Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-01-28

monopoly classes--in fact work their
utter downfall and make it impossible for
the system of legal robbery to be pur-
sued, which has over ridden individual
rights for the past thirty years, by placing
the corporation above the citizen and
turning over the prerogative of gov
eminent to the control of bank
ing aud stock gambling class.
Below we give the address of the COM
mittee on the st. Louis meeting in full:
To all citizens of the hunted States
Greeting: The undersigned have been
appointed committee to issue an address
setting forth the object and purposes of
the great conference of producers which
has been called to convene in St. Louis,
on the 22d day of February, 1892. The
call for said conference originated with
the National Farmers Alliance and In
dustrial Union at Ocala, Fla, in Decern-
Der, 1890, as follows: "This body gives
Its sanction and call for meeting to be
held about February, 1892, to be COM
posed of delegates from ali organizations
of producers upon fair basis of repre-
sentation, for the purpose of general
and thorough conference upon the de-
mands of each, and to the end that all
may agree upon joint set of demands
just prior to the next national campaign,
and agree upon the proper methods for
enforcing such demands. If the people,
by delegates coming from them direct,
agree that third party move is necessa-
rv IL paoI not he faara1 That tho navt
session of this Supreme Council elect
delegates from this Order to represent it
in said national conference of productive
organizations for political purposes
Committees from the National Farmers,
Alliance and Industrial Union, the
Knights of Labor, the National
Citizens, Alliance, and the Colored
National Farmers Alliance and Cooper
alive Union met in Washington, d. c.,
January "a, 1891, and chose a national
executive committee, and fixed the time
for the coming conference at February
20, 1899, and instructed their executive
committee to decide on the place of
meeting and the basis of representation.
The call for the great labor conference
has since been ratified and accepted by
DTdGblCdllN I'LL ouo VI
CARNATIONS. The national executive
committee met at Indianapolis, Ind, on
the 10th day of November, and fixed
the basis of representation, and ap-
pointed committee to choose the place
of meeting. This shows the call 10 be
regular, and to be supported by millions
of people scattered throughout every sec
ton of this broad land. A movement of
such great extent and popularity involves
great forces and must WELD great power;
its causes, objects, purposes and methods,
therefore, are important subjects of con-
sideration. The causes are many, and
depend on combinations of circumstances
that have been transporting for years;
many of them are to-day unnoticed, and
to attempt even a list of the causes
would be almost an endless task, but
prominent among the causes for this
great movement, causes which should
fill with alarm and concern every
loyal citizen of this government, are:
The rapid accumulation of the wealth
of the nation in the hands of few,
and the general impovershment and
discomfort of the masses; finan :
cial system that furnishes volume
of money which at one season of the year
is so redundant that money ia worth in
the metropolis only per cent.
on CALL while at another season it
is so inadequate that money ranges
as high as 1S6 per cent on call, thereby
entailing great hardship and distress
upon all classes as result of instability
of prices. The general and widespread
belief on the part of the masses that the
government is administered In the inter-
est of a favored class (whether this be
true or not the fact that such belief ex-
lists is a matter of public concern) in
spite of the wise and just provisions of
the constitution. Boss rule methods and
the distribution of millions of corruption
money by political organizations, the
depressed condition of all productive
pursuits, the menace to free
government involved in the
shameful abuses of aggregated wealth,
using combinations of transportation
companies to control legislative and ju-
dicial proceedings, the foreign invasion
which is received and allowed to exact
tribute on account of the unavailability
of American wealth in business, the
! plainly visible wide separation between
the government and the people who seem
to feeltthat they are pushed aside for the
| politician and lose a proper interest in
government affairs; that monster, the
mortgage, which is rapidly devour--
ing the liberties and the independence