Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-07-16
Alliance Resolutions.

Inc ie6aS state dllauCo COufCAllOA
met at Fl. Worth last Friday. The
following resolutions were adopted en-
Enthusiastically. A careful perusal of
their contents will prove interesting
reading for the republican members of
the Kansas alliance who have been
laboriDg under the delusion that the
southern alliance was going to break
the solid south, by adopting the sub
treasury and land loan schemes" and
government ownership of railroads.
The resolutions adopted read:
WHEREAS, The farmers alliance has
been organized to the end that its
members might become educated In
the science of economical government
and that we might become more united
in our action, having been divided
through the influences of the money
kings, while we haye ever been united
in interest, and
WHEREAS, Our beloved order the
farmers alliance was founded for the
purpose, as set forth in our constitu-
ton, of bringing about the above most
important results and that this educa-
ton and union should be brought
about in a strictly nOn-partiSau sense
and manner: and,
WHEREAS, We declared to the
world in our constitution that the ALI
ance would ever advocate equal rights
to all and special fayOrs to none; and,
WHEREAS, We declared to the
world through the alliance that we
would make no war upon any of the
legitimate interests Of our country;
and,
WHEREAS, We were assured when
we entered the organization that no
one should be Ostracised for opinions
sake and refused admittance into or
turned out of the order on account of
any belief he might hold on political
questions; and.
WHEREAS, We felt assured that this
order would be directed and controlled
10y farmers who were honest men and
who would labor to unite farmers of
our common country, who were divided
by the war; and.
WHEREAS, We now find that the
purposes and objects of the order have
been defeated and the organization de-
Elected and turned from this original
purpose and intention in the following
manner and ways:
BY violating the plainest principles
and declarations of our constitution by
advocating and declaring in favor OF
the t-treasury and land loan scheme
and the governmental ownership of
railroads.
By debarring persons from member
ship and Office for opinions sake.
BY putting men in important Offices
and keeping them there who are
known and have proved themselves to
be dishonest, meTcenaTy and corrupt,
and continuing them in such offices.
BY trying to direct and turn the
attention of the farmers and labOrers
Of our land from one Of the greatest
issues of the age-the protective tariff
system-and to commit them to the
national curse OF class legislation.
By placing i'll the highest official
positions of our national and state OF
deTs men who are not farmers nor have
any interest in farming, but only one
interest and ambition, to keep the
farmers in the depressed condition
they are now to the end that they may
draw their salaries from them, know
lug that the depression of the farming
class is necessary to keep up an organ
ization of this character.
By private individuals in the alliance
through corrupt and mercenaIy mo-
tives buying up the state and national
official organs of our order, thereby
centralizing the power of this OTganiza-
ton and that Of millions Of farmers
for the purpose of the personal ag-
gIandiZement and political ambition
and corrupt ends OF these men.
BY changing our order from its non
partisan character into a partisan by |
applying partisan political tests to
membership and Office holding IN our
order, and by declaring in a statute
passed at Ocala, December, 1890, and |
by proclamation as our national prin- !
ciple, that when the majority of the |
national alliance promulgated any |
political principle all should support it;
therefore, be it
Resolved, That we denounce the |
sub treasury and land loan schemes |
and governmental ownership of rail
roads as violations of the first princi-
pies of good government, as paternal
in their character, as centralizing in |
their tendencies. If enacted into law |
they would create such horde of |
national Office holders as would fasten |
the clutches of the party in power upon |
the threats of the people so strongly |
that the voice of honest, patriotic citi-
zens would no longer be heard in the |
control of governmental affairs. We |
further denounce these measures as |
being a violation of the constitution of |
Our bolovad Ordor