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what great economy such a system is. In this day and time, no one 

 will for a moment deny that all the conditions for purchase and sale 

 will attach to the government certificates showing amount, quality, and 

 running charges that attach to the product. 



The arguments sustaining this system will present themselves to your 

 minds as you ponder over the subject. The one fact stands out in bold 

 relief, prominent, grand, and worthy the best effort of our hearts and 

 hands, and that is, " This system will emancipate productive labor from 

 the power of money to oppress," with speed and certainty. Could 

 any object be more worthy? Surely not; and none could be devised 

 that would more enlist your sympathies. 



Our forefathers fought in the Revolutionary War, making sacrifices that 

 will forever perpetuate their names in history, to emancipate productive 

 labor from the power of a monarch to oppress. Their battle-cry was, 

 " Liberty." Our monarch is a false, unjust, and statutory power given 

 to money, which calls for a conflict on our part to emancipate produc- 

 tive labor from the power of money to oppress. Let the watchword 

 again be, " Liberty ! " 



Delegation from. Farmers' Alliance of the State of Dakota were 

 admitted, and the following communication was received and unani- 

 mously adopted : 



ST. Louis, MISSOURI, December 7, 1889. 

 To the Farmers and Laborers' Union of America : 



In pursuance of the joint action of the National Farmers' Alliance 

 and the Farmers and Laborers' Union, providing for an organic union 

 between the two bodies, the conditions being that when the new consti- 

 tution should be jointly proposed, approved, and ratified by said Farm- 

 ers and Laborers' Union, and by two-thirds of the State Alliances 

 composing the National Farmers' Alliance, then by proclamation of 

 the presidents of the two bodies the union should be declared com- 

 pleted, we the delegates from the State Alliance of South Dakota, by 

 authority reposed in us, do hereby accept and ratify said constitution, 

 as amended and agreed upon by the National Farmers' Alliance and the 

 Farmers and Laborers' Union, to take effect upon acceptance and *ati- 

 fication of said constitution by two-thirds of the State Alliances com- 

 posing the National Farmers' Alliance. 



Attest: C. V. GARDNER, 



Chairman of Delegation, 



A. WARDALL, 

 Secretary of Delegation. 



