Nevada County picayune., 1891-07-23
THE sUB.TREAsURY

 Worth, for the purpose of condemn ing the sub-treasury scheme. They claimed to be the true Alliance rep resentatives, and true farmers, who do not farm alone with their mouths. Preamble consisted of statement of the original purposes and principles of the order, closing as follows, after which came the resolutions:
 Whereas. We now find that the purpose and objects of the order have been defeated and the organl- zation defccted and turned from the original purpose and intention in the following manner and ways:
 1. By violating the plainest prln- ciples and declaration of our constl- tuition, by advocating and declaring in favor of the sub-treasury and land loan schemes and the government ownership of railroads.
 7. By debarring persoEs from membership and office for opinion s sake.
 5. By putting men i'll important offices and keeping them :here who are known and have proved them selves to be dishonest, mercenary and corrupt, and have continued them in such offices.
 1. By falsely and maliciously de- nouncing the just and honestly cho- sen representatives of the people who have been elected to serve in public trust, although the honesty and fi- delity of such public servants have been proved by long and faithful service.
 ,. By trying to direct and turn the organizations of the farmers and laborers of our land from one of the greatest curses of the age-the pro- tective tariff system--and to com init them to the national curse of class legislation.
 6. By placing in the highest olli- cial position of our state orders, 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 condition they now are to the end that they may draw their salaries from them, knowing that the depression of the farming class is necessary to keep up an organization of this character.
 :. Bv some of the leading officers of the order both the State and the national consorting with the enemies of good government against the true interests of the people, and corrupt ly cndeavoring by dishonest meth ods to fasten upon the people the protective tariff and railroad combi- nation-two of the evils that the AL liance was organized to put down and destroy.
 8. By private individuals in the Alliance, through corrupt and mer- cenary motives, buying up the State and national official organs of our order, thereby centralizing the pow CT of this organization and that of the millions of farmers in it for the purpose of the personal aggrandize- ment and political ambition and cor rupt end of these men.
 9. By changing our order from it's non-partisan character into par tisan bodo, by applying partisan po- litical tests to membership and office holding in our order, and by declar- ing in statute passed at Ocala, December, 1890, and by proclama- tion of our national president, that when the majority of the National Alliance promulgated any political principle, demand and heresy, that every Alliance man must subscribe to and conform to such political principles.
 Therefore, be it resolved, That we denounce the sub-treasury and land loan schemes and governmental own ership of railroads, as violations of the first principles of good govern ment, as paternal in their character, as centralizing in their tendencies, and if enacted into law would create such a horde of national oiliceholders as would fasten the clutches of the party in power upon the throats of the people so strongly that the voice of honest, patriotic citizens would no longer be heard in the control of gov ernmental affairs.
 We further denounce these meas ures as being a violation of the con- stitution of our beloved order.
 That we denounce C. W. Macunc and his corrupt measures, together with the acts of hIs tools and hench- men, as being a disgrace to the or der and a stench in the nostrils of all honest men, who know of their cor ruptions and yillainy, and thus point out to the order by continuing such men as this ln power they are ena- bled by bctraying us and our inter- ests to most effeutually y chain us to the Juggernaut cars of monopoly.
 We further demand that these men who are not farmers be removed from the national and state offices of our order, and that none but those who have their interests in farming be al- lowed to fill such places, to the end that the legislatures of our govern ment may know when the Alliance speaks it is the voice of the farmers l and lahnrnrs nf nmr land instead of