Excerpt from "Minutes of the Fourth Annual Session of the Farmers State Alliance of Alabama," held in Auburn, Alabama.
The passage includes a letter from the Alliance to the editors of the Montgomery Advertiser, criticizing the newspaper for its apparent support of the "jute trust": "As an organization, the Alliance has entered the contest with the Jute Bagging monopoly with the determination to win....
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The passage includes a letter from the Alliance to the editors of the Montgomery Advertiser, criticizing the newspaper for its apparent support of the "jute trust": "As an organization, the Alliance has entered the contest with the Jute Bagging monopoly with the determination to win. It has entered upon the war after careful premeditation, and proposes to fight it out on the issue offered by a robber to calmly and lawfully rob its members of millions...and the publication of your articles is regarded as the wilful [sic] effort of an accomplice to assist the robbers in the perpetration of the crime attempted by them." In 1888 the jute manufacturers had raised the price of jute bagging, which was used to bale cotton. Farmers were unable to afford the increase, so the Alliance organized a boycott against the material; by 1890 jute prices had lowered again. |
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Q0000014538 - Q0000014540Q14538 - Q14540Excerpt from "Minutes of the Fourth Annual Session of the Farmers State Alliance of Alabama," held in Auburn, Alabama.The passage includes a letter from the Alliance to the editors of the Montgomery Advertiser, criticizing the newspaper for its apparent support of the "jute trust": "As an organization, the Alliance has entered the contest with the Jute Bagging monopoly with the determination to win. It has entered upon the war after careful premeditation, and proposes to fight it out on the issue offered by a robber to calmly and lawfully rob its members of millions...and the publication of your articles is regarded as the wilful [sic] effort of an accomplice to assist the robbers in the perpetration of the crime attempted by them." In 1888 the jute manufacturers had raised the price of jute bagging, which was used to bale cotton. Farmers were unable to afford the increase, so the Alliance organized a boycott against the material; by 1890 jute prices had lowered again.1889 August 6-81889-08-061880-1889Agriculture--Alabama; Alabama--Economic conditions; Farmers' Alliance (Ala.); Newspapers--Alabama; Populism--AlabamaTextPamphlets; CorrespondenceAlabama Department of Archives and History pamphlets vertical file - SubjectsLPR117, Box 1v6895Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama 36130EnglishThis material may be protected under U. S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S. Code) which governs the making of photocopies or reproductions of copyrighted materials. You may use the digitized material for private study, scholarship, or research. Though ADAH has physical ownership of the material in its collections, in some cases we may not own the copyright to the material. It is the patron's obligation to determine and satisfy copyright restrictions when publishing or otherwise distributing materials found in our collections.600 PPI TIFFhttp://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/voices/id/1923 |
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