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Every Tuesday at Atlauia, Ga.
—BY THE—
SOUTHERN ALLIANCE FUB, CO.
SUBSCRIPTION ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR.
INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE.
EDITORIAL STAFF.
H. C. Brown ----- Editor
L. F. Livingston - - Associate Editor.
CONTBIH CTORS.
County Alliance Secretaries.
subordinate Alliance Secretaries
Membra of the Alliance iu every County. The
State Alliance Officers:
L. L. Polk, National President.
J. 11. Turner, National Secretary.
C. W. Macune.
N. A. Dunning.
Hen Terrell.
And many others.
DEPARTMENTS.
Alliance Matter and < .eorgia Siftings,
Mrs. E. H. Daiioson,
Alliance Home and Young Folks Corner,
Mbs. Mildred Hekvl Brown.
This paper is the official organ of the Farm
ers' Alliance of Georgia, and every family in the
Alliance is expected to take it, so that official
tommunications will reach the entire order in a
■ingle week. Thorough organization and united
action can be thus maintained.
TO ADVERTISERS.
This paper circulates all over Georgia, among
the eighty thousand Allianeemen in the State.
It is one of the most desirable advertising medi
ums in the South.
TO SUBSCRIBERS.
Please mention this paper to your neighbors,
and do all you can to widen its influence and
increase its circulation. Address,
Southern Alliance Farmer,
25 W. Hunter st. Atlanta, Georgia.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
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A red cross opposite your name on the
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In requesting a change of postoffice,
give the name of the office from which
you wish the change made as well as the
one to which the paper is to go in fut
ure.
Address all business letters and make
all post office orders payable to,
Southern Alliance Farmer.
BiuiniEii Smith, of Cotfee county, is
going to be the messenger of the next
house, and his genial smile will again
brighten the legislature.
We have a private letter from a friend
in Buffalo, New York,who says: “Fight
for the sub-treasury bill, it will
kill the national banks and be the sa
vior of our nation.”
The Sub-treasury bill will prevent the
speculator from taking the crop at his
own price. The farmers are the only
people on earth who have a right to price
their own products.
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What could induce the Great Beast
Butler, of Massachusetts, and Foraker,
to enter a corporation known as the Geor
gia and Alabama improvement Company'.’
Do they realy want to improve this
country?
Sir. Moses Maktln, that good and
efficient door-keeper of the house, again
presents his claims for election to that po
sition. Uncle Moses can’t do much farm
work on that one log, but he makes a
splendid door-keeper.
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Since the election the indications are
that a [good portion of the Alliahce
strength is crystalizing around ex-Gov
ernor Henry 11. .McDaniel as successor to
Senator Brown in the United States
senate.
Don’t be deceived. If Governor Gor
don is elected to the United States senate,
all this talk about the railroads lighting
him will be forgotten, and his election
will be considered the defeat of the Alli
ance.
If any meins can be devised by which
to persecute the Alliance and destroy its
strength, the plotters for the defeat of
the sub-tyeasury bill will lind them. No
people working to free themselves from
opression, ever met with such unrelent
ing persecution as the Farmers Alliance
is meeting in Georgia.
Brethren, doh’t think that we do not
want to publish your letters. We have
hundreds of communications that we
will publish as soon as possible. We
cannot get them all in at once, but in
tend to do all in our power to give our
readers the benenefit of all.
The races at Columbus during the
Chattahoochee Exposition will be very
fine. Send to Cliff B. Grimes, secretary
and treasurer, for premium list. Don’t
forget to have your best corn, cotton,
pigs and potatoes on exhibition there.
These fairs get up a spirit of rivalry
which will do great good in all the
branches of industry.
The Alliancemen seem to be pretty
numerous in the register of the next leg
islature —33 in the senate and 131 in the
house. An Alliance governor and com
missioner of agaicultiwe elected for the
.next two years, and the election of a sub
treasury man in full sympathy with all
the Alliance principles, assured.
Now, to put in the congressmen who
have espoused our cause and get the
senatorial quggtion settled and the work
will
SOUTHERN ALLIANCE FARMER ATLANTA, GA., OCTOBER 14, 1890
WHERE DOES IT BELONG?
On Saturday, October 4, the soreheads
of Douglas county held a mass meeting
of what they call “straight-out, hard
shell democrats.” (Perhaps they get the
name of ‘straight-outs’ because they
walk straight out of the party without
sense or reason). They adopted a mani
festo of twelve long paragraphs, in which
all of the evils of the day and all dissen
sions in the party are charged to
Alliance. Even their own disgruntled
movement is charged to us.
We quote below the 11th and 12 th arti
cles of their creed, and simply ask if any
one can read them and doubt our charge
that they come from the light on the
Alliance and Col. Livingston, which is
intended to buldoze Livingston into forc
ing the Alliance to support Gordon for
the United States senate:
11. These same leaders !>}• their policy <d pro
scription and advocating measures foreign to
the principles of the democratic party have
rent the party in twain, where peace and har
mony reigned before—now diicord and division.
12. The lion. L. F. Livingston is the chief of
these demagogues and leaders at the head of
the institution, and, as we believe, more to
blame for this state of affairs than any other one
man, and therefore we cannot and will not sup
port him for coneress.
IVe could name many more things which the
leaders of this organ zation have done, but will
name only cue moie, and that is that all their
plans and methods are laid and conceived in
secret meetings from which many true and tri.il
democrats are excluded because of the business
they follow or profession they belong to, and 1 or
no other reason.
We assert that such proceedings are undemo
cratic and unrepnblican, they are unheard, of iu
the democratic party and contrary to its histo
ry, principles and policy.
And that to democrat is bound by any action
they may take iu tne name of the party.
We are unalterably opposed to any man who
opposes John B. Gordon for U. S. senator.
We therefore ask all genuine, dyed-in-the
wool, hard-shell democrats to unite with us and
assist in compassing the defeat of this man and
his pet measure.
W. K. Glovbb,
W. V. Boatbight,
W. C. Baggett,
W. A. James,
W. J. Abercrombie,
And many others.
THE CALL FOR A CONVENTION.
We hereby request all democrats in the differ
ent counties of the fifth congressional district
who are opposed to Co'. L. F. Livingston and
the sub-treasury bill, aud in favor of Gen. Gor
don for senator, to semi delegates to a convention
to be held in Atlanta on Saturday, October 11,
1890, in the court house at 11 o’clock a. m., for
the purpose of nominating or endorsing ii can
didate for congress. W. K. Glover,
w. V. Boatbight.
W. C. Baggett,
W. A. Jambs,
W. J. ABERCROMBIE,
And others.
MAJ. HANSON’S LETTER.
We have said repeatedly that the sub
treasury bill was winning its way into
the hearts of men of all classes. To en
able our readers to see that supporters
to our measures were not confined to the
farming class alone, we addressed a let
ter Maj. J. F. Hanson, of Macon, re
questing him to give his views upou
this most important subject.
Maj. Hanson is sn earnest and honest
man; a fine business man, a successful
financier, and a forcible writer. At pres
ent he is largely interested in the manu
facture of cotton goods and has made a
success of the business. It is the opin
ion, not only of a business man, a finan
cier, but the opinion of a spinner, whois
one of the buyers and consumers of our
great staple crop, that we are able to
present to our readers.
While we have presented the sub
treasury bill as seen from the position of
farmers and lawyers, we have not, pre
vious to this, given the views of a manu
facturer.
It is a fact that the spinner is not the
man who corners our crop or forces its
price below its cost of production, but
the speculator who buys up the crop
and sells to the spinner as bis trade de
mands it and makes a good profit by the
transaction. The sub treasury will ena
ble us to reach the spinner as he needs
our crop, without the intervention of
the speculator.
In succeeding issues of our paper we
hope to present to our readers the views
of men from other classes of business,
and to show that the better element of
the business world, the great conserva
tive, unprejudiced, thinking element,
has recognized the justice of our cause
and the wisdom of our measure.
Read Maj. Hanson’s letter and see
how fairly and forcibly he treats the
subject.
STOCK IN OCR PAPER.
The effort to damage our paper and de
tract from its influence by claiming that
the money power is behind it, is public,
but that our brethen may know just ex
actly how it stands, we make this state
ment: .
Every dollar of stock in the paper is
owned by true and devoted Allianeemen,
except a portion owned by Mr. W. 11.
Huguley, of West Point, Ga., who is in
hearty sympathy with us. His stock was
issued in payment for his part of the old
Southern Alliance which the company
bought.
These men are all southern men and
democrats, and the books are open to
any brother who doubts it. Not one
dollar in the paper or “behind” it has
any dirt on it, and the Alliance people
know it. We neither care for the opin
ions or spleen of those who wilfully and
wantonly misrepresent us.
The interest demanded by the present
banking system is too high. When we
can bank upon staple and non-perishable
farm products and upou real estate, inter
est will grow beautifully less.
Some of the muds from the Okefeno
kee Swamp got transported into Lump
kin county by some mysterious means,
bu > Lumpkin county don’t propose to
let it stay there—it is going to clean it
up.
On the 15th instant the farmers of
Cass county will have a hundred or more
bales of cotton at Cassville for sale, and
buyers are ijivited to come and purchase.
This will be a good opportunity to buy a
choice lot of cotton for special order.
If the clause which prevents national
banks from loaning money on real estate
were stricken from the law, and the ten
per cent tax on state banks abolished, no
one would object to the law, but we
would demand the sub-treasury bill all
the same.
That law which will enable the farmer
to sell his crop as the demands of the
world call for it, and at that fair price
which the supply will guarantee under a
normal condition of trade, is the law we
need. That law is the sub-treasury bill.
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llox. Tuos. E. Winn is making a great
figlft for congress in the 9th district.
The mountain counties are said to be
solid for him and his opponents are los
ing ground. If the mountain boys are
for him he is safe.
One of t,he straight-out Jeffersonians
of Douglas county is opposed to Living
ston on the sub treasury plan, is now
running a big distillery. Os course he
forgets that whisky distilling is run for
a class and protected by the government.
Worse, indeed, than all the sub-treasu
ries.
The Jefferson county fair comes off
the last week of tills month. A large
crowd is expected. On the 29th the vet
erans will assemble and listen to an ad
dress from Gov. Gordon. The :’>Oth will
be Alliance day and speeches from prom
inent members of the order will be heard.
We hope this fair will result in good to
the agriculturalists of Jefferson and ad
joining counties.
There have seen several representa
tives elect to the next legislature, in our
office recently, who say they are deter
mined to have the Okefenokee swamp
matter investigated. It is said that all
of the Linderman letter has not been pub
lished yet, and that Mr. Linderman pan
tell much more on the subject. Let it
come. If the thing is rotten, and
it thumps like it is, the people ought to
know it.
Read the able article in this paper
from the pen cf Hon. W. E. 11. Searcy.
He is a working man of the Spalding
County Alliance. Has built up great
Alliance enterprises at Griflin and is do
ing as much to advance the material in
terests of the farmers of his section as
any man in Georgia. The order can al
ways afford to listen to a man who is
working for his fellow-men. Brother
Searcy’s heart is in the right place, and
his hands and head are at work for the
people.
It is currently stated that the chair
man of the railroad commission, Cpl. L.
N. Trammell, is one of the most active
partisan supporters of Gov. Gordon in
his fight against the Alliance. This
suggests that the best interests of the
state would be served if the next legisla
ture should pass a law requiring the rail
road commissioner to be elected by a
vote of the people. This would remove
the inducement for partisan support of
any governor as a reward for appoint
ment to office, and would result in equal
ly as able and worthy men as Col. Tram
mell being placed on this commission.
The next legislature of Georgia, both
the senate and house, is made up of over
75 per cent of Alliancemen. The eyes of
the whole country, therefore, will be
upon that body at its next session, and
especially will the enemies of the Alli
ance watch its proceedings closely in or
der to proclaim to the world every mis
take that may be made. We predict,
however, that our enemies will have few
grounds upon which to criticize. The
legislature just elected is made up of
the most conservative men in the state.
Men who have the deepest interest in
the welfare of the state. Men who will
come here to the capital and dispatch
the businesss of the people without any
adjourned session to next summer. Men
who will work early and late, and give
value received for the per diem the state
pays them.
We expect to see this legislature to
pass all needed laws and kill all bad and
vicious measures that may come before
it.
The burden of administering affaiis iu
Georgia for the next two years is on Al
liaucemen, and it will be properly borne
to the credit of our order and the good
of the state.
One question in which the people of
Georgia are concerned is, who was Mr.
Frank Hall’s counselor during the Oke
fenokee campaign.
The Exchange is now up with orders for cot
ton bagging and can snip it upon short notice.
Wehave yet quite a large quantity of it bought
to be delivered in October and November, and
Alllanoemen will be expected to use it.
Brother C. L. Maddox, of Simon, Ga..
writes a ringing good letter. Cotton bag
ging all the go.< He speaks very hopeful
of tneir future.
ENDORSEMENTS.
Far some Lrne past the politicians and
all elements fighting the Alliance, have
combined in holding so-called mass
meetings about over the state for the
purpose of endorsiug Governor Gordon
for the United States senatorship. Now
that the election is over and the time is
past when pledges aud promisses could
be extorted by threats of iudepenAnt
ism or other bull-dczing a large number
of Alliances throughout the state have
seen proper to calmly and orderly ex
press their views by appropriate reso
lutions on the senatorial situation.
Os course all the 1 ewspapers in the
state opposed to the Alliance, aud every
one of which is supporting Gordon,have
raised a howl aboat the course of
the Alliance in these resolutions. If it
had been before the election the same
howl would have gone up.
They ignor the fact that Governor Gor
don started this endorsement business,
or else think that the Alliance has no
right to a voice in anything.
It makes but little difference now as
to what our enemies have to say or do as
regards our actions in this matter. More
than three-fourths of the legislature just
elected are Allianeemen.
Governor Gordon has been utterly
routed iu his attack on the Alliance,and
his defeat is assured.
We call attention to the last expiring
wail against the Alliance for passingres*
elutions condemning Governor Gordon's
course, and calling on the members of
the legislature to vote for no man for
United States senator who is not in har
mony with the Alliance and its princi
ples for the following reasons :
Ist. lu.order to show that the Alliance
did not start the passing of resolutions of
endorsement for United States senator,
but on the contrary, Governor Gordon
aud bis friends were the first to move in
this regard.
2nd. in order to emphasize the denial
of the charge heretofore made that the
Alliance leaders and this paper were the
sole cause of the issue made with Gov
ernor Gordon, and that the rank and file
of the Alliance were for him.
The spontaneous passage by numerous
County Alliances in every quarter of the
state without any suggestions from any
Alliance leader or from this paper,shows
conclusively that the people are against
Governor Gordon in his present light on
the Alliance, and that instead of the
opposition to him being inspired by the
leaders, it in reality comes Irom the
rank and file of our great order, who
deeply resent Governor Gordon’s attack
on the Alliance and its principles.
And lastly we call attention to it in
order to assure our enemies that no Alli
ance in the state will be deterred from
passing such resolutions as it sees prop
er on the subject of the senatorship by
reason of any hue or cry they may raise.
This is a fre country, and because the
farmers Lave neglected to look after
their interests in the past, is no reasjn
they should be deprived of that right in
the future.
A OVATION INDEED.
It was our pleasure to be at Carters
ville, ou the 7th infant, to hear the great
three-sided debate between Everette,
Hargrove aud Hamilton, lion. JI. E. Ev
erette, (who is vice-president of the Geor
gia State Alliance) is the regular nomi
nee of the democracy of the 7th congres
sional district. Mr. Zach Hargrove is
the nominee of the republican party of
that district, while Colonel Hamilton
was there to represent the cause of Dr.
W. 11. Felton, who is the nominee of
about forty-seven sore-heads of the same
district.
The speeches were ul) well received
and no unpleasantness resulted. True
the people were not anxious to listen to
Colonel Hamiton’s abuse of the Alliance
and its methods, but Colonel Everette re
quested them to give his opponent a pa
tient and respectful hearing, which they
did.;
After the first speeches were ended,
Mr. Waren Aiken, chairman of the meet
ing introduced Colonel Seaborn Wright,
whom he called the Nestor of the people
It was never our pleasure to listen to a
more perfect campaign speech. For more
than an hour that vast crowd, which
could only find standing room in the
house, was held spellbound by the
power of the speaker. We have never
seen a man who could carry an audience
with him and work them at will, more
perfectly than Mr. Wright. He would
jpove his audience to laughter, shouts,
tears and the widest hurrahs, as he wish
ed; and when he would call Dr. Felton the
nominee of the Rome yearling club, and
Colonel Hamilton the high-cockalorum
of that club, the crowd went wild.
When the speeches were ended, Colo
nel Aiken addressed the crowd as fol
lows: “All who intend to work for and
vote for R. W. Everette for congress on
fourth day of November next, march
right through this stand him by
the hand." Not more more than twenty
men refused to shake hands and pledge
to support Everette. Those were the
few Felton men who slipped out the door
and left.
We have heard of ovations, but the
one given Everette at Cartersville,was the
greatest that we have ever seen given to a
man before.
MISLEADING.
There is a small number of men in each
county who are against the Alliance on
all questions, and also a small crowd who
are in favor of General Gordon for any
thing he wants, whether it is to their in
terest or to the interest of the great mass
of the people or not. These small fac
tions are always on hand at the Gordon
meetings, and with great gush and en
thusiasm pass resolutions endorsing Gov.
Gordon for the senate. Generally about
twenty-live men vote for these resolutions
and head them in this way:
Therelre be it resolved, I bat the democracy
of this county endorse Gen. John B. Gordon for
the United States Senate,” etc., etc.
The facts an! that these men represent
only themselves, and yet they send out
their resolutions for publication and to
mislead the people.
On the other hand, the County Alliance
of the same county, representing the
Allianeemen of the county who are a
majority of the democracy of the.county,
meet together and demand that the rep
resentatives of the county vote against
Gordon for the senate.
Now which of these meetings are rep
resentative? It is an easy matter for a
few friends to get together and put in
some cut and dried resolutions ata little
mass meeting where Gov. Gordon speaks.
The people love Gov. Gordon and do not
want to wound him by voting down the
resolutions before his face. They know
it represents but a small per cent of the
people and let it pass; but the resolu
tions go to the world as the sentiment
of the democracy. That is misleading.
What, then, of the Alliance, which is
the real of three-fourths
of the democracy? They simply meet as
an Alliance and express their desirewanil
put. it before the world, making no at
tempt to deceive the public. The people
know that these Alliance resolutions
mean something and it is not necessary
for them to say how much of the mass
of the people they represent. They have
no desire to mislead, and nothing to gain
by any attempt to deceive.
A mass meeting of the democracy Os a
county cannot be binding upon democrat
ic representatives and cannot express
the will of that party unless it be called
by the democratic executive committee
of the county for that specific purpose,
and proper publication of the call be
given aud its objects made known, so that
all the people may be present and ex
press their wishes in the matter. When
this is done the will of the people can be
made known, but little handfuls of men
who rush together do not represent the
democracy and should not be allowed to
deceive them. The Alliance is not try
ing to mislead anyone and as an evidence
of their good faith they have in every
ease submitted to the will of the people,
whether expressed by primarias or mass
meeting, which have been properly
called.
PUT IN ITS PROPER LIGHT.
We have known that the report being
spread abroad by Governor Gordon and
his friends, that President Polk said that
the sub-treasury bill was dead, would be
properly corrected, aud we have had
nothing to say about it. We do not mean
to say that parties who have been telling
it wilfully misquoted President Polk, but
they only used the parts of his remarks
which suited their purpose.
That Colonel Polk should be canvassing
the country in behalf of a measure which
he openly stated was dead, never to be
resurrected, was too pediculous for cre
dence.
His card which appeared in last Thurs
day’s Copstution, settles the matter:
Raleigh, N. C., October 7. —Editor
Constitution: I see that my friend Gov
ernor Gordon is still quoting a remark
made by him in a speech in Mississippi in
regard to the sub-treasury bill,in support
of his position on that measure. 1 did
say that “the sub-treasury bill sleeps the
sleep that knows no waking,” because
“it is in the hands of a congress that is
absolutely dominated by Wall street and
the corporate power of the country.”
1 am more than willing that every word
1 have uttered in regard to that just
measure should be quoted by all its op
ponents, but simple justice demands that
I should not be so quoted as to misrep
resent my position. I hope Goveror Gor
den will do me the justice to quote the
above in full as ah expression which I
h tve used on many occasions, and which
1 believe to be the truth. lam far, very
far, from believing that people will per
mit it to sleep. It is and will be the livest
issue in American polities—for it pre
sents the question to the American people,
whether unjust and discriminating laws,
which rob honest labor of its products,
shall be longer tolerated.
Yours truly,
L. L. Polk.
Money which will be advanced to the
people through the sub-treasuries, will
do much to reduce the price of money
and the rate of interest.
At a meeting of the board of directors, held
23d day ot September, we again decided to urge
you to hold your eottoh for better prices. When
you are owing local merchants let them hold
your cotton for you, subject to your orders.
We have marie the following arrangements at
different points for yon to store and hold vour
cotton until you get ready to sell, they advanc
ing you, say three-quarters of the market value
on arrival: Phinizy & Co., Augusta, commis
sions, storage and handling, same as to mer
chants. Interest on advances at 6 per cent per
annum. Alliance Warehouse at Macon, com
missions, insurance and storage same as to
other Allianeemen. In rarest on advances at 8
i-er cent per annum. Alliance Warehouse at
Savannan, commissions, insurance and storage
same as to other Alliansemen. Interest 7 per
cent per annum. Messrs. Treadwell, Abbott &
Co., Atlanta, commissions 30 cents per bale; in
surance 10 cents per month: storage 15cents;
drayaee both ways 10 cents; interest 8 per cent
per annum.
Resouices at Augusta and Savannah are un
limited. We expect to be able to get rates at
other points. Wn. LPns,
Pres’t F- A. Ex. of >Ja.
TO THE SUBORDINATE AND COUNTY
ALLIANCES OF GEORGIA.
At the last session of the State Alli
ance the foliowing preamble and resolu
tions were adopted unanimously:
Whereas, There is a determined effort
being made to divide our people, and
thereby defeat the objects aud good re
sults to-fljw from the Alliance organiza
tion ; and
Whereas, Alliance eyes and hearts,
from every direction of this great coun
try, are turned on Georgia, and the
hopes of our brotherhood from every
quarter are largely based on the union,
determination, wisdom, and aggressive
ness of the Georgia Alliance; Therefore,
be it
Resolved, That this, the Georgia State
Alliance now assembled, do reaffirm our
allegieuce to our National Alliance plat
form, and do most earnestly and unqual
ifiedly demand that all members of our
order who may become members of the
Georgia legislature do not vote for any
man as United States senator unless he
or they subscribe to the Georgia State
Alliance platform, to wit:
“4. To a reduction of state and nation
al taxes. Asserting that only should
taxes be levid for revenue, and that to
aa economical and judicious administra
tion.
“5. That in the revision of the protec
tive tariff the burdens now resting on
the agricultural and laboring classes
shall be lessened to the greatest possible
extent.
‘O. That our representatives in the
national legislature shall advocate the
passage of such laws as will prevent
speculation and combines, that seek to
interfere with prices of prime necessities
and productions.
"7. To an ablition of the national
banking system, and the substitution of
legal treasury notes in lieu of the nation
al bank notes, and in sufficient volume,
in conjunction with gold and silver, to
do the business of the country on a cash
basis.
“That the sub-treasury bill of the
National Alliance now pending in con
gress, or some better bystem for the
relief of the struggling, masses be
parsed.”
We have received a number of county
resolutions which come too late lor pub
lication, and we cannot use them in full,
but will give a synopsis and publish in
full next week.
Echols County Alliance passed resolu
tions intstructing their representatives
against Governor Gordon |for the senate.
Jackson county passed strong resolu
tions also instructing their representa
tives to vote againt Governor Gordon for
the senate.
Monroe County Alliance passed very
strong resolutions condemning Governor
Gordon, and calling a massmeeting of the
county to instruct representatives to vote
against him.
NOTICE.
To the Alliancemen of Georgia:
It was decided in lhe meeting of the
Board of Directors of the State Exchange
on September 23, 1890, that it would be
advisable for each County or Sub-Alli
ance to'elect from their ranks the best
business man to act as trade agent in
making their purchases from the State
Exchange, especially fertilizers, and that,
the Exchange would pay such agents 25
cents per ton on each sale of fertilizers,
this being one-half the commission
allowed by lhe companies for such sales,
to be paid when fertilizers are settled
for. Os course the goods are to be sold
at manufacturer’s prices. The County
or Sab-Alliance is at liberty to pay such
agent watever additional amount it may
think his services are worth. Such
agent would be expected to be Held
responsible for the proper execution of
all contracts and business papers, as
well as collections of notes and tnonej
due the Exchange, or mercantile compa
nies.
Each agent would be required to make
a bond to the Exchange for the proper
discharge of his duties, which amount
would be determined by the Exchange.
It is advisable for such agents to be
elected as soon as practicable, and when
at all convenient for such agents to come
to Atlanta and familiarize themselves
with their duties, as well as to get fully
posted with the workings of the Ex
change.
Arrangements cannot be made too early
in the matter of fertilizers for the coming
season if we would avoid the immense
trouble experienced this year. It should
make no difference to consumers about
getting fertilers early, even before Janu
ary, '9l, as they are mostly sold on a
credit, and the interest is no more be
cause of getting them thus early, and it
is a matter of utter impossibility to de
liver them as rapidly as wanted if buyers
wait until time to use them. Further
more they are sold on a guaranteed price.
If they decline you get the the. benefit of
it, and if they advance you pay no more.
We want, by this arrangement, to sell the
larger portion of fertilzers sold in this
state, and we think that if all will
do their duty our efforts will meet with
smfeeks.
We mail one of these circulars to each
Alliance in the state of Georgia, and
think that since the trustee stockholders
in convention unanimously agreed to per
mit Alliances to take stock in the Ex
change upon the liberal. plan of their
paying one-quarter cash October Ist, and
balance in annual quarterly installments,
that every Alliance in the state should
avail themselves of the offer and join
those already holding stock in further
developing our mutual interest. Remem
ber in unity there is strength, and we all
need the hfilp of each other.
Wm. L. Peek,
Pres’t F. A. Ex. of Ga.
Editor Southern Alliance Farmer: As there
Is some misunderstanding concerning the reso
lution o ■ thanks offered by the stockholders in
convention, please re-state that thanks weie
,:iveh as follows for contributions by
Geo. W Scott Manutacturing Uo $ 500
John M. Green, Preat J9O
Ailair Brothers & Co 350
Moddox, Rucker &Co ” 250
Kennesaw Guano Company 200
Clifton Chemical Co 150
Marietta Guano Co 100
Truly yours.
Wm. L. Pkzk, Preg’t.