St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-01-28
FRATERNAL FARMERS.
Eleventh Annual Meeting Of
the National Alliance
at Omaha.
A Resolution Indorsing the
Independent Action OF
Nebraska.
President Powers Outlines
the Objects Of the Con-
VentiOn.
He Advocates the Loaning OF
Money by the U. S.
Government.

OMAHA, Neb.. Jan. 27.-The eleventh
annual meeting of the National Farm
ers' Alliance convened here this morn
ing at o'clock. Immediately on being
called to order resolution was adopted
excluding all persons not members OF
the Alliance from the sessions. About
$50 delegates are present. The morning
session was Consumed in routine bust
ness and the reading Of President
Powers annual address. G. w.
Haigh, former state secretary, rep
resented Minnesota, Ignatius Donnelly
was expected, but did not appear. The
delegates fear that Minnesota is about
to ally itself with the Southern Alliance
and Industrial union. The officers in
their reports all recommended that the
Alliance keep to industrial lines and
let politics alone. A portion of the dele
gates favor federation with the South
ern Alliance, and there will evidently
be a bitter fight on that issue. There is
also a movement OH foot to make the
National Alliance secret organization
instead of the present form Of open or
ganIZation. Delegate Fullerton, OF Mis-
souri, offered the following resolution,
which was referred to the committee on
| resolutions:
| Reso lved, That it is the sense of the Ma
| tional Alliance that the independent point
/ zeal action of the past year as evidenced by
| the state of Nebraska is just and proper and
! ought to be encouraged.
This resolution will cause hot de-
bate as there are two factions in the
onvention-thoSe who believe in po-
| litical actionsand those VINO oppose 1t.
| President Powers, Ill his address, ad-
vocated a general organization OF trades
unions and Knights of Labor, with the
| Alliance.
President Powers Plan.
He said no effective arrangements of
national character for the conduct or
the business Industries Of the country
! can be made and prove of benefit with
out being in effect, laws of the organl-
Zation which adopts them. 10 prevent
general and continual conflict with the
| laws of the government, the govern
ment itself must be controlled by those
societies. For attaining this object
President Powers proposed two plans,
new political action. The first he op-
posed as not practical for industrial Or
| CARNATIONS, as the platform on which
the party might be formed would soon
become absolute. Witness the two
parties which have divided the govern
ment during the last thirty years. Each
of them were formed OH principles
which were definite and practical at the
time, but long ago they have been lost
sight of, and, instead of contention be-
tween Them being on principle, 1t is
strife as to which can most successfully
eli n
attending modern politics to gain the
spoils of office and the management OF
The Public Treasury.
He believed in men pledging them
selves to vote for good men or good
| measures, because majority of any
party or class of men may demand it.
He then outlined plan for action as
follows: Let this Alliance discuss and
agree upon such measures as it shall
deem eXpedient to form basis for
political action this year and next.
Place this by correspondence before
other great industrial organizations,
and, with their concurrence, let con-
vention be called at some central point
for the purpose of comparing
views and finally adopting as
national platform con-
else set of principles which can be cor
daily supported by ALL Then publish
them to the world, and let the remain
der of the year be spent in disS emlnat-
ing these principles and preparing a
great struggle in 1892. The subjects on
which those principles are founded
should be those which are most vital to
the prosperity of the people, the honest
which can be so expressed by a majority
of the people, so that they can be
adopted and carried out. 1 think they
may be all included in the following
list: Money reform, land reform. trans
portatiOn reform, ballot reform and
suppression of any vice tolerated by
law to the peril of our national pros
perity."
Financial Topics.
President Powers then dealt at length
on the money question, and advocated
the loaning Of money by the govern
ment 10 working people without inter
est. Ii money was thus furnished by
the government on term of a few
years to individuals, but perpetual to
the people, and absolutely without in
terest, the boarding OF money would be
stopped, except it be in the cause of a
few msers. and all money would all
soon be in circulation. In fact, the
very design OIL IlOlley Is OppoSou W
accumulation by interest. 1t is only
intended and needed as a medium OF
exchange and should no more be sub
ject to accumulation than an order on
the baker Tor bread or on the grocer fol-
sugar or coffee. On the transportation
question, President Powers urged that
the government take the railroads into
its own hands and furnish the service
for the people which corporations have
failed to render. This could be brought
about either by purchase or c0nfiSca
ton. The question of land reform was
touched on lightly. He advocated tax
ing right of franchise from tht
ignorant and vicious and Civ
ing it to the women. He urgeG
more uniformity and closer unior
among the Alliances. and that there
Shout be additional to the secret wOrf
and general mystic bonds by which
members from parts of the county
should be recognized and welcomed by
each other. In closing. President Pow
ers said: sit is no time for boys play
and mock demonstrations. There wa'