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on railroads, and that we urge the immediate passage of that or some 

 similar bill. 



Eesolutions of thanks to the city of Bloomington, the 

 Board of Trade, and citizens generally, for their hospitality, 

 closed this Convention, which must ever rank with the most 

 important of its class, not only from the business actually 

 transacted, but from the life which it infused into the 

 Farmers Movement. The Association formed at this meet 

 ing has since grown and flourished. It comprises members 

 of both Clubs and Granges, and, on that account alone, its 

 value to the farming interest throughout the West is incal 

 culable ; for it is by the union of these organizations that 

 the farmers wrongs are to be righted. 



