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freight ; but if you load that very same flat car with cotton and ship to Galves- 

 ton, the freight will cost about one hundred and fifty dollars. Here is a tribute 

 that the cotton fields pay the corporate monopolies for nothing ; but I hold that 

 we have an adequate and complete remedy in co-operation. Nothing would 

 whip them quicker or more completely than for the farmers of Texas to build 

 cotton mills enough to manufacture what cotton goods they want to use ; then 

 plant only as much cotton as they want to manufacture, and spend their spare 

 time in raising a diversity of products for the supply of home consumption, 

 thus rendering themselves independent. But the possibilities of this organi- 

 zation exceed those of any or all other organizations combined, when we take 

 into consideration the fact that in no part of the globe does cotton grow to 

 that degree of perfection that it does in the cotton belt of the United States ; 

 that the necessities of the world absolutely demand the exportation of a large 

 per cent of the crop raised in this favored section every year ; and if the 

 farmers of the cotton belt were all to unite into an organization, they could 

 force the world to pay a just and fair price for the labor expended in raising 

 this staple. There is no necessity for the condition that now exists ; no 

 reason why the price of your next year's crop is now set in London, by the 

 knowledge whether the Jews who control the money market of the world 

 go on the market or not. The possibilities for good by enlightened co-opera- 

 tion are without limit. 



" For some two and a half months I have been acting as your president, in 

 order to discharge duties of that office which would otherwise have been made 

 vacant by the resignation of President Dunlap and Vice-President Eddleman. 

 I issued the call for this meeting. Whether I had the authority to call the 

 meeting or not, you have responded by your presence, and I now wish as my 

 last act in this capacity to explain the object of this meeting, and then call 

 upon you to elect a chairman for your temporary organization. The objects 

 of the meeting as expressed in the call are : 



"I, C. W. Macune, chairman of the Executive Committee, and ex officio 

 president of the Farmers' State Alliance of Texas, do hereby issue this, my 

 official call, for an extra session of the Farmers' State Alliance of Texas, to 

 convene in the city of Waco, Texas, at ten o'clock A.M., on the third Tuesday, 

 it being the eighteenth day of January, 1887, for the following purposes, 

 to wit : 



" First. The election of officers to fill vacancies. 



"Second. To consider the report of the 'Conference Committee' that 

 convened in Waco, November 10, 1886, at the request of said Executive 

 Committee, which report is to be published in the Dallas Mercury, and to be 

 sent to the secretaries of the various Alliances throughout the State, to which 

 attention is hereby directed. 



" Third. To devise a method of sending representatives into other States 

 of the Union, for the purpose of organizing and co-operating with other agri- 

 cultural societies. 



