64 AGRICULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS. 



" THE STATE OF TEXAS, 

 COUNTY OF LEE. 



" Before me, the undersigned authority, on this day came and personally 

 appeared E. B. Warren, Secretary of the National Farmers 1 Alliance and 

 Co-operative Union of America, known to me to be the person who executed, 

 and whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument of writing, and 

 acknowledged to me that he executed the same for the -purposes and consid- 

 erations and in the capacity therein set forth and expressed. 



" Given under my hand and seal of office, this the 27th day of January, 



A.D. 1887. 



[NOTARIAL SEAL.] "C. H. JONES, J.P.L.C.B. 1204, 



" Ex officio Notary Public, Lee Co,, Texas. 



" OFFICE OF RECORDER OF DEEDS, ) 

 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. ) 



" I, JAMES C. MATTHEWS, Recorder of Deeds of the District of Columbia, 

 do hereby certify that I have compared the annexed copy of Act of Incorpo- 

 ration with the record of the original thereof, recorded in this office on the 

 23d day of February, 1887, at 10.30 A.M., in Acts of Incorporation No. 4, one 

 of the Land Records of the District of Columbia, on page 159 et seq., and that 

 the same is a correct transcript therefrom, and of the whole of said record. 



" IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have here hereunto set my hand and affixed 

 my official seal this 23d day of February, 1887. 



[SEAL.] "JAS. C. MATTHEWS. 



" Recorder of Deeds, District of Columbia." 



At the meeting at Waco, a resolution had been passed, instruct- 

 ing the president to extend an invitation to all labor organiza- 

 tions to send delegates to the next meeting of the National 

 Farmers' Alliance and Co-operative Union of America, to be 

 held at Shreveport, Louisiana, during the fall of 1888. Act- 

 ing upon this, President Macune sent Brother G. B. Pickett to 

 visit the organization known as the Agricultural Wheel, then 

 attracting attention in Arkansas and adjoining States. His 

 mission proved so successful that delegates were sent from the 

 National Wheel to attend the meeting at Shreveport. With 

 his usual vigor, based upon the belief that the farmers of the 

 South were ready for co-operation in any plan that promised 

 relief, he sent into the various States well-trained, careful organ- 

 izers. It was the custom at tnat time to grant no one a license 

 to organize, until he had passed a rigid examination as to his 

 qualifications for that work. By this means the moral and 

 intellectual standard of the men sent out among strangers to 



