Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-07-16


Resolved, That this body elect com
mittee composed of one from each state
here represented, TO be known as the ma
tlonal executive committee, for the spe-
clal purpose OF comforting with like com
mitiees from other organizations. and
deciding questions as to time and place
OF meeting, basis OF representation and
to SUI nit to their respective states the
demands of all such other labor organi.
zitions rs will probably be represented
at such labor conference, each member to
ex- tiicio chairman in his state and to
nave authority to appoint congressional
district chairmen, who in turn shall ap-
point county chaismen for the purpose OF
bringing our demands and those of other
labor organizations squarely before the
people during the coming year, and Sc
cure an expression from them as to what
concessions they will make in order to
secure general cooperation and what
methods they win adopt to secure the
same,
The joint committee on confederation
met with a like committee from the
Knights Of Labor, the National Colored
Farmers Alliance and Cooperative
Union. and the National Citizens AL
lance, in January last, and organizes
for Ierfectng this plan. State,
district and county chairmee
of central committees have been appoint.
ed, and the work will be pushed indie
pendent of the Alliance as an organiza-
ton. The meeting will be held Februa-
ny %, 1892, and the National Farmers
Alliance and Industrial Union will be al
lowed representation in the conference.
This should all be known and discussed
and kept in view in the selection of dele
gates from the primary organizations to
the national. Let all the preparation for
organized and efficient independent ac-
ton go rapidly on, not as a menace to
present political parties, but as precau-
ton against the possibility of such parties
asserting an unwilingness to give the
people the necessary reforms.
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CRITICISM WILL NOT AVAIL.
The Alliance Herald montgomery,
Ala. says: 1T is surprising with what
confidence each opponent of the SUBJ
treasury essays to condemn. it and give
his reasons for opposing it. Any we'll in.
formed writer can attack and critise
any plan that could be offered. There is
nothing smart or wise about it. If these
opponents will answer the question that
the sub-treasury is offered to meet, then
they might boast of something. That
question is: What way can be devised
10 prevent syndicate or combine of spec
ulators each year from forming for the
purpose of controlling the price of farm
products, which syndicate or COM
bine gets the crops at cost of
production and sells them to consumers
at an advance of from 30 to 100 per cent?
Selling crops at cost of production en-
forces another vital question: How can
man grow wheat, corn or cotton at cost
of production, and from the profits from
his farm, which is nothing, pay his mort
gage on his home2 The sub treasury is
offered as a remedy that embraces two
strong points-enough money to defeat
the trust and an adequate means of ac-
complishiag the end sought, at the same
time assuring to consumers protection
from fictitious prices created and enforced
NY cPCCuidtOiS " ludhG tuSIuSGlNeS TlCu
at the loss and damage, above reasonable
compensation for handling the crops, to
the consumer, who, if he could get these
commodities at reasonable prices would
save from 10 to 90 per cent of what it
now costs him to make these spectators
millionaires. Don't catch at the shadow,
but strike the substance. Argue the
question, not the remedy proposed to
solve it. Solve the question in any other
way, and the alliance is ready to accept
it. But its members cannot be made to
slave it any longer for spectators. be-
cause the remedy is liable to criticism.
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THE STORM is COMING.
The Washington Post says. 1.-THE
spirit of reform IN the shape Of revoiu-
tion ia undoubtedly abroad, and the sue
.o eloa that It may here and there achieve is
likely to be contagious. 1t will be well
for the politicians to put their houses in
order By wisdom they may break the
force of the storm, but the storm is in
the air."
In the course of two column COM
ment on the above paragraph, a writer III
the Progressioe Farmer says: mo half
way dubious course will shelter the polit-
ical parties from this popular uprising
They have cause-a good cause; they
have issues which cannot be laid aside or
overshadowed by any other issue
available to the parties. They
cannot make the tariff interest
ing enough, being SO stale and
thread bare, to distract attention from
the new issues. so it would be we'll for
the politicians, says the Post, to put their
houses in order. At this writing we
know of only one State which can easily
divert this furious deluge, and that is the
State of North Carolina, We are inform
ed that the Democratic party of that
State has adopted the ST. Louis platform
or all the essential demands of the F. A.
and /. u, and this places it on the side
of the people and not antagonistic there
to. This will give it ease and quietude.
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ALLIANCE VS.. MERCHANTS.
II the movement inaugurated by the
Alliance is right, and we believe it is,
none should be more ready to give it
their sanction than our merchants who