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Show THE NATIONAL FARMERS ALLIANCE. President Polk Suj-s K.'trojtressloii in Agriculture Ag-riculture M am National Decay. Ocai.a, F'lorida, Dec. 2. Tho National Na-tional Farmers Alliance, and Industrial union met at noon. President Polk delivered de-livered his annual address in which ho congratulated tho alliance on the achievements since the last meeting. He reviewed the causes of the agricultural agricul-tural depression. He declared thatthis depression was an anomaly to tho student stu-dent of industrial progress. ' 'Retrogression in American agriculture," agricul-ture," he said, "means natural decay, and powerful and promising as is this young and giant republic, yet its power and glory touch not the degradation of the American farmers." Tho centralization of the money power and the up-building of monopolies monopo-lies was then pointed out to both political polit-ical parties and condemned for forcing aud encouraging this condition. The president urged that additional organizers organ-izers must be sent at onco into Oregon, Washington, Ohio, New York, New Jersey, Arizona and other states. Among the recommendations was one that an organization bo formed to be known as tho national legislature, composed of tho national president and tho presidents of all the state nlliances to look closely after the legislative reforms re-forms demanded by the alliance, both iu the stale legislatures anil congress. |