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ALLIANCE HOME.
All letters and coramnuications intended for
the editor of this dep <rtmt nt roust be addressed
to Mrs. Harry Brown, 500 Whitehall street,
Atlanta, Ga.
THOSE GOOD OLD FASHIONED
FOLKS.
Somehow the people of to-day ain’t as they used
to be;
At any rate, I'm pretty sure they’re not the same
to me.
And while they're manv just as good as those 1
used to know.
There’re scores and so res.among them tnat are
only so and to.
We used to always take a man exactly «s he said,
But now it's sate to take him just the other way
instead.
It does my heart just lots of good to meet once in
a while
Some of those good ohl-faslnoued folks so nearly
out of style.
1 wouldn’t esy the world in honesty* is slipping
back,
I wouldn't say that Christian» hunting grace have
lost the track,
1 wouldn t Buy that men to-day are lees the
friends of truth,
Because they seem to differ from the ones I knew
in youth.
Those statements I refuse to make, but this 1
freely say,
Those people please me quite as well as those 1
meet to-day.
Their hearts and hands were honest and their
lives held little guile,
Did those old-fashioned people tiou so nearly out
of style.
We're wiser than they used to be we may be
weaker, too,
And good old home-spun honesty may less our
hearts imbue.
These later days we all are bent on getting rich
so fast,
We haven’t time to think of things they thought
of in the past.
We’re wildly striving after gold, we rush and
push and crowd,
And after while we’ll each be wanting pockets in
his shroud.
But none of us can e’erontrank withinthe after
while
Those good old-fashioned people now so nearly
out of style.
—Chicago Herald.
Much to our surprise we find Ocala not
only a beautiful thriving city of 7,000
inhabitants, but a city whose smooth,
hard streets make walking delightful.
The evidences of thrift are unmistaka
ble. On all sides one recognises the
energy and growth of the place. The
people are kind and genial and have
thrown wide tht ir hospitable doors and
given us a royal welcome. They have
decorated their houses, their carriages,
their streets and their horses with flags
and bunting. Indeed, the go-ahead lit
tle city has put on her Sunday bib and
tucker to welcome the gathering in her
midst of our Alliance clans. She has
honored us and we love her for it.
The new hotel, the Ocala House, is
headquarters for the Alliance officials,
001. and Mrs. L. L. Polk, and Misses
Carrie and Lonnie Polk are there. Dr.
and M.'s. C. W. Macune, Mr. and Mrs.
Dunning, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Turner,
Col. R. J. Sledge and wife, of Texas, are
also there. Mrs. Buchanan, of Tennes
see, wife of the Alliance governor-elect
of that state, is there with her dis
tinguished husband who is a delegate to
the convention.
Dr. McLallin of The Advocate, Topeka
Kansas, is here. This distinguished
gentleman is considered the master
mind in the recent people’s movement
' in that state. He is accompanied by the
able associate editor of his paper, Mrs.
Anna L. Diggs, a fluent writer and a
woman whose keen analytical eye looks
straight through the most perplexing
political problem. Mrs Diggs has done
a marvelous amount of good work for
the people of Kansas and they are not
slow to appreciate it. She made a
very pleasing speech Monday afternoon
at the opening exercises of the Sub-
Tropical Exposition and was greatly
applauded.
Mrs. Fannie O. Vickery, of Emporia,
Kansas, was called for at the Tuesday
night session, and responded in a most
eloquent and impassioned appeal for
unity in our ranks and progress in our
methods. Mrs. Vickery is a pretty
young woman with a wonderfully fine
voice. She is a tireless, earnest worker
and is very popular. She is vice-presi
dent of the Kansas State Alliance. Col.
Clover, president of the Kansas Alliance
is here accompanied by his wife, .who is
his most enthusiastic co-worker. Indeed
the men of the Kansas delogatien oe
clare that the women have made the
fight in that state and that without them
nothing could be done.
Tennessee is represented here by a
most attractive bevy of women, headed
by our stately Mrs. Buchannan, already
mentioned. Then, there is Mrs. Mitchum,
ofNashville; Mrs. Riddick,of Union City;
Mrs. F. B. Wade, Miss Mary Lou Polhill
and Miss Mary Lytle, of Murfreesboro;
and Mrs. McDowell, wife of the editor of
The Toiler. Mrs. N. O. Walker, of
Franklin, is a very charming little lady,
and last,but not least lovely, is the pretty
little, Alliance bride, Mrs. Hallbeck, of
Nashville. She it is that little Dennis
Macune says he lovoy because she has
snch “sweet cheeks.”
Georgia’s delegation, consists of Colo
nel and Mrs. Livingston, Colonel and
Mrs. Peek, Miss Carrie Livingston, Mrs-
E. R. Davidson, Miss Sallie Gorman,Mrs.
Harry C. Brown, Colonel W. R. Gorman,
H. C. Brown, Mr. DeJarnette and Mr.
W. T. Cosby.
Mrs. Kevil, Mrs. McLallin and Mrs.
Butler, of Topeka, Kansas, are stop
ping at the Ocala House. They are true
SOUTHERN ALLIANCE ‘.FARMER ATLANTA, GA. t DECEMBER 9, 1890
Alliancewomen and zealous workers for
the cause. ,
One of the most attractive young la
dies in the convention, is Miss Alice
Humphreys, of Texas.
Miss N. E. Barbee, of Ridgewater,
Virginia; Mrs. T. A. Clayton, of New
Orleans, wife of the state business agent
of Louisianna; Mrs. Mann Page, of Bran
don, Virginia; Mrs. Winters, of Cherry
Hill, Miss.; Miss M. E. Burkitt, of Oko
lona, Miss., and Mrs. Beeman of the
same state are here, regular attendants
and deeply interested in the proceedings
in the National convention.
Mrs. Lord, of Antioch, Ga., a very su
perior lady, is here also. -She was
the first woman in Georgia to join
the Alliance.
Mrs. Ben Terrell, wife of our National
lecturer, is at the Ocala House. She is a
gracious little lady, and no
one is more universally beloved than
“little Katie Terrell.”
All in all, we are immensely proud o(
this brilliant gathering of Alliance
women. The day is done when woman
is as constitutionally a part of the house
as the mantel-piece or the fender iron.
The exigencies of the times demand a
class of work that only women can do
In Kansas the earnest, desperate but
systematic work of women has turned
the political tide againt t the republicans.
In Georgia we need the keen eves and
the true hearts of just such women. A
woman can see through “ways that are
dark and tricks that arr vain” in the
twinkling of her bright eyes. A smart
loyal hearted woman is not caught with
chaff and cannot ba paid for her influ
ence. God speed the day when our
women shall be aroused to a perfect
sense of our need.
I met on the street to-day a young
lady whose pluck I admire very much.
Two years ago in a Georgia town I found
her a struggling student of stenography
without a regular teacher. I predicted
that her labors would come to naught
because she was of a delicate, sensitive
shrinking disposition. To-day she is a
well paid employe of the largest busi
ness house in this city. There is noth
ing like the pluck of a leal determined
woman.
A woman owes it to herself not to pre
sent her worst side to her own family.
The memory of a worn and worried
mother is not one that she should leave
to her children. No amount of work
done for them can compensate them for
this.
The day’s work should be so arranged
as to leave a proper space for rest. Not
merely for relaxation such as is obtained
by taking up an interesting book or a
delicate piece of needle work, or even in
pottering among the flowers, or playing
with a baby. What is needed is the ab
solute repose that is obtained by shut
ting one’s eyes and forgetting the world
in refreshing sleep.
The best time to take for this duty is
immediately after dinner, if that func
tion is held in the middle of the day, or
after luncheon, if it is deferred until the
evening;
Many mothers, most mothers, will say,
“Oh, it would be impossible for me to
spare an hour in the beginning of the
afternoon to sleep. I could not think of
it!” That is just the trouble with the
large majority of women; they will not
think. If we would only seriously con
sider a thing long enough to see it in its
true ielation to its surroundings, our
lives would be a thousand times easier
than they are.
A woman will uncomplainingly sub
mit to a severe surgical operation if it is
necessary for her restoration to health.
She will take innumerable medicines
without a murmur, and patiently under
go wearisome treatments by massage or
electricity at which a man would incon
tinently rebel. Why, then, should she
not take the time to avoid ail these evils'?
The girls who are continually asking
“What shall I read?” are the girls who
are very dear to my heart. Long, long
years ago I remember coiling myself up
in the window seat to read “John Hali
fax, Gentleman,” refusing to leave, even
for a dinner where an apple dumpling
was the finish. Then books were not as
cheap as they are now, and six miles
from the city made it difli jult to get to
the circulating library. The girl who
writes to me and asks me to suggest a
course of reading is admired by me; but
I wonder if a rigid sticking to certain
books is going to give her the general
knowledge that she wants? She does
not want to bind herself to novels, to
history nor to poetry alone; she wants to
take them as she does the courses in her
dinner, each in its place. She may do as
I did, read books that were too old for
me and which I did not in the least un
derstand ; but, somehow, I got a knowl
edge of words from them. She may
smile at my adoring Lady Amanda, in
the “Children of the Abbey,” because
nobody reads that now-a days. Still, it
is rather funny to go over it, think how
popular it was, and note the difference
of fiction of that day and the novel of to
day. •
I told you of some books a few months
ago, and a kind friend has suggested
some others, which I give to you as she
sent them to me. “Read ‘The Fair God,’
by Lew Wallace. Follow this with Pres
cott’s ‘Conquest of Mexico,’ every chap
ter of which is full of romance. Char
lotte Yoage’s ‘Unknown to History’
should ba followed by Heailey’s‘Mary,
Queen of Scots.’ All of Georce Eber’s
novels are good, and you may find their
foundation in ancient history. Having
read Dumas, take Julia Pardoe’s ‘Louis
XIV and His Time.’ If you want to
know something about Russia, ‘The.lm
pressions of Russia,’ by George Braudes,
is desirable.” Remember, while I ad
vise reading these books myself, I still
say read good novels. A good novel is
very apt to teach one good manners and
good manners mean good morals.
The death of Miss Marianne North at
Alderly, England, takes out of the list of
notable English women one of its most
famous examples. Miss N irr.hbelonged
to a family, many of the members of
which had won distinction, and she pos
sessed both masculine and femin ne
characteristics in a remarkable degree.
It is about twenty years ago, in 1869,
that Miss North began, unattended, her
travels and explorations in India, China,
Japan, Australia, California, the West
Indies, and other parts of the world, for
the purpose of studying and collecting
the flora of the different countries iu
their native environment. She made
drawings and sketch; s, penetrated jun
gles, ascended mountains, spent nights
iu forests, and made a collection of
drawings and plants of inestimable val
ue. Her journeyiugs extended over
twelve years; after which she erected a
gallery at her own expeus i at Kew Gar
dens, the designs for which were made
by James Fergusson, F. R. 8. Here, sue
placed her collections and presented
them to the English people for public
use and benefit. Miss North was amu
sician as well as artist, and a woman of
astonishing courage and strength, "'he
did not know fear, and had never suffer
ed from a day’s sickness in her life, un
til attacked by the painful malady that
finally carried her off. Her elevation
and noblenes-i of character were as con
spicuous as her commanding physique,
and the many-sidedness of her mental
gifts.
Dr. Talmage tells how he felt when he
smoked his first cigar:
“The time had come in our boyhood
which we thought demanded of us a ca
pacity to smoke. The old people of the
household could abide neither the sight
or the smell of the Virginia weed. When
ministers came there, not by positive in
junction, but by a sort of instinct as to
what would be safest, they whiffed their
pipe on the back step. If the house
could not stand sanctified smoke, you
may knowhow littleichance there was for
adolescent cigar-putting.
By some rare good fortuie which put
in our hands thiee cents, we found access
to a tobacco store. As the lid of the
long, narrow, fragrant box opened, and
for the first time we owned a cigar, our
feelings of elation, manliness, superiority
anil anticipation can scarcely be imagin
ed, save by those who have had the same
sensation- Our first ride on horseback,
though we fell off before we got to the
barn, ami our first pair of new boots
(real squeakers), we had thought could
never be surpassed in interest; but when
we put the cigar to our lips and stuck the
lucifer match to the end of the weed,and
commenced to pull with energy that
brought every facial muscle to its ut
most tension, our satisfaction for this
world was so great our temptation was
never to want to leave it.
The cigar did not burn well; it requir
ed an amount of suction that tasked our
determination to the utmost. You see
that our worldly means had limited us to
a quality that cost only three cents. But
we had been taught that nothing great
was accomplished without effort, and so
we puffed away. Indeed, we had heard
our older brothers in their latin lessons
say, omnia vincet labor, which translated
means, if you want to make anything go,
you must scratch for it.
With these sentiments, we passed
down the village street and out toward
our village home. Our head did not feel
exactly right, and the street began to
rock from side to side, so that it was un
certain to us which eiue of the street we
were on. So we crossed over, but found
ourselves on the same side of the street
that wa were on before wo crossed over.
Indeed, we imagined that we were on
both sides at the same time, and several
fast teams driving between. We met
another boy who asked us why we
looked so pale, but that he was pale
himself.
We sat down under the bridge and be
gan to reflect on the prospect of early
disease, and on the uncertainty of all
earthly expectations. We had deter
mined to smoke the cigar all up and
thus get the worth of our money, but
were obliged to throw three-fourths of
it away, yet knew just where we threw
it in case we felt better the next day.
Getting home, the old people were
frightened, and demande.l that we state
what kept us so late, and not wishiag to
increase our parents’. apprehension that
we were going to , turn out badly, we
summed up the case with the statement
that we felt miserable at the pit of the
stomach. We had mustard plasters ad
ministered, and careful watching for
some hours, when we fell asleep and for
got our disappointment and humiliation
iu being obliged to throw away three
fourths of our first cigar. Being natur
ally reticent, we have never mentioned
it until this time.
TEXAS STOCK FARM
Foi Sale.
This splendid stock farm of 4,176 acres,
with about 200 acres improved aud un
der rock fence, with nice residence, barn
and out-hoqses, is located in Lampasas
county, near the celebrated Lampasas
Sulphur Springs health resort. The
country is high and healthy, water ex
cellent, range good, land fertile, good
school and settled society. About six
miles from railway station. The owner
lives in Georgia and intends to sell.
Address F. M. FARLEY,
P. O. Box 370, Atlanta, Ga.
Or JOHN E- MORGAN,
Lometa, Tex.
Please mention this paper. jan2-91
Message of L. L- Polk.
Concluded from page 1.
with ail too ngnts of coinage anil nil the
qualities of legal tender which gold pos
seats.
Second: That the currency of the
country shall be issued direct to th,
people at alow rate of inteiest and with
out discriminatio i, and shall be a legd
tender for all debts, public and private.
Third: That taxation shall be more
nearly equalized by' requiring that all
property shall bear a just proportion of
its burthens.
Fourth: That alien ownership of laud
should be resisted and prohibited.
Fifth: That public transportation
should be owned aud controlled by the
government.
Sixth: That no class nor interest
should be taxed to build up ary other
class or interest.
Seventh: That public revenues should
be limited to an honestly and economi
cally administered government.
And for the further security of the pub
lie welfare let them demand:
Eigeth. A jusqand equitable system of
graduated taxation on incomes.
Ninth. The election of United States
senators by a direct vote of the people.
These demands are the necessary and
legiti mate outgrowth of our rapidly advan
cing civilization, and the highest consid
erations for the public weal and safety
should impel us to earnest and persistent
endeavor to engraft them upon our gov
ernmental policy.
SECTIONALISM.
In all the broad field of our noble en
deavor as an order, there is no purpose
grander in design, more patriotic in con
ception, or more beneiicient in ifts possi
ble results to the whole country and to
posterity, than the one in which we
declare io the world, that henceforth
there shall be no sectional lines across
Alliance territory. Failing in all else
we may undertake as an organiznion, if
we shall accomplish only a restoration
of fraternity and unity, aud obliterate
the unnatural estrange tn, nt which has
unfortunately so long divided tbe people
of this country, the Alliance will have
won for itself immortal glory aud honor.
In the spirit oi a broad and liberal pa
triotism, it reoognizas but one fl g and
one country. Confronted by a common
danger— a filleted with a co.ran.on evil —
impelled by a common hope, the people
of Kansas and Viginia, of Pennsylva
nia and Texas, of Michigan and South
Caioliuj, make common cause in a com
mon interest. It recognizes the impor
tant truth, that the evils which oppress
the agricultural interests of thecountry
aro national in their character, aud that
they cannot be corrected by sectional ef
fort or sectional remedies. It recogniz
es the fact that the war ended iu 1805—
that chattel slavery is gone, and that
the prejudices and divisions born of its
existence should go with it.
Community of interests between the
great agricultural states of tbe middle,
southern and western sections, is the
mighty natural force which will draw
them together in solid array in the im
pending struggle between the people and
plutocratic power.
Causes other than political -(potent,
and effective us tbe latter have been),
have conspired to propagate and perpet
uate sectionalism. The rich, powerful
and densely populated east must needs
have an outlet for its aggressive enter
prig, its rapidly accumulating wealth
and its growing population. The dense
forests and fertile plains of the magnifi
centyind inviting west wete transformed
into rich and power!ul states. Lines of
immigration, of enterprise, of wealth
and of general development, were pushed
forward with marvelous rapidity and
success to the shores of the Pacific.
Along these lines were transplanted
from the east the prejudices and animos
ities engendered fur half of a
century. The south —traversed by
no transcontinental lines of
communication, sullen and humiliated
in her great and crushing losses and by
defeat in war, most naturally nursed the
sectional animosities aud prejudices of
the past. What an inviting condition
was thus presented for wicked sectional
agitators! and how assiduously they
utilized it, let the shameful sectionalism
of the past quarter of a century answer.
But the people of the awakening south
and the people of the great agricultural
west, aroused and inspired by a common
danger, have locked their hands and
shields in a common cause—the causa of
a common country.
The iines of sectionalism have been
cut in twain. The Alliance has planted
on which is inscribed in char
acters of golden light: “Equal Rights
to All and Special Favors to None,”
from the great state of New York on the
east, to the golden gates of the Pacific
on the west—from the gulf on the south,
to the great lakes on the north—embra
cing within its territory the great staple
crops of the country—the center of pop
ulation and the center of political
power.
We cannot fail to see the opportunity
of the hour, and recognizing that oppor
tunity, we must not forget that it carries
with it corresponding responsibilities.
The opportunity, is for the great conser
vative, law abiding, patriotic masses to
assert and establish a perpetual union be
tween the people. The sequent obligation
is that these great masses must discour
age, discountenance and discard from
their councils the wicked and demogogi
cal agitators, who for the last twenty-five
years have sought to foster discord and
dissension, that they themselves, might
thrive. Ordinarily, they are the men—
north and south—who were “invisible in
war and have become invincible in
peace.”
Divided, we stand as a Sampson shorn
of his locks; united, wo stand as a nower
that is invicible. Cato fired and thrilled
the Roman senate with the fierce cry,
“Carthage must be destroyed.” Must
v e, as citizens of this great country, em
ulate such a vengeful spirit? Hannibal,
while yet a tender youth, was placed by
his father on his knees and made to
swear eternal vengeance against the Ro
mans. Must we, as Christian parents,
entail upon our children the bitter legacy
of hate? Hundreds of thousands of
noble, aspiring, hopeful and ardently
patriotic y oung men all over the lan 1 are
manfully enlisting in the responsible
duties of American citizenship. Born
since ,the war —thank God; their in
fant vision was first greeted by the
light of heaven unobscured by the smoke
of battle, and their infant ear first
caught the sweet sound of hallowed
peace unmingled with the hoarse thun
dering of hostile cannon. Shall they be
taught to cherish and foster and perpet
uate that prejudice and animosity,whose
fruits are evil and only evil?
“Lot the dead past bury its dead,”
and let us hope, as an organization,with
new hope, new aspiration, new zeal, new
energy, new life; turn our faces toward
the rising sun of an auspicious and in
viting future, and reconsecrate our-
selves to the holy purpose of transmit
ting to our posterity “a government of
the people, by the people and for the
people,” and which shall be unto all
generations the citadel of refuge foi
civil and religious liberty.
Echoes of Vhe Convention.
President Polk's message was the only
important item in the first days proceed
ings.
Colonel Polk suggests several new
planks for the platform and recommends
several constitutional amendments. The
fifth amendment is likely to stir things,
for in suggesting that Alliance officials
elected to civil office be required to re
sign their official position in the order,be
hits Vice-President Clover, who has just
been elected to congress from Kansas:
Governor Buchanan, of Tennessee, and
almost every Allianceman who has been
elected to congress.
At the conclusion’of President Polk’s
address, the Aliance resolved itself into
a sort of “love feast,” during which Col.
C. A. Power, an old uuicn soldier from
Iniaua, moved that all ex-union soldiers
in tbe hall, who endorse the sentiments
expressed in the speech of President
Fouths, of South Dakota, with reference
to the burial of sectionalism, rise up to
be counted. The motion prevailed, and
between forty and fifty stood up, amid
the wildest enthusiasm.
Under the inspiration of this good feel
ing and ex-union soldier from Wisconsin
stood up in his seat and called upon all
union soldiers present to give three
cheers for the old confederates in the Al
liance. They were given with a will.
Then it was the confederates’ turn, and
they cheered the old soldiers of the union
with a voluminous heartiness that, raised
no doubt as to the genuincss of their
feeling.
Tne cheers were mingled with the wild,
old-fashioned “rebel yell,” and as its
echoesjdied away, one aged veteran of the
confederacy shouted in a voice that rang
out clearly through the hall:
“That’s the genuine article. I've heard
it afore.”
CONDEMNING THE FORCE BILL.
The manner in vhich the Alliance con
demned the force bill is equally impor
tant. It was introduced by Mr. W. S.
McAllister, of Mississippi, after it had
been submitted to the northern and wes
tern delegates. President McGrath, of
Kansas, seconded the resolution, and
moved its adopiion without reference to
a committee There was no direct op
position. Two delegates, one from
Pennsylvania and one from Illinois,
thought the resolution untimely, but
voted for its passage, Which was by ac
clamation.
The farmers sent their condemnation
hot on the wire, aud its echoes have al
ready come back from Washington.
Senator Eustis telegraphs a Mississippi
delegate chat the action of the Alliance
will kill the force bill. The resolution
is as follows:
Whereas, The president of the United
States, in his annual message to con
gress, recommends and urges the im
mediate passage of the measure known
as the Lodge election bill; and
Whereas, Said bill involves a radical
revolution in the election machinery of
the Union, both state aud national, and
its passage will be fatal to the autonomy
of the stales and cherished liberties of
the citizens; and
Whereas, Said bill is partisan in spirit,
aud will be partisan in its application,
thus revitalizing the gory ghost of sec
tional estrangement; and
Whereas, In the holy war which we
have declared against sectionalism, the
firesides of the farmers of the north, east,
south and west are citadels around which
the heaviest battles are being fought,
and, to the end that victory may crown
our crusade, let fraternity and unity
reign; therefore be it
Resolved, By the National Fanners’
Alliance and industrial Union of Amer
ica, in national ccuncil assembled, That
we do most solemnly protest against the
passage of the Lodge election bill, and
we most earnestly petition our senators
to employ all fair and legal means to de
feat this unpatriotic measure, which can
result in nothing but evil to our common
and beloved country.
Resolved lurcher, That a copy of this
preamble and resolutions be forwarded
co each senator in congress.
The sons of toil are disposed to stamp
out every form of gain that is not born
in the sweat of the brow, aud they have
set their seal of condemnation upon the
Louisiana lottery by moving for a consti
tutional amendment to suppress all lot
teries.
On the night of the 4th, the Alliance
had an open meeting, addressed by
speakers from the colored Alliance and
of the Knights of Labor.
A negro from South Carolina made a
speech in which he rejoiced in the elec
tion of Tillman and the overthrow of
the aristocracy.
Another negro, L. D. Miller, of Louis
iana, said the colored people wanted the
Australian ballot, which the Farmers’
Alliance was going to give them. This
remark was greeted with tremendous
applause. Continuing, he said: “Wheth
er you be republican or democrat, forget
everything about party lines, and say I
am going to act and live for the people
and devote my future to their cause.”
■ Harry Tracy, of Texas, a white man
and a veteran Alliauceman, said the
farmers were going to solve the negro
problem. They were the friends of ne
groes whom they had been separate 1
from by the chicanery of politicians.
Pointing to the negro Alliaucemen, he
said: “We must not leave here until we
have formed a federation with this or
ganization, which will bear fruit in the
years to come.” Continuing, he said:
“As one of these negroes remarked, the
republican party is a deadbeat and the
democratic party isn’t much better. If
there is a man living who thinks the
democrrtic politician is going to formu
late and direct this Alliance, that man
don’t know what he is talking about.”
[Applause ] If there is a man living
who thinks the republican politician is
going to have a linger in this Alliance
pie, he don’t Know what he is talking
about. [Applause.]
Mr. Barbee, of Virginia, an aged Alli
anceman, said to the negro speakers:
“Go back and tell your people that
you have forgotten republicanism, that
you have forgotten democracy, and that
the Farmers Alliance has risen up in the
land, and they are really your last and
only saviors.”
Ralph Beaumont, of the Knights of
Labor, said in a short speech:
“The largest meeting I had was at
Emporia, Kansas, where we had a pro
cession of which the papers said ’the
tail was crossin ? the equator while the
head was going around the north pole.’
When the politicians were quarreling in
congress a member named R. G. Harris
said, ‘The south ought to raise less hell
and mors corn.’ When 1 got out to Kan
sas and saw corn selling at 14 cents a
bushel, I told these people they ought
to quit raising corn and go to raising
boll.” This was followed t>y tremend
ous applause, long, continue i, and re
newed.
i There was a full attendance -t Alli-
I anceinen, who seemed to enji y the tneet
' ing immensely.
I There is a strong effort being made to
I have the action by the National Alliance
j against tbe election bill expunged from
J the records. This movement is headed
by Mr. Featherstone, of Arkansas, and
may amount to something before the
session closes.
At the morning seisiou of the Nation
al Alliance Col. L. F. Livingston, of
Georgia, from the committee <>n organi
zation made the report, which is to fur
uish the basis for an ultimate union be
tween the, National Farmers Alliance
and Indus trial Union aud tbe Farmers
Mutual Benefit Association, whicu is an
organiz ition with a large membership in
the western states.
Tht report was explained at length by
Chairman Livingston. Under this pro
position the Mutual Benefit. Association
is to still maintai i its separate organi
zation, but to be entitled to representa
tion in tlie National Alliance <• Hindi,
and the executive committi > < f each
organization is to meet hereafter and ar
range the details of this unio n
At the conclusion of Col. Livingston’s
remarks, which occupied nearly ai. hour,
tbe report was adopted without dissent.
I This action undoubtedly means theabsi:
lute consolidation of these two ergauiza
tions in the near future.
THE ST. LOUIS PLATFORM.
Colonel Livingston offered a resolution
providing for the adoption of the St.
Louis Alliance platform of :nas
mnehas there has been a question raised
as to the unanimous endorsement of the
demand therein contained by all the
state delegations one year ago. Colonel
Livingston’s idea was to call out any
objections which might exist is to
the absolutely unanimous endorsement.
This platform demands the abolition
of national banks and the substitution of
legal tender treasury notes in lieu of na
tional banks notes, in sufficient volume
to carry on the business of the country
on a cash system; that congress prevent
by law dealing in “futuies” of all agri
cultural and mechanical productions; the
free and unlimited coinage of silver, and
the prohibition of the alien ownership of
land, and the adoption of some just plan
by which the government may acquire
ownership in such lands, and also in
lands held by the railroad companies in
excess of actual needs: that taxation,
both state and national shall not lie used
to build up one interest or class at the
expense of another; that all revenues,
national, state and county, shall be lim
ited to the actual necessary expenditures
of the government, economically and hon
estly administered; that congress issue
sufficient fractional currency to facilitate
the exchange, through the United States
mails, and that all means of communica
tion and transportation shall be owned by
tbe government.
THE OWNERSHIP OF RAILROADS.
An amendment • was offered by
Mr. Loucks, of North Dakota, providing
for the ownership of all railroads and
telegraph lines by the national govern
ment.
Colonel Livingston opposed this, and
offered as a compromise measure a reso
lution providing that liberty to control
aud operate alt such lines shall vest in
the government, and if, after a. fair trial
of this system, it is found that it does
not afford the relief demanded, or effect
reforms iu the management of them,
government ownership shall be complete.
This was adopted, after some discussion.
A UNANIMOUS ADOPTION.
Mr. Wade, of Tennessee, offered an
additional amendment that every Alli
ance lecturer, stale and national, and all
newspaper organs of the Alliance shall
support the St. Louis and Ocala plat
forms (amended platforms), or suffer
suspension from the order; and fhrther,
that no candidate for any national polit
ical office shall be supported by Alliance
members unless he endorses this plat
form, and any sub-Alliance not comply
ing with these restrictions may be sus
pended at pleasure of the president.
This was also adopted, and the whole
platform as amended was adopted unan
imously upon a call of the roll by states.
POWDERLY SPEAKS.
In his speech tonight, Mr. Powderly
said that it was time for the lawyers to
step aside and give the farmers a chance
as well as the merchants and laborers.
He was speaking only for himself indi
vidually, but if it was the general senti
ment for all producing, industrial and
laboring organizations to stand together
in 1892, and to vote together, he would
“be there,” and would shoulder his gun
and go into the hottest of the tight.
COLONEL LIVINGSTON SOOTHES THE
PRESS.
Col. Livingston, of Georgia, read a
communication from the press represen
tative, reciting the fact that the Alliance
press committee was not affording ade
quate facilities for securing correct and
prompt information of the proceedings,
and respectfully asking rhat W. 8. Mc-
Allister, of Missippi, and Henry C. Dem
miug, of Pennsylvania, be appointed to
such committee, with authority to exer
cise their judgment in the matter of giv
ing news. Col. Livingston took the
floor in advocacy of this request, and it
was promptly acceded to. Subsequently
the press representatives passed a form
al vote of thanks to Col. Livingston.
WHAT THE NEGB'JES DID.
At the forenoon meeting of the Nation
al Colored Alliance, the following
amended resolution was unanimously
adopted:
Resolved, That we, delegates attend
ing the National Colored Farmers Alli
ance, do hereby, in meeting assembled
at Ocala, urge upon congress to pass the
Lodge election bill, and let it apply to
all sections of those United States.
The principal change from yesterday’s
resolution is the elimination of the para
graph criticising and denouncing the
white National Alliance for its action.
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