The morning call., 1891-01-28
ALLIED CHANGERS.
President Powers Address at The Annual
Convention.

OMAHA, Jan. 27.-The eleventh annual
meeting of the Farmers National Alliance
convened here this morning. A resolution
was adopted excluding all persons not mem
berS Of the Alliance from the sessions. About
$50 delegates were present. The morning
session was consumed in routine business
and the reading of President Powers an
nual address,
President Powers. in his address, advo-
Gated general organization of trades unions
and the knights of Labor with the Alliance.
No effective arrangements of national
character for the conduct of the business
Industries of the country he said, can he
made and prove of beneft'wthout being IN
effect the laws of the organization whicl
adopts them. 10 prevent a general ara
continual conflict with the laws. the Govern
ment itself must be controlled by these So
cletleS. For the attainment of this obJec',
Powers opposed new political ,rty as not
practicable for industrial organizations, a.
the platform on which the party might 20
formed would soon become 0bsolrte-wlt-
ness the two parties which have divided the
Government for the last thirty years. lie
favored independent political action and be-
lieved in the men pledging themselves to
vote Tor good men or good measures because
the majority of any party or class OF men
may demand it.
He outlined the plan of act on as follows;
Let the Alliance discuss and agree upon Suta
measures as II deems eXpedient to form !.
basis for political action for this year and
the next. Place this by correspondence be-
fore the other great industrial OrganIzatona.
anj with their concurrence, let convention
he called and adopt national platform 4
concise set OF principles-which can be CO.
daily supported by all. Publish them to
the world, disseminate them, and prepare
Tor the great struggle in 1892.
Powers thought that the subjects ca
which those principles are founded are It
cluded in the following list: Money reform,
land reform, transportation reform, Dali'
reform, and the suppression of any vice tCs-
Grated by law to the peril of our natlOnEl
prosperity. Powers dwelt at length on tse
money question, and advocated the loanrg
of money by the Government to working
people without interest. If the money IS
thus furnished by the Government its hoard
Ing will soon be stopped, and all the money
will soon be in circulation.
He urged the Government to take the
railroads into Its own hands, and furn ii
the service for the people which the cor
puratiOns have failed to do. This could be
brought about either by purchase or confs
cation Land reform was only lightly
touched on. Powers advocated taking tAe
right of franchise from the ignorant and
vicious, and giving 1t to women.
In conclusion Powers said there was
garchles looked upon us with CONTEMPT
That condition is changed The enemy is
already marsnaled for battle. We must
conquer or suffer ignOninious defeat.
AT the afternoon session, resolution by
delegate from Illinois expressing "tue
wish OF the National Alliance that the Leg
lSlature of Illinois select Tor United States
Senator man favorable to the welfare ard
prospects of the Alliance" was adopted ard
telegraphed to Springfield.
resolution to send a similar telegram to
Kansas urging Pfeffer's election was lost
after a delegate from Kansas had denounced
him as no friend of the farmers, although
the editor of farm paper.
National Lecturer Ashbv read a report
showing the order TO be in a fiOurishing con-
dition. Five new States were organized
during the year. He urged the orsaniza-
ton TO keep out of politics.
An effort will be made to from cooper
atiye union, and conference will be held
in Chicago February 9Th with the Farmers
Mutual Benefit Association.
a committee OF five IRON the Farmers
Mutual Benefit Association Of Illinois,
headed by w. E. Stiilwell were admitted to
the convention, stating they had come for
the purpose of securing a union between
the Alliance and the f. ii. f. A.
Delegate Fullerton of Missouri offered the
following resolution, which was referred 20
the Committee on Resolutions:
Resolred. That II is the sense of the National
Alliance tnat the independent political action of
the past wear, as evidenced by Tie State OF Ne
braska, Is just aud proper and ought 10 be en-
couraEed.