lo the Honorable, the House of Re
presentatives and Senate of the
United States, in Congress assem
bled i
Your memoralists. a committee
elected by the Supreme Council of
the JOational Farmers' Alliance and
Industrial Union, under its instruc
tions and on its behalf, would most
respectfully represent:
That the uiveral andunnara'.led
depression in all departments of our
great agricultural industry, ha im
pressed the farmers of the United
States with gravest concern and
alarm. That despite the fruitful
soils, and favoring conditions of cli
mate, their faithful application and
courageous industry, and irrespec
tive of seasons or harvests, their
farms and the products of their la
bor, are constantly and steadily de
preciatmg in value. That the Inspir
iting-nope ot competency and com
fort, as a reward for their toiL is van
ishing in their earnest struggle for
sustenance and preservation of home.
lhat patient, honest and earnest in
vestigation of this anomalus condi
tion of affairs, has impressed the
tarmers ot the country, with the sol
einn conviction, that the evils which
are thus clogging and paralyzing
their energies, are largely due to dis
criminating inequalities In our gov
ernmental policy and which are the
legitimate outgrowth of partial and
unmendly legislation.
