Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-02-12
ALLIANCE MAGNATES.

Meeting of the Presidents of Various State
Alliances In NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. on
the Silver Question.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.-The presi-
dents of the State organizations of the
National Farmers Alliance met yester-
day morning to formulate certain meas
ures to be presented to Congress and to
map out some feasible plan for dissem-
mating the literature of the council for
educational purposes
The meeting was called to order by
President Polk, representatives of the
following States being present: Vir-
ginia, Maryland, South Carolina. North
Carolina, Tennessee, Mississippi, Kan
sas and Pennsylvania The only bust
ness transacted was the appointment of
a committee on silver legislation.
At the evening session the committee
on silver legislation submitted the fol-
lowing report:
enjoined upon Congress by the Constitution
to provide for the unlimited coinage of both
precious metals, gold and silver, to the end
that the people of the several States may be
provided with circulating medium We
express our surprise, regret and Indignation
that this duty has been SO long delayed
and neglected, contrary, as We believe, not
only to the duty we have mentioned, but to the
best Interests of the masses of the people, w no
are suffering the pangs of poverty and stag
nation of business induced by a want of
sufficient circulating mediums We believe
and charge that such delay and neglect has
been occasioned by undue influence in
our Governmental politics by those whose
interest it is to contract the currency and
| subserve monopolies and money lenders.
We therefore urge upon Congress the de-
mand heretofore made by the National
Farmers Alliance and Industrial Union for
the free and unlimited coinage of silver, up
on the same terms and conditions that gold
| is now coined
We express our earnest condemnation of
the exercise of the arbitrary power which
prevented a fair consideration of a free coin
age bill at the last session of Congress. and
in this connection we give expression to the
hope that the free coinage bill which passed
the Senate during the present session
| and is now being considered in the
Committee on. Coinage, WEIGHTS and
| Measures of the House shall not
| be suppressed but shall be reported back to
the House and enacted into a law With q
proper respect and Difference to our repre-
| we say that any efforts to unduly delay re-
port that bill to prevent action
thereon by the House in the few remaining
| days of this Congress will meet and Will re-
| ceive still further condemnation by the
| farmers and lsborers of this country. We
| have waited many years for the simple
| justice of having both the precious metals
| restored to free coinage and hereby declare
our ueterIniaatloh 10 press tuS uSHt On inis
| line until the relief is accorded to the labor
! ing and producing masses of our Nation
and to hold responsible the men, prospect
| i've of party, who obstruct in any way the
| legislative enactment of the measure de-
manded by labor congresses ST all parties.
The report is signed by j. III. Melon.
aid, of Tennessee, chairman; E s
Hall of Maryland, Frank McGrath OF
Kansas, T. S. Adams of louisa ma,
| Maun Page of Virginia and w. S. Nc
Allister of Mississippi.