The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1891-07-24
ETING
EEDNes IN A CONDENSED FORM.
rhe Report OF the Committee on Resolutions
ADOPTED Amid Round Of Applause.
Resolution Of Thanks.

and of this nation. The convention
was composed of some of the most
brilliant advocates of the farmers
cause-men who had made records
Tor themselves by their honest and un-
tiripg efforts toward the upbuilding Of
their noble order They assembled
TO denounce the sub-treasury move
and they did so in language not to be
misconstrued L. S. Hall, president
of the Missouri State Alliance,
spoke for one hour in opposition to
the sub-treasury scheme; he regretted
that he was forced TO oppose anything
that the Alliance night advocate, but
he was of the opinion. hat the scheme
would bankrupt every farmer in the
country and eventually bankrupt the
government; he denied the right OF the
Alliance to pass any law that binds in
diyiduals to support any political
measure.
The committee on resolusions met
al neon Saturday with a full member
ship PRESENT.
Mr. Smith Of Navarro &c ,ul. "a
about the propriety of passing reso-
luton indorsing Hogg's administra-
ton. but it was decided that the adj
ministration needed no Endorsement
as it spoke for itself.
In reference to the character of the
resolutions, Mr.. Smith said that the
adoption of platform practically made
u political organization Of the meeting
and that this must be avoided.
The following is the committees re-
port as read and adopted amid an
uproar of applause;
We, the anti-subtreasury members
of the Farmers Alliance and Industrial
Union, recognizing the grave and re-
sponsible duties resting upon us as
farmers and citizens and members Of
our beloved order, the Farmers Ali
ance, hereby present for the careful
consideration of our brother Alliance
farmers the following preamble and
resolutions:
Whereas, the Farmers Alliance has
been organized to the end that its
members might become educated in
the science of economical government
and that we might become more united
in our action, having been divided
through the influence Of the war. while
we have ever been united in interest;
and whereas our beloved order the
Farmers Alliance, was founded for the
express purpose, as set forth IN our
constitution, to bring about the above
most important results, and this edlI-
cation and union should be brought
in a strictly non-partisan sense and
manner; and whereas, We declare to
the world in our constitution that the
Alliance would ever advocate equal
rights to all aud special privileges to
ncne;n and whereas, we declared TO
the world through the Alliance that
we would make no war upon the le-
Ultimate interests Of our country; and
whereas. we were assured when we
entered the organization that no ons
should be ostracised for opinions sake
and refused admittance into or turned
out of the order on account of an- be-
lief we might hold on political ques-
lAbliS- anu " llGAtnAas NC 4tAL dbHlItQ
that this organization would be di-
rected and controlled by farmers who
were honest men and who would labor
to unite the farmers of our common
country who were divided by the war;
and whereas. We now find that the
purposes and objects of the order have
been defeated and the organization di-
rected and turned from this original
purpose and intention in the following
manner and ways:
l. BY violating the p!ainest princi-
pies and declarations of our constitu-
ton by advocating and declaring in
favor of the sub-treasury and land loan
schemes and the governmental owner
ship of railroads.
2. By debarring persons from mem
bership and Office for opinions sake.
3. BY putting men in important
Offices and keeping them there who
are known and have proven them
selves to be here occurs very strong
language and have continued them in
such Offices.
!. By falsely and maliciously de-
nouncing the just and honest repre-
sentatives of the people who have
been elected to serve IN public trust |
although the honesty and fidelity of |
such public servants have been proven |
by long and faithful service.
). BY trying to direct and turn the |
OF the farmers and labor
ers of our land from one of the grand
est curses of the age, the protective
tariff system and to commit them to
the national curse of class legislation.
6. BY placing in the highest official
position of our national and state Or
ders men who are not farmers nor
have any interest in farming. but
whose only interest and ambition is to
keep the farmers in the depressed con-
iition they now are to the end that
they may draw their salaries from
them, knowing that the depression of
he farming class is necessary to keep
up an organization OF this character.
Z. BY some of the leading officers
Of the order, both state and national
with the enemies * good
government against the true interests
If tie people and corruptly endeavor-
ng by dishonest methods to fasten
lpon the people the protective tariff
md railroad combinations-two of the
wills that the alliance was created to
out down and destroy.
s. BY private individuals in the Al
lance, through corrupt and merce- AIRY
motives, buying up the state and ma
ional official organs of our order,
hereby centralizing the power of this
of the millions of farmers
n it for the purpose of the personal
ggrandizement and political ambition
md corrupt ends of those men.
9. By changing our order from its
character into partisan
'ody by applying partisan political
ests to membership and Office holding
n our order, and by declaring in a
tatute passed at Oscala December,
$50, and by PROCLAMATION OF our ma
ional president that when the ma
GRITTY of the national Alliance promul-
-ated any political principle, demand
nd heresy that every Alliance man
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