The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-01-19
ACTION OF THE NATIONAL ALL
ANCE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

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The following resolution, and the
accompanying memorial, was unani
mously passed at the meeting of the
State Presidents, recently. The me,
mortal was printed in the Congress.
sional Record last Tuesday:
"ResOIUed, That it is the sentiment
and desire Of this conference of the
Presidents of the Farmers Alliance
and Industrial Union that the dele
gates for the Farmers Alliance and
! Industrial Union who attend the In
dustrial Conference to be held in St.
Louis, February 22d, 1892, use their
influence and votes to establish
and perfect fraternal relations with
all the labor organizations repre-
sented in said meeting, with the
Ocalademands as q basis for a platform
of principles, and that such platform
be presented to the National COnven-
lions of the Democratic party, the
Republican party and the Peoples
party this year, with an earnest re-
quest that the principles involved be
engrafted into their platforms for the
coming national elections of 1892. But
that they carefully refrain from COM
4l1tUU141S ia oO SOSh w CLllAAAC9U4OA4
with any political party or parties"
MEMORIAL OF FARMERS ALLIANCE.
Mr.. Pierce asked and obtained unan-
imous consent to have printed in the
Record the following memorial:
WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 6, '92.
To the honorable the House Of Repre-
sentatiUes and Senate of the United
States IN Congress assembled:
Your memorialists, a committe elect
ed by the Supreme Council of the Ma
tional Farmers Alliance and Industrial
Union, under instructions on it's behalf,
would most respectfully present:
That the universal and unparalleled
depression in all departments of our
great agricultural industry has i'm
pressed the farmers of the United
States with the gravest concern and
alarm. That despite their fruitful
soils, the favOring conditions of eli
mate, their faithful application and
courageous industry, and irrespective
of seasons and ~harvests, their farms
and the products of their labor are
constantly and steadily depreciating in
value. That the inspiriting hope of
competency and comfort, as a reward
for their toll, is vanishing in their ear
nest struggle for sustenance and the
preservation of home. That patient,
honest, and earnest investigation of
this anamulous condition of affairs has
impressed the farmers of the country
with the solemn conviction that the
evils which are thus clogging and par
alyzing their energies are largely due
to discrimin ating inequalities in Our
governmental policy and which are
the legitimate outgrowth of partial
and unfriendly legislation.
Your memOrialists would further re-
spectfully represent:
That in their organized capacity the
farmers of t~hirty-eight States and Ter
ritories of the Union, after long and
earnest elaboration and with remark
able unanimity, formulated and adopt
ed a declaration of principles IAN off
cial copy of which is hereto appended)
which they believe, if enacted into law,
would restore agriculture to its true
and just position among the great in
dustries of the country, and would
conserve the highest and best interests
of the public good. That they re-
s%pectfully, but most earnestly, com
mend to the patriotic consideration and
favor of your honorable bodies the JUS
tice and wisdom of ~enacting such laws
as will embOdy the principles enunci-
ated in the declaration referred to.
Your memorialists would respect
fully represent:
That they are specially charged to
ask the attention of your honorable
bodies to the great and urgent neces-
sity for immediate legislative action
for the financial relief of the industrial
and business interests of the country.
That they believe that the present fl
nancial system of the country is not
only inherently defective, but that it
is incompatible with the genius and
spirit of our institutions, and is in con
fict with the fundamental principles
of our government. That they believe
that the system, born of the terrible
exigencies of a mighty civil war,
purely as a military expedient and ne
cessity, which, while it doubtless saved
the life of the nation In war, has been
rience, not to be the system for pre-
serving and perpetuating that life in
peace. That they believe that a sa-
cred and steadfast observance and
maintenance of the powers and func-
tions conferred upon the government
by the Constitution for making, issu-
ing, and controlling the money of the
people is absolutely essential to health
full and symmetrical development in
our material progress, and that these
powers and functions cannot in any
manner be relinquished or transferred
without violence to equity and justice
and gravest peril to the liberties of the
people. That they believe that the ex-
elusive right secured to the govern
ment by the Constitution to make
money carries with it the unavoidable
obligation and responsibility to supply
it In such manner and amounts az to
meet at all times the requirements of
the legitimate business of the country
and of our growing country and trade.