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SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1*7:1. 
NATIONAL CHEAP TRANSPORTATION 
ASSOCIATION. 
The Farmers’ and Producers* Convent ion met 
at the Astor House, in \ew York t'ity May, 6. 
It. H. Ferguson of Troy, N. V'., wa* elected tem¬ 
porary Cliainmiu, and Stephen It. Moore of 
Illinois, was chosen Secretary. The delegates 
present were S. M. Smith, Secretary Illinois 
State Farmers' Association ; \V. II. Grinned of 
Illinois representing the eighth Congressional 
District, S. M. Thorpe of Wapello, Illinois, of 
the Thirteenth Congressional District,; S. It. 
Moore of Illinois, Eighth Congressional Dis¬ 
trict.; It. H. Ferguson of the Troy, N. V., Grain 
Dealers’Association; II. Kadollffe of the Bos- 
ton, Mass,, National Anti-monopoly League ; 
F. (’..lohnson of the New Albany, Did.. National 
Agricultural Congress; J. A. Noonan of the 
Milwaukee, Wis., Manufacturing Association ; 
It. M. Liltler of Davenport, Iowa; the Don, Sol. 
Funk, eX-Mayor of Dubuque, Iowa; It. .1. Gibbs, 
M. C. Ryder, D. A. Thumps, W, 11. Moore, and 
E. P. Weatherby of the Dubuque Hoard of 
Trade; .lames D. Stille of New Brunswick, N. J.; 
J. B. Sell of Stetson, N. .1.; S. II, Taft id Hum¬ 
boldt, Iowa; J. II. Bnrgont of Now llaven. 
Conn.; Cheney A rues of Oswego, N. Y.; the lion. 
M. 1). Wilber id' Michigan ; the Hon. J. Stcl- 
ton of New Jersey. The various Committees 
appointed wore as follows : 
On Credentials— Messrs. Johnson, Moore 
Thorpe and Sell. 
On Permanent Organization Messrs. Nolan, 
Taft, Settlor, itudelill'c and Ames. 
On Constitut ion and Ily-Laws Messrs. Smith, 
Thomas, Sargent and Wilber. 
Credentials were presented by delegatos from 
the Cosmopolitan Conference, Workingmen’s 
Lyceum, Federal Council of the International 
Association, Producers’ and Grocers’ Exchange 
of New York, and the New 1 ork Agricultural 
Society. Numerous letters were received from 
prominent persons agreeing with t lie expressed 
objects of t lie Convention, ami regretting Ina¬ 
bility to be present. Among t hose thus repre¬ 
sented are Gov. Dix oT New York, Gov. Smith 
of Georgia, Gov. Carpenter of Iowa, the Hon. J. 
li. Hawley of Illinois, the Hon. H. AY. Frocbel, 
tiie Hon. Wm. Windom of Minnesota, Chairman 
of the Senate Committee on Transportation; 
the lion. .1. A. Carson of Iowa, I lie Lion. Charles 
Francis Adams, N. F. Graves id the Farmers' 
Association of Pottawotamie, Kansas, the Hon. 
R. Mono of Illinois, the Hon A. M. Me Keel of 
Iowa, the lion. A. H. Buckner of Missouri, the 
Hou. G. W. Peek of Wisconsin, and the officers 
of the Coshocton Mining Association of Ohio. 
Telegrams were received from different com¬ 
mercial, industrial and manufacturing associa¬ 
tions from all parts of the country. 
The Convention adjourned. 
Second Day. 
The Convention was called to order at eleven 
o’clock. The following additional delegates 
were reported: 
The Hon. Josiah Quincy of Boston ; the Hon. 
W. C. Flagg of Moro, ill., President of the Illi¬ 
nois Farmers’ Association; Thomas N. Lukin 
of Onaneco, Ill.; F. B. Thurber of the Mer¬ 
chants’ and Grocers' Exchange of New York, 
and W. II. Price; the Rev. J. K. Freeman of 
Illinois; George W. Maddox of the Council of 
the American Federation of Workingmen; 
Theodore II. Banks of the New York Working- 
men's A id i-,Monopoly Associal ion ; Clinton 
Roosevelt, and J. N. It. Hill of the New York 
Workingmen’s Lyceum, with one vote ; John W. 
Browning, Chairman of the New York Labor 
Association, J. It. Wolff and J. R. Ingalls of the 
Cosmopolitan Conference, with one vote; J. B. 
Sargent of New Haven, Conn., and Horace H. 
Day of the National Workingmen’s Associa¬ 
tion. The Hon, D. B. Mellish of New York; 
Then. E. Tomlinson, Wallace P. Groom, and 
Clias. 11. Morris of the Purveyors'Association 
and Hoard of Trade. 
The Constitution was then taken up and 
adopted. The organization is to be known as 
the “National Cheap Transportation Associa¬ 
tion,’' its object being to promote and extend 
t he usefulness of the various bodies which have 
been organized throughout ( lie country for Die 
purpose of procuring cheap transportation. 
The Committee on Permanent Organization 
reported the following permanent officers of 
the Association: /*»m- lion. Josiah Quincy, 
Sce.-IL H. Ferguson. Virus. II. K.Thurber. 
ITt'OjP/es’f*. L. A. Thomas of Iowa, Henry 
Branson of Kansas, Gen. West of \\ iseonsln, 
W. N. Hurwell of Louisiana, Gov. Smit h of Geor¬ 
gia, J. A. Thomson of West, Virginia, the Hon. 
Adolbert Ames of Mississippi, Geo. J. Post of 
- New York, J. B. Phlnnoy of Illinois, W. S. Wood 
of Ohio, the Hon. E. O. Btnunnrd of Missouri, 
J. II. Gray of the District Of Columbia, Joseph 
G. Leet.su 11 of New Jersey, Franklin C. Johnson 
of Indiana, A. Morrison of Minnesota, A. G. 
Dodge of Vermont, E. Wakcloy of Nebraska, 
ex-Gov. Padelford of Rhode Island, Gen.’J’. C. 
Horsey of Maine, J. B. Sargent of Connecticut, 
N. D. Wilber of Michigan, James M. McArthur 
of Kentucky, the Hon. Daniel Pratt of Ala¬ 
bama, Henry G. Hall of North Carolina, and 
Col. Palmer of South Carolina. 
Tile Executive Committee Is composed of the 
President, First Vice-President, Secretary, and 
Treasurer. The report was adopted, and Messrs. 
Flagg, Maddox, and Smith wore delegated to 
w ait upon Mr, Quincy. He was t hen introduced 
by Mr. Ferguson. 
The President’s Remarks. 
On assuming the chair Mr, Quincy spoke as 
follows: 
UentlemIsN : 1 feel very highly the honor of 
having been chosen for t his position. Of course 
you must tic aware that it can be of very litt le 
importance to me as an individual how t hese 
things I urn out. I have spent the most of the 
early puri of my life in constructing railroads; 
[ have seen the advance and power they have 
at tained and the danger with which they are 
likely to threaten this community. (Applause.,t 
It Is Impossible for u> it is need hiss for me io 
speak of Die great advantages resulting from 
railroads; they have brought Dds country en¬ 
tirely together. Formerly we hail hr keep our 
granary round us in Massachusetts, but now we 
Know tit at we have a great granary in the \\ cist, 
and the only question is how we should bring 
that food in our market.. When Abraham 
heard that there was corn in Egy pt he scut bin 
whole family down to got it; we know that 
there is corn in Illinois, but it depend* noon a 
hall dozen men to tell us what (lie price or t hat 
corn shall be ill MassarliUriet.ts. There has 
been, as you arc aware, u great deal of iniquity 
in the management of these railroads; they 
have charged far more than they were author¬ 
ized to charge, and whatever they have taken 
Duty have derived from the people m order to 
enable them t o water their st ock. The robbers 
the robber baron* of Dm middle ages l ook toll 
from everybody that passed, but they had not 
thu wit at that limn to devise a ohm by which 
they could make the whole of the cuftmiunily 
pay interest forever upon the money they hud 
stolen. (Great applause.) I need not speak to 
you, gentlemen, of the evils that have boon pro¬ 
duced in Die country, moral, Intellectual anil 
physical; il seems to me Hint the object of this 
Association is to endeavor to counteract, in a 
great degree., Die power which these railroads 
now possess. (Applause.) They govern our 
country, they have Die power of bribing our 
legislators, and of III ling our legislatures with 
men of their own, uua thus there is nothing 
l hut can withstand them, except a rising of the 
people; until the people come together and 
determine that they have their rights and will 
maintain tlrem. (Applause.) When they arc 
united til tiro can he no difficulty about I he result. 
The railroad system might be compared to that 
linage i lull was seen by Nebuchadnezzar, made 
of gold, with arms of silver, with belly of brass, 
w ifli legs of iron ; but its feet were partly of Iron 
and part ly of miry clay -(great applause) and 
wbou Dm people rise upon It, it Blndl full. The 
stone will be cut nut of the mountain that shall 
destroy, not the beiluQcltU influence, not take 
aivay the real ami proper rights of the share¬ 
holders, hut which shall enable thu public to 
have what these railroads were intended to 
give them, free co nun uni cat! on between one 
section of the country aud another (unpluusc) 
—uniting us all in one bond of mutual depen¬ 
dence. Such, gentlemen. I understand to he 
the objects of tills Association; if does not 
mean In gn into polities, ii does ilot mean to do 
anything excepting what is included in this one 
question, are you In favor o' cheap freights In 
The United States '( as cheap freights as can he 
given consistently with the rights of those who 
have really ami bona tide invest ed their property 
in these groat undertakings? 1 am sorry , gen¬ 
tlemen, that 1 did not know I was to be Presi¬ 
dent, for I would have made a much better 
speech. (Laughter and applause.) 
The following resolutions were presented by 
the Committee on Resolutions, and after ex¬ 
tended discussion were adopted : 
Whereas, The productive industries of the 
11idled Stales—plantation and farm, mine and 
factory, commercial and mercantile-are not 
only the sources of all our national and indi¬ 
vidual wealth, hut also the elements oil which 
our very national and individual existence 
depend; and 
Whereat, All national products are the fruit 
of labor ami capital, and as neither labor nor 
capital wUI continue actively employed without 
an equivalent measurably just; and 
TITtcrais, Great national industries are only 
sustained and prospered by the interchange of 
the products of one section or country for those 
of another; and 
\\ hnrax, The existing rat es of transportation 
for the varied products of the Union from one 
part of the country to another and to foreign 
countries, as well as Die transit cost of the 
commodities required in exchange, are in malty 
instances injurious, and in certain Interests 
absolutely destructive, arising, in part at least, 
from our Insufficiency of avenues; and 
Whereas, Tim great material want of the 
nation to-day is relief from t in- present rates of 
transit upon'Americans products; therefore, 
UtxvhMl, That t he duty of the hour and the 
mission of this Association Is to obtain from 
Congress and the several State Legislatures 
such legislation as may be necessary to control, 
and limit by law w ithin proper and constitu¬ 
tional and legitimate limits, the rates and 
charges of existing lines of transportation, to 
Increase where practicable the capacity of our 
present water-ways, and to add such new ave¬ 
nues, both water and rail, as our Immensely 
increased national commerce demands, so thill, 
the producer may lie fairly awarded for ills 
honest toll, the consumer have cheap products, 
and our almost, limitless surplus imd foreign 
markets at rates to compete with the yvorid. 
Second—That Die cheap transportation both 
of persons and property, being most conduc ive 
to the free movement of the people and the 
widest interchange and mnauniptlon of the 
products of the different parts of the Union, is 
essential to the welfare and prosperity of the 
country. 
Thin1 -That the const ant and frequent associ¬ 
ation of thu inhabitant* of remote parts of the 
-United States is not only desirable but necos 
sary for the maintenance of a homogenous and 
harmonious population within the vast area of 
our territory. 
Fourth That the best interests of the different 
parts of Die country also demand the freest 
possible interchange oT the Industrial products 
of the varied climates and industries of the 
UnitcdBlui.es, so that the breadstuff-, textile 
fabrics, coal, lumber, iron, sugar, and the vari¬ 
ous other products local in their production but. 
general iu their consumption, may all reach the 
consumer at the leitsi practicable cost, of trans¬ 
portation; ami that an arbitrary and Unneces¬ 
sary tax levied by the transporter over and 
above a fair remuneration for the investment is 
a burden upon the producer und consumer that 
it is the part of wise state man ship to remove. 
tilth That certain railway corporations of 
the country, although chartered to subserve the 
public welfare aud endowed with the right of 
eminent domain solely tor that reason, have 
proved themselves practically monopolies and 
become the tools of hv uric ions and unscrupulous 
capitalists to be Used to plunder the public, 
enrich Minmsche-, and Impoverish the country 
through which they run. 
Nixf/i - That many of the railway corporations 
of the United States have not only disregarded 
the public convenience aud prosperity, huthave 
oppressed the citizen, bribed our legislature, and 
defied our executives and Judges, and stand to¬ 
day the most menacing danger to American 
liberty and republican government. 
Seocnlh That Dm present, system of railway 
management having failed to meet the just 
ex pee j aliens and demands of a long-suffering 
people must be radically reformed and con¬ 
trolled by the strung hand of law, both Btate 
and national, and railway conjurations com¬ 
pelled to perform their proper functions as the 
servants and not t he masters of t he people. 
hliyhlh- That to this end we Invoke the aid of 
all fair-minded men mall States of the t nlou 
In expelling and excluding from the hulls of 
legislation, from our executive offices, and from 
the licnult all such railway officials, railway 
attorneys, or other hirelings as prostitute public 
office to the base use* ol private gain. 
A mth That, leaving different sections and 
interests that desire cheap transportation to 
work out the problem iu such manner as they 
deem best, wo earnestly Invoke their careful 
consideration, their energetic action, and t heir 
resolute will in regulating und controlling the 
rates of t ran sport at ion and giving remunerative 
wages to the producer and cheap products to 
t In* consumer, uutaxed by unuarnoa chargee fur 
their carriage. 
Tenth— That we invite the people of the vari¬ 
ous .Slates to organize subsidiary associations, 
State, county, and town, tu co-operate with Die 
National Association ; that the power to accom¬ 
plish Die purposes desired rests absolutely with 
i he suffering millions relief is within their 
reach and control with united action; und the 
near future will give, its certain us its need, lor 
all time and the good of all, the true solution 
ol Die problem ot cheap transportation. 
A committee of seven was appointed to pre¬ 
pare an address to the people of thu United 
States, setting forth tile principles nl'the Asso¬ 
ciation. This committ ee is:—Josiah Quincy of 
Boston, Mass.; M. D. Wilber of Michigan; Hor¬ 
ace Day, New York City; It. II. Fergusson, 
Troy, N. Y.; Henry Bronson, Kansas; J. A. 
Noonan, Milwaukee, Wis.; and Jl. C. Price, New 
York City. 
The convention then adjourned to meet at 
Washington, January, 1874, at the call of the 
executive committe. 
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RURAL NOTES AND QUERIES. 
Mr. F, It. Elliott's Untruthful Statements.— 
In our issue of May 3d, wc suggested to Mr. 
Elliott that he had better keep still. He 
writes a long letter iu answer to our paragraph, 
in which he says:—” The assertion Dial 1 made 
* injudicious statements ' I shall not deny, for 
such are made by all men, as per the judgment 
of others; but that 1 made ‘ untruthful state¬ 
ments ' I beg to deny, and call for proof." Vcry 
well; -Mr. Elliott shull have the proof. Here 
it isOn page 80 of the Just report of the Amer¬ 
ican 1’omological Society, in a foot note, Mr. 
Elliott writes: -"The Secretary would here 
remark that, conductors ol Journals and pub¬ 
lishers of hooks are utterly ignorant of varieties 
of fruits or plants.” That statement Is false, 
and Mr. Elliott knows It to ho so; and be¬ 
cause it is false it is " injudicious ;" and because 
it is both false and injudicious, it is insulting 
to the very class of men upon whom the Amer¬ 
ican Pomoiogical Society (through its Secretary 
and otherwise) Im* made large drafts for favors, 
and who have always treated the Society with 
the greatest hospitality and cordiality. If it is 
Mr. Elliott’s desire to alienate this class of 
men from, and close the columns of their pa¬ 
pers to, Dm American I’oinologieal Society, lie 
has gone the right way to work to do it, when 
he inserts sin h a libel upon them in the Socie¬ 
ty's official report, and assumes t he responsibil¬ 
ity thereof as Secretory of t he Society. There 
is still another statement. In the same note 
which is equally untruthful; this, however, will 
suffice for the present. Mr. ELLIOTT touches 
on another point in Ids letter, of which we will 
take notice. 11c says: ** 1 hove not sought, nor 
do 1 seek, the office of Secretary. I f you, or anv 
ot her man, want It, and can do better [italics Mr. 
Elliott's] than I have, let me know your, or 
his, name, and I will give him all the help 1 can 
toward his election." Wc know that no one 
connected with this journal wants, or would ac¬ 
cept, the office; nordo we know of any one who 
wants if; lint we do know a man west of Ohio 
whom wo think can do heller as Secretary than 
Mr. Elliott Jias; hence, we hope Air. Elliott 
will do all he call to help elect him. We mean 
W.U. Flair! of Illinois; and wc think Mr. Elli¬ 
ott can induce him to accept the office, In case 
I he Society thinks proper to elect him. 
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The llop Business. WELLS’ Circular, May 8th, 
quotes the hop market " dull and quiet; stocks 
very much reduced. It is believed that the 
general acreage under bop cultivation is not 
likely to tie in creased, owing to the high price 
and scarcity of roots." Green's Circular says: 
“Wo believe the yards have wintered well 
throughout this Blufc, notwithstanding the nu¬ 
merous reports of wilder killing, &c. The old 
worn-out yards show many dead hills, as might 
be expected. The new yards, coining into hear¬ 
ing for the first time, will moro than compen¬ 
sate for the dead hills, but will hardly ho suffi¬ 
cient to make up the deficiency In acreage of 
the country. If l lie crop does ever so well, wo 
can hardly expect to raiso hops enough for t he 
wants of our brewers, as wc have not acreage 
enough.” 
■ »♦«- 
.In pan College of Engineers. The Japanese 
Government has founded il College of Engineers 
at Yeddo, in which natives of Japan are to ho 
thoroughly instructed in technology and prac¬ 
tical engineering. Professor Henry Dyer, for¬ 
merly of the University of Glasgow, Scotland, 
has been appointed chief of the new institute. 
Several other prominent English professors arc 
to assist him. Japan is making rapid strides In 
the acquisition of practical art* and knowledge. 
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RURAL BREVITIES. 
Alaiiama corn is up and ready to be hoed. 
A legal dozen of eggs must weigh a pound 
and a-half in Massachusetts. 
A great many cattle died of “ black leg,” in 
Wright Co., Minn., last winter. 
An Iowa man is planting 7,000 trees on his 800 
acre farm near Ellsworth, Kan. 
Am Aihla (Iowa) firm recently shipped 18,000 
dozen eggs to an Eastern market. 
Thkv are anting blackberries in Jacksonville, 
Fla..'and strawberries In Ban Francisco, 
Jt Is estimated that 0 , 000 , (too bushels of corn 
were burned for fuel in Iowa Die post winter. 
The beet sugar factory at Freeport, Ill., offers 
$4.1)0 a ton for beets delivered on Die cars there. 
The Ohio Legislature has refused to incorpo¬ 
rate societies for the prevention of cruelty to 
animals. 
The legal weight of a bushel of corn has been 
reduced in Iowa from seventy to sixty-eight 
pounds. 
A. D. R. is Informed that wo do not know tbo 
address of the inventor of the portable cream 
still, nor it* cost. 
A Wisconsin farmer, who keeps a large Hock 
of sheep, raises leu bushels of wheat to the acre 
more than his neighbors. 
The Wisconsin farmers an, organizing, after 
the Illinois example, for a concerted warfare 
upon the railroad monopolists. 
Gold and Silver Watches, and many use¬ 
ful and ornamental articles, machines, etc., are 
given to tlio.se forming clubs for this paper. 
Build for our ETomiurn List, Ac. 
An ex-banker at our elbow suggests that 
times are soon to bo easy aud money plenty. 
His reason is that whenever our products are 
shipped freely to Europe, as now, farmers find 
a ready market, for all their surplus produce. 
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BUSINESS INFORMATION. 
Tiie ” Amerio.uei Rubber Point,” advertised 
in this paper, is evidently a superior article and 
worthy the attention of all who believe that 
“cleanliness is next, to Godliness.” We have 
examined several buildings upon which it has 
beon applied, and think it at least equal to any 
paint in the market. By its use beauty can ho 
developed from dirt, on essential Item at this 
season, when house cleaning is in order. This 
paint is apparently rich and glossy in effect, 
possesses great covering power and durability, 
and, as it is mixed ready lor use, can be easily 
applied by any person of ordinary “ horse 
sense." It is odorless and cheap—two import¬ 
ant poitlts. As this paint is sent to any point 
free of charge, a trial of it will not be expensive. 
And as sample cards are sent showing different 
shades, and directions for ascertaining the 
amount of paint required to cover a given 
surface, any one can become posted before 
ordering. 
BUSINESS NOTICES, 
In buying Machine Twist, It is important for the 
Ladles to know which Is the most retiable. It is the 
Eureka, sold by dealers everywhere. 
