The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-08-10
State Farmers Union.


The following officers were elected;
President, Hon. John Pickett, of Bos-
sier; Vice President, Ambrose Mou.
ton, of Vermillion; Secretary and
Treasurer, J. T. Mcfarland, of Clai-
borne; Lecturer, G. Fontenot, of st.
Landry; Assistant Lecturer, George
w. Bruce, of VIM; doorkeeper, P.
Donahue.
The following resolutions were
adopted by the Alliance:
Whereas, during the past few
months we have witnessed with deep
anxiety the closing of factories, the
shutting down of cotton and WOODEN
mills and the suspension of innumer-
able banks, both State and National.
the crowding out of employment OF
thousands of frugal and industrious
operatives and laborers, and
Whereas, the material progress of
country depends upon that condi-
ton of it's internal affairs, in which
labor is fully and actively edgaged in
useful occupation ct fair wages, thus
keeping in motion the wheels of com
merce and manufactures. and
Whereas, we believe the existence
of discriminating laws now on our
statute books, which have contracted
the volume of our currency and fore
ed the speedy and artificial means of
wealth by tolerating trusts and spec
ulation in the actual necessities of
life to the privation and starvation
of the poor, unless repealed will in
evitably lead to ruin or revolution
and destroy the best government
ever instituted by man, and
Whereas, the stringency in the
money market has reduced the prices
and produces of our forests and our
fields below acteal cost fproduction,
so that our youth are driven from
the honest and honorable pursuit Of
agriculture, and our mechanics are
seeking uncertain employment in the
already overcrowded cities of the
land, while we ourselves are appalled,
at the impending gloom which throws
it's dark mantle over our hopes and
our expectations, our wives and our
children; and
Whereas, it must follow, as the
night the day, that when the sturdy
yeomanry of the country are stricken
down by the ruthles hand of greed
and gain, that the blow will inevita-
bly, rebound on the head of him that
dealt it, because every being under
the sun depends for support upon
the producer now, therefore,
Resolved, by the Farmers Alliance
of Louisiana, in annual convention
convened, That after careful and dis
passionate reflection we have reached
the logical conclusion that the abnor-
NAL and distressing condition of the
present time is due to two palpable
characterization and speculation
and we demand of our representa-
tives in congress, convened in extra
session on the 7th instant, that they
pass such laws as will afford sufficient
volume of our currency to do the
business of the country on a cash
basis, and that they enact prohibitory
laws forbidding future speculation
on our products.
Whereas, public affairs are in an
alarming condition, in both this State
and III the nation, those in the latter
beng due in great measure to the
attempt of the plutocracic power tc
demonetize silver; therefore, be it
Resolved by The Farmers Alliance
of the State of Louisiana, in legal as
sembly convened, That we renew oul
alliance to silver, declare it to be the
metal money Of the masses of wage
carriers and debtor class; that we re
gard the attempt to demonetize it as
measure of the moneyed powers Of
Wall street and London to make
speculation and gain from the hard
earnings of the honest toilers, and te
gain by unjust legal enactments
greater power over the people by
means of their control over the finan
ces of onr Nation through the medium
of the all-gold standard, and in this
belief, firmly rooted after careful
survey of the field, we demand of oul
senators and representatives in con
gress protection from this unjust OPP
preston by refusing to submit to an,
repeal of the Sherman bill, unless
attended by a measure which will
give us free and unlimited coinage o
silver.
Resolved, That any submission
whatever on the part of our congress
men to the enactment of bill de
monetizing silver for even a brie
period or any time whatever will b
considered by US betrayal and su,
render of our interest to our mos