The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-07-28
ALLIANCE FLOUR.
A Practical Proposition for Chopper
alton.

Practical Proposition for Co-opcr-
alton.
Minneapolis. Mimi. July -, 1897
Editor Representative:
l wish to get your opinion on the fol-
lowing proposition:
A friend of mine has a little money.
We are going to unite and buy and sell
flour and country produce. We wish to
take the Farmers Alliance & Industrial
brands. Now l believe we could work
up a splendid trade with them, if they
would cooperate with us, and buy
in return the goods made by those
trade unions that bought their -four.
A friend of mine that is in the mills
here, Minneapolis, says the country
mills are all shutting up; and that the
Minneapolis mills will have all The
trade in little while.
Now, friends and farmers, all over the
northwest, do you know what this
means? Do you know that there has
not been one failure here in the eleva-
tors or mills, no matter how they were
managed? Instead they have been add
ing to their capacity until it is now
four times as great as it was at the
beginning of the hard times
Now l believe this could be made one
way of rebuilding the Farmers ALI
ance; for if we could get the country
mills started up and all busy again, it
would give us new life. The farmers
would get a little more for their grain.
they would have their bran and there
would be few more people working
in every village, where there is mill
Being an old member of organized
labor, if this is put to them in the right
way they will back it up for they have
everything to gain and nothing to
loose Take, for instance, the Cigar
makers Union. | would ask them to
patronze the Farmers Alliance and In
dustrial brands of flour, and Inc farm
ers on their part would patronze the
union made cigars. The same way with
boots and shoes; and all othe' trades
l would go TO the coal regions I would
like to see the states too small for us.
From my experience in the knights OF
Labor, it is not always members that
count
But Il few active energetic workers
are as good as an army.
Now, then, gentlemen of the Alliance
and Industrial Union, what do you say!
Arc you ready to cooperate?
We expect to start about the first OF
November
God is blessing Ton with an alum
dant crop. | pray you may get fair
Irice; but that does nor depend upon
God
And now Nj. Editor. I wish yor
would publish this and give us your
valuable advice upon it. and | would
like to get expressions from al the AL
lance men and mlllars. With my bcs
wishes | remain yours truly,
DAVID FITZGERALD,
1907 Nineteenth avenue northeast
We publish this letter with great
pleasure. We have known Mr. Fitz-
gerald for more than twenty years He
used 20 run farm near Us, in Stevens
county, where we were forming there:
but like thousands of OTHERS was driven
Off the land to make q living in tho
Oyer-crowded cities. He is an honest
clear-headed. f1rst-class man, and d
PCpulist to the backbone. We hope
some country mtllers or Farmers AZ
liances will correspond with him, and
sec II trade cannot be started that
will be mutually advantageous.
THE Gods" said the heathen "helr
those who help themselves" The trou-
BILE today is universal lethargy, due
to the utter hopeless snaSs Of existing
conditions. The people are rapidly
sinking into a peasant-like state Of des-
pair and helplessness.
Wake mn