The record-union., 1892-05-06
GR0WL FROM THE ALLIANCE.
Farmers Who Object TO Spending
Money for the Worlds Fair.
An O1icial Communication to the
County Fathers-Farmer Rooney
Makes a Speech.

The Farmers Alliance of Sacramento
County has heard from some source or
other that the Board of Supervisors in
tended to appropriate $500 of the
county's funds in order to get up county
exhibit for the Worlds Fair, and they
are IN high state of alarm.
The matter was taken up for considera-
ton at recent meeting Of the alliance,
held at Elk Grove, and the proposition
received a severe.trouncing at the hands
OF the farmers. After numerous speeches
had been made, it was decided to address
communication to the board, and a
committee consisting of j. j.. Camp, l..
NJ. Landsborough and John Rooney, was
delegated to present the document to the
county fathers.
The committee dropped in on the board
yesterday, and handed in the document
1t reads as follows:
To the Honorable Board Of Supervisors Of
Sacramento County GENTLEMEN: At the
quarterly meeting of the Sacramento County
Alliance and Industrial Union, at Elk Grove
assembled, the following resolutions were
adopted and committee appointed to present
the same to your honorable body, viz:
WHEREAS, A proposition is now pending
before your honorable body to set aside and
StppOl JiOl OuG Vi Juc iulOS OF sacramento
County said funds being derived by taxation
levied upon the people of the county, an
amount OF money to be used as means of ad-
VertiSing this county at the "WorId's Fairn
your petitioners would most respectfully
submit to your honorable board, that the
State has already set aside for the purpose of
advertising this State the sum of three hun
dred thousand dollars, sum which is only
exceeded i'll amount by one State in the
Union Qllinois), and only equaled by one
other New York;, a State of ten times the
l,alia iS
amply sufficient if placed in the proper chan
nelS, TO make q creditable exhibit of this
States industries, and we would further rep
resent TO your honorable body that the farm
ing industry has for the past five years retro
graded. and that in this county there rests on
the real estate, outside of the city of Sacra-
lnentD, nearly two and one-half million dol
lars OF mortgage Indebtedness thereby placing
the Interests OF your petitioners in n very un-
satisfactory condition, and the rates of inter-
est on which, together with the high rate of
taxation, make the times hard and to us eX-
tremely buTdenSome, and it is herein
LeSotued, That we most earnestly petition
ana request you as guardians of the cOunty's
interests, and without any feelings OF Silurian-
ism or unnecessary penuriOusness, but with
the honest conviction that we should exercise
charity at home and guard our hearthstones
from pecunlary destruction, we, as farmers
and taxpayers ask that no amount be appro-
prlated by your board for this purpose.
j. L. CAMP, President
Il. NJ. .LANDSB0ROUGH, Secretary.
Committeeman Rooney addressed the
board after the document had been read.
He complained bitterly of the burden of
taxation the farmers had to bear, and he
declared that they would stand it no
longer. The State had already appropri-
ated 100000 for the Worlds Fair, and
that ought to be enough. Mr. Rooney
then branched off on a general TRADE
against the board for the expense it was
heaping upon the taxpayers.
Chairman Greer explained that Mr..
Rooney and the Alliance had got off
entirely wrong" in the matter. The
board had not agreed to appropriate 81, 500
at all, but it would undoubtedly con-
tribute something. The money, however,
was not to go to the Worlds Fair Com
mission, but, instead, would be turned
over to the local committees, who were
to get the exhibit together. And not
cent would be gwen if Sacramento
County could not be exhibited at the fair
as the citizens desired, and not be lost in
tumble of exhibits from the whole
State.
The Alliance Committee breathed freer
when they learned the true situation.
Mr.. Greer extended them a hearty in-
vitation to be present at the Worlds
Fair Executive Committees meeting,
which takes place on Tuesday next,
where they might get some authentic in
formation as to what it was proposed to
do regarding an exhibit.