Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1891-07-02

uniform system of text books in our
public schools.
:; That we urgently demand the pass
age of a bill by congress placing a
heavy revenue ON all marginal sales
and purchases of farm produce.
That we are opposed to taxation
without representation and demand
that property owners shall be entitled
to the privileges of the ballot box with
out regard to sex.
RESOLUTIONS.
Resolved, That we express our ap-
probation and commendation of the.
earnest and conscientious efforts which
have been made by our president and
other state alliance officials to advance
the interests and add to the influence
OF our organization. Realizing the
difficulties and embarrssments which
have been in their pathway we feel
that they are deserving of large mea-
sure of gratitude as the least that
decent sense of proprieiy would permit
us to say.
Resolved, That realizing that the ac-
complishment of anything beneficial to
US and to all who are producers of any
thing demanded by the necessities of
the people requires effort wisely direct
ed to the accomplishment of definite
ends and that as other definite ends
have made us thrive with disappoint--
ment, we call for more nourishing
diet than the thin air of the past. In
line of the above we
Resolved, That we favor the govern
ment ownership of railroads and tele-
graph lines, which have been essential
to our we'll being and are now largely a
means to our financial destruction.
Resolved, That we favor the rigid en-
forcement of all laws for the suppress
ion of the evils of intemperance and we
condemn as unfair and ungainIy the
agitation in our last legislature of the
question of resubmission of the prohi--
bition amendment in advance of trial
to see what the success of prohibition
might be.
Resolved, That we request the next
state legislature to adopt such measurs.
as may be necessary to secure the erec-
tion of track scale at every regular
station on the lines of railroad doing
business in North Dakota, and that the
railroad companies be responsible for
the safety and delivery of the whole
amount of all freight intrusted to them
including grain.
Resolved, That the business of the
country having outgrown the amount
of currency in circulation as issued
through urpresent national banking
system, therefore we favor issuance of
money by the national government
without the intervention of the so called
national banks and that silver be place
on the same footing as to coinage of
gold.
Resolved, that in line with the belief
that substantial and beneficial results
can only be derived from measures
making possible positive financial
benefit to the mass of our producers,
that we do approve of the sub-treasury
bill until some better plan is offered,
either by the friends or the wise enem-
les of that bill.
Racolvad That common copco ,,d =
decent self respect dictate that we as
individual members Of the Farmers
Alliance support such political party
as supports our demands; that we re-
sent with all our might the downright
falsehoods and contemplate misstate-
ments in regard to our aims and object
and leaders so common in the hostile
press.
Resolved, That believing our expert
ence shows that no party can have con-
tinuous power for over quarter Of
century without becoming more or less
encumbered with barnacles, that cancer
like, eat out the life of the party and
make it a servant of few instead of
the many, therefore we believe that
the best interests Of this nation demand
that another political organization be
brought forward holding these views
As result of the above we look hope
fully to the move begun by the recent
convention at Cincinnati as being har-
binger of future victory for the people.