Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1891 — TO DEAL WITH MONEY-LENDERS. [ARTICLE]

TO DEAL WITH MONEY-LENDERS.

Farmers’ Alliance Sub-Commlltee Not Yet Decided on the Flail for Making I.ouns. A sub-committee of the Farmers’ Alliance, consisting of President McGrath, C. S. Hiatt, J. M. McNevills and A. P. Collins, met at Topeka on the 12th to formulate a plan by which the farmers who will be compelled to meet tholr mortgages next autumn may be loaned funds. The committee was appointed at the last annual meeting of the Alliance, with instructions to organize, so that the Alliance could operate directly with the moneylenders in the East and not be placed at the mercy of the agents. The organization will protect itself against irresponsible farmers by a close examination into their past methods of doing business and their present responsibility. The committee adjourned without having settled upon any plan. The meeting will be continued. The commutes is undecided as yet whether it shall attempt to negotiate the loans In the name of the Alliance, and pledging the entire organization to the pay ment of the note and interest, Of make each application stand upon Its own footing. f George D. Barnett, prominent citizen of Newman, 111., entered the uress-mak-Ingshopof Mrs. Emma Goodwin Saturday evening and threw his arms 'round her The lnsulted T omau-selied a hatchet and dealt him a fatal biow on the head. Hundreds of Mormons are settling Is the Mexican State* Sonora and Chihuahua, and more are expected from vm.