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I'-Jiiurcs.
1 just this morning I A O V ! ') reeeivc f i
a copy of the Mksskkoek of.Oet. 8th, and
i do not hesitate to take the floor
against my opponent, Prof. Chas.
mean.
Why. wc are such close neighbors, my
brother,that 1 -night stop over some night
and we could discuss this question tlior
\>
ougliiy before bed time. I was complete¬
ly surprised to know it was your own
self, who is such a great and good man,
handling me so roughly. I know that it
was you who handled Col. Brock so ad¬
mirably; but, having practiced the art of
doception so successfully with me iu re¬
gard to your democracy and Alliance
principles, I never once dreamed that
you would use such vile and vicious say¬
ings against the grandest principles of
the order you professed to be such a loy¬
al member of.
M.v thoughts had never been directed
to you until the day of Sept 30tli, and
that was by a mere suspicion, but later on
I learned more about it. I really thought
it was a member of the legal fraternity
who wauled to see about the sentiment
of the people of our county, as this sub¬
ject had never been put before them in
such a manner before, and secure a little
cheap newspaper notoriety. But I sec
such a d< sire does not belong exclusively
to that class—and probably not at all in
our section, So, by this statement, I
m ike a fb-.t Jemal of my “slurs and inis
representations” being of a “personal”
character. As for the misrepresenta
tarns, anybody who leadboth our articles
with any thenaht of trying to understand
theta, and will any degree of
dice, kfibW V( , j*,, suc {, a 11 j in". You
resort to a I auc 1 criticism usin'- - lan
nVcKning a gentleman, ami no
binding and profession could
have used i language in such a raan
uer without ; .1 . : *slnp- themselves. Just
keep your sea ip-other I have the floor
now.
Well., le \s see about the misrepresen
tations. • “It seems to me that such
wrongs (as the enactment of the sub
treasury) in :!iis, a civilized country,
would bring; upon ns such a curse from
an indignant God that would destroy
us like Sod ;m, etc.” Yes: these words
in pan-lit lies is is my own language, as all
intelligent readers knew when they saw
it, as.I pa.. ed them that way in order to
show that, it was my language and not
vours. You must be a little green, or
you would have known it also. You say
I misrepresented you by it. Well, let’s
see if I did: You acknowledge the quo¬
tation, and said you was -‘speaking of the
Wrongs in 'general, which the laboring
class has to bear.” Well, probably you
was. but from the reading of all your let
tint seems that mine is a bet
ter explanation. Anyway, you dwelt con
sijle] ably on that point, saying a great
de|il more and making the picture as liid
et fi: and nightly rs it was possible for
you t o describe. Horrible indeed! I
don’t think I ever saw the true condition
of Affairs more fully described by any
one, but kept talking till you said “the
curt- is worse than the disease.”
Njo-.v, the reader must accept one or
the (other of our explanations. If you
did tint refer to the sub-treasury when
you ! used the above quotation, then niv
coin incut is wrong, but after you bad ex
hausted all your immense storehouse of
words in describing the true condition of
the opm-ession of the laboring people,
you say the sub-treasury is worse than
all the rest of their oppressions combined,
thereby practically admitting that your
explanation of what the quotation meant
is doubly worse than mine.
Now. as to your greatness and
ness. It does seem to me like when :i
man seta himself up as a
•alistfc"' and an exponent of democratic
principles nnd a leader of : democracy
he clailna 1 > be a great and good man,
don’t know how the general load -r would
look npou it. He says nr- letter contains
“slurs Juki misrepresentations of a per
sonnl character,” and “We are sure
■brother)Wild cannot expect any thing
an answer of same kind, as wo can’t
swer any other may, considering his iet
tor.” Iliil ha! ha! admitting that he was
going to misrepresent me. Did you ever
see tfjo like? Please, brother, put, your
g^ 0li51 ^ 10 slur thafc ^° {X not
richly deserve. You laid hold of the sub -
treas,,r y with ghrves oil and handled il
u »' ld >'' denouncing it as a “will-’o-tho
wisp scheme 1 'and our loaders as “politic
al soreheads,” etc., and representing it as
* brcak-iuto-liell measure as far as op
pressing the poor was concerned, and did
you think then, after all this
tion, that because you claimed to bo a
democrat and an Alliance man that we
would hug you and love you and take
you to our breasts ami bless you? If so,
you have found out your sad mistake.—
We have formulated a national platform,
broad enough for all the universo to stand
upon, and the sub-treasury is its princi¬
pal plank, and it is all DKMOCKATIC and
coxsTiTi-riOAi*, and it is not set up
against auybody, sect, creed or denomi¬
nation. Wo oppose nothing or anybody
engaged iu a legitimate enterprise,
and we are going to stand on that plat¬
form till relief comes, and if any little
two-by-four Yankee democrat, or any
other man, wants to fight, why, you’ll
find us at home, and don’t you forget it.
What'about that. Uncle Mose?
you give me your hand on it?
Now, brother Cremean, if you have
done no more for the Alliance than I
liave, it isn’t enough to boast about.
have served the order to the best of my
ability, and how much I’ve done is left
fw the P e °l de of m T country to say. But.
tI,is rn sa - v > while 1 hiw ^ dolie much ’
1 liave lieve1 ' tHed to hillder the progress
of th - 0ldel '> <»' tried t( > *>«> “P what has
bec » do " e - If -V 0 ’ 1 ;u ' e ™ Alliance man,
don’t you practice a little of your
boasted democracy and let the majority
vldo and submit to it? When there has
been less than half a dozen votes east
a S ainbt the sub-treasury in more than
twenty State Alliances, and some of them
b;vvc been honest enough to explain that
G le ’ r county Alliance favored it, but they
voted their own sentiment, it seems to
mo that you might, as an Alliance man,
subuiit to such a large majority as
for the sake of join gieat democratic
principles, eh?
Yes; fluctuating markets are ruinous
and the sub-treasury is going to stop so
much of it. How? By the consumer
buying from the producer as ho needs
and thus give us a steady market. St>0?
“Now, if the cotton of the south and
grain of the West weielield in warelious
es and not placed on the markets, prices
would go up.”
Yes.
“Then the whreliouses would be open
ed, for now the prices are high, just what
yo’i want.”
Yes. .
“Now, you dump that produce on the
inflated nuukots, ami see wliere they do
not collapse.”
But, brother, we are not going to put
all we got ou the market at once. We
are going to furnish the consumer what , .
he needs as the demand requires and let
tins regulate the price, thereby creating
a healthy, of'endangering steady and vigorous market in
place finance or collaps- /
mg anyt ling. > ■
“Do you suppose these monopolist
will accede to your demands without a
struggle? and if they do fight, cotton fac
tories at least will close for some time,
throwing their hands out of employ
ment?”
Heaven bless you! Do you think be
cause the monopolists have got us in a
that we won’t wiggle a bit for fear
‘ dl0 >' ma * u us havder? 1)0 vou
-
think that because wc have got one foot
in the lion’s mouth that we won’t move
to rescue oursel ves, when we can lay hold
of the sub-treasury maul with our hands
and beat the* life out of him, thereby free¬
in# ourselves and our posterity of a con
dition no better than of rack-renting-Ire
land? do yon think we are going to be as
duaib as,sheep driven to the slaughter
and meekly submit to anything they may
impose upon us and never raise our hand
or voieoin opposition for fear we will a
rouse their indignation, and they in re
turn will wipe us off the face of the earth
with their strong monopolistic
Never! never!! nev t > i . Vie are nourg to
ass,ert our privileges and deman if them
justice, and liang our ban ier on the out
sitlo of the wall ami batth for vi
^ l0 c,u ^
Noff, you not'd not tki tlir this scu¬
timeut is only embodied in a lit tle “two
horse politician” over here in the back
woods of Haralson. For if this nation
should bo called upon to respond to such
a sentiment there would be more than
four million members of the Far mors’ Al¬
liance, with two million members of otli
or labor organizations who have formed
a confederation with us, men free born,
of lawful ago and coming under the
tongue of good report, who would stand
up and answer to such a roll call, and
thevo is no power on the earth, in the
earth or under the earth could stay the
movement of this mighty throng of de¬
termined, resolute men.
Now, as for cotton factories closing and
throwing their employees out of work, wo
arc not going to do any such a thing as
that. We propose to store our cotton in
the sub-treasury warehouse and sell di¬
rect to the manufactories at the same
price they pay the cotton speculators for
it. Now, if we do that, do you think
for one moment they will stop their work
one day because they bought it from the
farmer in place of the other fellow?—
Will they shut down their business be
cause they couldn’t buy it from the cot
ton speculators? Will that throw any
body out of a job? If they get the cotton
at the same price as before, will that in
t
crease the price of the manufactured
goods? You must, from candor and
common sense, admit that it would not.
Then the southern farmer will save the
profit of the middle man, or cotton spec
ulators, which reaches to the enormous
amount of Sm,000,000 a year. Who will
that hurt? Does that look like creating a
monopoly? Will that interfere with the
business of the merchant, lawyer, doctor
or teacher? Now, do you envy tiie farm
or so much that you oppose this measure
when it harms no legitimate business?
Well, let’s turn the picture around and
see Row it would effect the grain produc
C rs of the west They coukl take their
crop of 550,00-V-U0 bnsheles of wheat-ami
store it away into the warehouse and
the consumer could get a considerable
better article of food, and if he got it at
the same price he has been paying for it,
^- l0 prodn.-v.rs could put ssl.ii), 000 , 00 .) mure
d ‘ l ° their pockets every year, thereby
could be ah e to lilt untold mortgages
from the farmers homes and nobody hurt
Sec! But some oppose the plan because
the rats and weevils will destroy the grain
before it is in the sub-treasury warehous¬
es a year, but Prof. Cremean says that
the speculators have a four-years supply
on hand. Don’t you reckon, brother,
that the rats and weevils have about eat
en up their stock? ' If his assertion be
true, there is no argument that I could
P™ dl,c ® that L° uld R*ve any better reas
on for thesubtreasnry , than that. What
in - q. ( >cUs name has.a set of men who do
not produce a thing in the world, got to
do with the right, or power, to buy up
the grain crop ot the government at a
time when weave starving for money and
then holding , ,,. it till we are starving for ,
food, and tnen turning it loose on the
market at any price they sec fit to ask for
it? What about the markets inflating
« aad collapsing? That is something I
don’t know much about, but it sorter
seems to me like it ought to apply here,
too; audit also occurs to me that the
farmers ought not to be compelled to
tlietr entire production into the
ba » d « of the consumer at once. A whole
year’s supply cannot be eaten or con
sume(I in a month . neither has the con .
sumers the means of buying and keeping
a necessities. whole year’s If supply the producers in advance could of their hold j
the supplies and place them on the mark¬
et as demanded by consumption, prices
would be better and consumers will pay
n-> more than if bought from the specu¬
lators, and get better goods, but neither
can the consumer or producer hold the
products; so, iu steps the speculator and
oltcis bis services, • lift .bqy'tf jajvn o yer
loaded market at fifty jier cent, too low
and sells in a clamoring, hungry market
fifty percent, too high, thus millionaires
are made almost as fast as a machine
makes shoe pegs, while the producer and
to grow poorer and
poorer all the time. What about maikets
collapsing and inflating?
OSCAII Wilt).
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