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CORRESPOH DEUCE.
From Bolton Alliance.
At a regular meeting of Bolton Alli
ance, No, 1451, at Bolton, Ga., Nov. 23d,
1889, the following preamble and resolu
tions were adopted:
Whereas, the monopolistic combination
known as the jute trust, is conspiring
against the farmers of the south, and
trying, in a' great measure, to prevent
them from enjoying the fruits of honest
toil, therefore
Resolved, That we buy no guano in
1890, unless put up in cotton sacks, or
such substitute for jute as our leaders
agree upon.
Resolved, That we buy no com, wheat
or oats, unless put up in cotton sacks.
Resolved, That we hare entered the
fight against oppression, monopoly and
trusts of all kinds and we propose to
win and enjoy the fruits of our industry,
which we have gained by the divine in
junction, “In the sweat of thy face slialt
thou eat bread.”
Resolved, That a copy of these resolu
tions be furnished The Southern Alli
ance Farmer for publication.
John Rauchenbekg,
Martin Walker,
J. W. Donahoo, Com.
From Bocks Alliance.
If you wili aliow space iii your valua
ble columns, which is the bone and sinew
of the farmers of Georgia and should be
taken by every true Allianoeman. I send
for publication resolutions adopted
by Rocks Alliance, No. 1515, at their
regular meeting, Nov. 2nd.
Whereas, Pres. L. F. Livingston, Hon.
R. F. Kolb and Col. Sledge request a
full expression of all sub-Alliauces
whether we continue or discontinue
the use of cotton as a covering for cotton
in 1890.
Be it resolved, that the Rock Alli
ance is opposed to combines, monopolies
and trusts. That we are in favor of equal
rights -o all and special privileges to
none.
Resolved, That we recommend that
the National Farmers and Laborers’
Union of America (with the aid of the
state) manufacture cotton bagging of
sufficient quantity and texture to cover
the entire crop of 1890.
I see in my city, (Augusta) that cotton
•overed with cotton is very roughly
handled, more so than that covered with
jute. Brethren, be strong and faithful,
and more determined than ever, and let
us show to the world we make the cotton
and will eover it as we please.
LertiaYv tjjk for independence. I think
it is high time; We have been hewers of
wood and drawers of water long enough.
Brethren, do not neglect the grain crop.
Sow some every month. Look after the
winter manure; it is decidedly the best,
provided the stock is well cared for.
Raise all your grain and meat. Buy
nothing you can do without, and in a
few years we will not have to take the
price offered for our cotton, but will get
onr own price. We will not have mid
dlemen to contend with, but sell direct
to the spinners, what vie don’t manu
facture ourselves. L. A. Reid, Sec.
Farmers and Laborers’ Union of America,
What is the trouble ?
1. Itis true that bad national legislation
has caused 20 per cent, decrease in capi
tal invested in agriculture in twenty-five
years, during which time capital invested
in manufactures increased 60 per cent.
2. It is true that we pay an average of
47 per cent, on all articles of merchan
dise.
3. It is true that a combine of million
aires bought one wheat crop at 38 per
cent., locked it up, and held it until they
got $1.30 per bushel, making a profit of
$7,000,000.
4. It is true that combines have done
the same in regard to oil, coffee, sugar,
jute, and even our cotton crop.
6. The Farmers and Laborers’ Union of
America combine the only elements sus
ceptible of harmonious organization that
can successfully resist the Satanic, God
provoking combines above mentioned.
6. A failure on the part of European
farmers and laborers to do what we arc
seeking to accomplish has sent a tidal
wave of wretchedness, poverty, misery
and bloodshed from sea to sea. To live
there is to crave death. The farmers have
pledged their land to banks until the
banks own the land; hence bankers and
down-trodden, poverty-stricken tenants
constitute the population of that coun
try. The land-owners, to-wit, the bank
eft, recently secured the passage of a law
to take up and whip 2,000 of these pov
erty-stricken wretches. The last ac
counts they had flogged 500 of them. My
sixth truth is no longer or more startling
than true.
7. It is true the God who sees the con
dition of the American people a thousand
years in the future as well as to-day, has
waked us up, giving timely warning and
the needed power.
Now, my suffering brethren, land-owner
or laborer, old or young, rich or poor, sac
rifice your time, money or intelligence.
Always yield to the majority. There are
powerful men of great wealth and influ
ence that would divide your order into
factions. Don’t attach undue import
ance to your own convictions. If we are
careless, idle and indifferent, failure and
defeat will sound our death-knell. lam
acquainted with that noble corps of he
roes at the head of the column—Corput,
Livingston and others. May God bless
them with success in their God-honoring
calling. If we suffer the above dark pict
ure to become applicable to our God
given America, our children will pro
nounce us aocursed.
R. W. Hamrick.
SOUTHEitN ALLIANCE FARMER, ATLANTA, GA., NOVEMBER 29, 1889.
SPECIAL NOTICE
To the Alliancemen and Farmers of
Georgia.
The Alliancemen of Scriven county
have established a cotton warehouse in
the city of Savannah, Ga., under the
supervision of Captain John R. Gooper,
president of the Scriven County Farmers’
Alliance. The business will be conduct
ed by a bo*rd of directors selected from
und under the supervision of the
Alliance of Scriven county.
The cost of storage, weighing, samp
ling, classifying, insurance, drayage and
selling not to exceed SI.OO per bale, all of
which will receive closest and most
careful attention. We trust that the farm
ers and Alliancemen throughout the
state will remember that we are of them,
and the object of establishing this busi
ness is strictly in the interest of us all,
and will consequently be readily under
stood and appreciated. We hope, there
fore, that you will give us the shipment
of all the cotton you can without inter
fering with your previous obligations.
In making shipments, put the initials of
the consignor and consignee, which is
J. R. C. Weigh each bale carefully, and
put weights high up on end of the bal« so
that the hooks will not obliterate the
same.
Sincerely hoping that you will all ap
preciate the gteat necessity of our own
men conducting this very important de
partment of our business and that you
will give us your full co-operation and
support, lam,
Yours fraternally,
S. L. Parker, Sec. 8, t). F. A.
All papers friendly to the farmers
please publish.
It is very important that every County
Trustee Stockholder and every County
trade agent, every sub-Allianee stock
holder, and every sub-Alliance trade
agent, should send their names, their
postoffices and the names and numbers
of their lodges, to the state agent, J. O.
Wynn, 67 East Alabama street, Atlanta,
Ga., immediately. Do this at once.
From Biyan County.
At our meeting Oct. 19tb, our County
Alliance passed, the folio wing resolutions:
Be it
Resolved, That we do fully endorse the
Olive bill in some substitute that will
have the same effect. Be it further
Resolved, That we don’t expect to buy
any fertilizers from agents. We expect
to get it straight through, and solicit
manufacturers not to ship to any agent
expecting us to buy from them. Be it
Resolved, That the County Alliance of
Byyan meet on the fourth Saturday in
Nbvembtflr, at 10 o’clock, at Bryan Insti
tote, for the purpose of discussing the
question of establishing a store in Bryan
county. A full attendance is desired.
The Alliance is in a prosperous condi
tion. It is fast gaining ground; we hope
soon to have the farmers of Bryan united
in one band. Just twelve months ago
there was not au Alliance in the oounty,
and now there are eight and we hope to
have some more soon. May God in his
infinite power crown every effort with
success that is made in that direction.
We ask our brethren to do their best and
do everything to promote the cause.
A. J. Gay, Sec.'
Called Meeting;.
Alliancemen of Franklin, Habersham
and Rabun counties are requested to
meet at Liberty Hill church, 5 miles
south of Toccoa, on Friday, the 20tli of
December, in the interest of a joint stock
company or co-operative store, at 10
o’clock sharp. J. A. McFarland, Sec.
The Speed of Heat and Cold.
It has been asked which travels faster,
heat or cold; and asw« red heat. Because
any one can catch cold. It therefore fol
lows that every one should keep Taylor’s
Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum and
Mullein, which will cure coughs, cold
and consumption.
How to Submit Questions.
Augusta, Ga., Nov. 26,1889.
To Georgia Alliancemen:
Dear Brethren—l beg, for mutual con
venience and regularity, that all ques
tions arising in your lodges and referred
to the Judiciary Committee, be sent up
by the sub or county Alliance. This will
give authoritativeness to your requests.
Fraternally, Martin Y. Calvin.
A Peculiar Blunder.
A remarkable mistake was made at
the opening of the Industrial Fair at To
ronto. Sir John Macdonald had made
his opening speech ofcongratulaton, and
before calling on him to press an electric
button starting the machinery, President
Withrow invited one or two other speak
ers to deliver addresses One of them
was John Leys, M. P. for Toronto. He
advanced to the front afid laid his heavy
white hat right on top of the electric, bu'-
tou. Instantly there was a shrieking of
whistles and tiie machinery in the build
ing began to run. The crowd roared
with laughter, and after much gesticula
tion and running abo .t the matiagais
stopped the proceeding, and the machin
ery was re-started by Sir John and Lady
Mcdonald.
Wliat a Well Known Doctor Says About It
Dr. J. S. Pemberton, of Atlanta, Ga.,
says: “I suffered for sixteen years with
rheumatism, often being confined to bed
for six months. I used all the remedies
known to the medical profession and con
salted'the most eminent physicians, ob
taining enly temporary relief. I then
used Hunnicutt’s Rheumatic Cure, and
in 24 hours I was the happiest man in the
world, being free from pain. Two hot
ties effected a complete cure after every
thing else had failed. It is a God-seud
to suffering humanity. For sale by all
druggists at $1 per pottle. Hunmcutt
Medicine Co., Atlanta, Ga., manufact
urers. See “Advt.”
MODERN MAUD MULLERS
RAKING HAY.
“Madam, didn't Heary promise to
come back this morning and take up the
hay? Well, he hasn’t come, and glanc
ing at the clock,” “it’s 10o’clock, and the
weather is changing; it will be raining
soon.” Sallie walked to the window and
looked skyward. “The clouds are com.
ing from the south like race-horses; by
night there’ll be a deluge. “Madam,”
turniug to me impatiently, “what shall
we do about the hay? You don’t seem to
remember that we gave that darky a
dollar a day to cut it, besides you gave
him every rag of old clothes you
could scrape together, because he told
you that pitiful tale about his sick wife,
and I know almost that he hasn’t even
got a wife, and he begged you out of
bushels of cold victuals and buttermilk
that our pig ought to have had, and I
know he got that white hen that WIT
setting down in the grove and more-over,
I firmly believe he‘hopped’that fat pig
we lost last week, and ” “Sallie,
what part of speech is “hopped?’ ” I
got up, laid my paper away, and joined
her by tiie window. “Well, stole the pig,
then, if that’s better English, but the
point! want to make is this,” putting
her fingers together in argumentative
style, “the hay has cost u§ about all of our
motley, tnost of oui‘ peteofial property,
and a portioh of our live stock already.
Now, shall we sit idly here aud see the
bay itself goto destruction?
This is the day appointed for that po
litical meeting at M—, and every darky
in the comity will wade through gore to
get there; so we will have to get up the
hay ourselves, or lose it,” and Sallie put
on a very determined air.
“Well,” said I, laughing, “do you ex
ueetto see the ‘judge come riding down
the lane, stroking his horses’ chestnut
maue, etc.,’ while we two poetical'Mand
Mullers rake in the hay?”«
“Oil, fudge, madam, don’t make fut>.
I’m serious. Corae on, do,” aud Sallie
took up her big sun bonnet and long
woolen cloves from the table and started
without another word, for the stable. I
followed, smiling. “Sallie,” said I, pick
ing up a pebble and tossing it at her back,
“suppose somebody passing the road
here should see us two lone females do
ing such masculine work as hauling hay,
what would they say? Why, it would be
come a tradition to be handed down to
posterity."
“Posterity! fiddlesticks,” she turned
and pushed back the big sunbennet; she
looked at me quisically; then striking a
tragic attitude, quoted, “what has pos
terity ever done lor you or I?"
me there. 1 *
Flinging the stable door open, she went
on, as she jerked the harness down one
piece at a time. “Come out of there,
Jumbo; here, take this bit, sir; now did
you hear that low, muttering thunder
back yonder? That means business.
Now here,madam, you tie thishamestring
and I’ll put on the crupper. Hold your
tail out, Jumbo. Seethe rascal bolding
bis tail so tight I can’t put on this crup
per. Horses have sense; that’s more
than can be said of some people. I stop
ped at the branch yesterday to let Jumbo
drink, aud a bnggyful of girls from M—
drove up at the same time, and what do
•you think madam, that silly Maud T—
asked me to do? ’Why to please ride up
to their horse aud let the crupper down
so he could drink.”’ i
We got Jumbo hitched up tiVht and
snug by this time, and Sallie threw along
pitch fork into the wagon and climbed
in after me, I got the reins first,\ and,
stooping over, administered a souufting
whack with them on Jumbo’s bayk.
How lie did run aoroßs the deep furrowu!
and the wagon jolted and jumped, ami
swung this way and that; sometimes it
turned almost up side down, and still
Jumbo increased his speed. Sallie
laughed till she cried, asd declared she
was all over the wagon at oho time. She
finally threatened to impale me on the
pitchfork if I did not stop the horse then
and there; but Jumbo arranged that by
striking one shaft square against a stump.
Next thing we knew, both of us were de
posited in the potato patch. We walked
on and led him after that till we came
to where the beautiful new hay lay scat
tered and in heaps all over the lower
part of the field.
Great billowy piles and mounds of
sweet, fresh, fragrant hay. Jumbo fell
to eating it, while Sallie, with her
long, strong, white arms, wielded the
pitchfork; she pitched up immense
bunches of it into the wagon; piled
it up until it waß full and running over,
and then she turned to where I lay curled
up on au armful of hay that I had thrown
under an orange tree.
“ Madam, please come and tramp in the
hay; the wagon won’t hold any more
until this is pressed down.”
“ Sallie, you have no idea how becom
ing perspiration is to you. There is a
big, crystallized,translucent drop right on
the tip end of your nose. It’s just beau
tiful.”
I pushed back her big, old, yellow sun
bonnet and gazed at her iu admiration,
but bn* soon pus an end to that by cok
ing the sharp prongefr fork toward me.
I climbed onto that wagon in a burry.
“ Now, Sallie,” said I, “ I’ll proceed to
illustrate to you bow Maud Muller packed
hay iu the wagon. As you observe, there
is a poetical way of doing all things.
Behold, how this bunch is disposed of,”
and I placed about a hundred pounds on
Jumbo’s hips. “ Now see this,” and an
immense quantity was laid around the
rim of the wagon; and as she continued
to lift up one large bunoh after another
I transferred it quickly to place under
my feet. How I tramped it down until
my feet were tired and aching! How we
laughed and joked, though, as the big
load of hay continued to grow bigger.
“Sallie,” I stood bare-headed with
arms akimbo, on the top of the hay.
Pautingly I called, “Sallie, Oh, Sallie,
look up here, do.” “Well, I’m looking,’
she replied, moving out in the middle of
the field with her head inclined as though
she was counting the stars. “Sallie, did
Maud have large feet?” “Maud,” pitch
ing up auotlier avalanche of hay, “Maud
who?” “Why, Maud Muller, of course,
You see in packing hay, unless you have
big feet like the Chicago or Atlanta
girls, you'll mire up in the hay, don’t
you see? It takes a sylph-like form and
substantial feet to make our ideal go-as
you-please Maud Muller. Though they do
say, Maud was au Alliance girl! Fitch
on a few more thousand pounds Sallie.
This wagon isn’t half loaded. I don’t
feel like I’m more than a quarter of a
mile from the earth. Listen, Sallie. :
“Oh! lioerty,liberty ever,
And freedom to rise with thday;
To race through the sweet-scented clover,
And rake up the newly mown hay.
Wliat’s that? You say we’ve got on enough
load this time? Well, then, I’ll come down.
My! S allie, what are you doing? Whoa!
Jumbo, whoa, sir;” but Jumbo didn’t
whoa. He was going at a fast walk
across the big potato ridges and I knew
Sallie was mating him. Oh! goodness!
I thought the wagon would flop over
every minute. There I sat perched upon
the very top of an immense load of hay,
swaying dangerously hack and forth as
the wagon lurched from side to side,now
on top a two foot ridge, now in the wick
ed deep furrows. And 1 knew, though I
couldn’t see her, that Sallie down by the
side of the wagon, hidden by the over
hanging hay, was urging the liorseon I
could see her laughing herself half to
death down there. Oh! it got worse in
stead of better. I called, I begged, I
plead,l said “whoa, Jumbo” in
tender way. Then I called sternly, “whoa,
Jumbo,’ whoa, sir!” But no he didn’t
whoa, not at all, atthough by this time I
was in a desperate mood. Every minute
hid fair to be the next, as somebody has
aptly said. Right anead of us stood au
immense live oak tree. 1 kuew that ivs
low hanging branches would brush me
off and knock a thousand or two pounds
of hay down with me, aud I knew Sallie
would stop at nothing when playiug a
practical joke,so everything considered,it
would be best to resign my place,not wait
tobe “bonneed.” Right then I had hum
bled myself to the position of the “Mos
lem when he prays with his head turned
towards Mecca.” But I veered around,
and with both feet well together aud
pointing exactly to Jumbo’s collar, I re
called the skill of other days wjien I was
the captain of our sliding brigade at
school sliding down the slick side of
a certain deep red gully then I
‘‘slid.” I’m a skillful horsewoman for
tunately, so when I fell, a confused mass,
on Jumbo’s broad back, I caught on the
collar, and by the aid of the harness,
righted myself in time to turn his head
so that the wagon passed safely around
the tree and didn’t touch it. Imagine
Sallie’s surprise as Jumbo halted at the
barn door, and she came out from under
the hay to see me quietly sitting on his
back! Well, we had lots of fun, just lots
of it, though we did get tired, oh, so
tired!
But we persevered until the last wisp
of that dearly-bought, new-mown hay lay
steeped in fragrance in the depths of
the big old barn before the September
storm broke on us that night. Sallie Lad
raked up and pitched the hay into the
wagon, while I had valiantly walked
around on it until her long, white arms
grew dusty, and my little white feet
grew dustier, and the strings to our sun-
lapsed into poetical limpness,
Ynd still we never saw
\ “The Judge come riding down the lai)e,
\troking his horse’s chestnut mane.”
Mildred Beryl Brown.
From Harlem, Ga.
Will you allow me space in your es
teemed journal to offer a few sug
gestions that may or may not be
worthy of consideration? In almost every
issue of your paper can be found resolu
tions adopted by different sub-Alliances
throughout the stato, a great many of
them of such a nature as to commend
themßelvea to all true Alliancemen, and
some again very sweeping in their char
acter and emanating from sub-Alliances
of limited power, 1 think calculated to
do our order much harm without the re
motest probability of advancing its
cause in the least. It does seem to me
that sweeping aud stringent resolutions,
o be effective, should fipst have the sanc
tion of our best nfeu, or, in other
words, should emanate from our State
and National organizations, then with
the endorsement of our sub and county
organizations, we would be on solid and
safe gr <und, and with the whole organi
zation as a unit in forwarding and carry
ing out the spirit and letter of the same.
It would mean something, and we would
not be in a position to have our acts criti
cised Dy outsiders, and also avoid the
unnecessary friction between the farm
ers and merchants that such resolutions
are calcula ed to produce when placed
upon the minutes of sub-Alliances. We
should bear in mind that the merchants
aie very essential to us, in fact, abso
lutely necessary, and generally speaking,
business men, and as a rule, disposed to
extend just and fair accommodations to
their customers; that while we have
been greately extorted upon in Ihe past,
we should not lay the entire blame upon
other parties, but assume our own meas
ure of responsibility by delegating
to others duties that should have been
performed by ourselves in the past, and
allow parties inimical to the farming
inters st to shape the financial and other
interests of this government without
protest, until, as a class, we are almost
totally bankrupt, is not an enviable posi
tion by any means.
We have consumed a score of years in
reaching bed rock, and now we must face
the issue like men and deal with it as
reason and judgment dictate, which
teaches us that what it has taken years to
lose cannot be removed in a day. The
prestige already lost is to he regained
only by united and determined efforts,
dealing justly and fairly with all whom
we may be thrown in business contact,
and demanding only such treatment from
others as we are ready to accord tojtliem,
and thou we can reasonably expect to
meet with help and encouragement from
a large majority of the merchants and
manufactories we may be thrown in bus
iness contact with, justice to all, special
privileges to none.
There are many, but one of the main
causes of our depressed condition is the
present system of paying our notes and
mortgages given for supplies and guano,
which are made payable the 15th of Oc
tober and Ist of November, thereby not
only forcing the bulk of the cotton crop
on the market in a few days (which of
itself is enough to break down the best
market on earth), but it also compels
threo fourthi of the planters to exert
their whole time and energies to the
gathering and marketing of their crop iu
order to meet their obligations at a time
that experience teaches us some portion
of the time should be given to the sow
ing of small grain, if we expect to reap a
reasonable harvest. Cannot some ar
rangement bo formulated between the
commission merchants aud the planters
by which notes and mortgages given for
supplies and guano can be divided up
into equal parts and made payable in
monthly installments, commencing the
first of October and extending through
the intervening months until the first of
January, when the last and final payment
is to he made, thereby extending the
time of marketing the bulk of the crop
through the fall and a portion of the
winter season? Then with the remnant
of the crop the most of the planters
would be enabled to market to advantage
in the latter months of the season. If
merchants are made secure, I see no rea
son why they should throw any impedi
ment in the way. Nor do I believe there
would bs any serions objections made by
them to such an arrangement. As busi
ness men, they can very readily see that
they would reap equal advantages with
the planter, and greatly relieve the
already overburdened farmers. Prop
erly presented to them by committees
appointed by the different county Alli
ances surrounding the different cotton
centers of the State, with the endorse
ment of the State Alliance, I think the
merchants would meet us in a spirit of
fairness and extend to us the accommo
dation that certainly would prove of un
told benefit to all parties interested.
Yours fraternally,
W. L. Benton.
Columbia sub-Alliance, Columbia Co.
locations.
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is here, the "State Organ is published
here, and now we only need to locate
our president, Col. Livingston, here and
our forces will be concentrated. State
Exchange temporarily located at 67 East
Alabama street, State Secretary, R. L.
Burks, office room No. 5 over Chamber
lain Johnson & Co, Whitehall Street.
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ticulars call or write
Dr. K. G. JACKSON,
10 11 ly42*A Whitehall street, Atlanta. Ga.
DIRECTORY.
FAR HERS AND LABORERS UNION OF
AMERICA.
President—Evan Jones, of Texas.
Vice-President—lsaac McCracken, of
Arkansas.
Secretary—A. E. Gardner, of Tennessee
Treasurer—Linn Tanner, of Louisiana.
NATIONAL FARMERS ALLIANCE AND CO
OPERATIVE UNION OF AMERICA.
C. W. Macnne, President, Washington,
L. L. Polk, Ist Vice-President.
E. B. Warren, Secretary.
If. C. Saffell, Deputy Secretary, 1016 C
street, Washington, D. C.
Linn Tanner, Treasurer.
Ben Terrell, Lecturer.
T. J. Bounds, Doorkeeper.
GEORGIA STATE ALLIANCE.
L. F. Livingston, President, Cora.
R. W. Everett, Vice-President, Fish,
R. L. Burks, Secretary, Chipley.
W. A. Broughton, Treasurer, Madison,
J. W. Beck, Lecturer, Milner.
B. Williams Ass’t Lecturer, EHaville.
11. It. Davies, Chaplain.
J. R. David, Doorkeeper.
W. D. Rainey, Assistant Doorkeeper.
W. S. Copeland,Sergeant-at-Arms, Lodi
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
Felix Corput;, Chairman, Cave Spring*;
T. J. Stephens. Franklin; A. F. Pope,
Crawford; A. M. Ivey, Thomasville; W,
J. Taylor, Lutherville.
JUDICIARY COMMITTEE.
M. V. Calvin, Chairman, Augusta;'A,
Q. Moody, Boston; Geo. T. Murrell, Win
terville.
STATE EXCHANGE.
Felix Corput, Presi dent, Cave Springs;
L. F. Livingston, Vice-President, Cora;
L. S. Ledbetter, Secretary, Cedartownr,
W. A. Broughton, Treasurer, Madison.
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Application For Charter.
Georgia, fulton county-to the sur*-
rk it Court of said County ; The petition
ct Felix Corput, L. F. Livingston, Win. A.
Broughton, L. 8. Ledbetter, A, J Checveß, Seth
Tatum, Sam Barron, E L. McTyre, 8. A.
O’Quinn, I‘. S. Strickland, L. E Carswell am*
tlieir associates petition to organize a corpora
tion under the name of the Farmers’ Aliiamn*
Exchange of Georgia. The purposes for which
they desire to organize this corporation are: To
conduct a gcner.l mercantile and brokerage busi
ness. To act as agent lor the purchase and sale
of all kinds of farm and orchard products, no*
gcnaral forwarding agents for ail kinds of oom
modi ies’ To erect, manage an 1 operate ware
houses, stock yards, grain elevators, packing e«-
tablishments. To manufacture guano or other
fertil zors, all such other enterprises as may 1)0
found necessary or advisable to their protit and
betterment.
The corporation is to have the power and b*
capable in law to purcliasi, receive, hold aud en
joy lands, goods, chattels and properly ot any
kind and effects whatsoever; ihe same to grant,
sell, mo: tgage and dispose of, sue auu he sned,
plead aud he impleaded, contract and lie con
tracted with to make a common seal, to alter or
break the sane, to establish and put in execution
by-laws gov> rning the corporation, to issure and
Boat debentures or other bonds, to do a printing
and publishing business.
ilie capital stock of the corporation is dftjr
thousaud dollars with ti e privilege of increasing
to tin amount not to exceed one million dollars,
at tiie discretion ot the trustees, twenty live per
cent, ot the stock subscribed to be paid in cash,
the remainder of the same to he paid in under
such rules as may he prescribed by the board of
directors. The capital stock to lie divided into
sharesol one hundred dollars each. Subscrip
tions in the capital stock are to be leceived
from Farmers’ Alliances alone, and each Far
mers'Alliance shall he entitled t > one tmstes
stockholder who shall b; designated annually at
he time of the regular election ot its officers. Ths
trustee stockholders from each of the Farmers’
Alliances of each county shall elect a county trus
tee-stockholder, and the county trustee-stock
holders shall annually elect eleven from their
number as a board of directors to he chosen ons
from each congressional district in the state,and
one from the state at large.
The hoard ot directors shall elect from thep;
number a President, Vice-President, Secretary,
and Treasurer, and the board of directors shall
have the right to enact such suitable by-laws and
regulations as they may deem proper tor tbs
management of the business of th • corporation,
subject, however to the approval of tho next
meeting of tiie county-trustee-stockholdr rs, pro
vided, all such by-laws and regulat ons snail
have the force of law until the Stockbelden
shall have declined to concur in tiem.
And your lietitioners pray for the order of
court chartering the corporation by the name,
with the powers, and under the terms herein
before set forth.
Hoke & Burton Smith,
Petitioners’ Attorneys.
Filed in office, November 12th, 1889.
G.H.Tanker,C.B.C.
Georgia. Fulton County :
I O. H. Tanner, clerk of the superior cou't, In
and for said comity, hereby ccrtitj that the
within and foregoing is a true and correot copy
of the oiiginal of record in tills oftloo.
Given under my han. and the seal of said
court, this 12th November, 1889.
ft ».H.Tanner, O.S.C.
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