VI CONTENTS. 



IV. KINDRED ORGANIZATIONS concluded 230 



The Alliance in New York ; Mr. Root's Statement ; The Grange, or 

 Order of the Patrons of Husbandry; Its Secret Work; The First 

 Meeting ; The Georgetown Meeting. 



V. HISTORY OF STATE ALLIANCES 237 



Official Directory of the National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial 

 Union ; First Officers in Various States and Territories. 



VI. SECTIONALISM AND THE ALLIANCE 249 



By COLONEL L. L. POLK, President National Farmers' Alliance and 

 Industrial Union, and Editor of Progressive Farmer, Raleigh, North 

 Carolina. 



SECTIONALISM 253 



By HON. B. H. CLOVER, Vice-President National Farmers' Alliance and 

 Industrial Union, and Member of Congress from the Third District 

 of Kansas. 



VII. THE PURPOSES OF THE FARMERS' ALLIANCE 257 



By DR. C. W. MACUNE, Ex-President National Farmers' Alliance and 

 Co-operative Union, and Editor of National Economist. 



VIII. GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF MONEY 262 



By JUDGE W. A. PEFFER, United States Senator, and Editor of Kansas 

 Farmer, Topeka, Kansas. 



IX. THE RACE PROBLEM 272 



By J. H. TURNER, National Secretary-Treasurer of the National 

 Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union. 



X. THE POLITICAL REBELLION IN KANSAS 280 



By HON. JERRY SIMPSON, Member of Congress for the Seventh 

 District of Kansas. 



XI. THE NEEDS OF THE SOUTH 284 



By HON. L. F. LIVINGSTON, Member of Congress from Georgia, and 

 President of the Georgia State Alliance. 



XII. HISTORY OF THE COLORED FARMERS' NATIONAL ALLIANCE AND 



CO-OPERATIVE UNION 288 



By GENERAL R. M. HUMPHREY, Superintendent of the Colored 

 Farmers' National Alliance and Co-operative Union. 



XIII. THE GROWTH OF THE ALLIANCE 293 



By BEN TERRELL, Past National Lecturer, National Farmers' Alliance 

 and Industrial Union. 



XIV. THE FARMERS' CONGRESS 298 



By COLONEL ROBERT BEVERLEY, The Plains, Virginia. 



XV. THE SITUATION IN THE NORTHWEST 303 



By ALONZO WARDALL, Member of the National Executive Committee. 



XVI. THE INFLUENCE OF WOMEN IN THE ALLIANCE 308 



By MRS. BETTIE GAY, Columbus, Texas. 



XVII. RELIGION IN THE ALLIANCE 313 



By REV. ISOM P. LANGLEY, Ex-Lecturer of the Agricultural Wheel. 



XVIII. THE LABOR MOVEMENT 318 



By RALPH BEAUMONT, Lecturer Knights of Labor, and Editor of 

 National Citizens' Alliance. 



