1 1 6 HISTORY OF THE WHEEL AND ALLIANCE. 



increased rapidly since that date. The last meeting of 

 the State Alliance was held in January, 1890. R. F. 

 Rogers was elected President; A. P. Baskin, Secretary; 

 C. S. Young, Treasurer, and J. B. Young, Lecturer. 

 The annual meeting of the National Farmers' Alliance 

 and Industrial Union for 1890 will be held at Ocalla, 

 Florida. 



THE ALLIANCE IN GEORGIA. 



In March, 1887, J. B. Wilkes was sent into Georgia 

 as a National Organizer. He organized the first Alliance 

 at Antioch, in Troup county, with only thirteen charter 

 members. On December 2oth, 1887, the State Alliance 

 was organized at Fort Valley, with fourteen county organ- 

 izations, and one hundred and eighty Sub- Alliances. Eight 

 months afterward, at Macon, Georgia, the first annual 

 meeting of the State Alliance was held. Between the 

 time of the State organization and this meeting, there were 

 but few facilities for pushing the organization; yet, at that 

 date, August 2ist, 1888, there were 1,059 Alliances, with a 

 male membership of 28,000, and 6,000 females. From 

 this date the organization was rapidly advanced, and at the 

 annual session, August 2oth, 1889, there were 2,062 Alli- 

 ances, with a membership upon which dues had been paid 

 of 54,528, and a female membership of 15,089; total, 69,- 

 617. The State of Georgia is perhaps in the best shape 

 financially and otherwise of any of the organized States. 

 The members are loyal and determined, using, almost ex- 

 clusively, cotton bagging during the fall of 1889. The 

 State Exchange has been organized upon a business and 

 smooth working basis, with a paid-up capital of $70,000. 

 It has caused a universal reduction in prices of all commod- 

 ities purchased by farmers none more perceptible than 

 that of commercial fertilizers. In a letter of recent date, 

 L. F. Livingstone, the worthy and efficient President of 

 the State Alliance, says: 



