The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-16

Hopkins county.
An evening session was held tonight,
which was devoted to speech making.
sATUR DAYS PROCEEDINGS.
FORT WORTH, Tex. July 1.-THE
following are the resolutions adopted
by the Alliance convention today:
We, your committee on resolutions
beg to submit for your consideration
the following, to wit:
We, the anti subtreasury members
of the National Farmers Alliance and
Industrial union, recognizing the
grave and responsible duties resting
upon us as farmers and cititizens and
members of our beloved order, the
Farmers Alliance, 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 it's
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 int1uen
ces of partisanship 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 that this
education and union should be brought
about In strictly non partisan sense
and manner; and
Whereas, we declare to the world in
our constitution we would ever advo
cate equal rights to all and special
favors to none; and
Whereas, we declared to the world
through the Alliance that we would
make no war upon any of the legiti-
mate interests of our country; and
Whereas we were assured when we
entered the organization that no one
should be ostracised for opinion sake
and refused admittance into, or turned
out of the order on account of any
belief he might hold on any questio /;
and
Whereas, we felt assured that this
organization would be decided and
controlled by farmers who were honest
men and who would LABOR to unite the
farmers of our country who were divid-
ed by the war; and,
Whereas, we now find that the pur
poses and objects of the order have
been defeated, and the organization
defeated and turned from this original
purpose and intention in the following
manner and ways:
1. BY violating the plainest princi.
piles and declarations of our constitu
tion by advocating and declaring in
favor of the sub treasury and land
loan scheme and the government
ownership of railroads.
2. By deposing 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 proved them
selves to be dishonest, mercenary and
corrupt, and have continued them in
such offices by falsely and maliciously
denouncing the just and honest chosen
representatives of the people, who
have been elected to serve in places o.
public trust, although the honesty an(
fidelity of such public servants hav'
been proved by long and faithful
. service.
4. By trying to direct and turn tn
organizations of the farmers and la
borers of our land from opposition tt
one of the greatest curses of the age
the protective tariff system. and tt
class legislation.
6. By placing in the highest officia
positions of our national and stat,
orders men who are not farmers, no
have any interest in farming, bu
whose only interest and ambition is tt
keep the farmers in the depressed con
dit!on they now are to the end tina
they NAV draw their salaries from
them, knowing that the depression o
the farming class is necessary to keeE
up an organization OF this character
Z. By the some of the leading officer!
of the order, both state and national
consorting with the enemies of good
government against the the true inter
ests of the people and corruptly en-
deavoring by dishonest methods to
fasten upon the people the protective
tariff and railroad combination, two
OF the evils that the Alliance was Gre
ated to put down and destroy.
s. By private individuals in the AL
lance. through corruptand mercenary
motives, buying up the state and ma
tional official organs of our order
thereby centralizing the power OF thi'
organization and that of the millions
of farmers in it, for the purpose of the
personal aggrandisement and politica
ambition and corrupt ends of these
men.
9. By changing our order from itl
non.partisan character into partisan
body by applying partisan politica
tests to membership and office holding
in our order and by declaring in 6
statute passed at Ocala, December
1890, and by the proclamation OF oul
national president, that when the ma
, iority of the National Alliance pro.
; mulgated any political demand anc
heresy that every Alliance man mus
subscribe and conform to such pollti
cal principle. Therefore be it
Resolved, That we denounce the sub
treasury and loan schemes and gov
! eminent ownership of railroads AZ
violations of the first principles o