62 AGRICULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS. 



On motion of Brother Pickett the following was passed : 



" Resolved, That should it become necessary, the secretary of the Farmers 1 

 State Alliance is hereby authorized to draw his draft upon the treasurer of 

 the Farmers 1 State Alliance for any amount not to exceed $500, as a loan to 

 the National Alliance, to enable its officers to organize, said amount to be re- 

 funded as soon as a sufficient sum accumulates in the treasury of the National 

 Alliance." 



The Farmers' Union of Louisiana also ratified the constitution 

 and report at its next meeting. In this manner the National 

 Farmers' Alliance and Co-operative Union of America began 

 its eventful career. These brethren builded better than they 

 knew, and brought into existence an organization that has not 

 only proven the wonder^of the age, but has developed so rapidly, 

 through the living principles which it embodies, that its own 

 members and followers are hardly able to keep pace with its 

 progress. No one has been found bold enough to attempt its 

 completion, or venture an opinion as to its final results. It is a 

 growth, a development, that increases in size and force as the 

 obstacles it encounters increase in numbers and importance. 

 It is the economic conundrum of the nineteenth century, and 

 no one has as yet fully comprehended its mission. 



Directly after the close of the meeting, President Macune 

 obtained the following charter from the General Government : 



" Acts of Incor. Liber. 4, folio 159 et seq. 



" UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 



DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 



" KNOW ALL MEN that the National Trade Union known as the National 

 Farmers 1 Alliance and Co-operative Union of America, being an association of 

 working-people having two or more branches in the States and Territories of 

 the United States, does by these presents file its Articles of Incorporation in 

 the Office of the Recorder of the District of Columbia, as follows, to wit : 



*' ist. This Association is known to the trade under the name of National 

 Farmers 1 Alliance and Co-operative Union' of America. 



" 2d. Under this name it shall have the right to sue and be sued, to 

 implead and be impleaded, to grant and receive property Real, Personal, and 

 Mixed, and to use said property and the proceeds and income thereof for the 

 objects of said Corporation as in its charter defined, and to do any and all 

 Corporate Acts. 



" 3d. The legal residence and general business office of this Association 

 is the City of Washington in the District of Columbia^United States of Amer- 



