The purposes of this company were to operate a mercantile business, to act as agents for buying and selling produce and crops, and to build and operate warehouses, grain elevators, stockyards, etc. It was based on the philosophy of the Farmer's Alliance movement, which became the Populist movement. The document envisioned "sub-alliances" in which individual farmers would participate.
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Revised constitution of the Kansas Alliance Exchange Company - 4