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LINCOLNTON, N. C, FRIDAY, G3T. 16, 1891.
NO. 24
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POLK AND HALL. (reported and acted npon at the last
i Hesaion, and which, if enacted into
SPICY COHHESPONIE!CE'woDld brini the financial relief
BETWEE.V THEM, so much needed by all elates and
Polk Telia Hall to Ileal gn
From the Legislative Com
ralttee Hall Won't Resign,
and Give His Ileaeona Hot
Shot for Klaeune uud the Sub
Treasury. Following ia the correspondence
between President Polk, of the na
tional Alliance, and ex-President
Hall, of the Missouri State Alliance,
regarding the latter'a opposition to
the tub Treasury :
Polk's Letter lo Hall.
Washington, D. C, June 21, '91.
Mr. U. S. Hall, President of the Mis
souri State Alliance, Hubbard, Mo.:
Deau Sir and Beothee : It ia
ray painful dnty as President of the
N F. A. & I. U , and as chairman of
i be national legislative committee,
to direct your attention to certain
matters which have come to my
knowledge through letters from
brethren iu your own and other
Staten, through resolutions adopted
hy Alliances iu our own and other
dtato?, and through the public
press.
If the alleged representations of
your utterances in public speeches
on ceitaln Alliance measures be
true, it is made my duty under the
law, as chairman of the national
legislative committee, and of which
you are a member, to say to you
lrankiy that such positions aro in
consistent with and antagonistic to
the duties imposed upon that com
mittee uuder the law.
A report of a ppeoeh purporting
to have been made recently by you
in Saliue county appears iu the coN
umns of the Alliance Watchman of
April 2d a paper published in
Marshall, Missouri. Iu this paper
occurs these words :
"1 am unalterably aud for all time
opposed to the subTreasury bill,
and I intend to fight it to the bitter
end, all the more as presideut of the
State Alliance, because it will give
my words agaiust it more weight. I
am its bitter . and uncompromising
enemy," etc., etc.
If the above be substantially cor
rect, and if this language expresses
substantially your position and
views, I beg to call your attention,
as a member of the national legisla
tive committee, to paragraph 2, sec
tion 29r statutory laws, defining in
part the duties of the national leg
islative council : ''That it shall be
the duty of the national legislative
council to formulate measures and
sonformity to the principles, purpo
ses and acts of the supreme council,
as may secure the enactment ot such
aws as may be indicated by the su
oreme council." To this end and
n further pursuance of the law (see
paragraph 5, section 29) the nation
U legislative council appointed a
aational legislative committee, of
which you were made a member, "to
;ive such personal advice as may,in
;he judgment of the coancil, be nec
essary to a proper presentation of
:he measures before Congress."
I beg to call your attention to
section 32 ot our statutorw laws,
which says :
"All measures presented for con
sideration may be discussed fairly
Jully, honestly and thoroughly, aud
'vhen the action ot a majority has
(veil had, all who participated in
tte meeliog are pledged to support
tuch action. It is the duty of every
ra oniber where tl e body has spokeo,
to htaud a a unit be-ore the woild."
Now, as to the position of the AN
1 fiuce on tbe 6ub-Trea8ary bill.
V7hich it is alleged you ate publicly
antagonizing. After a free and un
trameiled discussion at our St. Louis
meeting it was adopted with great i
un tnimity. Aiter being extensively
difous&ed for a year and iib great
interest throughout the count rv i? ;
j was ag uu ii.dMr.ed of our Oula j
! niretiuy bv aribiue ute f 'h 1 dy
only four oting agaiust it by
the adoption of the following reso
lutions :
"Whereas, There is now a bill,
known as the sub-Treasury bill, in
the hands of the ways and means
committee of the House of Bepre
entatives, which should have been
industries ; therefore be it
"Resolced, That the national cons
vention of the Famer8, Alliance
and Industrial Union do most re
spectfully and earnestly ask that
said bill be enacted into law as soon
as possible or some other measure
that will carry out these principles
and meet the necessities of the toiU
ing tnaeses."
The adoption of thin preamble
and resolutions constitutes it one of
the "acts of the supreme council'
and proclaims it one of its "purpo
ses," and which in paragraph 2,sec
tion 29, it is made the duty of the
legislative council to urve upon
Congress, and it is also one of those
''measures'1 embraced in section 32
above quoted.
At rhe meeting of the national
legislative council, at which you
were made a member of the national
legislative committee, it adopted
resolutions, which were ordered to
be sent to the members of the Unit
ed States Senate committee on ag
riculture, reciting the fact that the
bill was in charge of said commit
tee and had been for nearly twelve
month ; that it was adopted at our
Sr. Louis meeting ; that tne Qcala
meeting reiterated its demands for
I some sucu reliet measure as this,
and constituted this legislative com
mittee to look after these legislative
demands, and the national legisla-.
live council demanded that the mea
soie should be reported either favor
ably or unfavorably that it might
be considered on its merits.
The merits or demerits of this
measare or our individual opinions
thereon as members of this national
legislative committee are matters
entirely ioreign to tbe object and
purpose of this communication and
can have no bearing oq it. The
quostiou for you, as one of the na
tional legislative committee, and for
myself as chairman of that body and
as president ot the N. F. A. & I. U.
is: What is the will of the national
Alliance, as expressed in its action,
and what is our duty, having voluu
tarily entered Into a solomn com
pact with the Alliance to carry out
that expressed will by accepting ap
pointments for that purpose?
A to what the functions and du
ties of the natioual legislative com
mittee are, uuder the acts of the na
tional legislative council and under
t lie resolutions and laws of the su
preme council, admits of no question
in my judgment. Indeed, so clear
i it, that bad I entertained the re
motest doubt as to my duty as a
member of tbe committee, to observe
it, strictest faith the evident and
expressed will of the Alliance and of
the council, I should most assuredly
have declined tbe appointment
promptly. You will doubtless re
member that when the committee
was appointed, its duty in this re
gird was discussed by members of
the council, and Brother ,T. H. Mc
Dowell wa8 especially emphatic in
his construction,insi8tmg that what
ever might be the views of tbe indis
v dual members of the committee
on any measure embraced within
tbe province of its official charge, it
was the plain duty of the committee
to carry out the will of the Alliance
and of the council. We all accept
ed the appointment without one
word of dissent to those views.
Now, to the point : If I felt that 1
could not conscientiously acquiesce
in the will of the order, aDd that I,
as an honest, patriotic citizen, was
impelled by a sense of duty to op
post tneasuies and antagonize the
will of the order publicly, and es
pecially ou such measures that I
had been instructed to advocate or
promote, I should uot hesitate a sin-
gto
uioinennt as to my course I
wou'd pio i-pily resign my pi ice ou
the committee.
1 know j i-u :ir Uidy j rej art dto
hear this jura me, as it 18 but a
repetition 01 my posmoii ih mis
question which was given to jou
when in Washington, in response to
your inquiry as to my views as to
your duty as president of the A11N
ance in Missouri, in view of your
opposition to the sub-TreaPury bil.
I think I undeistand your p.si-
tit n thoroughly as to this particular
'.neasure. I cannot lK'Iievo that you
woold willingly damage the Alii
tnce cau?e, I cannot believe that
vou desire to bo or appear to bo in
consistent, and I therefore say to
yon, in the utmost frankness and iu
i spirit of true fraternity, that you
owe it to yourself, to the cause, to
ever your official relations with the
national legislative committee by
tendering your resignation as &
member of the same.
Fraternally yonr.,
(Sigued) L. L. Polk,
President N. F. A. & I. U.
Hall's Letter to Polk,
Fabmers' & Laborers' Union
of Missouri.
U. S. HALL, President.
HUBBARD, Mo., June 27, 1891.
j o Mr. L L, Polk, President of the
National Farmers Alliance and 7ain
dustrial Union, Washington, D. C:
Dear Sir and Brother : Res
plying to your communication of the
21 at in which you ask me to with
draw my opposition to the sub
Treasury bill or tender my resigLa
tim as a member of the national
le ginlative committee, I have the fol
ic .ving to say :
I was uncompromisingly opposed
to this measure before, at the time
ot and since my election as a mem
brr of the national legislative com
mittee, and no one in our order
krew better than yourself of my
piouounced opposition to it- You
will lemeraber the conversation bes
tweeu you aud myself, in the pres
ence of another gentleman, in you1"
office in Washington the day before
the, February meeting of the ua
loaal legislative council. In that
conversation I told you what you
then knew, that I had been an open
and avowed enemy of the sub Treas
ury bill ever since its presentation
to our order in December, 1887, at
S'. Louis, and told you that I rec
ognized in this bill and in the course
taken by its author, G. W. Macune,
tb rough the National Economist, an
attempt to sell out the organization
to the protective tariff men of the
E.kst ; that Macune was using the
ollicial organ, the National Econo
mist, and editorially declaring tha
there was "nothing in the tariff
question ;" that it was "a breeder ot
sectional strife, and that '-the agi
tJ.tion of the tariff question was an
effort on the part ot the Democratic
p-irty to galvanize the old ghost of
sectional hatred." I further told
y.iu that Macune's object in pushing
tl 8 sub-Treasury biil was to turn
the minds of the farmers away from
th-) tariff isbue and commit ti em to
class legislation, the very thing the
pvotective barons of the east most
wmted, and you will also remember
ilat you expressed ycur opposition
tc it and used this expression: "If I
w jre drawing the financial plank of
ary political party that I wauted to
sUnd ou, it would be but in one
scatenco, and would read, 'We de
m nd the tree aud unlimited coins
a o of silver.7 " This was during
tbe same conversation in which I
asked you if you would accept a
nomination at the hands of a third
party for President or Vice PresN
dent of the United States in 592,and
you said you would not answer my
question. There was not a member
ot that legislstive council but who
knew that I was unalterably opposed
to the sub-Treasury bill, aud knew
th s belore I was elected on the leg
lslitive committee, I having am
nouueed to them ou all occasions,
both in public conversation and in
pr vate, and by writing, through
ths newspapers, my opinion upon
that question. I am in hearty ac
cord with all tbe other demands of
cur order, except that put of the
financial plank wliich makes the
government a money loaner to the
far Tier. Despite thee facts I was
elected a member of this national
Wislative c;Jun!iH u e, aud I &ee no;
reusuu lor ir.y lenderii: in eigLaj
tin Hi- hUch a U)e'n-e . i mu A iiH' !
u:er with v-y tin I i.avn inesd ;
iu laruiir; uud wiih uo c-t'-i tn ',
of revenue and feel that I Luvc a.
persona! as well as a fraternal in
terest in the success of the fanning
class You certainly cannot have
forgotten tiat as soon as I was
tiecud on the committee, ind dur
ing the session of the national leg.
iulative council that elected me, you
got on the floor and end that the
yisesr, noblest and bravest thing
bat tbe legislative conned had ever
done was their electing me on that
committee; that I had the courage
to stand up aod denounce a corrupt
and guilty man, meaning Macune,
waen I knew that he was corrupt,
in spite of tbe hisses and jeers of j
0 her men, and that 1 was the on!j
one of tbe committee that refused
tc whitewash hitr. You spoke at
great leugth in that complimentary
strain, you knowing foil well that I
would uot support the sub-Treasury
bi l or any other t ill that I thought
would ruin the farmers of this coun'
try and draw their minds from our
greatest curse, the protective tariff.
You seem to think, however, that I
arn bound to advocate that measare
because of certain expressions used
by J. II. McDowell, vrho was a co
ordinate member of the legislative
council with mypelf and the other
Sute presidents. Might I not with
as much reason say that the other
members of the coramitteo were in
structed and obligated to oppose the
sub-Treasury measure fiom my re
m if ks made at tbe same time that
it would ruin the farmers of the
co on try if passed ? Of course,there
fo -e, there can be nothing binding
in any remarks made by Mr. Mc
Dowell, or any one else, in discuss
in;? measures of that kind or char
acter in a committee room. The
ot jer point upon which you rely iu
saying that I am bound to support
thit measure in the capacity of com
mitteeman is that I was instructed
by what you are pleased to calf cer
tain statutory laws and resolutions
passed at Ocala. I will now exam
ine this position of yours. You and
1 and hundreds of other Alliances
men in the United States travelled
over oar entire country with the
constitution and ritual of our order,
aid induced several million farmers
tc join this organization. To all
applicants for membership we read
section 1 of tbe preamble or declar-.
af ion of principles of our national,
S ate, county and subordinate Alli
arce constitution, (this declaration
being alike in all) which reads : "The
object of this order is to labor for
the education of the agricultural
classes in the science of economical
government in a strictly non-parti-et.u
spirit and to bring about a more
perfect union of said clashes," Also,
that in section 1, article 8, of our
national constitution, all of the qual
ifitations that are necessary to be
come a member aud consequently
an officer ot our order, are fully set
ou", which reads as follows :
"Section 1. No person shall be
admitted as a mamber ot this order
except a white person over sixteen
yef.rs cf age, who w a believer in
th ? existence of a Supreme Being,
and has resided iu the State for
mote than six mouths, and is either,
fir it, a larmer or farm laborer ; and
8w:nd, a mechanic, a country
prober, a country echool teacher
or a country doctor ; third, an edi
tor of a strictly agricultural paper.''
You will further remember that
wbea we were instructing the can
didates in tbe order, and before we
asked them to take upon themselves
the obligation of the organizUbn,
we were required by our law to
mske the following statement to
them: "You are assured that
noVcing rn this obligation shall in
anyway confl ct with jour religion
or political views." 1 qoote this
section 1 from the preamble, of our
coii.Hitution for the purpose of
shov ing that our O'der is not and
can :iever become, under our con
stitution, a part nan political body
nd that M.enever any n:e, fiom
oeiOtial an,bit:'i:. r :iy other
motives, tries to n h political
paity out of our onl r L subverts
nur constitution ii;i gives the
f ii- iiod to th foYina declaration
tni'it- by our or :z -M-izers ' h mil
i' ii - of ntemb- aIic .U .!!. .1
'M f t r.-al obli' t; f f
-. t HID IU" 1
ffi iu. im' ership i i .u- ju.p-jte oi
showing that no cue is debarred
from becoming a member or officer
of our order for opinion's sake. All
that was necessary to join tbe Alli
ance was that the applicant be oxer
sixteen years of age, a white person,
believing in a Supreme Being and
v.an a farmer, from laborer, etc.
Po we find in that const'tution any
v'ause that eays if a man doos not
believe in the sub-Treasury scheme
te shall not be eligible either as a
nember or an officer of our order?
Not one word of it, and why ! Be
cause this order in its infancy and
puritj', before it was used as it now
im, by designing politicians and
corrupt men, to subserve their am
bitious and mercenary ends, was for
i lie pnrjKse as set forth in thee.--n
stitution above quoted, tn ' rir t
about a more perfect, uiuo : f t h.ud
farming classes, and no mr.n was d4
baired from m i:U rshii or liom
holdiug ofllce i-j our nler in ac
couut of any opinion thai he might
hold upon any olitical question,
which means questions peitaining
to u&tiuna! aud State legislation.
This is tho dividing line, and tho
enly one of moment betweeu parti
san and non-paitisau bodies. If a
man is a liepubticm he ill not bo
permitted to tnke the aturap aud
denounce the system of the high
protective tariff without'being read
out of his party ; if a Democrat ho
will not be allowed to denounce a
reduction of the protective tariff
tvitbout being subject to like treat
ment. Then can any nam man
claim that freedom ot speech and
thought can b ' dispensed with in a
strictly non-partisan ordor, organ
ized for the purpose of uniting tho
farmers, who have hereto'oro been
divided in opinion, without losing
its i.on-partisau and li oral chatac
tor 7 Our order recognized that
tho great cause oT tho depressed
coudition of the farming class is
that heretofore (while our interests
have ever boon the same), we h.vo
been divided in the exercise of our
voting right. Yon now claim that
while those solemn constitutional
provisions above quoted am still
m force, that the national Alliance
can, by statutory enactment, as yu
are pleased to term it passed t
Ocala last December decline tl: '
a member or an officer has no t :; !:t
to differ from the conclusion r ach
ed by a majority ot tho deligates in
tbe national Alliance mietm . IH
ycu think that if this clause had
been iu our constitution wh'ii we
organized our order that we could
hive secured one-tent n of the mem
btship we now have f Yo;i eem
to lay stress upon the f ct ot my
publicly opposing the sub-Tre.ury
bi J. if this bTrr;i!uv scheme
is right, the more fully, publicly aud
o' encr it is discussed, the scorer it
will bejeuacted into a law. If it is
:ong a full and free public discus,
sun will bring out its fallacies only
th sooner aud thereby enable us to
cease advocating a wrong measure.
I will never concur in your opinion
that any public or general law
f-bould be enacted, or the people
brought to advocate if, by dark
l-ittern caucuses and discussions in
recret societies composed ot" but one
c!a-s of people. This I conceive to
l e iu direct violation ot th spiiit of
cur Government. Your desire to
see men ot ranged lot opinion's
Sriko, and to gag free dwi'K'oa will
: ot meet tho approval of the people
rb love freedom o! specc'i and the
freest 'public discussion of public
questions. I now desire to let the
order know bow "fairly, fu!i, hon
estly and thoroughly" the sub
Trtasury bill was diseussei at 0 :.
ia. The members of that national
Alliance were limited to one speech
of five m'nute each ia discussing
tho sun Treasury bill one. epe-ch
of Lve minutes to dii-cu.-s a measure
which, if enacted into law, would
change the whole financial system
of our government since its founda.
fion, and I claim bankrupt and des
tioy it. 1 make this statement to
the end that I hope my Alliance
brother farmers of the United
States may know tnat the sub
Treapurv t'i'l was fastened upon
t in o'ganiz tiou at. OcmI !y a ag
: v t!!.j HIlH'. j fi r'' lis
mii- j, t aposcd. You say
iu your letter that I am fully pre,
pared to hear this request k-r uiv
resignation f'n-n I lui yot
are in n : o , t t f
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