Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1889 — CONGRESS OF FARMERS. [ARTICLE]

CONGRESS OF FARMERS.

Interesting Matters Before That BodyProtection and Free Trade the Principal Issue. The Farmers Congress was held at Mont gomery, Ala., last week and several interesting subjects were discussed. At Thursday’s session, Judge Lawrence, of Ohio, , President of the Wool-growers’ Association, from a majority of the committee on resolutions, reported a resolution demanding that in case of a continuance of the protective policy, all farm products shall be . as fully protected as any article of manufacture. Mr. Wilhite, of Missouri, offered a minority report pledging the farmers of the United States to a reduction of the tariff and to a change of duties from the necessaries to the luxuries of life as possible. Both reports were laid over. Hon. L. S. Coffin, of lowa, delivered an address on railroads and their relations to the farmer. The speaker was sharper criticised by a number of delegates as being too much in sympathy with railroads and corporations. | Judge Lawrance read a paper on woolgrowing and mutton-producing, and urgI ing protection for this interest I Judge Lawrence’s address was followed by some adverse discussion. One .delegate cited an instance of an investment of $1,017 in sheep which paid a profit of over 40 per cent, in one year, which, he said, set this industry beyond the need of a protective tariff. Many speeches were delivered, by delegates from the North and West, all advocating wool protection. The Farmers’ Congress, after a heated debate, Thursday evening, adopted the following resolution, introduced by John Kelly, of Kansas: i Resolved, By the Farmers’ Congress now in session, that the action of the Chicago combine in refusing to testify before the Senate Committee was an insult to the honest people of the United States, and I should meet with prompt and united condemnation The majority resolutions from the oom. mittee on resolutions, previously referred to, were adopted by a vote of 171 to 106. The affirmative: lowa, 15; Kentucky, 7; Kansas, 11: Missouri, 1; Rhode Island, 6; Ohio, 24; Colorado, 2; Florida, 2; Illinois, 28; Idaho, 2; Indiana, 1; Maine, 11; Michiganj jlSf Thenegative vote stooS: Al»d>*m>,S; Kentucky, 2; Georgia, 15; Missouri, 18; North Carolina, 11: Texas, 14; Florida. 7; Indiana. 7.