The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-12-15

The rep TT of this committee on lee
ture system was adopted with the
amendments offered by Brother Ward
all, Mcdowell, and P7rdue hereto
attached:
BY Brother Perdue:
The State Lecturers Institute shall
be convened at such time as the State
executive officers and State lecturer
shall deem best for the good of the
Order.
BY Brother Mcdowell:
T. is not intended that this system
shall apply in those States which have
county and district lecture bureaus
already established.
By Brother Wardall:
That the national president be in
| structed to confer with the State presl
dent and try and arrange to have the
annual and State meetings arranged
in circuits.
Supplemental report Of the com
mittee on consolidation was rece we'd
and adopted:
Your committee on consolidation beg
leave to turtle r report. as follows:
/. We recommend that where the
| National Farmers Alliance and Indus
| trial Union has State organizations
| where the National Farmers Alliance
is organized, the presidents of such
| State organizations are respectfully re
questcd to use their efforts to promote
| feelings of fraternity between the two
organizations and to effect q cOnsOllda
ton where possible.
2. We recommend that in such States
| as Minnesota and Nebraska where the
National Alliance is strong, and where
| we have no State organizations, that
| +l1 NofINooI DpoUI1Iyo r Crn or aOyV7 M IL
sion some n to visit their State meet
ing, to present the question OF consOll
datiOn.
8. We recommend that this or a sim
liar committee be made a standing com
mittfe, without pay, to issue an ad-
dress to all kindred organizations, with
a view of ~effecting consolidation, and
further, to answer inquiries from those
desiring to consolidate, and that the
reform press be asked to address an
swers to such inquiries presented for
publication
4. That said standing committee on.
consolidation report at the next annual
meeting.
Respectfully submitted.
MARION BUTLER, Chairman.
BEN TERRELL, Secretary.
The following resolution by Brother
Dean, of New York, was received and
adopted:
The importance of maintaining in,
| terest in subordinate Alliances cannot
be overestimated, as all power and all
revenue by which educational work is
to be promulgated comes from the
members of subordinate organizations.
There is no favored or privileged class
III Alliance work. Every member must
do his share, if we would succeed in
securing the relief which is demanded
for the industrial classes. In order to
maintain a proper interest in the work
of the Sub-Alliances, it Is especially
important that every members be pres
ent at each meeting of the Alliance.
To secure this result the members must
be made to feel hat they are being
benefited by such regular attendance,
and that they will be losers by staying
away from a single meeting. In order
to secure this feeling among the mem
bers, the State Lecturer recommends:
1. That each sub organization secure
a sutficientnumber Of Alliance manuals
to supply each member with a o
that he or she may post themselves
perfectly on parliamentary law and
usage.
2. That the members observe that no |
question be allowed to be entertained
by the presiding officer except in strict
conformity to parliamentary usage. By |
this practice all our members will be- |
cOme educated parliamentarians. Too |
much Importance cannot be given this |
branch of our education, and when vol
once become interested In this branch
OF your work, it will become intensely |
interesting. Every member should be |
required to express himself on subjects. |
8. Copies of bills introduced in the
State legislature and Congress will be
furnished each Sub Alliance and should
be thoroughly discussed. In the dis
CussiOn of these measures, it is advi9-
able to sometimes hold open meetings |
and invite in those not belonging to the
Alliance to take part in the discussion, |
as by this practice the members will be |
better prepared 10 meet the arguments |
of those opposed to our principles.
4. 1t is advisable that neighboring
Alliances should visit each other as |
often as practicable, and join in the
discussions, as by this means interest
1 the work will become intensified.
5. Articles printed in the papers op-
posed to us should be read in our Ali
ances and answered by the members.
In making each answer official figures
should always be made the basis of
every argument.
6. Entertainments should be arranged
during the long winter evenings as
often as once in sixty days, from which
a certain amount of evenu may be
derived, which should go into the local
treasury to defray expense of extra
literature and to assist in getting up
fairs and mass-meetings another sum
mer.
2. Each Sub Alliance should appoint
a committee OF exhibits, such commit
tee to be composed of one man and one