THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE. 



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the life plan of the Alliance Aid Association of Huron, South Dakota, 

 and believe it will be a benefit to the order, and recommend its adop- 

 tion. On fire insurance, we recommend that it be referred to the Exec- 

 utive Committee to prepare a feasible plan for mutual insurance, publish 

 it in our official papers, and present it at our next annual meeting. 



Laid on the table. 



Resolution by Brother Cole ; adopted unanimously : 



That, in connection with the post-office, the government should 

 organize financial exchanges, safe deposits, and facilities for deposit of 

 savings of the people in small sums. 



Supreme Council then adjourned. 



The following is the amended constitution of the order : 



CONSTITUTION. 



DECLARATION OF PURPOSES. 



Whereas, The general condition of our country imperatively demands 

 unity of action on the part of the laboring classes, reformation in econ- 

 omy, and the dissemination of principles best calculated to encourage 

 and foster agricultural and mechanical pursuits, encouraging the toiling 

 masses leading them in the road to prosperity, and providing a just 

 and fair remuneration for labor, a just exchange for our commodities, 

 and the best means of securing to the laboring classes the greatest 

 amount of good ; we hold to the principle that all monopolies are dan- 

 gerous to the best interests of our country, tending to enslave a free 

 people and subvert and finally overthrow the great principles purchased 

 to the fathers of American liberty. We therefore adopt the following 

 as our declaration of principles : 



