The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-02-03
REORGANIZE
A Stirring Appealed Us All Move
Together.
The 0fhcers Of the State Alliance Appeal to All
~ Their Members to Meet on 'Washington's
Birthday and Organize or <Reorganize
TheirLocal Alliances.


To officers and members of the Farm
ers' Alliance and Industrial Union
OF the State Of Minnesota. Greet
ing
Brethren--The time has arrived
when the producers of wealth of our
great state should band themselves
together in some great national, and
1raternal society, that will bring the
tlllers OF the soil and the toilers of
the towns and cities into one great
brotherhood. to ward off the encroach-
mentS upon their liberties, to prevent
the absorption OF their substance by
greedy and rapaciOuS trusts, and com
bineS, to inaugurate reforms, and
place laws upon the statute books
that will be for the interest of the
masses rather than the classes
What more enobling sentiment can
be preached than the succor OF our
distressed brother; to visit the sick, to
bury the dead, to care for the widow
and orphan, to raise up and encourage
fallen brother; to pledge moral and
temporal support to each other; to Of
Ter safe substantial and cheap man
ner or life insurance to our memb ers;
by which the father will have the hap
py consciousness that his loved ones
Will be provided for and against any
possibility OF want or disaster by
81 600. $1,000 or $4,000 left to the sor-
rowing family when the Great Ruler
calls him to his last account.
The fraternal plan upon which the
T. A. & |. U. is built, appeals at once
to lofty sentiments Of mind and soul
In this age of Christian civilization;
its harmonious and elastic adaptation
to all conditions, permits its mem bers
who may vary with each other in the
most irreconcilable manner on reli-
gious, political and social views to
blend into one harmonious fraternal
family, whose motto is ''Oue for all;
all for each.''
Our society is non-sectaran and
non political. 1t bars no color, race
or creed. 1t is as extensive as the
limits OF our country, being in nearly
every state in the Union. 1t is an old
organization and in successful opera
ton wherever it is located. 1t is an
old organization with a mem ership
equal TO nearly all the other traternal
societies combined. 1t offers at once
great inducements to farmers on &C
count OF the insurance feature which
enables them to join society that
was especially organized to include
them in its members hip. The farm
ers has not the facilities Of selecting
the insurance societies which his city
brother has; therefore in these dis
tressful times it would be almost
crime to let this opportunity pass, Of
Joining that which Will surely revent
want and disaster to the tillers Of the
soil.
There are so many other ways by
which this great organization can be
made source Of profit and saving to
its members, by cooperation and
kindred enterprises, along those lines,
that we can safely say that the mem
bership will save 25 TO 50 per cent on
the goods they buy through the or
ganIzation, and save some OF the
profits on the products Of the farm
which is now absorbed by middle-men
by selling direct to the consumer
through sys tenn Of Exchange Depots
est blished throughout the state,
where the products Of the farm and
the manufactured products of the
city toiler can be kept on hand, and
| exchanged, for the goods of each 9TH
| er without the aid of mIddle-men.
Now therefore Brethren..
In the interest God, religion, coun-
| try humanity, your families, and your
citizenship,-you are called upon to
set aside one day in this month, on
that day made sacred to Americans
by the achievements Of that great
man sent by Providence to guide the
destinies Of this struggling nation in
the dark days OF its early history.
George Washington drove from our
country foreign foe, who was seek
ing to enSlave and impoverish this
Low
shackled to the same hereditary foe
which our fathers Of Revolutionary
days fought against in the battles Of
Lexington, bunker Hill. and suffered
in Valley Forge the biting blast Of
cold and hunger which many poor
creature is suffering today in this
land OF promise and plenty We wit
ness today the SOrrOwful sight Of our
citizens graduating into two distinct
classes, the few very rich, the many
very poor.
We therefore ask every citizen
throughout the state to observe the
22d day Of February, George Washing
tons birthday in the same manner by
ssemDllng IN the country districts at
the district school house, and partici-
pate in some patriotic exercises, talk
the social conditions over which YOU
labor under without partisan or DO
litlcal malice. commune with each
other, reason, outline a mode of ac-
ton, that you think for your welfare,
organize an Alliance or Union, elect
your officers. send in word to the state
secretary who will inform you how to
proceed. This is the plan we wish to
have followed by all districts which
have not an organization Of the Farm
ers' Alliance in existence,
We also call upon each Of the l43l
Alliances now upon the roll Of our
books in this state to have its officers
and members meet together at their
usual meeting place in the past, and
discuss the ques ton or joining the +,
A. & i. I. national organization, re-
organize your Alliance, elect your Of
ficerS, and send in the action of your
Alliance on this matter to this Office
at once, and arrangements will be
made to have our organizers to go in
to every locality and initiate the
members into our great society.
We also call upon the state officers,
the deputy state organizers, the Of
GERS OF the local Alliances to take an
active and earnest interest in this
movement that We may have the hap
piEess OF knowing that we have cele-
DRAFTED the national holiday of Wash
ington's birthday, Feb. 22d, by giving
birth to an organiZatio that will
rival the achievements of our illus
trous, patriot and country man. whose
birthday we cele citrate, by driving the
money EOwcr who holds the destinicS
OF this great nation from its shores
and place the nc ODle once more whore