The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-09

mIts1s because no pssesa sxosps pSssidsne
Of staee Or the National Alliance can b.
elected 20 that position. And further y was
shs ayowed sad expressed purposN 81 ~
efeasury plan. and III demands for AnanciaI
reform in tho ocaia platform. and demand
their passage. /. l. POLK.
rrs''d.P.T.EAALU
Secretary y. =. A. II. q.
ALONxO WARDALH,
J. FOUHT TILLAAN.
Members Executive Board.
A r. Cole.
OF Legislative Committee.
There never has been any foundation
whatever for these false statements
and reports. They are deliberate false
hoods invented for the express purpose
Of trying 70 produce discord in the
order. II II the same old game Of the
corrupt and INSCRIPTIONS opposition
presented In . new form. II matters
not that they have selected me - the
target Of which they will discharge al
their spleen and malice. II were not
here some one elss would be honored
In the same way. A little obscure
Mississippi paper recently published .
violent attack upon the National Econ.
omist. saying that Il had advocated
the force bill and making other false
accusations against the paper and my
self. There IL certain class Of papers
all over the country that will copy such
stun. The readers Of the Economist,
and other members Of the order who
keep posted on the work being done at
once recognize this stuff as false and
clearly see that these falsehoods all,
emanated from the same source. The
sub-treasury plan is the emancipation
proclamation for productive labor,
and the paid tools Of monopoly are
not only ready, and willing, and anx-
ious to lie to defeat it, but will go to much
greater length as the struggle waves
warmer. The character Of articles In
regard to the alliance which the St
Louis Republic has for the last year
published purporting to come from its
(slander) bureau here, shows to what
depths Of degradation morally . human
being may sink, in the servile attempt
to assist the INSCRIPTIONS advocate Of
corrupt wealth in its nefarious scheme
to perpetuate the present discrimina-
tions against agriculture. The only
trouble about such publications
is that they are sent out In
every direction and published
in hundreds Of papers simultane-
ously, and must therefore reach many
people who know very little of the
matter and never seeing any denial be-
lieve it. There is only one way to meet
this, and that is for the members OF the
order to work as hard for the order as
these people do against it. II knew
Of another visionary scheme" that was
calculated to help labor as much and
hurt monopoly as badly as the sub
treasury plan is, would certainly adj
vocate IL, even il knew that they
would assassinate me in twenty-four
hours.
could not have accepted position
on the legislative committee had it been
rendered me at Ocala, because in my
address took the position that while
we had done great good in that capacity
during the past year, when we had
practically no friends in congress, there
was no use Of mourning the expense
necessary to perpetuate the committee,
because in the next congress we would
have about forty alliance men, and .
committee either to watch them or to
formulate bills in accordance with the
wish of the supreme council would
BE- entirely superduous, as con-
gressmen are elected for that pur-
pose, and the government prints all
necessary bills, and congressman can
send them out without postage. was
also opposed to the resolution which es-
tablished the Legislative committee, be-
cause it disfranchised million or more
members Of the order, and made spe-
cial class Estate presidents) alone eligi-
BILE TO membership in the legislative
council, and required that from
them should be chosen the legis-
lative committee. State presidents
are usually the best men in
the order, and are chosen for that
alone are capable of serving on the leg
islative committee. We frequently con-
tend for equal rights to all and special
privileges to none, and / think wisely
| feel free to say all this because / OPP
posed having any committee and ia
vored putting the work of that commit
tee on the congressmen-elect that be-
long to our own order. Hence, could
not have accepted the position had it
been rendered me, and had ] been
eligible.
Now, in conclusion, I desire to say,
the brotherhood may rest assured that
the wishes of the supreme council, as
expressed at Ocala, will be strictly car
ried out, and if any member or officer
of the order places himself in conflict
with them, it will be duty of the nation
al executive board to exercise the full
power of the supreme council if neces-
sary to protect the order
shall believe and maintain, and
want every brother in the order to be-
lieve and maintain, that Brothers Polk,
Hall and Cole will perform every duty,
both expressed and implied, that the
supreme council desired and contend
for that belief until there is better evi-
dence to the contrary than the state.
ments of papers published in tho In
terest Of the opposition.
C. w. MAcUyE,
Chr. Nat. Elk. Board.
Proclamation.