The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-01-28
without RESULT I'm Illinois.
NORTHERN FARMERS ALLIANCE.
Wild Ideas Of President Powers-Declined q
Indorse the Successor Of ingalls,.

Wild Ideas of President Powers-Declined TO
Indorse the Successor Of Ingalls,.
OMAHA. Neb.. Jan. 27.-The eleventh an
nual meeting of the National Farmers AL
lance convened here this morning at 9
o'clock. Immediately on being called to
order q resolution was adopted excluding
all persons not members of the Alliance
from the sessions. About $50 delegates are
present. The morning session was con-
sumed in routine business and the reading
of President Powers's annual address.
Delegate Fullerton, of Missouri. offered the
following resolution, which was referred to
the committee OF resolutions:
Resolved, That it is the sense of the National
Alliance that the Independent political action Of
the past year as evidenced by 1.-THE State OF Ne
braska Is just and proper and ought to be en-
couraged.
President Powers in his address advocat-
ed q general organization of trades-unions
and Knights of Labor with the Alliance.
He said no effective arrangements of q ma
tionaf character for the conduct of the
business industries of the country can be
made and prove Of benefit without being in
effect laws Of the organization which
adopts them. To prevent general and con-
tinual conflict with the avs of the govern
ment the government itself must be con-
trolied by those societies. For attaining
this object President Powers pro-
litticsal party and independent POLITICAL
action. The first he opposed as not practi :
cal for industrial organizations, as the
platform on which the party might be
formed would soon become obsolete. Wit
ness the two parties which have divided
the government during the last thirty
years. Each of them were formed on
principles which were definite and practi-
cal at the time, but long ago they have been
lost sight OF. He outlined a plan for action
as follows:
Let this Alliance discuss and agree upon such
measures as ii shall deem expedient to form "a
basis for political action for this year and
n fore o, htaoe greats sa,s' in ny SG~afe'P orSanlss;io Ds-
and, with their concurrence, let q con-
avention be called at some central point for
the purpose OF comparing views and finally
adopting as a national platform a concise set Of
principles which can be cordially supported by
all. Then publish them to the world, and let the
mating these principles and preparing for a
great struggle in 1892. The subjects on
which those principles are founded should be
those which are most vital to the prosperity OF
the people, the honest laborers of the whole
country, and which can be so expressed by q
majority Of the people, 80 that they can be
all included In the following list: Money reform,
land reform. transportation reform. ballot re-
form and suppression OF any vice tolerated by
law, to the merit of our national prosperity.
President Powers then dwelt at length on
the money question, and advocated the loan
of money by the government to working
people without interest. If money was thus
furnished by the government for q term of
q few years to individuals. but perpetual
to the people, and absolutely without in
terest. the boarding of money would be
stopped, except it be in the case of q few
misers. and all money would soon
question President Powers urged that the
government take the railroads into it's own
bands and furnish the service for the peO-
pie which corporations have failed to
render. This could be brought about either
by purchase or confiscatiOn. He advocated
taking right of franchise from the ignorant
and vicious and giving it to the women.
At the afternoon session it was decided
to send q telegram TO the Alliance members
of the Illinois Legislature to stand fast
and not lose courage, but Milton George
thought it foolish to instruct the Illinois
men to stand fast, and the Objectionable
words were stricken out and q telegram
merely stating the passage of the reso-
luton was sent instead. A resolution
to send q telegram to the Kansas Legisla-
tpre urging PETERS election was lost, after
a delegate from Kansas had denounced him
as no friend of the armers. although the
editor of a farm paper. National Lecturer
Ashby read his annual report. showing all
the alliances to be in a fourishing condi-
ton. Five new States had been organized
during the year. He urged that the organ
ization keep entirely out of poll
tics. An effort was to be mad to
form a !co-operative union and conference
would be held in Chicago Feb. Q with the
Farmers Mutual Benefit Association to see
what can be accomplished. A committee of
five of f.. NJ. b. A.. of Illinois, headed by w.
Il. StilIwell. made application for seats in
the convention and they were admitted.
They stated they had come for the purpose
of securing union between the Alliance and
the F. NJ. b. A. After a long discussion q
resolution was adopted to allow the Illlnoia
men to address the convention on the sub