The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-02-10

without any extra cost to either end of the
enterprise. Look into this matter. BROTH
terprises cannot do you much good and
save you money.
We are greatly pleased at the strong in
dications of a revival of the old time en-
thusasm which marked the existence of
the Farmers Alliance in its palmy days.
spondence growing larger each day and
all asking for special instructions to know
how 70 proceed We may answer a few Of
those general questions by saying that the
first thing to do is for some one in each
locality to write out a notice and paste it
up in some conspicuous place that meet
date. if possible before the 22d day of Feb
ruary; at least. hold it that day. sure.
In case no one calls meeting we ask the
citizens of each locality to gather at your
school house. or creameries, in the country
districts, or at the Town Hall in the vii
lagos. nominate chairman and secretary.
read the call which appears in The Repre-
sentative to the meeting, and determine
by motion that you resolve yourselves into
an Alliance of the L. A. and I. L. Then
elect your officers and send in a list of the
names of your officers and members to the
state secretary and he will arrange for
an organizer to go to the Alliance in
short time and initiate the members into
the society in regular and usual manner.
IT is also necessary that we have five
can organize into q state organization and
become attached to the national organi
cation.
The fate of the struggling masses de-
Ponds upon the response which the appeal
of President Long will receive from the
farmers of this state. The eyes of the
city-toiler is turned with anxious gaze up
on the farm and it's occupants, as on their
lief OF their city brethren from at least
some of the hardships which they now
suffer Let our friends rally in one great
effort Feb. % and show to the world
that the fire of revolutionary days still
slumbers in their breasts; and that they
will respond with willing and loyal hearts,
and enroll themselves into great
ciety; and enjoy the benefits derived from
its membership. Come to the meeting
yourself; bring your neighbor along. Meet
OFTEN. Bring a new neighbOr along at each
meeting; we will soon have an OrganiZa-
ton which could number it's membership
by thousands. Can't you see at a glance
what a tremendous influence this organiza-
tion has for good by being able to hold up
the hands of it's representatives in the
Legislature to wipe out bad laws and
| enact good ones.
The Farmers Alliance legislative COM
m MITE lis is certainly doing grand work
since their appointment, and early in the
game directed their energies and attention
to the State Railroad and Warehouse Com
mission, and after driving them into their
hole and getting a formal acknowledge
ment of their incapacity to secure any Of
the measures of relief which the people
of the state demanded they quietly drop
ped them and went boldly to work to draw
up certain bills to present before the Leg
lSiature, and the result of their work is
now becoming known by the passage of
certain bills, one of which passed the house
Yesterday, making the railroad commits
sloners elective instead of appointve 1t
passed by a vote of SO to 81. There will be
a hard fight made to defeat this bill in the
senate. and If it passes at all, it will pass
as the formal demand of the Farmers nom
partisan organization.
There are many good bills now intro
duced; And much credit for the prompt
and able efforts of the legislative commit
tee is due to Hon. lgnatius Donnelly, p. H.
Rahiily and M. J. Costello, who perform
costeo as the aee Of the mr.
has drawn the bills above referred to,
while Mr.. Donnelly has very magnani-
non partisan members Of the house. of
whom Representative Hill is chairman;
and the bills are distributed around among
the members for introduction And SO
quiet and effective has been their work
that several bills of great Importance
came from quarters that was not supposed
to be in favor Of such measures.
We are in receipt of a note from Bro.
Hendrickson, our former state secretary,
IN which he states that the delay of send
ing down his books to me, because he
was waiting for the appearance of a COM
plete report which he sent in to The Rep
resentative but which did not appear, and
as he waited for same, was the usual
custom to paste the printed reports into
therefore be able to answer the questions
now in more detail and have sent out an
sWers to all correspondents demanding
special answer.
We must again ask our friends not to
ship in their produce without first writ
ing US. so that we may know what is COM
ing; Some of our patrons shipped in car
OF hay over week ago and we have no
knowledge who the party is. Please send
along a letter if you intend shipping any
goods to us.
We are in receipt of the following two
letters from our unfortunate brethren in
the far South We give them room in this
column and ask the friends of humanity
who are able to contribute to the appeal
of distress to communicate with us, and if
we can get up a car load of potatoes, corn,
oats or such stuff they may need, we
will try and secure free transportation to
it's destination. Mr.. Long. president,
hands them over to us for publications:
West Monroe La. Jan. 81 1897
sin; Mr. Yors Long 13 M lag MinnDear
II. Flournoy in reply to his letter to Mr..
Donnelly, was handed to me for reply. 1t
is a lamentabe fact that the agricultural
classes are burdened with debt in all parts
of the country. and the only reason why
your state can show larger mortgage in
greater.
In addition to the heavy burden of debt
under which our people were grooming
and now the restitution is beyond concep-
ton.
We fear that we have deferred the mat
ter of outside aid too long. Cries of want
come up from all parts, and our home re-
sources are exhausted
We had heard that your people had made
an abundant crop of corn and oats in 1896.
Therefore we thought that they would
come to our relief with liberal dona tons of
corn, oats, bacon, flour and potatoes. Our
people would be grateful beyond measure
for anything that they and their work
stock could subsist upon till another crop
could be made.
We have standing committees of relief
both Of the counties (parishes in this state)
and Of the Farmers Alliance.
l am chairman of the Onachfta central
relief committee, and a member of the
committee on memorial of the Onachita
Central Alliance, Of which l am also secre-
tary-treasurer S. Whted, president,
domicile, Monroe. La.
We would be glad to have the names and
addresses of the officers of the r. A.
throughout the North and West and
line. as we have no official directory at
hand.
Be assured, sir that anything your peo-
pie do for will be highly appreci-
ated. l am. sir, very truly yours.
L. w. BEARD.
West Monroe, La, Jan. q. 1897.
L. c. Long, Magnolia, Minn.-Your favor
of Jan Is just at hand. There are Ii
parishes (counties) in this state that utter
ly failed in raising food crops by reason OF
the drouth that lasted all summer, some
thing never before happening here. AS the