Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1894 — FARMERS IN SESSION. [ARTICLE]

FARMERS IN SESSION.

Various Agrlnnltural Organization# BUM Their Annual Meetings. The various farm organizations in Mallon at the State House at Indianapolis, held a combined meeting in tne Agricultural rooms, after the adjournment of their respective sessions, Wednesday morning, and devoted half an hoar to a general roast of the provisions contained in the Wilson bill. J. N. Cotton. Marion county, precipitated the cyclone with the enthusiastic assertion that he believed in protecti?® the home, township, county, and, finally, “this great nation.” He denounced the Wilson bill as tending to reduce trade conditions in America to a par with England, while, he said, “nothing is for sale except cheap labor.” He wound up his speech by Introducing the following resolution, which, after additional discussion, was unanimously adopted as the sense of the combined body: Whereas, It is proposed in the Wilson bill now pending in Congress to place on the free list twenty-nine of the finished products of the farm which are now protected by equitable duties and, whereas, Che same bill gives many manufacturers 30 per cent, protection, now, therefore, ba it resolved, that we condemn thegross and unjust discrimination against the farming interests manifested in that bill and we call upon our Congressmen and Senators to oppose said measures.” The deleg ite agricultural board was addressed by Mrs. Julia D. Waugh, of Crawfordsville, on “Farming—lts Sunshine and Shadow.” The following nominations were made for positions on the board: Robert Mitchell, Princeton, first district; James 8. McCoy, Monroe City, second district; W. W. Stevens, North Salem, third; Jasper Lagrange and John W. Tillson. Franklin, fourth; W. B. Holton, Hiram Howland and Cal Darnell, Indianapolis. seventh; C. B, Harris, Goshen, fourteenth; Aaron Jones and D. W. Place, Sound Bend, fifteenth, and J. E. McDonald, Ligonier, sixteenth. The election occurred late Wednesday afternoon. The short horn breeders listened to papapers by President Sankey, Terre Haute; Jas. D. Williams. Pond Creek Mills; Phil Nye, Goshen; Mrs.V.C. Meredith, Cambridge City; George C. Hill, Chicago, and Governor Matthews. The latter discussed, “Have the Breeders of Indiana Made Any Advancement in the Last Twenty Years?” The following officers were elected: T. A Cotton, Manilla, 'president; JJas. D. Williams, Pon! Creek Mills, vice-president; W. «S. Robbins, Horace, secretary and treasurer. The wool-growers concluded their session by the adoption of a resolution similar to the one possed by the general body and the d iction of the following officers: F. F. Tomlinson, Fairland, President; Cal. Darnell Indianapolis, Vice President; J. W. Robe, Greencastle, Secretary, and J. L. Thompson. Marton, Treasurer. The Indiana-Tiie, Brick and Drainage Association held a short routine session, as did the Farmers’ Reading Circle. Th< Indiana Engineering Society was addressed by John L. Campbell, Crawfordsville, and C. J. Goes, Martinsville, and a resolution was passed providing that the matter of constructingaship canal from Lake Michigan to the Wabash river, utilizing the Kankakee as a feeder, be presented to the representatives In Congress and that they be urged to push the same