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/ A*Af 49, y &A~A Atf#A1+H TOT sEE To-
/ peal ot the Alliance charter. of Tbs,
/ organic law of our country. IS
/ past understanding. Dtd not they
know, that the bill granting 4 nov
/ charter. H. f. 1901. :. II. II. lgg
/ that passed the house, was in onpo-
/ Sltion tn. aud direct violation Of
Article IL amendments Ia the cnu-
stliutlon al the United State-- which
guarantees. the right ~ thu peg
pie Ia peaecably assemble. aud p..tt-
iinn the government for redress of
grievances" wiz they please tell
us how We are tn petition the Govern.
ment Ac. de-, If ~ are not allowed
In meet together and educate our
selves, and thus find out what our
grievances are! Yet this bsll sayx
plainly, in section 2nd that Wo may
meet together FOR the advancement
"f agricultural intelligence and Ina.
formation" and fog no other kind ~
intelligence and information. So that
under this bill. then. IL makes no diff
ference how oppressive Law may
be, We are not allowed Ia ''pcacoAhly
assemble to gain what "infellprnea
and information" We can as Ia ,,s
bearing on our occupation aud bust
ness, whether il bc gricyinus or 9th
erwise. Why this discrimination this
violation of organic law, against an
organization composed wholly of
farmers and labor,rs' Again didn't
they know they had violated Article
lst and Section 10 of the Consiiiu-
tIon when they passed the present
am' 'ndmcnts To the charter! i. j..
No State shall pass any law impair
ing the obligations of contract. "
When the State Business Agency
was organized. every man that con
trlbuted 10 that fund, entered into a
solemn compact obligation and con.
tract with the organization, the
amount paid in was never 10 be- with
drawn while the organization stood.
Yet these amendments 10 the char.
ter expressly makes that contract
nul and void, aud too, without the
petition OF any member of the order,
50 far as We can learn. Again il was
"A violation of the Declaration of In
dependence. In that Palladium"
of our civil liberties. one of the
grievances one of the charges s-oue
of the acts, for which the King raA
denounced, was "for taking away
our charters, abolishing" aud which.
to our farmers, one of our most fava-
orable laws" The Alliance as an or
ganized body, agreed To pay It's lee
:urers, were, in fact indeed, the scrv-
ants-thc laborcrs ~ the order. aud
were to be paid out of the fund aris-
:ng from the profits of the Business
Agency. These amendments abro-
gated that contract, yet other corpor-
atlons, organizations, are allowed TO
pay their employees when, how and
out of whatsoever fund they pleased.
Why then, gentlemen, shonld you
discriminate! and in doing So vio-
late the Constitution-the Supreme
law Of the land" unless YOU were
opposed to the education of the mas
ses, and in favor of the principles de
clarcd by Scott of Penn, i'm his re-
port to the coal corporations, viz:
The only Y way 10 Control labor, was
TO keep them ignorant and make
them owe, today. for what they eat
tomorrow" You claimed TO be Dem
ocrats, yet the founder Of that
honorcd institution, jefferson, said:
The encouragement and the
diffusion of information should
be the creed of our political faith"
Again, he says: agriculture, man
commerce, and nayiga-
tIon, 1.-THE four pillars of our prosper.
ity. are the most thriving when left,
most free to individual enterprise.
to keep in all things within the
pale of constitutional power" Gen
tie;nen of the Assembly why did Won
not leave them free? Why attempt
as you did To throttle the freedom
and demolish that "pillar" that bears
most OF the weight of the struetures
jackson, that staunch defender of
the peoples rights, tells us "The
spirit Of equity, caution, compromise,
in which the constitution was formed
requires that the great interest Of
agriculture, commerce and manu-
factures should be equally favored
Again he SAYS: "The agricultural
interest of our country is so essen
TALLY connected with every other,
and 50 superior in Importance 10
them all" The Legislature did
not in their actions agree, with these
anxiams. of these true patriots, but
instead they violated every article of
the political creed as laid down by
these founders Of Democracy in con-
nection with agriculture. II il was
not ignorance, then il was tyranni-
cal, because the acts were unjust,
despotic and an arbitrary exercise of
Legislature power. Traitorous, be-
cause the whole proceedings was a
violation Of that allegiance. and that
trust rcposed in them by the agri-
cultural classes. with not one spark
of true Democracy in it, but full of
great billows of the consuming fire
of oligarchy. Eco.
Lewiston, y. G.