kansas, on educational work was rea,
and referred to committee on good o
the order.
The report Of the secretary was sub
mitted:
To the Supreme Council of the National Farm
ers' Alliance and Industrial linton:
Your secretary begs leave to make th,
following report of the work done in his of
fee since you met one year ago:
The correspondence in my Office for th,
year just closed has been more than double
what it was for the previous year. The cor.
respondence became so large soon after the
Ocsla meeting that was compelled to rem
phonograph or hire extra help, which &c
have been effective would have cost me $5C
or $75 per month.
To make the office expenses as light al
possible, rented the phonograph for $751;
for one year, by the use of which the ser.
vices of another man was dispensed with
at saving of from 5000 to 5000.
A great deal Of this correspondence came
asking questions and for literature, which,
II it had been supplied as asked for, would
have taken thousands of dollars.
Basing my calculations upon my CORES
pondenCe, I am fully convinced that our
membership has improved 100 per cent. in
the knowledge Of the principles of our order
during the past year, and had all the states
responded to the call for propaganda fund
as did South Carolina untold good could
have been accomplished. While have COM
psratively no reports from the state secre-
taries for the year 1892 am satisfied from
my correspondence and the representations
at state meetings that our membership has
increased at least 100000 during the past
year, You will know by the facts that have
already been brought out here, that have
received complete reports from only two or
three states, therefore am unable to make
anything like report of our total member
phir that would approximate correctness.
Judging from past experience, am fully
convinced that the good of the order de-
mands that our national constitution be so
amended that every state can and must
make full and complete report by the first
day of November of each year; therefore, I
would respectfully recommend that the
constitution be so amended that the state
secretaries will be required to base their an
nual reports upon the July reports of the
county secretaries, and that the state score
taries be required to make their reports and
remittances promptly to the national score
tary by the first day of November of each
year. / would also recommend that the
clause in the constitution extending the
day OF final settlement by the state secretar-
les to the first day Of February be repealed,
as it has only brought about confusion and
trouble. Since our last meeting have is
sued 7S4 charters to subordinate organiEs-
tions in the states of Minnesota, Arizona,
New Hampshire, Iowa, Wyoming, WisCon-
sin, Delaware, Idaho, Ohio, Oregon, Wash
lngton, New Jersey and New York, and
have issued state charters to eight states, as
follows: New York, Iowa, Wisconsin, Della
ware, Ohio, Oregon, Washington, and New
Jersey. Wyoming and Idaho are we'll under
way and viii organize State Alliances in the