Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-08-04
AN 4LL-NiGHT SESSION.
The County r. 4 /. U. PASSES Reseiu'
lions That Hereafter It Win Not
Tolerate Partisan Politics Dis
eassed In the Lodges.


met in quarterly session with Rush
Hill Union on the LIST OF August.
Nearly twenty Unions were repre-
scented by about forty-five delegates.
The following committees made re-
ports and were continued: fair COM
mittee, road committee and investi-
eating committee. About 2 hours
were spent in discussing road laws,
and finally the following resolutions
presented by West Lick Union were
laid over for final action at the next
quarterly meeting:
"To the brethren of Audrain F.
& L. u, greeting-We, the mem
bers of the West Lick Union, do
hereby ask that you in body assem-
bled do carefully consider the fol-
lowing resolutions, and, if they ire
found worthy of your approval, we
ask that you, in the most suitable
way, shall urge the State Legislature
to consider the importance of so
changing the road laws that they
shall be more efficient in procuring
and maintaining good roads; there
fore, be it
RESOLVED, First, That each Con-
gressional township shall be a road
district.
Second, That the voters of each
road district shall elect their own
road overseer at the annual school
meetings and whose wages shall be
sufficient to procure a good man for
the place and provide him steady
employment.
Third, That the poll tax shall be
reduced to 50 and shall be paid in
cash to the road overseer and.
which, with a sufficient property tax
shall constitute a fund to defray
the expenses of making good roads
and keeping them in repair, the poll
tax be assessed on all males over II
years of age.
4th, That said road overseer shall
be required to do the grading early
in the summer and so far as is prac-
teal, continually watch over and
work the roads by making and re-
pairing eulverts, keeping water
courses out of the roads, filling up
the ruts with the grader or other
wise and keeping low places proper
ly drained and other needed work.
9th, We believe that we are better
able to make and keep up good roads
than we are to do without them, and
we believe that with such laws
in force we can have good roads with
far less expense than we now have
bad ones. L. A. HARRIS, Pres.
R. l.. Day, Sec'y.
The following resolutions were
duly discussed and adopted:
Resol0ed, list, That we condemn
the action of all who are opposing
the rebuilding of the Fire Brick
Works at Mexico, for we believe that
all who do so are antagonizing the
best interests of the producers of the
county.
End, That we favor the free and
unlimited coinage of silver and the
abolition of the national banks and
the retirement of their circulation as
fast as prudent and that legal tender
notes be issued in lieu thereof, and
that tho said notes be put in circu-
lation by paying off government
obligations and that the tariff on the
necessaries of life be reduced in the
same ratio to the increase of the le-
gal tender circulation.
3rd, That we favor the repeal of
the law compelling any party to have
cast a certain per cent. of the vote
at any previous election in order to
have their tickets printed.
4th, That we favor a law compell-
ing land owners to cut before seeding
time. the thistle commonly known
as the Ohio or Bull thistle and by
some called the Canada thistle.
Fifth. We are unalterably in
favor of the Assessors Seal BILL"
The above resolutions we're ably
discussed and showed that the men,
bership have been studying these
questions closely and that they mean
to look after them further.
The following preamble and res
olutions bearing on the political
status of the order were discussed
at length and passed:
SIN view of the fact that the F.
& L.. u. was established as a nom
political organization and its men,
bership were solemnly assured that
none Of its tenets should in any
wise conflict with their religious or
political convictions; and, whereas,
there seems to be a determination
on the part of q number of the menu
bers to have the F. & l.. U. endorse
the Peoples Party platform and
support their candidates; and,
whereas, such a manifestation of
partisan spirit has driven many
worthy members from our ranks
and given our enemies more as
suranee in defaming the organiza-
ton, and caused our friends to mis-
trust our designs, thus importing
the existence of our order; there
fore, be it
Resolved, By the Audrnin County
F. &L.U. in convention assembled |
First. That we hereby pledge
our unfaltering devotion to the prin-
ciples of the f. & L.. U. as laid
down in our Constitution.
Second. That we denounce all
attempts to implicate our order with
any political party.
| Third.
Fourth. That while we concede
every man the right to work and
vote for any party he chooses, we
will no longer tolerate partisan poll
itical speech-making and harang-
ing within the closed doors of our
lodges, and earnestly request all to
assist us in the great campaign of
education, in elevating the mental,
paowoI and Enona1 oa,I- |