INDEX. 



741 



Naturalization Laws, 723, 724. 

 NEWSPAPERS : 

 See Official. 



Non-taxable Currency, 270, 271. 

 North American Indian Agriculture, 444. 

 North of Europe Agriculture, 421. 

 Notes, forms of, 697, 698. 



O. 



Oats, 577. 



Object of the Order, 260, 261. 



OFFICERS, NATIONAL ALLIANCE: 



First board of, 58 ; second, 74 ; third, 90 ; 

 fourth, 121 ; fifth, 162. 



OFFICIAL : 



Newspapers first organ, 32; subse- 

 quent designations, 35, 74, 91, 92, 106, 

 107, 109, 118, 132, 136, 143, 162, 225, 230, 

 249, 257, 290, 318, 322, 323, 331, 336, 346, 



563, 564- 



National Alliance offices, 133. 



Directory, National Alliance and Indus- 

 trial Union, 237. 

 Orchard-grass, 569. 



Order of Business, National Alliance, 177. 

 ORGANIZATIONS: 



Agricultural, i ; introductory history, 1-9 ; 

 unrecorded history of Alliance, 10-19; 

 history of Alliance in Texas, 20-55 i his- 

 tory of National Alliance, 56-196. 



Kindred: The Agricultural Wheel, 

 197; original constitution, *., 199; name 

 and history, 200-208 ; address of President 

 McCracken, 202-206; demands, *.-2o8 ; 

 constitution, 7<$.-2ii ; national meeting, 

 and consolidation with National Alliance 

 and Industrial Union, ^.-215. 



The Brothers of Freedom, 216 ; declara- 

 tion of principles, 217, 218. 



The Farmers' Union, 218-220; Louisi- 

 ana State Union, 221 ; constitution and 

 by-laws, 222-224. 



The Northwest Alliance, 225 ; declara- 

 tion of principles, 226. 



The Farmers' Mutual Benefit Associa- 

 tion, 226; ritual, and assemblies, 227, 

 228. 



The Farmers' Political League, 228 ; 

 Slates in which it exists, 229. 



The Alliance in the State of New York, 

 230 ; Farmer's League in New York, 232. 



The Grange, 232 ; ritualistic framework, 

 2 33. 2 34 '. fi rst State Grange, ib. ; work of, 

 235, 236. 



State Alliances, 237 ; history of, ^.-248. 

 Origin of the Alliance, 10-13, 357 



Patrons of Husbandry, 6, 232-236. 



Parliamentary rules and usages, 736, 737. 



Parlor, the, 637. 



Partnership, 694. 



" Philosophy of Price," 193. 



PLANTS ; How GROWN : 

 The air, 590 ; water, ib. ; the soil, 591 ; 

 varieties, 592 ; food supply of, 593 ; food 

 from the air, 594 ; food from the soil, 596 ; 

 kind of food from the soil, 597 ; what is 

 manure, 601 ; fertilizers potash, phos- 

 phorus, 602; nitrogen, 603. 



POLITICAL AND HISTORICAL: 



Sectionalism and the Alliance, 249 ; 

 the evils under which the great laboring 

 millions are suffering, 251 ; address of Hon. 

 B. H. Clover, on " Sectionalism," 253- 

 256; the purposes of the Farmers' Alli- 

 ance, 257 ; government control of money t 

 262; statistics of circulation, 264, 265; 

 the philosophy of loans, 266; bonds 

 and taxation, 268 ; additional circulation 

 needed, 269; currency non-taxable (plan 

 of), 270, 271; the race problem, 272; 

 the "Black Belt," 274; the Alliance and 

 the negroes, ^.-279; the political rebel- 

 lion in Kansas, 280; the needs of the 

 South, 284 ; Colored Farmers' Alliance, 

 288-292; the Farmers' Congress, 298 ; ad- 

 dress of Colonel Robert Beverley, ^.-300; 

 Nashville meeting in 1884, 301 ; New Or- 

 leans meeting of Farmers' Congress, 302 ; 

 the situation in the Northwest, 303-307 ; 

 the influence of women in the Alliance, 

 308-312 ; religion in the Alliance, 313-317 ; 

 the labor movement, 318-326; duty of the 

 membership, 327-330. 



Sub-treasury Plan; copy of bill, 336- 

 338; history of, and explanation, ib. -346 ; 

 objections, 2$. -351 ; business efforts of the 

 Alliance, 355-370 ; history of, 734, 735. 



Polk, L. L. (Colonel), 89, 134, 139, 154, 

 249 ; statistical address, 464-476. 



Potatoes, 582. 



Powderly, T. V., 154. 



Powell, W.S. (How Plants Grow), 590-604. 



Preserving natural flowers, 635-637. 



Presidents of the United States, 728-732. 



Promissory notes, 697-700. 



People's general agent, 263, 264. 



Protest against the " Lodge Election Bill," 



153, 154- 

 PURPOSES : 



Of the Farmers' Alliance, 257-261 ; dec- 

 laration of Colored Alliance, 292. 



