The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-01-14
WASHINGTON, D. c.,

mortal:
WAsHINGTON, D. c.,
January 9Th, 1892.
To tho Honorable, the House of Re-
presentatives and Senate of the
United States, in Congress assem-
bledi
Your memoralists, a committee
elected by the Supreme Council of
the National Farmers Alliance and
Industrial Union, under its instruc-
tions and on its behalf, would most
respectfully represent:
That the uRiversal and un parallel
depression in all departments of our
great agricultural industry, has i'm.
pressed the farmers of the United
States with gravest concern and
alarm. That despite the fruitful
soils, and favoring conditions of eli
mate, their faithful application and
courageous industry, and irrespec-
tive OF seasons or harvests. their
farms and the products of their la
Dor, are constantly and steadily de-
preciating in value. That tho inspir-
iting- hope of competency and COM
fort, as a reward for their toll, is van
ishing in their earnest struggle for
sustenance and preservation Of home.
That patient, honest and earhest in
vestigatiOn of this anomalus condi-
ton of affairs, has impressed the
farmers Of the country. with the SOL
emn conviction, that the evils which
are thus clogging and paralyzing
their energies, are largely due to dis
eliminating inequalities in our gov
ernmental policy and which are the
legitimate OutgroWth of partial and
unfriendly legislation.
Your memoralists would further
respectfully represent:
That in their organized capacity,
the farmers in thirty-eight States
and territories of the Union, after
long and earnest deliberation and
remarkable unanimity, formulate
and adopted declaration of princi-
pies, IAN official copy Of which is
heretofore appended) which they be
lisve, If enacted into law, would re-
store agriculture to it's true and just
position among the great industries
Of the country and would conserve
the highest and best interests of the
public good. That they respectfully
but most earnestly commend to the
patriotic consideration and favor Of
your honorable bodies, the justice
and wisdom of enacting such laws
as will embody the principles enun-
ciated in the declaration referred to.
Your memoralist would further re-
spectfully 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 indus
trial and business interests Of the
country. That they believe that
the present financial system Of the
country, is not only inherently de-
fective, but that it is incompatible
with the genius and spirit Of our in.
stitutions and is in conflict with the
fundamental principles of our gov
ernment. That they believe that
the system, born of the terrible
exigencies of a mighty civil war,
purely as a military expedient and
necessity, which, while it doubtless
save the life of the nation In war,
has been demonstrated under the
test of experience not to be the
system for preserving end perpe-
tuating that lift in peace. That they
believe that sacred and steadfast
observance and maintenance of the
powers and functions conferred up
on the government by the Constitu-
ton, for making, issuing and con-
trolling the money of the people, Is
absolutely essential to healthful and
symmetrical development in our
raterial progress, and that these
powers and functions cannet in any
manner be relinquished or transfer
red, without violence to equity and
Justice and gravest to the safety and
liberties Of the people. That they
believe that the exclusive right
secured to the government by the
Constitution, to make money, car
ries with it the unavoidable obliga-
tion and responsibility, to supply it
in such manner and amount as to
meet at all times, the requirements
and of our growing population and
trade. That they believe that the
exercises of the legitimate and right
full functions Of the government in
the control of money: would obviate
a recurrence of the ruinous effects Of
undue contraction in the volume, as
demonstrated in the present depress-
ed conditions, which are paralyzing
the energies Of the people In all de-
partments of industrial enterprise.
That they believe that all money
should be issued direct by the gov
ernment to the people, at low rate
of interest and in sufficient volume
to meet the legitimate demands Of
the the legitimate business Of the
country on safe and valid securities
and that it should be full legal
tender for all debts. That they be-
lieve that silver should have all the
tights in coinage and all the quail
ties of legal tender which gold
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